**** Five Years and 50 for me ****

FlyingHighNow

Today marks my 5 year anniversary with JWD. I forgot about it until I saw my profile just now. My life has been touched in so many absolutely amazing ways by all of you at JWD. I will write more about it at a more decent hour. I hope so anyway.

And on October 15th, I will turn 50. So here I go on the last leg of my 50th trip around the sun. "What a long strange trip it's been."

One of my favorite LP's of all time is Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. This is a song from the LP called Five Years. After the prez's speech tonight, it calls this song to mind.

"I never thought I'd meet so many people." from Five Years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq3EZhT3G7U

Five Years lyrics:

Pushing thru the market square, so many mothers sighing
News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in
News guy wept and told us, earth was really dying
Cried so much his face was wet, then I knew he was not lying
I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys electric irons and t.v.s
My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things to store everything in there
And all the fat-skinny people, and all the tall-short people
And all the nobody people, and all the somebody people
I never thought Id need so many people

A girl my age went off her head, hit some tiny children
If the black hadnt a-pulled her off, I think she would have killed them
A soldier with a broken arm, fixed his stare to the wheels of a cadillac
A cop knelt and kissed the feet of a priest, and a queer threw up at the sight of that

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, drinking milk shakes cold and long
Smiling and waving and looking so fine, dont think
You knew you were in this song
And it was cold and it rained so I felt like an actor
And I thought of ma and I wanted to get back there
Your face, your race, the way that you talk
I kiss you, youre beautiful, I want you to walk

Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, what a surprise
Five years, stuck on my eyes
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Weve got five years, what a surprise
Weve got five years, stuck on my eyes
Weve got five years, my brain hurts a lot
Five years, thats all weve got
Five years
Five years
Five years
Five years

FlyingHighNow

Here's a present to myself and anyone who's got a touch of gray.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NEE8oURdM0

Must be getting early, clocks are running late.
Paint my love a morning sky, its all cold.
Dawn is breaking everywhere, light a candle, curse the glare
Draw the curtains I dont care, but its all right
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive.

I see youve got your list out, say your piece and kiss off.
Guess I get the gist of it, but its all right
Oh well anyway, sorry that you feel that way.
Every silver linings got a touch of grey
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive.

Its a lesson to me, the ablers and the beggars and the thieves
The abcs we all think of, try to win a little love.

I know the rent is in arrears, the dog has not been fed in years
Its even worse than it appears, but its all right

Cow is giving kerosene, kid cant read at seventeen
The words he knows are all obscene, but its all right
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive.

Shoe is on the hand that fits, thats all there really is to it
Whistle through your teeth and spit, but its all right

Oh well a touch of grey, kinda suits you anyway,
Thats all I had to say, but its all right
I will get by, I will get by, I will get by, I will survive.

Its a lesson to me, the devils and the east and the free
The abcs we all must face, try to save a little grace.

beksbks

Ohhh FHN, I shoulda known you were a Libra too. Here's to The Dead, and you.

FlyingHighNow

Thanks, Beks. Yes, very Libra.

I need ideas. None of my friends know each other. They are all spread out. I am trying to figure out ways to have a meaningful 50th anyway. This birthday falls on a Wednesday. I was born on a Wednesday. I am looking for suggestions for ways to make the whole week special, especially that day, that don't cost anything or very little. My boss' birthday is the 15th, so maybe she will give me the day off. Unless I start this job I hope I will be getting. I will know by Friday hopefully.

Heck, I think I'm going to strive to make each day of October special, even though this is one of the most angst filled times I've had to live through. I've healed so much from the sadness of last year.

So, please, ideas would be welcome.

LisaAnn

I start my 50th year this October. I was thinking of celebrating once a month with the moon cycles, culminating on my 50th in 2009. Maybe you can do some kind of moon ceremony- the full moon starts Oct 14 20:03 this year... enjoy it on both sides of your 50th!

FlyingHighNow

Thank you, Lisa. That's a good idea. The moon. I love the full moon. gives me time to think and prepare for it. Do some research, don't you know? One good thing about this age is that you appreciate the little things so much.

All suggestions are welcome. All ideas. I thank you in advance.

ninja

FHN.....50?....wow....you don't look a day over 49........ninja puts on his tin hat and starts digging

Robdar

I should have known you were a libra--always seeking balance.

Happy birfday sweet thang.

Hugs,

Robyn

jaguarbass

I remember 5 years back in the day, it must have come out about 70 or 71. That song with the Wactower preaching Armegedon in 75 did a number on my brain.

I look back today and see that the wactower and a lot of music that get's promoted is geared to keep us trapped in the matrix. Deffintitely to have us live a life of fear.

I loved Bowie back in the day. He was a great creative artist but that song coming out in the early 70's along with being raised a witness kept me trapped in the tower a few years longer than I would have liked.

I doubt Bowie is anything more than a creative artist who takes in what he sees and spits it back out in song thats the beauty of the matrix. Or to put it another way being trapped in this system of things.

For me that was being trapped in the tower and not going to college.

Now I should have been loving and embracing Billy Joels "It's my life". I didnt get the impact of that song untill 1983.

free2think

Happy Birthday FHN and Happy JWD Bday too.

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