Walt Aldridge

Heartland

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Hallelujah ~ Jeff Buckley

Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen ~ version Jeff Buckley

I heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
Well, it goes like this:
The fourth, the fifth,
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...

Well, your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to her kitchen chair
And she broke your throne and she cut your hair
But from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...

Baby, I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor (you know/yes)
I used to live alone before I knew you
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
And love is not a/some victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...

Well, there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too?
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...

Maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody/at some one who outdrew you
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...
Hallelujah...   Hallelujah...

Live at Nulle Part Ailleurs September 8th 1995

Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley

November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997

Mars energies

From M. Kelley Hunter's Cosmic News: Balancing Act newsletter:

"One is from James Kelleher (www.jameskelleher.com). This is actually an extract from some of his commentary on a major factor of the last Full Moon. I share it because it struck me as so significant a moment, when MARS ON THE NORTH NODE IN SCORPIO signaled a strong energy current of intensity and transformation that set a tone:

"Mars is the planet of assertiveness, energy, and ambition on the positive side. On the negative level, it represents anger, warfare, injuries and enemies.
Rahu is the planet of compulsion and obsession on the negative side. On the positive side it represents innovation, revolution and change."

Mars is now in Sagittarius, directing the energy like a long distance runner. But that powerful Scorpio moment is worth noting, as we are contending with major Scorpio themes with Saturn and the North Node there."

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Ain't No Ash Will Burn

Lovely John & Lisa...

John Smith performs "Ain't No Ash Will Burn" with Lisa Hannigan 
on a boat in Baltimore, West Cork. Filmed by Myles O'Reilly.

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Soundcloud ~ John Smith ~ Ain't No Ash Will Burn - Walt Aldrige

      Ain’t No Ash Will Burn :: Walt Aldridge

      I have seen snow that fell in May
      And I have seen rain on cloudless days
      Some things are always bound to change
      There ain’t no ash will burn

      Love is a precious thing I’m told
      Burns just like West Virginia coal
      But when the fire dies down it’s cold
      There ain’t no ash will burn

      You say this life is not your lot
      And I can’t be something that I’m not
      We can’t stoke a fire that we ain’t got
      There ain’t no ash will burn

      Love is a precious thing I’m told
      Burns just like West Virginia coal
      But when the fire dies down it’s cold
      There ain’t no ash will burn

      In every life there comes a time
      When there are no more tears to cry
      You must leave something dear behind
      There ain’t no ash will burn

      Love is a precious thing I’m told
      Burns just like West Virginia coal
      But when the fire dies down it’s cold
      There ain’t no ash will burn

      There is one lesson I have learned... ...
      There ain’t no ash will burn
                                                —  lyrics: help from here and Old Sledge

Gone, Gone

     Gone, Gone
     Grey Revell ~ Crazy Like An Ambush

     run run screaming at the sun
     couldn't've done better if i won it in the lottery
          run run faster than a gun
          gonna find my baby and i'm gonna have a family
     run run till the running's done
     gonna play guitar and make money off her pottery
          fun fun underneath the sun
          we're gonna have a baby and we're gonna raise it right

     gone gone every thing is gone
     maybe now i'll find someone i love and have a family
          dumb dumb everyone was dumb
          slaving for a dollar in the name of nationality
     bomb bomb thank you for the bomb
     you vaporize the idiots you send 'em to infinity
          run run till the running's done
          i'm gonna find my baby and I'm gonna treat her right

     gone gone every thing is gone
     couldn't've done better if i won it in the lottery
          run run till the running's done
          i'm gonna play guitar and make money off her pottery
     bomb bomb thank you for the bomb
     you vaporize the idiots you send 'em to infinity
          run run screaming at the sun:
          "i'm gonna have a family i'm gonna do it right"

Good tip from an HP tv add! Another good find through an add — last year's I Am..., Nikon's add with music by Ben Cooper.

Thine Self & Any Man

“This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.”   — Shakespeare

Ceres Trigger

"The Sabian symbol for the first degree of Cancer suggests that paradigm-shift around food is inevitable. The question is, with everything else trying to get our attention right now, will something as basic as food be able to cut through the static?
The Sabian symbols are part of a channeled system famously interpreted by Dane Rudhyar in his book An Astrological Mandala. There is a symbol for each degree of the zodiac. The one for 01 Cancer is: “On a ship the sailors lower an old flag and raise a new one.” Rudhyar adds the keynote, “A radical change of allegiance exteriorized in a symbolical act: a point of no return.”
If that doesn’t say ‘paradigm shift’, I don’t know what does. Any idea what sort of “symbolical act” you may choose tomorrow? Perhaps you will know it only as you do it — or in hindsight, as you look back and realize what some seemingly small choice actually set in motion.

Incidentally, when Ceres enters Cancer it will trine Neptune, which is currently retrograde in the first degree of Pisces. A trine is a flowing aspect of signs with the same element. Neptune’s conversation with Ceres tomorrow could be about the creative ways we can solve our personal and collective food challenges. It could lend a sense of spiritual support or importance to Ceres on the Aries Point. It may, on the other hand, help those of us not quite ready to face facts slide back into denial about just how capable we are of releasing old food habits and beliefs about what nourishes us."
—   Amanda Painter Ceres on the Aries Point

Silence, in three

25th ANNIVERSARY ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME CONCERT
Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
Madison Square Garden, NYC - 2009/10/29&30


Live in Central Park, 1981



"The Sound of Silence was written in February 1964 by Paul Simon and originally recorded as an acoustic piece for the first Simon and Garfunkel album, Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. released October 19, 1964 by Columbia records. It was later overdubbed with electric guitar (played by Al Gorgoni), electric bass (Bob Bushnell), and drums (Bobby Gregg), and released as a single in September 1965, resulting in Simon and Garfunkel's first hit. The version presented here is the original acoustic one."

Earth

Meditation...

*Sigh*...

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Disappointment. Strength. Re/Birth.

The Empress understands that every rebirth follows on the heels of an ending. What you are being invited to consider is the ending of a form of Disappointment that came into being when you chose to cut yourself off from the flow of your emotions, and in the process to separate yourself from love in its highest incarnation. You are being transformed in the fires of the Nine of Wands. It is time to face the fear that led you to empty yourself out — where you ran dry — and see what lies past the cycle of withholding and withdrawing, of hardened shine without the depth and which feeds nothing.
— Sarah Taylor, The Weekend Tarot Reading — Sunday, September 2, 2012 "Disappointment. Strength. Re/Birth."

e-Bermuda Triangle

Oh! So true!
She just forgot bloggerland! (it's right there in the middle, near the work sinkhole...)

by Fuchsia Macaree

Face to Face

from Face to Face: Balancing Psyche in Libra

Cinema Paradiso

I had the soundtrack on cd, but it mysteriously evaporated from my shelves many years ago.

Pruning

As Neal Donald Walsch tells us: “Always remember: Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” If we’re profoundly uncomfortable, we’re in exactly the right place. And here’s the metaphysics: the fastest, most enduring way to become a master of our own “stuff,” is to carry it with us through the meat grinder. We are guaranteed to lay it down somewhere on the journey. The quickest way to learn empathy and compassion is to face our own fears, climb across the debris of our mistakes, coming to the self-forgiveness required to regain our balance as a conscious human. And yes, the shortest route to growth is to endure the pruning away of what is no longer useful. That is not easy to do, but it’s required, as Anaïs Nin reminded us when she said, “And the day came when the risk to stay tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
— Judith Gayle, Notes from the Dog Days

Good Morning!

Coffee art via, via

Library

Love books!
Would love to have these stairs and library!

Contemporary Staircase design by New York Interior Designer Glenn Gissler Design

Cancer New Moon

New Moons represent a new cycle, and if you’re involved in a self-awareness or growth endeavor that fits this basic description, the next few days provide a space to go deeper into self-understanding. The message of this event seems to be: emotional healing arrives with self-forgiveness, as well as the personal choice to alter a negative cycle. When you heal, you also take yourself out of the “pass it forward” game that so often attends matters of abuse, and start spreading the positive vibes of self-acceptance.

— Cancer New Moon; Accessing Deep Feelings

Eivør Pálsdóttir

Eivør Pálsdóttir, from the Faroe Islands

Loose translation of the lyrics (added 17.05.2017)

 "Spellbound

  Spellbound I am, I am
  The wizard has enchanted me, enchanted me
  Spellbound deep in my soul, in my soul
  In my heart burns a sizzling bonfire, a sizzling bonfire

  Spellbound I am, I am
  The wizard has enchanted me, enchanted me
  Spellbound in my heart's root, my heart's root
  My eyes gaze spellbound to where the wizard stood"
— Sources, in Comments :  cay252   Eli Chilli

Perhaps joik, of the Saami people?

Here in a newer official version with lyrics... and more serene, if that be the word.