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DUST
Dorianne Laux
Someone spoke to me last night,
told me the truth. Just a few words,
but I recognized it.
I knew I should make myself get up,
write it down, but it was late,
and I was exhausted from working
all day in the garden, moving rocks.
Now, I remember only the flavor--
not like food, sweet or sharp.
More like a fine powder, like dust.
And I wasn't elated or frightened,
but simply rapt, aware.
That's how it is sometimes--
God comes to your window,
all bright light and black wings,
and you're just too tired to open it.
—from What We Carry
Woman with Flower
by Naomi Long Madgett
I wouldn't coax the plant if I were you.
Such watchful nurturing would do harm.
Let the soil rest from so much digging
And wait until it's dry before you water it.
The leaf's inclined to find its own direction;
Give it a chance to seek sunlight for itself.
Much growth is stunted by careful prodding,
Too eager tenderness.
The things we love we have to learn to leave alone.
I have so many things I admire and call "favorite - of them, this poem has always been just that.
I Am Waiting
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting
for a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting
for someone to really discover America
and wail
and I am waiting
for the discovery
of a new symbolic western frontier
and I am waiting
for the American Eagle
to really spread its wings
and straighten up and fly right
and I am waiting
for the Age of Anxiety
to drop dead
and I am waiting
for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe
for anarchy
and I am waiting
for the final withering away
of all governments
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder
I am waiting for the Second Coming
and I am waiting
for a religious revival
to sweep through the state of Arizona
and I am waiting
for the Grapes of Wrath to be stored
and I am waiting
for them to prove
that God is really American
and I am waiting
to see God on television
piped’ onto church altars
if only they can find
the right channel
to tune in on
and I am waiting
for the Last Supper to be served again
with a strange new appetizer
and I am perpetually awaiting
a rebirth of wonder
I am waiting for my number to be called
and I am waiting
for the Salvation Army to take over
and I am waiting
for the meek to be blessed
and inherit the earth
without taxes and I am waiting
for forests and animals
to reclaim the earth as theirs
and I am waiting
for a way to be devised
to destroy all nationalisms
without killing anybody
and I am waiting
for linnets and planets to fall like rain
and I am waiting for lovers and weepers
to lie down together again
in a new rebirth of wonder
I am waiting for the Great Divide to ‘be crossed
and I am anxiously waiting
for the secret of eternal life to be discovered
by an obscure general practitioner
and I am waiting
for the storms of life
to be over
and I am waiting
to set sail for happiness
and I am waiting
for a reconstructed Mayflower
to reach America
with its picture story and tv rights
sold in advance to the natives
and I am waiting
for the lost music to sound again
in the Lost Continent
in a new rebirth of wonder
I am waiting for the day
that maketh all things clear
and I am awaiting retribution
for what America did
to Tom Sawyer
and I am waiting
for the American Boy
to take off Beauty’s clothes
and get on top of her
and I am waiting
for Alice in Wonderland
to retransmit to me
her total dream of innocence
and I am waiting
for Childe Roland to come
to the final darkest tower
and I am waiting
for Aphrodite
to grow live arms
at a final disarmament conference
in a new rebirth of wonder
I am waiting
to get some intimations
of immortality
by recollecting my early childhood
and I am waiting
for the green mornings to come again
youth’s dumb green fields come back again
and I am waiting
for some strains of unpremeditated art
to shake my typewriter
and I am waiting to write
the great indelible poem
and I am waiting
for the last long careless rapture
and I am perpetually waiting
for the fleeing lovers on the Grecian Urn
to catch each other up at last
and embrace
and I am waiting
perpetually and forever
a renaissance of wonder
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Coney Island of the Mind
1958
Quotes and things...
No tree has branches so foolish as to fight among themselves. - Native American saying
"I'm in the business of effing the ineffable." - Alan Watts
However, look what other people are doing with their time...
Rodrigo Y Gabriela
[1]
Barry Kerr A traditional musician (Uilleann Pipes), painter and sculptor [2][3]
Synchronized Samsung Dance
[4]
Ron Mueck is a London-based photo-realist artist.
Born in Melbourne,Australia, to parents who were toy makers -
Ron Mueck's Scultpures
Mueck to Music A Captivating You Tube Video
Other Videos to music of his work
[5] [6]
Gift from a Goat Keeper [7]
The Goat Woman Her story Goat Woman website
American Tune - Darrell Scott [8]
Phil Hansen [9]
Thank You Atuuschaaw for this wonderful introduction to an artist:
(Go to all the links and watch, well worth it, and see the different media used)
Morphine a fan dedicates a MySpace page to an old jazz/blues band out of Boston You Look Like Rain is the song to listen to, IMHO
Images, photos, pictures or whatever
 My Daughter |
 My Boys |
 My Grand daughter |
How I try and live
THE EMPTY BOAT
He who rules men lives in confusion;
He who is ruled by men lives in sorrow.
Yao therefore desired
Neither to influence others
Nor to be influenced by them.
The way to get clear of confusion
And free of sorrow
Is to live with Tao
In the land of the great Void.
If a man is crossing a river
And an empty boat collides with his own skiff,
Even though he be a bad-tempered man
He will not become very angry.
But if he sees a man in the boat,
He will shout at him to steer clear.
If the shout is not heard, he will shout again,
And yet again, and begin cursing.
And all because there is somebody in the boat.
Yet if the boat were empty.
He would not be shouting, and not angry.
If you can empty your own boat
Crossing the river of the world,
No one will oppose you,
No one will seek to harm you.
The straight tree is the first to be cut down,
The spring of clear water is the first to be drained dry.
If you wish to improve your wisdom
And shame the ignorant,
To cultivate your character
And outshine others;
A light will shine around you
As if you had swallowed the sun and the moon:
You will not avoid calamity.
A wise man has said:
"He who is content with himself
Has done a worthless work.
Achievement is the beginning of failure.
Fame is beginning of disgrace."
Who can free himself from achievement
And from fame, descend and be lost
Amid the masses of men?
He will flow like Tao, unseen,
He will go about like Life itself
With no name and no home.
Simple is he, without distinction.
To all appearances he is a fool.
His steps leave no trace. He has no power.
He achieves nothing, has no reputation.
Since he judges no one
No one judges him.
Such is the perfect man:
His boat is empty.
- Chuang Tzu -
My Boat is Sinking
Share a Video
Forgetfulness A Poem by Billy Collins
Hungry Cat in the Morning [[10]]
OUT SOURCING
I was depressed last night so I called Lifeline.
I got a call center in Pakistan.
I told them I was suicidal.
They got all excited and asked if I could drive a truck.
Interesting Links (or ones that entertained me for a few minutes)
Space Toilets Col Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, was Chief of Robotics for the NASA Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas from 2003-2006, and then Chief of International Space Station Operations. He was Mission Specialist on two space flights and was NASA's Chief CapCom, the voice of mission control to astronauts in orbit, for 25 space shuttle missions. This video is a talk by Col. Hadfield at the Ontario Science Centre.
Radio Lab from NPR great podcast on "Memory" from June in the archive, but many things on this program interests me...check it out if you have some time
Dr.Quantum
a little youtube video if you'd like a bit of quantum theory explained in simple terms
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| Nickname (set in preferences) | Bleau | ||
| Location | Spencerport, New York - USA | ||
| Songs ranked | 1,711 | ||
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| Birthday | Sunday, December 14th | ||
| This year's birthday | 9 days hence on a Sunday | ||
| Zodiac sign | Sagittarius | ||
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Favorite artists: Harry Manx / Dave Carter And Tracy Grammer / Paul Kamm And Eleanore MacDonald / David Francey / Danny Schmidt / 3 Blind Mice / Greg Brown / Doug Geeting / Nickel Creek / Kris Delmhorst / Johnsmith / Chris Proctor / David Elias / Antje Duvekot / Natalie Merchant / Michael Chapdelaine / Dougie MacLean / Guy Davis / Buster B Jones / Larry Zarella / Emily Elbert / Acoustic Eidolon / Brett Dennen / Peter Mulvey / Jeffrey Foucault / Meg Hutchinson / Jonathan Byrd / Stephen Bennett / Sari / George Wirth / Mikael Santana / Kevin Mileski / Larry Carlton With Special Guest Robben Ford / Might Could / Rare Form / Corey Stevens / Stephen Fearing / Dar Williams / Swil Kanim / Sloan Wainwright / Erik Balkey / Cliff Eberhardt / Ruthie Foster / Jeni Fleming Acoustic Trio / Karrin Allyson / Craig Korth / Josh Ritter / Laurence Juber / Michael McNevin / Alice Di Micele
Requests Bleau has made
| Last 25 song requests | |||
| Song | Artist | When | Dedication |
| Seeing Red | Maria Zemantauski | Fri., Oct 31, 2008 - 08:01:06 | |
| Big Time | Ray Weaver | Tue., Oct 21, 2008 - 12:00:20 | |
| I'd Like To Know | Meg Hutchinson | Tue., Oct 21, 2008 - 10:52:03 | |
| Warm Up The Car | Pierce Woodward | Tue., Oct 21, 2008 - 10:50:53 | |
| Fuck Was I | Jenny Owen Youngs | Tue., Oct 21, 2008 - 10:49:09 | |
| Wandered Out Too Far | Korby Lenker | Mon., Sep 22, 2008 - 19:34:53 | |
| And So It Goes | Karrin Allyson | Mon., Sep 22, 2008 - 19:04:23 | |
| Dog Down By The River | Korby Lenker | Mon., Sep 22, 2008 - 18:57:52 | |
| Cookin' It Right | Mikael Santana | Mon., Sep 22, 2008 - 18:19:19 | |
| How You Gonna Run | Larry Zarella | Mon., Sep 22, 2008 - 18:17:40 | |
| The Old King | David Elias | Mon., Sep 22, 2008 - 18:09:58 | |
| Say Hello To Yesterday | Lawrence Blatt | Mon., Sep 22, 2008 - 17:58:22 | |
| Warm Up The Car | Pierce Woodward | Mon., Sep 22, 2008 - 17:55:08 | |
| Some Help I Don't Need | Ron Levy's Wild Kingdom | Thu., Sep 11, 2008 - 16:41:23 | |
| Seeing Stars | Meg Hutchinson | Thu., Sep 11, 2008 - 16:21:43 | (Meg Hutchinson) #3 of 3 in a 12 mins set. |
| America (Enough) | Meg Hutchinson | Thu., Sep 11, 2008 - 16:21:43 | (Meg Hutchinson) #2 of 3 in a 12 mins set. |
| Climbing Mountains | Meg Hutchinson | Thu., Sep 11, 2008 - 16:21:43 | (Meg Hutchinson) #1 of 3 in a 12 mins set. |
| Tarvarnauramken | Pamyua | Thu., Sep 11, 2008 - 15:56:53 | |
| For The Good Of America | Rod MacDonald | Sun., Aug 3, 2008 - 09:59:02 | |
| The Ballad of Larry | Jonathan Byrd | Sun., Aug 3, 2008 - 09:23:09 | (Bleau) #3 of 3 in a 15 mins set. |
| Henry's Shuffle | Chris Proctor | Sun., Aug 3, 2008 - 09:23:09 | (Bleau) #2 of 3 in a 15 mins set. |
| Just Like Champagne | Mikael Santana | Sun., Aug 3, 2008 - 09:23:09 | (Bleau) #1 of 3 in a 15 mins set. |
| Listening | Jami Sieber | Sun., Aug 3, 2008 - 08:54:15 | |
| The Unintentional Song | Michael McNevin | Sun., Aug 3, 2008 - 08:49:37 | |
| Lullaby | Aaron English | Sun., Aug 3, 2008 - 08:38:22 | |
| Top 15 artists requested | ||
| Artist | Times requested | Percent of 758 total requests |
| Greg Brown | 13 | 2% |
| Doug Geeting | 11 | 1% |
| Kieran Kane And Kevin Welch | 10 | 1% |
| Sue Pyper | 10 | 1% |
| 3 Blind Mice | 9 | 1% |
| Sari | 9 | 1% |
| David Elias | 9 | 1% |
| Paul Kamm And Eleanore MacDonald | 9 | 1% |
| Danny Schmidt | 8 | 1% |
| Natalie Merchant | 8 | 1% |
| Mikael Santana | 8 | 1% |
| Peter Mulvey | 8 | 1% |
| Brooks Williams | 8 | 1% |
| Jeffrey Foucault | 8 | 1% |
| Meg Hutchinson | 8 | 1% |
