March 29, 2008

• I’m back!!!!
  Had some good time off,
  now I’m back to it!

  I have hardly done any complaining, maybe twice, since Sunday!
  It’s been hard, but I have tried to be very mindful of not complaining.
  It is said if you practice something for 21 days, that it will become a habit-
  that’s what I hope to do.

  We have a lot of grass showing, but March is going to go out like a lion
  for us, so I expect some more snow to come-damn it!  I can’t wait to plant some
  flowers, but that won’t happen here until around mid-May.

  
  

  Elder’s Meditation of the Day – March 28
  “Sacred sites and areas are protection for all people—the four colors for man—and these sites are in all areas of the earth in the four directions.”
  –Traditional Circle of Elders, NORTHERN CHEYENNE
  The Elders say that values come from the Mother Earth. Different places and areas around the Earth have different values. The Water people live in harmony and know the values that correspond to that particular part of the Earth. The Desert people know the values of the desert and respect and live in harmony with that part of the Earth. The Woodland people know the values of their part of the Earth and live in harmony. If you live in harmony with the Earth, you will live a life that is full of values. We should have great respect for the Mother Earth.

  Grandfather, today, let me learn values from Mother Earth.

  HOW TO MAKE LOVE
  

  Ingredients:
  

  4 Laughing eyes
  4 Well-shaped legs
  4 Loving arms
  2
  Firm milk containers
  2 Nuts
  1 Fur-lined mixing bowl
  1 Firm banana

  Directions:

  1. Look into laughing eyes..
  
  2. Spread well-shaped legs with loving arms.
  3. Squeeze and massage milk
  containers very gently.
  4. Gently add firm banana to mixing bowl, working in
  and out until well creamed. For best results. Continue to knead milk containers.
  
  5. As heat rises, plunge banana deep into mixing bowl and cover with nuts,
  leave to soak (preferably NOT overnight).
  6. The cake is done when banana is
  soft. If banana does not soften, repeat 4 steps 3-5 or change mixing bowls.

  Notes:

  1. If you are in an unfamiliar kitchen,
  wash utensils carefully before and after use.
  2. Do not lick mixing bowl
  after use.
  3. If cake rises, leave town.

  

  Deep Breakfast
  Ray
  Lynch
  1986

  Ray Lynch’s Deep Breakfast remains one of the most
  enduring albums of all New Age music. Combining swelling soundscapes with sharp,
  accessible melodies, the disc maintains a focused pop appeal even as it delves
  into the furthest reaches of consciousness and spirituality. A formally trained
  student in music composition, Lynch wrote and performed in the 1960s and ’70s in
  the conventional classical music community, specializing in stringed instruments
  like the guitar and the lute. A period of personal turmoil led him to
  California, however, where he discovered new spiritual paths and an emerging
  world of electronic sounds. His 1983 debut The Sky of Mind inaugurated a
  fruitful fusion of his classical training with space-age synthesizers and
  ambient composition, but it was Deep Breakfast, released three years
  later, that found the musician at the top of his game.

  The disc begins
  with the New Age classic “Celestial Soda Pop.” The title is a perfect summation
  of Lynch’s music: cosmic but catchy, space age but snappy. The song comes built
  around a simple, circular melody that sounds warm and familiar, like an old
  friend. The line plays on varied synthesizer sounds as a steady beat pulses
  forward and quivering tones float in the air like radio waves. “The Oh of
  Pleasure” follows with a pixilated pattern played rising and dipping like the
  orbit of the planets. Around this fast-moving central refrain, keys wail and
  soar, blazing white against the dark night sky.

  “Falling in the Garden”
  may be the most beautiful and serene of all the numbers on the disc: a simple
  melody of synthesized keys played in glowing half-light over a distant,
  alternating melodic bed. The foreground and the background mirror each other
  like green leaves reflected in a pool; the sound is spare and fragile, evoking
  the peaceful, sacred equilibrium of the natural world. Across the length of Deep
  Breakfast, Ray Lynch feels his way through the world, the cosmos and the human
  soul, uncovering sounds that seem to arise from some deep-seated place in the
  fabric of the universe. Through a combination of practice and feeling he has
  produced one of the most remarkable recordings of the 20th century: an
  instrumental disc that speaks with the power of a thousand voices.
  

  	Listen to all sound clips from this CD
  “Celestial Soda Pop” “The Oh of Pleasure” “Falling in the Garden”

  Buy this CD

  

  I have much catching up to do, will try to get around to as many as I can, in the next several days!!

  I love you!!

  

  

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