October 24, 2006

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  welcomes our newest member,
  LibranPoetess!!

  Go to Non_Featured_Content and welcome her!
  Her column is called
  ‘ Poetic Addict’
  and is the new Poetry Corner.
  She has included other Xanga writers, as well as poetry of her own.

  

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  How are you on this fine Tuesday?!

  

  October 24,
  2006
  The Strength Of Compassion
  Coming At Conflict With An Open Heart

  Conflict is an unavoidable part of our lives because our beliefs
  and modes of being often contrast powerfully with those of our loved ones,
  acquaintances, and associates. Yet for all the grief disagreements can cause, we
  can learn much from them. The manner in which we handle ourselves when
  confronted with anger or argument demonstrates our overall level of patience and
  the quality of our energetic states. To resolve conflict, no matter how
  exasperating the disagreement at hand, we should approach our adversary with an
  open heart laden with compassion. Judgments and blame must be cast aside and
  replaced with mutual respect. Conflict is frequently motivated by unspoken needs
  that are masked by confrontational attitudes or aggressive behavior. When we
  come at conflict with love and acceptance in our hearts, we empower ourselves to
  discover a means to attaining collective resolution.

  The key to finding
  the wisdom concealed in conflict is to ask yourself why you clash with a
  particular person or situation. Your inner self or the universe may be trying to
  point you to a specific life lesson, so try to keep your ears and eyes open.
  Once you have explored the internal and external roots of your disagreement,
  make a conscious effort to release any anger or resentment you feel. As you do
  so, the energy between you and your adversary with change perceptibly, even if
  they are still operating from a more limited energy state. Consider that each of
  you likely has compelling reasons for thinking and feeling as you do, and accept
  that you have no power to change your adversary’s mind. This can help you
  approach your disagreement rationally, with a steady voice and a willingness to
  compromise.

  If you listen thoughtfully and with an empathetic ear during
  conflict, you can transform clashes into opportunities to compromise. Examine
  your thoughts and feelings carefully. You may discover stubbornness within
  yourself that is causing resistance or that you are unwittingly feeding yourself
  negative messages about your adversary. As your part in disagreements becomes
  gradually more clear, each new conflict becomes another chance to further hone
  your empathy, compassion, and tolerance.

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  Nineteeneighties Grant Lee Phillips 2006

  As a founding member of Grant Lee Buffalo, Grant Lee Phillips
  captured a lonesome, plaintive, but mature sound that reached the forlorn
  bedroom dwellers of America, mending hearts with a sympathetic ear. He has that
  rare great voice, not showy at all, but when it breaks or cracks over a note it
  hits you right in the gut; it’s the real deal. Similar to a fine actor, he feels
  what he sings. On this album, we discover what’s on Phillips’ mix tapes as the
  songs here are covers of the tunes he grew up with in the 1980s. The Psychedelic
  Furs’ “Love My Way,” REM’s “So. Central Rain,” and the Pixies’ “Wave of
  Mutilation” should be familiar to indie music fans, but will they be prepared
  for the direct-to-the-heart cut of New Order’s “Age of Consent”, the agonizing
  version of the Cure’s “Boys Don’t Cry,” and Echo and the Bunnymen’s “The Killing
  Moon”? Will they recognize them as covers even if they hear them?

  “The
  Killing Moon” opens with ominous piano chords and jangling guitar that ably
  capture a 3 a.m., life-on-the-open-road sense of romantic noir fatality, letting
  Phillips show his deep reverence for on-the-road troubadours like Elvis Costello
  and Roy Orbison. A major tearjerker arrives in Phillips’ interpretation of the
  Cure’s “Boys Don’t Cry.” Originally a peppy synthesizer-and-cymbals-based pop
  number, Phillips strips the shiny plastic off, revealing the rural, acoustic,
  guitar-based heartache, with mandolin and toy piano and the balm to heal it at
  the same time, and isn’t that what pop songs are all about?

  What’s most
  moving about this album is the reverence Phillips accords these songs. You can
  hear how he’s lived with them for decades, explored their inner nuances, lived,
  loved, and lost to them. In Nineteeneighties you hear not just the song,
  and not just Phillips’ interpretation, but the pain and joy of the life he’s
  lived with that song on his tape deck. We all have strong memories associated
  with certain songs from our past. Here, we hear that strong feeling imbued in
  each track. It’s the feeling of memories that slip from their moorings and flood
  the present with an unsatisfiable ache, where the only way out is to scratch, to
  hit repeat and hear it one more time, as the ceiling falls down around your bed
  like a thousand tears.
  

  	Listen to all sound clips from this CD
  “Age of Consent” “The Killing Moon” “Boys Don’t Cry”

  Buy this CD

  
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  Somber landscapes
  cryptic tools
  Many hues of gray
  on the canvas

  Scrape hard with knife
  leaving an edge
  of explosive implosion
  for the weary

  The droplets flow
  into reigns of mighty
  ribbons drool
  with plaintive love.

  © 2006  Laurie B

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