The Last Time I Saw Richard
Joni Mitchell has a gift for creating pictures of sad personalities. Here as she writes of Richard, she also paints a picture of the person speaking to Richard. This is one of my favourite Joni Mitchell songs. The Last Time I Saw Richard(Words and music by Joni Mitchell; from the album Blue) (Listen to the…
Continue readingMessage in a Bottle
I saw a news story about a message in a bottle that had travelled approximately 4000 km from Gaspe, Quebec to East Passage, Ireland. The message, stuffed into a two litre plastic pop bottle had survived at sea for eight years and then been found by a nine year old boy. The girls who had…
Continue readingWaiting In The Weeds
The last few days of August always make me think of the lyrics of this song. It is a beautiful masterpiece of lyric and melody on the Eagles Long Road Out of Eden album. It is a song of longing, loneliness and loss. Perhaps it is also an indictment of the music industry and culture…
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(Lyrics and music by Nichole Nordeman) (Listen here) Have I come too casually? Because it seems to me There’s something I’ve neglected How does one approach a deity with informality And still protect the sacred? ‘Cause you came and chose to wear the skin of all of us And it’s easy to forget You left…
Continue readingTill We Have Faces
I just finished re-reading Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis. What an amazing book! It is hard to descibe what an effect this book has on a person but let me leave you with three quotes. The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find…
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