Songs that are on your mind

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"Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another."

John Muir

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https://youtu.be/j_QOPxq7JPc?t=10

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https://youtu.be/rs9fRUNbufE?t=145

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https://youtu.be/k8aoc1HaSVg?t=13

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"If we stand in woods after rain when the trees are iron and purple, like wine, we’ll wish we could stay—not to wait for the woolen comfort of dusk, nor to hear the wind flinching back from the heart to let it be quiet and still … but to stand in the iron and purple of evening, our stories behind us like toys we’ve forgotten or lost, till we enter at last that place in the heart, that place in the dark of the heart where there’s nothing, not even weather."

Katharine Towers
British Poet

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@snowflake954 If you're laying back there in the weeds, come out. Tell me a story. There's a lorra lorra going on around this outfit. I sang a bunch of songs but I need some lil ol somethin'. A story from you.

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https://youtu.be/D1ZYhVpdXbQ?t=7

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https://youtu.be/f3Q11jsN54A?t=1

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https://youtu.be/bO28lB1uwp4?t=18

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https://youtu.be/7o3aTIiXuNU?t=3

That's just the way I roll, I get on jag and on it goes.

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https://youtu.be/WIJdb6CB-Go?t=17

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Rainy Day Man

James Taylor

What good is that happy lie?
All you wanted from the start was to cry, girl
It looks like another fall
Your friends, they don't seem to help at all
Now when you're feeling kind of cold and small
Just look up your rainy day man

It does you no good to pretend, child
You've made a hole much too big to mend
And it looks like you lose again, my friend
So go on home and look up your rainy day man
Now rainy day man don't like sunshine (sunshine)
He don't chase no rainbows
He don't need good times, no (good times)
Grey days rolling
Then you'll see him
I said empty feeling
Lord, now you need him
All those noble thoughts, they don't belong
Can't hide the truth with a happy song
And since you knew where you stood all along
Just call on your rainy day man
Now simple pleasures, they all evade you
Store-bought treasures, Lord, none can save you, no, now
Look for signs to ease the pain
I said ask again
Go on and pray for rain
It looks like another fall
Your friends, they don't seem to help at all
Now when you're feeling kind of cold and small
Just look up your rainy day man
All I'm asking just to look up your rainy day man

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https://youtu.be/BEv7HJDnCUQ?t=16

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I'll tell you one and I don't know why. Albert was a kid in our neighborhood and he was special. It was his birthday but we were too far away from town to buy him a present. Maw made him a money monkey out of a big potato. She stuffed it with quarters and dollar bills. Now, Albert could be nasty to his mother and she was older. He was mad when he saw the potato and it was not a present. So, he took the money out and threw the potato at his mother. Then he gets mad at the birthday cake and the party really goes downhill from there. My sisters and I are the only ones at the party. We're sitting on the couch and my little sister is getting scared. She's about 4 years old.

She rode to the party on her purple plastic rabbit tricycle. She gets on her trike and Albert starts chasing her. She's screaming and pedaling for home. Albert picks up some rocks and starts throwing them at the Ranger's car as he slowly drives by. My sisters and I head for the house. The Ranger stops and puts Albert in the car. He drives him to the house and tells Maw that she had better do something with 'this kid'. Maw says, that's not my kid.

Albert looks up at the Ranger and says, 'You big dumb bunny'. I've never forgotten that.

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https://youtu.be/Aa9Y0Hlrlbs?t=3

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OK. I've been thinking of something to tell you for a couple of days, but haven't had time. Did you know that after the fall of the Roman Empire everything was pretty much abandoned? When Medievale Times arrived they used the Roman ruins as building material for their buildings. Roman mosaic floors were torn up and installed in their new palaces. Roman columns and statues were ground up to use as mortar for new buildings and fortifying walls. The Coloseum itself was covered with marble panels which were removed and used for churches and especially Palazzo Farnese, which is now the French Embassy. The statues in the Coloseum's arches were used to decorate new palaces or ground up. The beautiful Roman colored marble panels and columns were sliced up and used to make the Cosmatic floors that are still in many of the oldest churches. Some survived, of course and our museums are full--however much was lost, but some of it is with us in another form.

It's all interesting. As I'm trying to save things here during these moves, I'm reflecting on all this. Is it really all that important? Will anyone care in 100 years or more? Don't know. Nite.

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This is just a skeleton.

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Oh, and much of the iron holding all this together was pulled out and melted down to make cannons.

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@snowflake954 I care.

I'm so glad you shared that. I've been wondering exactly that in a different form. What's going to happen to all of the building material that's going up in smoke. Will it be reused.

Ooo, here's one more thing, today.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/montana/articles/2022-03-25/montana-sheriff-says-hiker-killed-grizzly-bear-suspected
https://apnews.com/article/montana-billings-bears-livingston-7da5ab6a9c2f0f0df726cba561466284

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snowflake954 wrote: »

Oh, and much of the iron holding all this together was pulled out and melted down to make cannons.

https://youtu.be/akU0srKozdQ?t=4

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https://youtu.be/x3um5ELjkcE?t=27

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https://youtu.be/r9_0u0porO8?t=36

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Dean Brody
The country singer-songwriter recalls his childhood growing up in British Columbia’s East Kootenay region.
As a kid, I grew up in Bull River and then moved to Jaffray, B.C. The thing about East Kootenay is that it seems like its own corner of the world. It’s kind of isolated, and the pace of life isn’t like what I experience nowadays. That, plus the wildlife and the scenery, are still things I long for. Whenever I get to hang out there, it always evokes great memories and nostalgia.

I remember a lot of pond hockey. A lot of my hockey-playing friends from the city grew up in arenas, but I grew up on the ponds. If you had skates, a shovel and a pond, you were good to go.