Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this beautiful earth.
In the past one months time, I feel I have witnessed the Alpha and Omega of this beautifull Earth. Less than three weeks ago, I stood in awe of the beautiful ocean, gorgeous white sands, clean bright beautiful blue sky, and clouds intermitent, white in color over head. Today, I ran four miles through snow covered woods and by rivers banks coverd in snow, brisk water running, and a fresh snow falling upon my face as I did run.
It felt as if our Creator was talking to me. After I ran, I took time to walk, walk through said woods, by the water running. I felt as if I had experienced ALL beauty given to us to behold, protect and nurture all in the period of this one month.
What ever higher power there is that gave us such beauty to enjoy, and not in just a month, but in years of months, I thank him today. Again.
If it is true that time is the coin of our life. And it is the only coin we are given, and only we as a person can determine how it will be spent. We must be careful not to let other people spend it for us. For we must find the beauty of every day life around us. Spent each moment in reward and thanks giving.
Is it just me, is it I am aging? I have always been one to appreciate everything in life. Understand the bad, and to know bad happens to good people. I feel odd at time. That I as a person find the appreciation for every small and large thing given to behold, a leaf, a blade of grass, a wind that might cross our face as we sit. The Ocean, The Sea, Mountains....Life is grand friends...sorry to ramble, but this morning, this time spent alone and in thought. Moments as such are like Gold given to us to preserve and keep in our treasured areas of our hearts, souls, inner crystal or stone to reflect as a day goes badly for us.
Merry Christmas to each of you, your families, and family of families!
Thank You. I just had another one of those moments. I felt if there was a time and place anyone would appreciate the thought, my sharring it, it would be here, with those of you. Thank you again.......Be well!
Posts: 129 | Location: U.S. / Midwest area | Registered: June 02, 2009
So many lose focus on life and happiness. And where it comes from. We know it all must start with in us....they focus on material items... Oh dont get me started here.... ;-)I better hush....
Be well, you little hummingbird. An-Da
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Originally posted by Anxious 2: It still amazes me how little it takes to stay happy...
Posts: 129 | Location: U.S. / Midwest area | Registered: June 02, 2009
Originally posted by jo: Ahhhh ... You are two I would like to meet, An-da-shealladh and Gina, and many others here also. I guess I have been a shy one and have been just reading and following for awhile now.
I so relate to what you say. “Is it just me, is it that I am aging?” Oh my, ... everything you say; all of it, and “walking among the ancient trees” too. You both say all this so beautifully.
I’m reading your words this night as I’m thinking about my father who passed from what we can see of this life on 18-Dec. Your words are comforting.
On my mind tonight is the amazing power of music to communicate, to inspire, to heal. My dad was a mechanic, a gardener, a strict, reserved and quiet man. He was always busy physically, making, building, doing something, then this last year heart disease slowed him way down and he was at a loss, not being able to do as he always had, getting depressed, even angry. Then a hospice music therapist helped him write a song (something he had never done) and then another song and another. Soon this 81 year old man was researching poetry styles and music theory on his computer and the ideas and thoughts of his life were being recorded and more than that, a whole new relationship between him and his children and grandchildren unfolded over this year, that, but for music, we would have never had. His songs were all about love, really.
As I read and write I’m listening to LM’s concert on CBC . Mmmmm--- I don’t really understand it but, again, I’m in awe of the power of music in one’s life, and for me, especially Loreena’s. I think it’s a power that passes time and place and somehow connects us. Her songs are all about love, really.
Her music has inspired my own, not so adventurous, family of four to travel and to learn more than we ever would have. We had the privilege and blessing to be in far away Taormina this summer, as a major diversion on a trip of a lifetime. I wondered if LM could see the glistening faces in that ancient arena as she sang “The Old Ways”. As I looked out through some tears past those pillars, to the sea, to the moon and beyond I wondered if the ancients might possibly be there listening also and if their world was being changed in that night even as ours was.
We were able to meet after the concert and I’ll be ever grateful to Loreena for her wish to us of a safe journey home. It’s a wish I’ll carry on ward. I think she was surprised we were so far from home. (We were too!) If I have a regret it’s that I didn’t manage to meet those of you at the concert who I found out later had stayed in the same B&B as we did. Though I couldn’t have spoken your language it would have been nice. --- Hoping for another time.
So it is past Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, still I wish you blessings and goodness and thank you too. jo
Welcome Jo!!! Thank you for your wonderful words!!! You are lucky to have met Loreena! I love to see how people appreciate the earth! And the beauty that this place holds for us. And I love how Loreena spreads beauty with her songs, voice and words and her fans are just as beautiful! An-da-shealladh is right, "life is grand"!!! Love, Gina
P.S. I have to do this, Anxious is definitaly a quinlan-olic! So am I!!!
Posts: 544 | Location: Everett, Washington USA | Registered: November 11, 2006
My apology for any delay....I have just been that busy....yet it not a kind thing to be too busy to say hello to a new friend...my work at a time that is usually slow, has been of the wall...
I appreciate and care for your kind thoughts expressed. You are so correct in that all answers must come from with in. I have for some time now felt I have not only found my inner stone or crystal, but have come to the a point where I understand them and their power more so. As well as trying daily,keeping my heart, mind, body all in one healthy accord.
I understand the beauty in your expression that we belong to the earth. Yet it is that the earth in the same breath belongs to us? I think we are one linked together sharing common DNA as one. We need, feed, care for, hurt one another....etc....and always keeping in mind, that the earth itself delights to feel our bare feet walking upon its skinly surface, and its winds long to play with our hair and upon our faces......
Whatever the case...life is Grand, the earth is the purest form of beauty I have witnessed, and I want to be more a part of it....but how??
You quoted Chief Sealth. I have tried to find information on this person...can you shed light please.
Thank you. Be well.
More to follow...good to hear from you... ;-)
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Originally posted by Gina: What beautiful moments you experienced! I long for days such as you described. The best place to find the answer you are looking for is inside your own heart. You are a part of nature; the part of higher power is in you. And hence, you are beauty. My favorites times are spent in the mountains or at the ocean, walking among the ancient trees, sitting at the river's edge and watching the eagles soar with a Loreena song playing in my head. Naturally!!! "The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth. What we do to the earth we do to ourselves," Chief Sealth. Walk in beauty, Gina
Greetings An-da-shealladh! It's my turn to apologize for not responding as quickly as I should have. I haven't been on this site as often as I would love to. There is no need for you to apologize, life happens! How wonderful to hear that you have found your inner stone or crystal, keep "polishing" it! Thank you for bringing up that the earth needs us as well. We do have responsibilities in taking care of the earth, so you can say that the earth belongs to us too. Just like we need the trees to breathe and in turn; the trees need us to breathe for them. It is give-and-take system here and Chief Sealth was pointing out was not to take advantage of the earth and we now are seeing the harmful effects of us taking the natural resources. Then again, the earth will always be, (well until the sun burns out) with or without us, she will change and transform, we have to make sure that the changes can still support life. As for where you can get his speech he is also been called Chief Seattle and his true name is Chief Si'ahl. He has been quoted on Lorraine Bayes' cd; the song is called "Web of Life" and the cdcalled Rainbow Songs~Rainbow Prayers, Lorraine Bayes email is Passageway@whidbey.net. I think in "Language Before Words" by Derrick Jensen. Chief Si'ahl wrote the speech for congress way back trying to not let the settlers distroy this land. Congress did not listen. The rivers of western Washington were so full of salmon you could walk across and the noise at night when they came back from Alaska was deafening. Now there is barely enough of them not be on the endangered list. It saddens me that this place used to be so full of food and fresh air and huge tress. There are a few left in the protected forests and it's good maybe now someone might hear his words and act upon them. Have you tried to Google his name? Or the history of Seattle? I hope you get what you are looking for.I think he was from the Duwamish tribe, if my memory serves me right. I also want to thank you for your kind words and walking in beauty! You are a special person and I am glad to be able to here with you and Anxious and now Jo! I have never seen a site like this one where so many different people from all over the world can communicate and share their hearts and not be put down. I feel respected and loved here, there does need to be more love in this world. Another might have Chief Si'alh's speech is "In The House of The Moon". The auther is (wait I have to get the book) by Jason Elias Katherine Ketcham. Life is Grand!!! So is Loreena and her fans!!! Love, Gina
Posts: 544 | Location: Everett, Washington USA | Registered: November 11, 2006
Originally posted by An-da-shealladh: ...Whatever the case...life is Grand, the earth is the purest form of beauty I have witnessed...
Absolutely!
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Originally posted by An-da-shealladh: Hello Anxious one.... ;-)
You are always appreciated here kid.....just a note to say hello...enjoy your day...Be well friend....
Have you found the posting here sometimes takes like 6 days??? Or is it just me...I am way too windy I am sure....maybe a book I will write one day... ) You are so sweet... later...
Yes. They are very busy at Quinlan Road it seems at times.
I am actually surprised how little activity on the board this last week... (maybe it's those 6 days... ) In my case my puter was being repaired. Guess everyone else are busy with examens or perhaps shuffling snow off their pavements... (maybe not in Australia and surrounding southern globe... )
Father Winter is surely paying a visit here in DK. And I love it! Finally the soft minister of dreams lasted a bit longer than just a blink of an eye...
Take care!
*Throwing a snowball right at you* (Anxious if it will hit you!)
Posts: 859 | Location: Denmark | Registered: January 25, 2008
I checked the youtube link you posted and imagine my delight: Local Hero is our all time favorite movie. Going clear back to college days, watched it at least every year (that's lots of years) and have given a gift of the tape or now the dvd to so many folks! In fact this year we're looking forward, we hope to visiting Pennan, the little Scottish town where it was filmed.
I quite like Mark Knopfler too. He did this at a concert I was lucky to be at just a coupla years ago. My current 2nd favorite song of his is "Let It All Go"
Favorite LM song is "Stolen child" or "Phrygean Sky" or "The Old Ways" or, well... right now, and for quite a few more days yet, I think my favorite song is actually "Snow".
You are always appreciated here kid.....just a note to say hello...enjoy your day...Be well friend....
Have you found the posting here sometimes takes like 6 days??? Or is it just me...I am way too windy I am sure....maybe a book I will write one day... ) You are so sweet... later...
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Originally posted by Anxious 2: Hi Jo
And welcome on board.
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Originally posted by jo: ...I guess I have been a shy one and have been just reading and following for awhile now.
I think it to be natural to "feel the temperature" first. I even got so engulfed by the very nice tone here, and all these nice people, that I forgot to introduce myself first...
And so many hours I have spent in your company. You might be tempted to call me a quinlan-oholic! (Don't quote me for this )
Anxious of what 2 come...
Posts: 129 | Location: U.S. / Midwest area | Registered: June 02, 2009
My apology for any delay....I have just been that busy....yet it not a kind thing to be too busy to say hello to a new friend...my work at a time that is usually slow, has been of the wall...
I appreciate and care for your kind thoughts expressed. You are so correct in that all answers must come from with in. I have for some time now felt I have not only found my inner stone or crystal, but have come to the a point where I understand them and their power more so. As well as trying daily,keeping my heart, mind, body all in one healthy accord.
I understand the beauty in your expression that we belong to the earth. Yet it is that the earth in the same breath belongs to us? I think we are one linked together sharing common DNA as one. We need, feed, care for, hurt one another....etc....and always keeping in mind, that the earth itself delights to feel our bare feet walking upon its skinly surface, and its winds long to play with our hair and upon our faces......
Whatever the case...life is Grand, the earth is the purest form of beauty I have witnessed, and I want to be more a part of it....but how??
You quoted Chief Sealth. I have tried to find information on this person...can you shed light please.
Thank you. Be well.
More to follow...good to hear from you... ;-)
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Originally posted by Gina: What beautiful moments you experienced! I long for days such as you described. The best place to find the answer you are looking for is inside your own heart. You are a part of nature; the part of higher power is in you. And hence, you are beauty. My favorites times are spent in the mountains or at the ocean, walking among the ancient trees, sitting at the river's edge and watching the eagles soar with a Loreena song playing in my head. Naturally!!! "The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth. What we do to the earth we do to ourselves," Chief Sealth. Walk in beauty, Gina
Posts: 129 | Location: U.S. / Midwest area | Registered: June 02, 2009
Good day Jo....and thank you for the kind words... You have leanred quickly there are many very fine and caring people in the QR Community. And it is just that, a nice rural community for those who have found this place, happy share our feelings, to console those seemingly here asking, to discuss the amazing power of music, and share a laugh or two....
Very sorry to hear of the passing of your Father, I have lost my Mother some time ago, but Dad at 84 yrs keeps chugging along. But getting back to you....I understand all you have written. I often think if I ever get to the point where I simply 'exsist' I would hope to pass on at that point.
Jo, life and death are one thread, yet the same line viewed from different sides. Where there is a passing, there is also new life beginning. I know not where, but I know it true.
As a Father myself,when my time comes to pass, all I can ask is to know my children are well, being productive and content. If such is the case, I will pass in more peaceful sleep. Your Father is in a very fine place.
I have always have long had this sense of knowing what it is to be a part of the the earth and its make up. I have always considered a walk among the mountains, woods, or by the water as the equivalent of churchgoing. John Keats said, " the poetry of the earth is never dead." I find no truer words. So what I feel I feel, I am simply in love with what the Creator has given us to enjoy, and who ever, whatever he may be, he has shown us his loving kindness by the 'natural' beauty he has allowed everyone to be surrounded by as time does pass every generation by.
Jo; ;-) Music,oh the power of music...ya know kid, music to us can be a refuge. One could crawl into the space between each note, hiding our backs to pain, unhappiness or loneliness.
I love this earth...I sure love music....Life with out music would have been a huge mistake. I have much to get done here today....let me leave you with this....a beautiful note from an unexpected source....I look forward to more dialogue and to see you finding many others here such as Anxious, Gina Emi as a new family that do care.... Be well new friend...
Originally posted by jo: Ahhhh ... You are two I would like to meet, An-da-shealladh and Gina, and many others here also. I guess I have been a shy one and have been just reading and following for awhile now.
I so relate to what you say. “Is it just me, is it that I am aging?” Oh my, ... everything you say; all of it, and “walking among the ancient trees” too. You both say all this so beautifully.
I’m reading your words this night as I’m thinking about my father who passed from what we can see of this life on 18-Dec. Your words are comforting.
On my mind tonight is the amazing power of music to communicate, to inspire, to heal. My dad was a mechanic, a gardener, a strict, reserved and quiet man. He was always busy physically, making, building, doing something, then this last year heart disease slowed him way down and he was at a loss, not being able to do as he always had, getting depressed, even angry. Then a hospice music therapist helped him write a song (something he had ever done) and then another song and another. Soon this 81 year old man was researching poetry styles and music theory on his computer and the ideas and thoughts of his life were being recorded and more than that, a whole new relationship between him and his children and grandchildren unfolded over this year, that, but for music, we would have never had. His songs were all about love, really.
As I read and write I’m listening to LM’s concert on CBC . Mmmmm--- I don’t really understand it but, again, I’m in awe of the power of music in one’s life, and for me, especially Loreena’s. I think it’s a power that passes time and place and somehow connects us. Her songs are all about love, really.
Her music has inspired my own, not so adventurous, family of four to travel and to learn more than we ever would have. We had the privilege and blessing to be in far away Taormina this summer, as a major diversion on a trip of a lifetime. I wondered if LM could see the glistening faces in that ancient arena as she sang “The Old Ways”. As I looked out through some tears past those pillars, to the sea, to the moon and beyond I wondered if the ancients might possibly be there listening also and if their world was being changed in that night even as ours was.
We were able to meet after the concert and I’ll be ever grateful to Loreena for her wish to us of a safe journey home. It’s a wish I’ll carry on ward. I think she was surprised we were so far from home. (We were too!) If I have a regret it’s that I didn’t manage to meet those of you at the concert who I found out later had stayed in the same B&B as we did. Though I couldn’t have spoken your language it would have been nice. --- Hoping for another time.
So it is past Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, still I wish you blessings and goodness and thank you too. jo
Posts: 129 | Location: U.S. / Midwest area | Registered: June 02, 2009
Originally posted by jo: ...I guess I have been a shy one and have been just reading and following for awhile now.
I think it to be natural to "feel the temperature" first. I even got so engulfed by the very nice tone here, and all these nice people, that I forgot to introduce myself first...
And so many hours I have spent in your company. You might be tempted to call me a quinlan-oholic! (Don't quote me for this )
Anxious of what 2 come...
Posts: 859 | Location: Denmark | Registered: January 25, 2008
Ahhhh ... You are two I would like to meet, An-da-shealladh and Gina, and many others here also. I guess I have been a shy one and have been just reading and following for awhile now.
I so relate to what you say. “Is it just me, is it that I am aging?” Oh my, ... everything you say; all of it, and “walking among the ancient trees” too. You both say all this so beautifully.
I’m reading your words this night as I’m thinking about my father who passed from what we can see of this life on 18-Dec. Your words are comforting.
On my mind tonight is the amazing power of music to communicate, to inspire, to heal. My dad was a mechanic, a gardener, a strict, reserved and quiet man. He was always busy physically, making, building, doing something, then this last year heart disease slowed him way down and he was at a loss, not being able to do as he always had, getting depressed, even angry. Then a hospice music therapist helped him write a song (something he had never done) and then another song and another. Soon this 81 year old man was researching poetry styles and music theory on his computer and the ideas and thoughts of his life were being recorded and more than that, a whole new relationship between him and his children and grandchildren unfolded over this year, that, but for music, we would have never had. His songs were all about love, really.
As I read and write I’m listening to LM’s concert on CBC . Mmmmm--- I don’t really understand it but, again, I’m in awe of the power of music in one’s life, and for me, especially Loreena’s. I think it’s a power that passes time and place and somehow connects us. Her songs are all about love, really.
Her music has inspired my own, not so adventurous, family of four to travel and to learn more than we ever would have. We had the privilege and blessing to be in far away Taormina this summer, as a major diversion on a trip of a lifetime. I wondered if LM could see the glistening faces in that ancient arena as she sang “The Old Ways”. As I looked out through some tears past those pillars, to the sea, to the moon and beyond I wondered if the ancients might possibly be there listening also and if their world was being changed in that night even as ours was.
We were able to meet after the concert and I’ll be ever grateful to Loreena for her wish to us of a safe journey home. It’s a wish I’ll carry on ward. I think she was surprised we were so far from home. (We were too!) If I have a regret it’s that I didn’t manage to meet those of you at the concert who I found out later had stayed in the same B&B as we did. Though I couldn’t have spoken your language it would have been nice. --- Hoping for another time.
So it is past Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, still I wish you blessings and goodness and thank you too. jo
What beautiful moments you experienced! I long for days such as you described. The best place to find the answer you are looking for is inside your own heart. You are a part of nature; the part of higher power is in you. And hence, you are beauty. My favorites times are spent in the mountains or at the ocean, walking among the ancient trees, sitting at the river's edge and watching the eagles soar with a Loreena song playing in my head. Naturally!!! "The earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth. What we do to the earth we do to ourselves," Chief Sealth. Walk in beauty, Gina
Posts: 544 | Location: Everett, Washington USA | Registered: November 11, 2006
An-Da 