Some days we (I presume many of us) wake up with some piece of music on the mind. No reason, it's just there. Some times it plays over and over again to the point of nausea . . . just cannot turn it off.
Today I got lucky. It plays over and over again but it remains totally delightful so here it is.
Ottorino Respighi...
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Today I got lucky. It plays over and over again but it remains totally delightful so here it is.
Ottorino Respighi...
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Adrift upon lily pad lake
Propelled by summer breeze
The contemplation house sits in quiet repose
Insides not much
Cedar, sunlight, shakuhachi and bell
rm.
Propelled by summer breeze
The contemplation house sits in quiet repose
Insides not much
Cedar, sunlight, shakuhachi and bell
rm.
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aeryn:
I was reading back over your journals where you asked for jazz suggestions - I havent heard this but I want it Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane- At Carnegie Hall
aeryn:
PS thank you for your words about the latest change in my life - it's been a very interesting year to say the least. And though I would rather not have what I have - it's better to finally know why I have had various health issues over the years and it is actually, hopefully, easy to treat, and not fatal- only uncomfortable.
In the canyon stands a raven
Ebony feathers awash in the light of the midday sun
Cooled by the splash of rushing water
The raven caws delight
RM.
Ebony feathers awash in the light of the midday sun
Cooled by the splash of rushing water
The raven caws delight
RM.
aeryn:
Is this yours? It is beautiful.
Have you ever read any Wallace Stevens? I love Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
Have you ever read any Wallace Stevens? I love Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
morgan:
Thank you.
As a project manager for a technology company, my job is to oversee the implementation of software designed to run an entire company . . . inventory and production planning, general ledger, sales, puchasing and so forth. Everything a company needs in order to perform business operations.
As we approach the point of actually turning it on for daily transactions, we enter into a test...
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As we approach the point of actually turning it on for daily transactions, we enter into a test...
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Something was terribly wrong.
There was a silvery object, a missile of some kind, flying directly at my head.
It didnt begin this way.
Ten years before there was a gala wedding event.
Hundreds of people, four brides maids, lots of stained glass and a huge pipe organ.
Presbyterian but as orthodox as ever a wedding could be.
And ten years before that, we were...
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There was a silvery object, a missile of some kind, flying directly at my head.
It didnt begin this way.
Ten years before there was a gala wedding event.
Hundreds of people, four brides maids, lots of stained glass and a huge pipe organ.
Presbyterian but as orthodox as ever a wedding could be.
And ten years before that, we were...
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aeryn:
I'm feeling a lack of words and am tempted to leave you a horrible emoticon 
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Today has been a day of silvery objects-though not directed at my head- definitely sitting all around me. I feel that I would like to throw them hard against a wall- and not care if the person doesn't duct in time. Instead, I will take the hope I read in this and the new book I bought this morning and try to find a peaceful place amoung the fall leaves and let my pent up frustration and hopelessness fade away.
Thank you.
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Today has been a day of silvery objects-though not directed at my head- definitely sitting all around me. I feel that I would like to throw them hard against a wall- and not care if the person doesn't duct in time. Instead, I will take the hope I read in this and the new book I bought this morning and try to find a peaceful place amoung the fall leaves and let my pent up frustration and hopelessness fade away.
Thank you.
Palms Read, $5
Woman to man she speaks to me in credulous terms
Parables of solstices and stars
As long ago the ancients plied the beastly waves
Of undrawn ragged charts.
The gallery opens in dawn to dusk rhythm
Ornamental dogma hung in tidy array
Like crosses on her manicured slope
As into a ball she gazes
Cats eye glaring in ordinary void
Soothsayers ethereal...
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Woman to man she speaks to me in credulous terms
Parables of solstices and stars
As long ago the ancients plied the beastly waves
Of undrawn ragged charts.
The gallery opens in dawn to dusk rhythm
Ornamental dogma hung in tidy array
Like crosses on her manicured slope
As into a ball she gazes
Cats eye glaring in ordinary void
Soothsayers ethereal...
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aeryn:
I'm feeling much better thank you...
morgan:
Awww, thank you!
We live in an ambiguous culture. Things are said without listening. Witness these real honest-to-God headlines provided by the American Journal Review.
"Lung cancer in women mushrooms"
"Teacher strikes idle kids"
"New study of obesity looks for larger test group"
"Squad helps dog bite victims"
"Local high school dropouts cut in half"
"Miners refuse to work after death"
"Juvenile court to try shooting defendant"
"Red...
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"Lung cancer in women mushrooms"
"Teacher strikes idle kids"
"New study of obesity looks for larger test group"
"Squad helps dog bite victims"
"Local high school dropouts cut in half"
"Miners refuse to work after death"
"Juvenile court to try shooting defendant"
"Red...
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micaela:
Thank you for the kind wishes 
aeryn:
I've been meaning to get back to you about your posts in my journal, but I've been wanting to a have a free moment to write more than a quick thank you.
Your reply on my September 11th entry was beautiful and eloquent. Thank you for sharing your experience. It sounds very similar to mine...even down to the quiet alcoholism. It helps me immensely to know that other people not only relate, but can look back on what I'm going through and tell me it will be worth it.
I read back a few journals of yours, and also really liked reading your writing from your very well expressed views on the endless frustration of not allowing gays to marry to the ability to fall in love for an hour on a plane.
Do you mind if we friend it is easier to stop by and read your journal?
PS The hokey pokey IS what it is all about.
[Edited on Sep 22, 2005 9:45PM]
Your reply on my September 11th entry was beautiful and eloquent. Thank you for sharing your experience. It sounds very similar to mine...even down to the quiet alcoholism. It helps me immensely to know that other people not only relate, but can look back on what I'm going through and tell me it will be worth it.
I read back a few journals of yours, and also really liked reading your writing from your very well expressed views on the endless frustration of not allowing gays to marry to the ability to fall in love for an hour on a plane.
Do you mind if we friend it is easier to stop by and read your journal?
PS The hokey pokey IS what it is all about.
[Edited on Sep 22, 2005 9:45PM]
I live in Oregon. It's a pretty left-of-center political millieu in the biggest cities (the news networks say we are blue) but every where else, it's a very conservative state. This dichotomy of political views makes for a lot of argument and compromise in our law making and legislative process. One such area of contention has to do with gay/lesbian marriage.
I just don't get...
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I just don't get...
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syndel:
aw, thanks
sweet!!
sweet!!
My beloved Luna passed away about 3 years ago now. Ive never not had a cat, for any length of time anyway, but Luna was by far the one that touched me in the deepest place. Dont know why really. She was a fairly unremarkable DLH, mostly white, seemingly part Siamese with a buff colored crown. But she was extremely endearing in the way that...
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serendipity:
Oh wow, thanks 
I've always had the attitude that SGs are just girls that don't fit into any single "category". But some people have a definite idea of what an SG is. And for the most part I usually don't fit into that ideal.
*shrug*
It doesn't bug me or anything. Just an observation.
I've always had the attitude that SGs are just girls that don't fit into any single "category". But some people have a definite idea of what an SG is. And for the most part I usually don't fit into that ideal.
*shrug*
It doesn't bug me or anything. Just an observation.
anberlin:
...speaking of noble gestures...
candy and kitties. what a wonderful world.
candy and kitties. what a wonderful world.
Jazz is one of the very few truly American artistic genres. I suppose the early rock and roll/blues experience qualifies but really their earliest roots can be traced back to the importation of African peoples. Folk of course is sourced in the Celtic and Scots traditions, Cajun from the Arcadians, classical from greater Europe and so forth. But jazz . . . I mean the...
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I just spent about an hour putting together a little discourse on the importance of Little Richard and the evolution of American rock and roll. Then when I went to update the entry my system crashed and I lost it all. Damn!
Here's the bottom line . . . Listen to Little Richard singing Lucille on the Specialty label (circa 1959) and you'll see where...
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Here's the bottom line . . . Listen to Little Richard singing Lucille on the Specialty label (circa 1959) and you'll see where...
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I've had to really examine what it is I'm doing here. I mean I'm nearly 58 years old, my sons are well over 30, I've got 3 1/2 grand- and step grandchildren (one is in the mixer) and I guess this rather sets me apart from the target demographic of this site.
I must say I enjoy (some of) the portraiture and the dramtic little...
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I must say I enjoy (some of) the portraiture and the dramtic little...
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missnight:
oh and happy birthday!!!! 
-Dana
www.missnight.org
-Dana
www.missnight.org
charley:
Weird I have been listening to Joni a lot recently
The penny whistle can be lovely, I agree, it's not very rock and roll though