G's away, off to play,
so I'll be drinking alone, sitting…waiting by the phone.
Time for some blues to wash it all down. No energy to walk about town.
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I heard a Leonard Cohen song in a coffee shop on the radio today. I thought I knew it and could find it with ease, but no. After listening to several I must give up and go with one I know. Actually I hope everybody knows this one!
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I tried to put up some more decorations tonight but I am feeling a bit down. G is out and about and I am tired from work. I think I have a little cold or something, so I just don't see the point of it tonight. It is snowing, but what fun is the snow when you have no one to share it with? It is a blue pre-Christmas night for sure.
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I know the times have been "a-changin'" my whole life, but for the past few years it seemed more noticeable. Perhaps it is because my life is not changing so much lately. G and I have settled down a bit in our house and our town, but the rest of the world is truckin' on with the changin'. It is an odd sensation though. Sometimes I feel a bit stuck in time.
The cultural changes are tough to keep up on. They always have been. You stop paying attention too long and poof you realize you're wearing something that is so out of date you look bad (and not in a good way). Or you say something that is no longer politically correct or deemed inappropriate. Or you hear about something that everyone else knows about but you have no clue. Getting older sucks, yet I can't say I was ever on top of it all anyway.
Then to make "the changin'" worse, I see a lot of global trends that are changing in the wrong directions. e.g. pollution, population, over consumption (of energy especially), etc. I've felt that way this entire decade. Humanity generally has its head stuck up its ass and there will be a dramatic wake up call eventually. I'm sure of it. Bigger than 9-11. Bigger than Katrina. Bigger than the recession. Bigger than all of that.
I'll keep watching the changing the best I can, but I'm definitely going to take a break from time to time to listen to some classics. If there is one thing that is certain, it is change.
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I went to my yoga class this morning, and I finally think I felt my mind and body were quiet and I did not need to struggle to keep them quiet. So frequently I have been unable to stop the flurry of things I should be doing, concerns, hopes, and fears from flying through my thoughts even when in "Tadasana" in the stillness of a morning yoga class. Today it was no issue. All was quiet.
On the way home I was thinking about how I use to just do yoga at home and it was good, but never quite as satisfying. I use to resist the assistance of others, in yoga and in most things, but I have accepted that sometimes I need help to get where I want to go. My yoga class is just one example. I started humming this classic, "Lean on Me" as I walked home. If we all lean on each other, then we become a forest, right?
(OMG, yoga… Tadasana… forests… perhaps I am a hippie… an intellectual hippie though. Oh and I shower daily, so there!)
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I had a little help from my friends on this one when they pointed it out to me last night. The video above is of Joe Cocker's well known performance at Woodstock in 1969. What is different about the video above from the original live recording is someone has added lyrics matching what it sounds like Joe is singing. e.g. A couple lines are…
Oh baby, hoggify
All I need is my butt and I
Too funny!
You can listen to the original recorded album version, where Joe has a little bit more diction, here:
http://www.imeem.com/joecocker/music/k-lrf97r/joe-cocker-with-a-little-help-from-my-friends/
I'd like to also point out that although Joe Cocker's rendition is famous, the song was originally written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney and released on The Beatles album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Joe's cover is good, but so is the original. It is difficult to say which one I like more.
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I dedicate this song to G for 3459 days together.
…who, by the way, got me this sweet new iPod Nano 4G (AKA 4th Generation for you non-iPod users out there) after my 1G's battery bit the dust and replacing the battery appeared to be unlikely. G is so sweet to me!
My Hot New Green iPod Nano 4G with 16GB
Also, although Etta James covered this song, originally written in 1946 by Barbara Belle, Anita Leonard, Louis Prima, and Stan Rhodes, this version is the one to know and love, just like G.
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