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I Can See Your Halo

For those of you who follow this blog regularly, the Chinese five element blog post on water has been deleted and the series has been scrapped for now.  There are some copyright issues so until such time that I can distill the work in a more experiential manner, I won’t be posting further on it.  [...]

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It was the mid 1980s and for the sum total of one evening I thought I was in love with him.  But most of the time we were just very good friends.  His name was Stan Easton. I was in nursing school.  My schedule was hectic and beyond busy.  Stan called one day.  I wasn’t [...]

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Suzanne

I posted the lyrics to Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” a few weeks ago.  Fran, one of my blog readers, reminded me of another one of his songs, “Suzanne”.  Lyrics below and a youtube video from 1976 with both Leonard Cohen and Judy collins singing it.  Judy Collins was my introduction to Leonard Cohen.  Her earlier recordings [...]

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Wonderer

There are several translations of this Rumi poem.  This version is the one sung in this particular youtube video.  Listen to this and you will know the song by heart and maybe you will find yourself singing or humming it during the day and remembering, most of all, that it doesn’t matter if you’ve broken [...]

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Following on the heels of yesterday’s post, A Good Day, I wanted to write more on the theme of self love.  True, wholehearted self love is rooted in a fidelity with yourself.  It requires a commitment, a faithfulness and a willingness to not just know your truth but to live up to it.  This means [...]

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Let me fall. I first heard and sang this song at the Church of Religious Science in Dallas. I am told it originally was written for Cirque du Soleil and later made famous by Josh Groban. My favorite line is: there is a moment when fear and dreams must collide. We have all had those [...]

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I hand picked this one of inspirational quotes set to a very special song.

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How I Make Music

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It’s like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has it’s song. So I stay in the moment and listen. What I hear is never the same. A walk through the woods brings a [...]

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Dedicated to Kitty C. who turned me onto these poetic lyrics from the Piano Man… Album Cover by Christie Brinkley In the middle of the night I go walking in my sleep From the Mountains of Faith To the river so deep I must be lookin’ for something Something sacred I lost But the river [...]

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Dance Tribute

Excerpts from cnn.com: CEBU, Philippines (CNN) — Amid the tropical heat of a Philippine prison, convicted murderers, rapists and drug dealers on Saturday paid tribute to Michael Jackson with a reprise of their YouTube dance hit, “Thriller.” A rendition of Jackson’s 1980s smash hit by prisoners at the Cebu Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the [...]

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