Missing Jim

Jim Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971)

Beloved Mentor...from this physical place, gone too soon...but still with me ever present in Spirit

“I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD. I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen once. I don't want to miss it.” ~ JM

Big Dream

This song...these words, speak straight to and from my Soul...and breaks my Heart wide open...

"I have a dream of my own
And it's mine all mine alone
Its been my friend since I was just a girl

It has a life, it has a heart
It has a soul and it's a part
Of everything this woman gives the world

And it's a big dream
Big enough to share
Like a rainbow, hanging in the air
And I thank God, for making it come true
Makes me think maybe God's a woman too
Makes me think maybe God's a woman too

There's a full moon tonight
And I'm bathing in its light
Naked as the day that I was born
There is no shame beneath this sky
I have kissed the past good bye
And mended up my broken heart so torn

With a sweet sound only I can make
And it gets stronger
With every breath I take
And it's all apart of making me feel new
Makes me think maybe God's a woman too
Makes me think maybe God's a woman too"

~ ("Big Dream" by Samantha Mathis)

 

 

Music and The Summer of 69' in Upstate, NY

 Woke up this morning with a vague sense of warm and pleasant nostalgia...

Couldn't figure out where it was coming from...
Had this overwhelming urge to put on some Joplin and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young..
And bam it hit me...

42 years ago today I was a young enthusiastic participant at Woodstock's 3 Days of Peace and music held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre diary farm...

I was at the tender, impressionable age of 16, when a group of my friends called up and said that we were piling into in a mini van and heading out a few hours away to a whole day of free music...
My mother was hesitant, but said I could go...
When we finally got there...it was the most amazing conglomeration of people, senses and sounds....
And then...we were told...that the impromtu "concert" was going to last three days, because so many bands had opted to perform...
And because basically there was no way in or out from that point on...
New York State Thruway was closed and all roads to and fro were blocked...
When I finally was able to get to a pay phone and call my mother, she didnt believe me...
When I got home, for the first time in my life, I was grounded for a month...
Was it worth it? You betcha it was...:)
(Just an aside, she lifted the grounding a few days later when she found out I was telling the truth about the traffic...:)

My experience at Woodstock that summer was probably one of the most single pivotal 3 days of my young life...
I was to be forever changed and challenged...
It was to formulate this "peace nick's" philosophy and mission in life...
And to only dig in further my intense love of the Music of that monumental time...

That summer of 1969...
That time of brother and sister hood and Love, Peace and Music will remain embedded in my Heart, Mind and Soul, as long as I draw breath and beyond...
That summer of 1969 and my time at Woodstock will remain encoded in my DNA throughout eternity...

"When you-ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there." -George Harrison

"I'm the one who-s gonna die when it-s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want." -Jimi Hendrix

"Hippy is an establishment label for a profound, invisible, underground, evolutionary process. For every visible hippy, barefoot, beflowered, beaded, there are a thousand invisible members of the turned-on underground. Persons whose lives are tuned in to their inner vision, who are dropping out of the TV comedy of American Life." -Timothy Leary

"There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!" -Abbie Hoffman

"All we are saying is give peace a chance." -John Lennon

My mantra for today..."PEACE, LOVE AND ROCK AND ROLL!!!!"

ROCK ON WORLD!!!...
ROCK ON MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE LIGHT!!!!
ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!

 

 

I've Grown Accustomed to His Heart! (LLJL)

To my Surprise and Delight
I find that I will be missing my Sweet Angel Man
as he heads back to the City for work...
Friday can't come soon enough...
Oh and Thank You Spirit...
For sending me the Greatest & Highest
Expression and Embodiment of True Love,
Anyone could Hope for..

Truly, Spirit Always Knows Best! :)

 

I guess Lerner and Loewe said it best for me...
(With a little variation and additional last verse, on my part, of course:)

"Damn! Damn! Damn! Damn!
I've grown accustomed to his face.
He almost makes the day begin.
I've grown accustomed to the tune
That he whistles night and noon.
His smiles, his frowns,
His ups, his downs
Are second nature to me now,
Like breathing out and breathing in.

I was serenly independent
And content before we met.
Surely I could always be that way again - and yet,
I've grown accustomed to his look,
Accustomed to his voice,
Accustomed to his face.

I'm so used to hear him say,
"Good morning" ev'ry day.
His joys, his woes,
His highs, his lows,
Are second nature to me now,
Like breathing out and breathing in.

I'm very grateful he's a man,
And so easy to forget, rather like a habit
One can always break - and yet,
I've grown accustomed to the trace,
Of something in the air,
Accustomed to his face.

It's so disconcerting to me now
At my sadness when we part
Still I am so grateful for his presence in my life
I've grown accustomed to the Love
He shares so willingly,
Accustomed to his Heart!

Everything by Alanis Morissette

Everything by Alanis Morissette

by Linda Living Joy Lorenzo on Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 12:12pm

 

This song speaks volumes to me of unconditional love...
I love Alanis and her passion and the integrity of the honesty in her words and her body of work...
Yes, she's raw...but she's authentic!

I just wanted to share this video and words to express my gratitude for the unconditional love
that I have felt here among your beautiful hearts...

I Love You..." And I'm still here..."

Video - Everything by Alanis Morissette
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPzaTFbQtxo

Lyrics - Everything by Alanis Morissette

I can be an asshole of the grandest kind
I can withhold like it's going out of style
I can be the moodiest baby
And you've never met anyone
who is as negative as I am sometimes

I am the wisest woman you've ever met.
I am the kindest soul with whom you've connected.
I have the bravest heart that you've ever seen
And you've never met anyone
Who's as positive as I am sometimes.

You see everything, you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can't relate
And you're still here

I blame everyone else, not my own partaking
My passive-aggressiveness can be devastating
I'm terrified and mistrusting
And you've never met anyone as,
As closed down as I am sometimes.

You see everything, you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can't relate
And you're still here

What I resist, persists, and speaks louder than I know
What I resist, you love, no matter how low or high I go

I'm the funniest woman you've ever known.
I am the dullest woman you've ever known.
I'm the most gorgeous woman you've ever known
And you've never met anyone as, as everything as I am sometimes.

You see everything, you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can't relate
And you're still here

And you're still here
And you're still here...

I Believe I Can Fly - Lyrics by R Kelly

I Believe I Can Fly note by Linda Lorenzo

My Sisters and Brothers,

Just coming off of an incredible weekend...
And this song, its beautiful lyrics and all encompassing meaning...
Says it all for me...
It is the place of ultimate experience and consciousness...
I wish this place of being for you all, too...

Tis s a good day to be....

Tis a good time to soar...

I Believe We Can Fly!!!!

(LYRICS)

"I Believe I Can Fly"
Lyrics by R KELLY

I used to think that I could not go on
And life was nothing but an awful song
But now I know the meaning of true love
I'm leaning on the everlasting arms

If I can see it, then I can do it
If I just believe it, there's nothing to it

[1]
I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away
I believe I can soar
I see me running through that open door
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly

See I was on the verge of breaking down
Sometimes silence can seem so loud
There are miracles in life I must achieve
But first I know it starts inside of me, oh

If I can see it, then I can do it
If I just believe it, there's nothing to it

[1]
I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away
I believe I can soar
I see me running through that open door
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly

Hey, cuz I believe in me, oh

If I can see it, then I can be it
If I just believe it, there's nothing to it

[1]
I believe I can fly
I believe I can touch the sky
I think about it every night and day
Spread my wings and fly away
I believe I can soar
I see me running through that open door
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly
I believe I can fly

Hey, if I just spread my wings
I can fly
I can fly
I can fly, hey
If I just spread my wings
I can fly
Fly-eye-eye

(VIDEO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4yfSAr-yCg

Only Love is Real - Carole King

Only Love is Real
(music and lyrics by Carole King)

As I bask in the glow of a just-lit fire
Feeling the warmth as the flame grows higher
I think it's true that nothing is really new under the sun
Watching a new love grow from old love's embers
Yesterday's gone but today remembers
Doesn't it seem to come down the same for everyone

Only love is real
Everything else illusion
Adding to the confusion of the way we connive
At being alive
Tracing a line till we can define
The thing that allows us to feel
Only love is real

Childhood dreams like muddy waters
Flowing through me to my son and daughters
Everything I ever thought is confirmed as truth to me
Even as I see the way that I want to go now
Still I wish I had known what I know now
Maybe I could have spared you giving your youth to me

Only love is real
Everything else illusion
Adding to the confusion of the way we contrive
To just stay alive
Tracing a line till we can define
The thing that allows us to feel
Only love is real