life around us

3 dead when fellow student shot them at school this week in Ohio
9 people died from Tornadoes last night in Missouri and Illinois
I witnessed a car accident last night where a guy hit a tree and then flipped his car on his side, trapping him inside. 

I notice the mood in most people's blogs today, they are feeling a little melancholy.   With all this going on around me right now I find myself just wanting to sit in silence and feel the heart beat of the world.....and I leave you these two songs

Your Goodbye

I got to see this band last year when they opened for Seether.  A local Fort Wayne,IN band.  This band brings energy to the stage.  They are working on a new album right now.

To Face Death

I stare at you, you stare at me

I stare at you thinking

I'm on the peripice staring at

death in the face

I can conquer anything,anything

you stare at me thinking

happily "lunch"

I stare at you, you stare at me

I jump down to skip away

asking to go stare at the bears

A step back in time

Thanks to Steven for giving me the title to this post. I have been wanting to post music from the past as well as today's music. I think I will post at least one song a week from a different era.  I love how music is timeless no matter what era it comes from and artist today get their inspirations from these songs.


So my first song is the song Steven suggested,  Love, Reign O'er Me by The Who

*** I was only 6 years old when this album was put out, Pearl Jam did the song on one of their albums years later. Posting them singing it live in Boston

Bubbles

bubbles

bubbles everywhere

try to catch them if I can

I jump and jump with all my might

to catch one would be great delight

slippery soapy little balls of joy

bubbles bubbles

everywhere





The World of Arrietty

I remember reading the book "The Borrower's "   when I was growing up.  I just went to see the movie "The Secret World of Arrietty's"   To my surprise it is based on the story of the Borrower's.  My point to this post is to say I love going to the movies.  What a great way to discover new music this way.  I ran home to find the songs to this show.

Like Rain

He was like rain to me, rain that came blowing in from the west and drenching me until my lungs only could breathe his rain. He was the rain on a hot summer’s night touching me to wash away my pain. My skin never felt rain like this before, my soul never breathed rain like this before. I laid drenched from his rain like a sweet morning down pour in an open field.  His rain fell on me like the rain falls on a daffodil. The daffodil feels the rain as it softly comes down and hits its pedals. The rain runs slowly down the pedals to fill in every edge. The daffodil arches it's pedals, as it feels the rain slowly making its way down, letting the daffodil mourn for more rain.  My womb never knew rain like this before, my bones never knew rain like this before.  To lie dying in his rain, but I no longer feel the rain…..

***  I wrote a poem last year with the title Like Rain but decided I didn't like how I wrote it, so I rewrote the whole thing. 

**** Thanks to Wine and Words for posting this song by Creed.  I keep playing this song over and over.

new list added

I just wanted to say I finally got around to adding my list of artist ,I have seen live in concert to my side bar.  My memory is not the greatest so I hope I haven't miss someone.   Some of them I have seen more than once. 

Burst of little balls of lights

Last night I had to drive in a snow storm.  The snow came down so fast, leaving it limited visibility in front of you.  I took some pictures to see what my camera would capture and to my amazement this is what I got!

Stomp

I saw this show a few years back.  You wanna talk about a heart thumping, addicting beat experience.  We was sitting all the way in the back and my whole body was still vibrating.  Here are 3 of my favorite parts of the show but the whole show was fantastic!

Jeremy Camp

I got to see him once at the Pulse Festival and can't wait until I see him again.   A friend took me to the Pulse Festival and  I was thinking where have I been!  What great music and the energy at these concerts. 

Cultural music

What is your favorite cultural music? I don't think I favor one more than the other, Asian, Native American,Iris,African, I even bought a cd of music from the Andes Mountains. Cultural music takes you to another time and is great way to connect with the world.

I Will

I Will... I Will.... I Will always feel the same......

spirits live here

                                     

                                      

They are there to lift us up

I will not say goodbye

I posted two different videos about saying goodbye.  Each hold so much meaning to me. 

Should you say goodbye or should you never say goodbye?  


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I got to see Danny Gokey a few years ago at a mini concert. Afterwards if you bought his Cd you got to get it signed by him. ** picture was taken with my old phone since I forgot to bring a camera.

goodbye

This melted my heart

I wonder if there is a piano out there totally made of glass?

Sweet Baby James

Another video I took while seeing James Taylor perform with his son Ben

Rap for what it's worth

So here's my take on rap.  Yes rap, like any other genre it's not for everyone but before you knock rap give it a chance.  To me rap is all about the beat.  If I listen to a rap song I'm listening to it because it has a great beat to it.  I will agree, I think the reason to many are turned off by rap is because people can't understand what the artist is even saying or what they are raping about ( hatred,killing,drugs,sex,cuss words etc) but that is done about in alot of genre's, just in a different way.    I will agree I have come across some hard core rap (i like to call it) that there is no beat to it and is filled with nothing but cuss words so I sometimes wonder can you really call that music? 

This song I'm posting is by Flo Rida called Good Feeling.  It's not all rap so it's a mix of singing with rap.  I love when genre's mix so when you listen to it don't try to understand what he is saying.  Just close your eye's and feel the beat.  I was told this is a remix to Little Wayne's version of I gotta feeling, but instead of posting that video I am posting the version that Black Eye Peas did.  I like their version better than Little Wayne's but I'm loving this version by Flo Rida.  If anything it makes for great work out music.  I've been jamming to it all week on the treadmill at the gym since I'm there 1 to 3 hours every day. 

 This is the version Black Eye Peas have on I Gotta Feeling.  Totally different than Flo Rida's song.

 Now this last video I am posting is by an artist named Mat Kearney.   Mat is not a rapper but in this song he does a part that you would say he's using rap but during an interview Mat said, No! he does not Rap.  What he used was called spoken word.  I ask you this then, isn't that what rap is, just spoken word set to a beat? 

What are Words by Chris Medina

even tho I stopped watching American Idol, I heard about Chris and looked his music up. Thanks to some friends,  I got the opportunity to see him sing last year and got to meet him after the show.  Chris only made it so far on the show but has a good fan base here and over seas.  He just released a new album.

Ryan Star

This is Ryan Star.  I have seen him perform now three times.   He's wonderful to his fans after the show.  He treats you like he knows who you are.  He just got done touring with the Goo Goo Dolls and now you can catch him on the road right with Andy Grammar. 

 I took this video last fall of him singing the same song.

Sunday Treasures

 With my Pumpkin Spice Latte in one hand and my camera in the other, I decided to go out Sunday morning to take some pictures.  Normally I take pictures when ever I see something, but I had sometime on my hands so I went looking and this is what I found.


Morning sun light 

 Frozen in time

Winter cat tails

 Broken but not forgotten amongst the acorns

 Coming home

Winter flowers

Tucked in the deep of the woods

A winters walk on the beach

Tanya Blount and Lauryn Hill- His eye on the sparrow

I was going to post a rap song but I read some things today that has me feeling ~ well just feeling

Gravity by Sarah Bareilles

  When I first heard this song I never knew how much this song would mean to me now as it did then.   My friend posted the video below with two people putting this song to dance.   I fell in love with this song the moment I heard it. 

James/Ben Taylor Country Road 3/5/11

Sorry for the quality of my video's. I still didn't know how to work the video part of the camera. I was so mad when I finally did figure out how to get a more close up shot but this was after this show.

Ohhhh how James jammed out on this song. He had everyone jamming to it.

pebble stones(memories) in the sand (minds)

 As I look around I see pebble stones scattered in the sand.  Tucked in the sand amongst the marram grass.   I find myself thinking these pebble stones are like the memories in our minds. We tend to tuck them away waiting for us to hold them in our hands to think about that moment.  Like pebbles stones(memories)   we pick certain ones from the sand (mind) to reflect on what happened that day.   

                                      

It was a hot summer day we went to the beach, with cameras in hand ,trying to get photos. We picked up some of those pebbles and admired how they looked. So different each one but we only saved a few to take with us as if they hold meaning to us.  We sat ,we walked, we talked and took a photo here and there.  As I sat on the blanket you stood near by telling me about the circles that were in the sand around the marram grass. Telling me the circles are from the wind bending the grass down to the sand and making the grass leave perfect circles in the sand from going back and forth.  I smiled to myself, happily thinking "always the teacher."  I sit there breathing in his knowledge,hungry to learn more. I was like a new born infant drinking from their mothers full breast. Taking in the nourishment and hungrily wanting more.  As the sun beat down on us making us both smell of stench, not knowing who was smelling worse, but yet we sat a little longer enjoying the view of the lake in front of us.  When we finally gave in to the heat and we walked back to the car. I felt the pebble stone falling from my hand back into the sand. It fell to find it's spot with all the other pebble stones. Tucking it self to wait for me to pick it back up and hold it in my hand once again. The memory(pebble stone) is still there but as time goes on like all other memories (pebble stones) it is getting faded and discolored like an old blanket we hold on too.    I will keep picking up this pebble stone to recall it's memory of that day.                            

 

Face Down (Lyrics) / The night I left

Journal one : The night I left

Did he feel like a man when he pulled the covers off of you? Making you lay there crying yourself to sleep and fearing he will do more.

Did he feel like a man when he called you a slut,whore, and broke things.

Did he feel like a man the night you came home to find the door locked and he's trying to keep you out.
Did he feel like a man when you open the door and he is putting his hands around your neck. You step back but you find he's not letting go and feeling his grip around your neck. He finally lets go but clearly left marks where his hands once laid.

That moment it hits you like a semi truck, your looking at a total stranger. This is not the man you was looking at 16 years before ,while you are standing in a beautiful white wedding gown and standing before God telling this man "I will." He talked about family and values but all you got was years of I'm sorry and him passed out on the bathroom floor.

Nothing matter any more, you knew it was time to leave. You didn't even cry knowing it was over.

Did he feel like a man as he took a whole bottle of hand lotion and poured it all over your head. You stood there and allow him to do this.

As you drive away with lotion caked in your hair and only a few of your clothes, all you can feel is nothing. You feel numb from all the years of his drugs and alcohol. A part of you died that night but as you drove away you might have felt numb but you also felt so alive!


This story is actual accounts the night I left my husband. My husband was a drug addict and an alcoholic. I spent years trying to get him to quit, but the night he put his hands around my neck it was like a wake up call. He was walking a path I did not want to walk any more.

I hear all the time about others who have died at the hands from their spouse. I hope anyone who is in this kind of situation will find the strength to get out.

We can Fly

When they hear of it, he thought, of the breakthrough, they'll be wild with joy. How much more there is now to living! Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's a reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!

~ Jonathan Livingston Seagull

The Black Keys - Lonely Boy

I'm so addicted to this song right now. I'm adding it to my Itunes this weekend along with Rain by Creed.


Well I'm so above youAnd it's plain to see
But I came to love you anyway
So you tore my heart out
And I don't mind bleeding
Any old time to keep me waitingWaiting, waiting

Chorus:Oh, oh-oh I got a love that keeps me waiting
Oh, oh-oh I got a love that keeps me waiting
I'm a lonely boyI'm a lonely boy
Oh, oh-oh I got a love that keeps me waiting

Well your mama kept you but your daddy left you
And I should've done you just the same
But I came to love you
And I want to flee
Any old time you keep me waitingWaiting, waiting

Chorus:Oh, oh-oh I got a love that keeps me waiting
Oh, oh-oh I got a love that keeps me waiting
I'm a lonely boyI'm a lonely boy
Oh, oh-oh I got a love that keeps me waiting

William Joseph - "Within"

Oh how I miss playing piano. I got to see William Joseph a few years ago and got his autograph after the show. I find my body aching for the need to play again. This man is gives me chills when he plays!

Death is calling me

I have always envy those who have to ability to write poetry. I try so hard to write but my attempts to create a poem that is worthy is some what disappointing. I long to be able to find the words... the words that I have screaming inside of me to get out.... words that can bring emotion to those who read it.... words I just can't seem to find.

I will never pretend I'm something I am not. I was not that great at English or grammar back in High School. I guess I will never be a great poet but yet.... but yet I find my self trying.....


Death is Calling Me

Death is not cold like I have been told
death is warm and gentle, a blanket
that has wrapped it self around me
welcoming me, as if we were old friends…

There is no bright light, no heavenly angel to greet you
death seeps in to your blood- but there is no pain.
I begin to welcome the feeling……

death is neither man nor women-
a beautiful image before us…
I smile at the image before me.

death is neither loud nor quiet-
death gently whispers my name
I can feel it's breath upon me...

Death is calling me- or all along I have been calling to it

On the other side looking out

As much as we are always looking out. We are always looking in...

My cousin Scott

I want to give my cousin Scott Earl a plug on here. He runs a business by day but play's bass guitar at night on the West Coast. Check his Myspace page out. It's been a while since I have looked at it. He has his bands music on there. I have two of his albums that his bands put out back in the 80's.

http://www.myspace.com/scott_earl

This Time (lyrics) - Jonathan Rhys Meyers (August Rush)

Posting my favorite song from August Rush for you Wine and Words. I been playing this song a lot lately.

Foot prints in our lives

Gotye - Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) - official video

On a daily basis I have two or three songs playing in my head at the same time. I laugh at some of the songs that I have going through my head at the same time. Today it was this one and Queen of the Night by Whitney Houston.

Love this video and song!!!

I don't know anything about this artist but plan on searching more about Gotye this weekend.

I do want to find the time to post the lyrics when I post a video. I decided not to post information about a band or singer on my blog. My only resource to get this information is the Internet and to me that isn't a reliable source. To much wrong information is out there to tell whether it's true or not. I would feel bad if I post wrong information about a band or artist. If I do the source is reliable then I will post the information.

Gentle Giant

I can not understand why people fear this wonderful gentle giant. I have to walk by them every year to get from my car into my house. They don't care about me and what I am doing. They are to busy jumping from flower to flower getting what they came for. They could careless if I am around. They happily fill up on their legs with as much as they can and then fly off to drop off their gatherings. Then hurry back to retrieve more. So the next time you see one take the time to watch them fly and enjoy these gentle giants.

Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You Official Music Video

I laugh when I hear this song now. I use to try and duplicate her voice when I would try to sing this song. A failed attemp for sure but I treasure the memories this song gave me then and now......

Whitney Houston - Queen Of The Night

She wowed us with her beauty and her voice. This is one of my favorites from her. I will not comment on my views about her life and how she lived it. She gave us her all and that is all that needs to be said.

Another great artist gone

RIP Whitney Houston. A voice I use to try and duplicate when I would sing her songs. Sad to see so many great artist let drugs and alcohol ruin their lives. It's still unknown the cause of her death but out of respect I will post my favorite songs from her tomorrow.

Jason Mraz - I Won't Give Up (Official Lyric Video)

Gosh!! Every time I hear him, Jason Mraz just keeps getting better and better. I liked him when his first song hit the radio and I still love his music today.

This song has me thinking about a special friend in my life. I won't give up on him.

Moon in all it's glory, I try to reach out to touch it

Lately this past couple of years I have found myself trying to capture pictures of the moon. I don't have a very fancy camera or a photoshop program yet, so my pictures are a work in progress that I'm slowly learning.

Adam Cohen - Like A Man - Official Video

Wow a very heart felt song, I have neglected my blog and decided it's time to bring more to my blog than just music. To me whether it's art, dance, music, pictures, and poetry, I feel they are all connected in a harmonic universal wave link. We use each of them to express, translate and bring emotion. Join me in a journey to take flight and free fall from our every day life's to connect to this harmonic wave link.