Makes me think of the Chinese proverb for people in despair:
"Keep a green tree growing in your heart and a singing bird will come."
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Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
by nvrgnbk infind a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
-joseph campbell.
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Movie with the best music
by beksbks ini'll throw out the harder they come.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkmzuxlkqv8.
fiddler on the roof.
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Mr. Ted
There's lots of soundtracks I like. This movie was fun. "Stonewall."
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I'm an igloo.
Sounds like you're a well-rounded guy, John Doe. This Inuit word might come in handy: pukajaw. It means firm snow that is easy to cut and provides warm shelter. And if your feeling neighborly you might decide you want to areodjarekput. That would be to exchange wives for a few days only.
Well, it's late -- and I'm sure nobody wants to know the more than 50 Inuit words for snow.
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Tell us, John Doe, what kind of a building could you see yourself as.
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Ouch! Duplicate post?
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A. G. Rizzoli was an "outsider" artist (unacknowledged in his life) who would do portraits of people as elaborate buildings.
I couldn't locate the elaborate castle titled "Shirley's Temple" for a friend named Shirley. But the partial picture below was titled "Mother Symbolically Recaptured." He was really a quiet draftsman -- slept at the foot of his mother's bed until she died. Never married. Died a virgin.
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How about a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house because you're practical and reasonably priced.
Edit to add: You're asking us to describe you, right?
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Singer Songwriters who should be household names....
by hillary_step inover the decades musicians rise and fall like a spring wind.
some stay where they should never be, some never are where they should be; such is the roulette of time.
this thread is dedicated to singer songwriters who influence the rest of the best, but are seldom known - 'gamblers in the neon, clinging to guitars...' .
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OK, I'm back. One more singer/songwriter who seems to be completely forgotten: Tom Paxton.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voqL5ksOuoo
He wrote "Ramblin' Boy," "The Marvelous Toy," "Can't Help But Wonder Where I'm Bound," etc.
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Singer Songwriters who should be household names....
by hillary_step inover the decades musicians rise and fall like a spring wind.
some stay where they should never be, some never are where they should be; such is the roulette of time.
this thread is dedicated to singer songwriters who influence the rest of the best, but are seldom known - 'gamblers in the neon, clinging to guitars...' .
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Coming very late to this thread. Did read through it ... and appreciated several of the artists mentioned.
But no one mentioned singer/songwriter Phil Ochs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keRWzYFJMlo
Tried to find His "Pleasure of the Harbor." Then, of course, he wrote the "There But For Fortune" which finally brought Joan Baez to AM radio. Also, there was "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" and "Draft Dodger Rag," etc.
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I LOVE YOU!
by sacolton injust wanted to say, "i love you!
" to everyone!.
(hey, it's friday ... i'm in a good mood!
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This poem is by 1992 Nobel Prize winner, Derek Walcott, a poet originally from the West Indies.
Love after Love -- by Derek Walcott
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.###
