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A LOVE for the 19th Century
The gramophone was affirming
in tones there was no denying,
triumphant yet valedictory:
Dispersed are we,
who have come together.
But, the gramophone asserted,
let us retain
whatever made that harmony."
-VIRGINIA WOOLF, BETWEEN THE ACTS
Laura Nyro
The Soul's Expression
WITH stammering lips and insufficient sound
I strive and struggle to deliver right
That music of my nature, day and night
With dream and thought and feeling interwound
And inly answering all the senses round
With octaves of a mystic depth and height
Which step out grandly to the infinite
From the dark edges of the sensual ground.
Through portals of the sense, sublime and whole,
And utter all myself into the air.......
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1844
Lightfoot and Dylan
Canadian Pacific Railway train circa 1886

My Interests

First Harmonica
accompanied by
my very French cousin

Prolong the Night

Prolong the night, Goddess who sets us aflame!
Hold back from us the golden-sandalled dawn!
Already on the sea the first faint gleam
Of day is coming on.

Sleeping under your veils, protect us yet,
Having forgotten the cruelty day may give!
The wine of darkness, wine of the stars let
Overwhelm us with love!

Since no one knows what dawn will come,
Bearing the dismal future with its sorrows
In its hands, we tremble at full day, our dream
Fears all tomorrows.

Oh! keeping our hands on our still-closed eyes,
Let us vainly recall the joys that take flight!
Goddess who delights in the ruin of the rose,
Prolong the night!

RenÃ©e Vivien, 1877-1909

I'd like to meet:

Some Extra Ordinary Canadians

"Prayer is translation.
A man translates himself into a child
asking for all there is
in a language he has barely mastered."
Leonard Cohen

"You could write a song
about some kind of emotional problem you are having,
but it would not be a good song, in my eyes,
until it went through a period of sensitivity
to a moment of clarity.
Without that moment of clarity
to contribute to the song,
it's just complaining.
Joni Mitchell

Sarah Polley

Music:

:::MUSIC:::

Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Peggy Lee, Dusty Springfield, Marianne Faithful, Ferron, Odetta, Roberta Flack, Phoebe Snow, Judy Sills, Judy Collins, Martha Velez, Bonnie Bramlett, Rickie Lee Jones, Laurie Anderson, Alice Coltrane, Mary Wells, Dionne Warwick, Aretha, LaBelle, Issa ( formerly Jane Siberry), Carla Bruni, Elisabeth Valletti, Jessie Kilguss

Leonard Cohen, Jessie Winchester, Richie Havens, Gordon Lightfoot, Dylan, John Coltrane, Miles, Herbie Hancock, Stephen Barry Band, Elvis, Stevie Wonder, Henry Mancini

Elisabeth Valletti

Movies:

:::MOVIES:::

8 Femmes
Annie Hall
Belle du Jour
Elizabeth
Fargo
My Life Without Me
The Hours
The Hunger
The Secret Life of Words
The Sweet Here After
The Weight of Water

Books:

:::POETRY & BOOKS:::
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
#516
Beautyâ€”be not causedâ€”It Isâ€”
Chase it, and it ceasesâ€”
Chase it not, and it abidesâ€”
Overtake the Creases
In the Meadowâ€”when the Wind
Runs his fingers thro' itâ€”
Deity will see to it
That You never do itâ€”
Poetry by Mary Oliver...another version of Emily's Spiritual...
Laura Nyro
Mother's Spiritual
On a street corner
Where the kids boogie all night
Or where the winds sing
And the stars shine
Like holiday lights
Come a band of angels
Salvation in their might
And as for peace on earth...
Feel this love
My brothers and sisters
Feel the season turn
She is the mother of time
Wonders that take you
Rivers that give
That's where mother's spiritual lives
Talk of a ruby love
Lover's share
Find your love
Lose your love
Here and there
So you go home
Do your own thing
The ocean sings to me
That love is always alive
And part of thee
Feel this love
My brothers and sisters
Feel the season turn
She is the mother of time
Light and darkness
Come to her kiss
'Cause that's where
mother's spiritual lives
Come to the lites my sisters
And take what you need
Doesn't matter my brothers -
Your Sunday creed
Cause each one's a lover
To this winter nite star
A pilgrim, a pioneer
That's who you are
Feel this love
My brothers and sisters
Feel the season turn
She is the mother of time
It's not war
It's life she gives
And that's where
mother's spiritual lives

Heroes:

"The Truth is the only thing
you'll ever run into
that has no agenda.
Everything else
will have an agenda.
Everything.
That is why the truth
is so powerful."

My Blog

Leonard Cohen - Dance Me To The End of Love

Leonard Cohen - Dance Me To The End of Love ...
Posted by Mary on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:23:00 PST

Autobigraphy.

*Note: I am not Mary Meigs. She was my inspiration and I had the good fortune to be in her presenceand be an admiring student...Mary Meigs:Autobiography : Self Portrait - Lily BriscoeThe first few pag...
Posted by Mary on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 04:32:00 PST

Artemisia Gentileschi at the Dinner Party

Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, circa 1630. Royal Collection, WindsorArtemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalen, 161320. Pitti Gallery, FlorenceArtemisia Gentileschi. Susa...
Posted by Mary on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:50:00 PST

Peggy Lee and Dinah Shore Duet

Oh Yea! They got rhythm ....and who could ask for anything more...."The Dinah Shore Chevy Show" (1956) TV series 1956-1963OK here is my Dinah Shore story...When I was a little girl...our first (black...
Posted by Mary on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:27:00 PST

Sacajawea at the Dinner Party

Alice Cooper. Sacajawea Monumen. City Park, Portland, Oregon, circa 1912. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C., LC-USZ62-93141Sacajawea Monument, n.d. Sacajawea Cente...
Posted by Mary on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:24:00 PST

Caroline Herschel at the Dinner Party

P. Fouché. Caroline Herschel Taking Notes as Her Brother William Observes on March 13, 1781, the Night William Discovered Uranus, n.d.Joseph Brown, after an unknown artist. Caroline Lucretia Herschel,...
Posted by Mary on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 08:33:00 PST

Ethel Symth at the Dinner party

Unknown artist. Virginia Woolf and Dame Ethel Smyth, n.d. Humanities and Social Sciences Library/Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library....
Posted by Mary on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:06:00 PST

Mary Wollstonecraft at the Dinner Party

Mary Wollstonecraft(b. 1759, London, England; d. 1797, London, England)Mary Wollstonecraft was a renowned women's rights activist who authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792, a classic of...
Posted by Mary on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:24:00 PST

Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley b. 1797, London; d. 1851, LondonDaughter of feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and radical philosopher William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley published the most successful and famous work ...
Posted by Mary on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:41:00 PST

Sojourner Truth at the Dinner Party

Sojourner Truth, circa 1864. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Gladstone Collection, Washington, D.C., LC-USZC4-6165Sojourner Truth(b. 1797, Ulster County, New York; d. 1883, Battl...
Posted by Mary on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:01:00 PST