March 21, 2008

• FULL MOON TONIGHT!

  We are getting a bunch of snow today-so far around 3-4″, and more on the way.
  The grass showing yesterday was nice, but it’s gone.
  The trees look really pretty anyways.
  

  Trisha had a Dr’s appt on Wednesday-she needs a CAT scan, which she’ll have on Monday,
  for her sinuses.  She has has an ongoing sinus infection.  Afterwards, we went to
  Mickey D’s to have something to eat.  She went on to her bf’s, and I hiked across the street
  to Half-Price Books.  I found 4 books for only $2.00 each!  They are: 1)  Witchcraft: Theory and Practice
  by Ly De Angeles (I am studying to become a witch);  2) Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman;
  3)  literacy and longing in L.A. by jennifer kaufman and karen mack;  4)  And Never Stop Dancing:
  Thirty More True Things You Need to Know Now by Gordon Livingston, MD.
  
  I need to stop getting books, as I already have a large number at home, but who can turn down
  bargains?!

  I have forgotten the exact day, but Happy Ostara!!  Many of the Christian dates and titles and names derive from the Pagan calendar.  Did you know that?

  

  That Bad Eartha
  Eartha
  Kitt
  1953

  Equal parts class and sass, Eartha Kitt charmed American
  audiences throughout the ’50 and early ’60s with her distinctive performance
  style, born of the dim lighting and sensual atmosphere of the nightclub.
  Everything about Kitt suggested a feral sex kitten, from her purring vocals and
  bad girl image down to her last name—it’s no wonder she landed the role of
  Catwoman in the Batman TV show. There’s plenty of come-hither attitude on
  That Bad Eartha, Kitt’s hit second album, but she also projects the
  cosmopolitan cool of an international sophisticate, singing songs in six
  different languages. As a result, Kitt is both alluring and distant on this mix
  of cabaret classics, foreign folk, and jet-set pop, making That Bad
  Eartha perfect for an evening of wine and wooing.

  Every song on
  That Bad Eartha gets the full benefit of Kitt’s chanteuse persona, none
  more devilishly so than her opening mission statement “I Want to Be Evil.” In a
  lethargic, British-inflected speaking voice, Kitt offers a litany of proof that
  she’s been a good girl: “I’ve posed for pictures with Ivory Soap / I’ve petted
  stray dogs and shied clear of dope.” Things don’t start swinging until Kitt
  turns the corner, growling out her wanton desires (“I wanna be nasty, I wanna be
  cruel / I wanna be daring, I wanna shoot pool”), accompanied by a slinking jazz
  big band. There’s more than a little hint of sexuality in her slurred,
  theatrical delivery, and that hint becomes a roar through the sophisticated
  wordplay of Cole Porter’s “Let’s Do It.” There’s a schoolgirl’s innocence in
  Kitt’s smoothly sung biology lesson: “In shallow shoals, English soles do it /
  Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it.”

  Kitt vamps it up in Spanish on
  “Angelitos Negros” over a folk guitar and rumba beat, croons in hushed Swahili
  on the exotic-sounding “African Lullaby,” and sashays down a fashionable Paris
  boulevard on the lightly swinging hit “C’est Si Bon (It’s So Good),” sung in a
  natural French accent that Kitt picked up from her years on the Parisian cabaret
  circuit. Kitt’s comfortable in her own skin wherever she goes, and that includes
  the Eastern European village that gives “Uska Dara” its name—in between verses
  sung in Turkish, Kitt slides in the barb “In the old days, many women had male
  secretaries / Oh well, that’s Turkey!” No matter how far afield she goes, Kitt
  brings the same sly demeanor to her music. She’s a strong vocal presence in
  whichever language she chooses, but even more than her voice, That Bad
  Eartha introduces us to a real character.
  

  	Listen to all sound clips from this CD
  “I Wanna Be Evil” “C’est Si Bon” “Uska Dara”

  Buy this CD

  

  All is mind

  “I want to know the thoughts of God; the rest are details.”

  – Albert Einstein

  Everything — absolutely everything — that happens in our
  lives has a spiritual cause. Events on all other levels — mental, emotional and
  physical — are only effects.

  When we are struggling with any challenge, whether it be
  ill health, a lack of money, a lost job, relationships, an accident, whatever —
  we need to look for the spiritual learning. We can ask ourselves, “What quality
  does my soul want me to live more fully?”

  “If you start to think the problem is ‘out there,’ stop
  yourself. That thought is the problem.”

  – Stephen Covey

  http://www.higherawareness.com

  

  

  

  

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