"The Life in Song(s) meme"

In light of the link of the above post the following is an illustration of my Life in Song(s) meme as I see fit at the moment.



Sometimes, I feel the fear of uncertainty stinging clear
And I can't help but ask myself how much I let the fear
Take the wheel and steer
It's driven me before
And it seems to have a vague, haunting mass appeal
But lately I'm beginning to find that I
Should be the one behind the wheel

Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
With open arms and open eyes yeah

Whatever tomorrow brings, I'll be there
I'll be there
[Incubus]

Oh, this old world
keeps spinning round
It's a wonder tall trees
ain't layin' down
There comes a time.
[Neil Young]

All the suffering that you've witnessed
And the hand prints on the wall
They remind you how it's endless
How endlessly you fall
And the answer that you're seeking
For the question that you found
Drives you further to confusion
As you lose your sense of ground
So don't forget to breathe
Don't forget to breathe
Your whole life is here
No eleventh hour reprieve
So don't forget to breathe

Keep your head above water
But don't forget to breathe
[Alexi Murdoch]

It's a mad mission
Under difficult conditions
not everybody makes it
To the loving cup
It's a mad mission
But I got the ambition
Mad, mad mission
sign me up
[Patty Griffin]


Look like nothing's gonna change
Everything still remains the same
I can't do what ten people tell me to do
So I guess I'll remain the same, yes

Sittin' here resting my bones
And this loneliness won't leave me alone
It's two thousand miles I roamed
Just to make this dock my home

Now, I'm just gonna sit at the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away
Oooo-wee, sittin' on the dock of the bay
Wastin' time
[Otis Redding]

How many times have you wished you were strong?
Have they ever seen your heart?
Have they ever seen your pain?
Oh, Life is waiting for you
So messed up, but we're alive
Oh, Life is waiting for you
So messed up, but we'll survive
[Our Lady of Peace]

Pain, without love
Pain, I can't get enough
Pain, I like it rough
'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all
[Three Days Grace]

Well dust off your thinking caps
Solar powered plastic plants
Pretty pictures of things we ate
We are only what we hate
But in the long run we have found
Silent films are full of sound
Inaudibly free

Slow down everyone
You're moving too fast
Frames can't catch you when
You're moving like that
[Jack Johnson]

Life is much too short to sit and wonder
Who's gonna make the next move and will slowly pull you under when you've always got something
to prove?
[Ben Harper]

Time and time and time we see these
Acts against humanity, well,
Each for each and each will be then
Shed blood for what they each believe, well
On and on and on we go well,
Some will you see and, some won't be
True for you and truth will lead you
To a sense of, well now, peace

Let me be now
Hmm hmm, let me because
I want to be free now,
Oh oh, free to see, yeah well
Want to walk away, oh oh
Let me feel my feet
Let me be, free
[Xavier Rudd]

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the Life In Song(s) meme...*

---(-)-> Illustrate your life, in song(s)
---(-)-> Portions of 10 songs
---(-)-> Use no song in its entirety
---(-)-> Use no artist more than once
---(-)-> Tag 5 people

September: A moment in hindsight

I chose this quote for the month of September

Intuition and concepts constitute ... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Immanuel Kant

There's No Place Like Home...there's no place like home.

In a time where I need reinforcement from life I find myself at the beginning of a yellow brick road. Among me are the Cowardly Lion, the Heartless Tin Man, and the Mindless Scare Crow. I truly do feel like Dorthy when the tornado hit Kansas city, and she's taken off into a world she is not all that familiar with. This time the characters she ventures off with are all within me.
There's a piece of each character within everyone of us- it's a matter of taming or motivating each one to create a balance.

I am ever so grateful for having the opportunity to explore a fragment of my world, but I believe my time has come to move forward. I must admit I did get a little attached to the beauty and wonder that England has to offer; the people, the atmosphere and the work experience. I have come to the conclusion that it isn't my bag. It's difficult because I had originally planned on coming for two months, and head back home. Once I arrived I realized that the opportunity for a full time contract would be longer than expected, so I made the decision that I could just stay for the year, or maybe two.
My contract ended sooner than anticipated and I was left with no money, no place to stay, and no real job security in order to place me back on my feet. I stayed for one month to try and organize something as far was work, but there just didn't seem to be anything there for me to survive on. It seemed that everything was at a lost, and I couldn't see home anymore. As the ol' saying goes- "home is where the heart is." As far as I was concerned I no longer had the home I thought I had.
I think I went off track and forgot what is was that I was looking for...to teach and just be creative in whatever it is I am doing. I've thought about going to South Korea for some time now, and I sent out a message to a school and received a reply.
So, now my Lincoln Adventures are complete and I am venturing off back home to say hello to friends and family. This way I can get my appropriate papers in order to begin South Korean Adventures in Busan!
Although I have a great opportunity elsewhere it's hard for me to switch off one plan(even though it didn't pan out) and venture off to another one.
I'm 'earth' and I move slowly, and I have to remember to be patient with myself.

EarhBound

Destiny

Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours

For one lone soul another lonely soul
Each choosing each through all the weary hours
And meeting strangely at one sudden goal.
The blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers,
Into one beautiful and perfect whole;
And life's long night is ended, and the way
Lies open onward to eternal day.

~Edwin Arnold

Will Work for Peace

Stop Shopping! Start Thinking!

War is expensive, Peace is priceless.

If war is the answer, we're asking the wrong question.

If war is the answer, we asked the wrong question.

Won't War Breed Hatred?

You can bomb the world to pieces but you can't bomb it to Peace

Consume -- Consume -- Bomb -- Bomb -- Consume -- Consume

Knowledge is Power - Don't follow Propaganda !

Don't Drag the Flag in Oil

Impermanance In Everything

I was on the bus earlier today coming back from what I reckon to be a hard days work. As I sat there trying to forget how much of a rotten day I'd been having, this sweet little voice caught my attention with its words.

I casually turned to look back so to get a glimpse and see where those words were coming from. As I turned and attempted to get a good look, I saw that this angelic voice was that of a little girl's of about 5 or 6 years old. Still too short to see above the seat in front of them, I can see she was talking to what seemed like a younger sibling. So I turned back around and tuned in.
Through the hum of the crowed bus I heard this little girls voice resonate absolute truth, and she said ever so calmly; "...you see...everything dies."

I noticed whilst passing everyday things she continued on pointing them out, foretelling their life and death cycle. We are driving by pedestrians in a nearby park and she says; "People die...You see the trees over there? They die. The Grass dies, too...Birds die." I look up to see a seagull flying above, and as I look back down we're passing by a car dealership and she says; "Even cars die you know."

Her soft spoken words hit my ear drums and I felt it shatter my thoughts into a million pieces. I just felt compelled to write about how these pieces still resonate so profoundly in me.

Here I'm sat thinking I'm having a bad day and I'm not sure exactly why but I felt assuaged by the thought of how this child saw profundity in everyday simplicities, and she didn't even know it. I understand that she may not relate the exact emotional tie that one would have when a significant other passes, but to her it was nothing but a mundane idea that everything is impermanent.

I reckon everyone can take something different from this story. I believe it's up to each of us to take with us the beauty in what once was, and I realize that today doesn't seem to be that bad after all. Most importantly, everything is Impermanent.

Eddie Izzard- Dress to Kill

OM- Being A Strong Container: Grounding Ourselves

We often hear people telling us to ground ourselves, but we may not be sure what that means and how we might do it. Grounding ourselves is a way of bringing ourselves literally back to earth. Some of us are more prone than others to essentially leaving our bodies and not being firmly rooted in our bodies. There’s nothing terribly wrong with this, but while we are living on the earth plane it is best to stay grounded in the body.

One of the easiest ways to ground ourselves is to bring our attention to our breath as it enters and leaves our bodies. After about 10 breaths, we will probably find that we feel much more connected to our physical selves. We might then bring our awareness to the sensations in our bodies, moving from our head down to our feet, exploring and inquiring. Just a few minutes of this can bring us home to bodies and to the earth, and this is what it means to ground ourselves.

We can go further by imagining that we have roots growing out of the bottoms of our feet, connecting us to the earth. The roots flow with us so we can we always move, but at the same time they keep us grounded. We receive powerful energy from the earth just as we do from the forms of energy we associate with the sky, and our body is a tool that brings these two energies together in a sacred union. When we are grounded, we essentially become a strong container in which our spirits can safely and productively dwell. This is why grounding ourselves every day, especially at the beginning of the day, is such a beneficial practice. Fortunately, it’s as simple as bringing our conscious awareness to our bodies and the earth on which we walk.

From: DailyOM
(today@dailyom.com)

Yoga is a productive form of containing all that is good in our system. I have not found the time to do it in the last three-four months of traveling, and have become one with the United Kingdom; drinking till wee hours of the morning and waking up early to keep on truckin'. I have met many friends, and strangers who have become acquaintances by nature of social drinking, and smoking cigarettes. I do not regret mentally, or spiritually these tales of companionship; however, my body is wrapping at the door and crying through the locks telling me it's time to balance myself once again. I've been eating crap foods that I know my body cannot handle, and I need to counterpoise these actions at once before things get out of hand. Although people may not have an illness they are diagnosed with it's a general idea that your body is in constant communication with you- telling you what it is you need. We may not always understand it the first time, and most times before it's too late. Yet, our bodies are a phenomenal power house- more than we can ever imagine.

When we make an effort to be conscious of our roots and where they feed from, like a tree firmly grounded, we can attain great heights and remain supple in the eye of a storm. So, take a little time for yourself and enjoy who you are and what you can offer yourself before you show the world.

After all, at the end of the day it's a mater of taking the time to sit and take deep breathes in and out. Stop for a moment, and smell the flowers.

August: A Moment In Hindsight

Supporting children who are less fortunate than the average child taught me a valuable lesson in life. Life is about looking into ones own body; whether physical, emotional or spiritual, to find what is most sacred to oneself. Working with people less fortunate mirrors the strengths, and sometimes your own weakness' as well.
With this knowledge, one can look forward and see these fine qualities in others. One can let it not only surface and appear in its purest form, but let it flourish and burgeon into the unexpected. You don't always have to have a plan for every piece of who you are, because sometime you see who you can be, but it's doing it that make things just happen. "What you do does not define who you are, but who you are defines what you do."
Furthermore, once you find who you are your true spirit arises and invigorates what was once forgotten; eventually leading you to like minded individuals who also may have forgotten, or better yet who have begun to sprout the seeds they have let hibernate for too long. Thus, finding yourself in others.


The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.

An Ethical Philosophy of Life
Felix Adler

Missing You With Every Piece of My Heart

I am sat here in the UK without a place to go and I think of you.
I am sat here in my place wishing I could walk over to you and give you more loving memories and more cherished moments we have shared together.
I am sat here on a divan thinking of how I would walk the world in a day only to be surrounded by your beauty, and your truthful essence.
I am sat here in my tears of sorrow listening to your voice telling me how strong I am in moments of weakness and sleepless nights.
I am sat here missing you with every piece of my heart.


I am such a fortunate soul to have an experience a lifetime that nobody will ever have in an eternity. No matter how tough times may get, no matter how many days go by I live without knowing what to expect the following day I still take the time to think of my blessed friend Tammie Beth Ross. She means more to me than any words can ever describe, and more than anyone can imagine. Those who cross her path are few of the lucky souls. If they get to know her they would be amazed by her simple beauty. Yet, if they get close enough to her and befriend this shinning star they can only be as greatful as I am.
Tammie, even though you have been worlds apart from me physically I know and feel that you are in my presence at all times. I hold you close to my heart everyday. I miss you so much; your smile, your laugh, your bright eyes, your courtesy, your touch and even your tears, for it is with all these things that make you real. Thanks for being real and showing me what it is to love and be with a friend, to love and be with a confidant and most importantly- to love and be with yourself.

EarthBound