Music

Song Sung Blue

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Music and Lyrics by Neil DiamondPerformed by Hugh Jackman and Kate HudsonSong Sung Blue motion picture (2025) This is not a sad songA sad songTo sing when you’re aloneIn it’s way a glad songYeah, a glad songA simple tune that simply makes you feel good when you sing along Song sung blue, everybody knows oneSong … Read more

Have You Never Been Mellow

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After Marianne died I found in her email account a $1.00 credit for a song from Amazon. I was drawn to apply the credit to purchase this song from Olivia Newton-John for $.99. Later I found the song on YouTube. Today I am feeling the message to slow down, and I particularly resonate with this … Read more

The Gift of Music

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The strains of the Polovtzian DancesRun through my mind and soulAs I ponder the shifts in my heart. The opera was chosen by my belovedSeeing and hearing it againBrought a special feeling of happiness and connectionAnd somehow I knewOur journey has just begun. Kirov Ballet My music list

Orinoco Flow

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“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” Mark Twain This morning during a leisurely breakfast I listened to … Read more

Annie’s Song

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You fill up my sensesLike a night in a forestLike the mountains in springtimeLike a walk in the rainLike a storm in the desertLike a sleepy blue oceanYou fill up my sensesCome fill me again Come let me love youLet me give my life to youLet me drown in your laughterLet me die in your … Read more

Wichita Lineman

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I am a lineman for the countyAnd I drive the main roadsSearchin’ in the sunFor another overload I hear you singin’ in the wiresI can hear you through the whineAnd the Wichita linemanIs still on the line I know I need a small vacationBut it don’t look like rainIf it snows that stretch down southWill … Read more

Dust in the Wind

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“All conditioned things are impermanent — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering” Buddha, Dhammapada I close my eyesOnly for a moment and the moment’s goneAll my dreamsPass before my eyes with curiosity Dust in the windAll they are is dust in the windSame old song Just a drop of water … Read more

In the Bleak Midwinter

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There was snow in Charlotte today, and I attended Quaker meeting, which was all on Zoom due to the weather. Rich messages were shared. It is customary for the person breaking meeting to offer a query. Today it was inspired by the hymn “In the Bleak Midwinter” and came out of the messages shared during … Read more