The summer sun went down on our love long ago
But in my heart I feel the same old afterglow
A love so beautiful in every way
A love so beautiful we let it slip away

We were all too young to understand to ever know
That lovers drift apart and that’s the way love goes
A love so beautiful, a love so free
A love so beautiful, a love for you and me

And when I think of you I fall in love again
A love so beautiful in every way
A love so beautiful we let it slip away

And when I think of you I fall in love again
A love so beautiful we let it slip away
A love so beautiful in every way
A love so beautiful we let it slip away

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“Bloom wherever you are planted”

I once saw that quote on a wall hanging and I have taken it on as my own. Wherever I have gone, whoever I have been with, I’ve always tried to make the best of what I had right then and there. It’s a good mantra to live by, I think. It keeps me grounded.

But what to do, when the yearning for something you can’t have hits? Is there another wall hanging somewhere with something profound written on it to cure the green monster blues? Or is this one of those things that we just submit to and hope it abates? But what if you don’t want it to abate and your wanderlust is triggered and all you want to do is go? Go anywhere but where you are? What do you then?

HOME by Jack Johnson

I’ve got to get home there’s a garden to tend.
There’s fruit on the ground and the birds have all moved back
Into my attic with whistling static
When the young learn to fly I will patch all the holes up again.

Well I can’t believe that my lime tree is dead.
I thought it was sleeping, I guess it got fed up with not being fed
And I would be too.
I need food in my belly and hope that my time isn’t soon.

And so I’ll try to understand what I can’t hold in my hands
And wherever we are home is there too.
And if you could try to find it too ’cause this place is overgrowing
to whacks and gloom
Home is wherever we are if there’s nothing too.

In the back of house is trail that won’t end.
We’ve been walking so far that it grew back in
There’s no trail at all only grass growing tall
And I’ll get out my machete and battle with time once again,
But I’m bound to lose ’cause I’ll be damned if time don’t win.

I got to get home there’s a garden to tend
All the seeds from the fruit bear Eden
Begin their own family trees, teach them thank you and please
As they spread their own roots then watch the young fruit grow again
And this old trail will lead me right back to where it begins.

And so I’ll try to understand what I can’t hold in my hand
And whatever I find, I’ll find my way back to you.
And if you could try to find it too ’cause this place is overgrowing
to whacks and gloom.
Home is wherever we are if there’s nothing too

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“Wildflower”

Quiet hour
You have always been my wildflower
Showing up wherever beauty’s lost its way
Your heart must break

I was free
Until I heard the song you sang me to me
Pulling me away from everything I knew
To be with you

And everything I know just fades away
And every time you go it hurts me so
I don’t know why when I know we’re free
Free to fly

Here we are
Burning faster than the closest star
Falling back down to the Earth
I love you so it sometimes hurts

Closer still
You will find me standing on the hill
Waiting for you with my arms stretched open wide
Now, come inside

And everything I know just fades away
And every time you go it hurts me so
I don’t know why when I know we’re free
Free to fly

And everything I know just fades away
And when a wildflower grows it picks its space
And that’s the way it is when nature plays its lovely hand
We’ll understand everything

Everything, everything

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Meryl Streep is not a singer but her rendition of The Winner Takes it All in the movie Mama Mia! is heart breaking. I cried at this song when I first watched the movie, but it hadn’t resonated with me as until now. I almost can’t stand to watch it. The way she sang it, not flawless like the original from ABBA, is heart wrenching and full of emotion. I now have a better understanding of what the song means, beyond the haunting lyrics and captivating melody.

Regrets, missed chances and cruel fate… and I am left standing small.

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We drank a toast to innocence we drank a toast to now
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness but neither one knew how.
We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to time
Reliving in our eloquence, another old lang syne

Someone asked me how it felt to see you again
my old lover my old friend.
I didn’t know the answer then
But I do now.
And Now is the toast I drink to.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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Winter Concerto in f-minor

Allegro non molto
Shivering, frozen mid the frosty snow in biting, stinging winds;
running to and fro to stamp one’s icy feet, teeth chattering in the bitter chill.

Largo
To rest contentedly beside the hearth, while those outside are drenched by pouring rain.

Allegro
We tread the icy path slowly and cautiously, for fear of tripping and falling.
Then turn abruptly, slip, crash on the ground and, rising, hasten on across the ice lest it cracks up.
We feel the chill north winds coarse through the home despite the locked and bolted doors
this is winter, which nonetheless brings its own delights.

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So this morning we are again switching musical genre. I woke up with shaky knees and that tight feeling in the pit of my stomach so to shake them out, I turned to on my my favorite online radio stations, QRock.com where they play the best songs to rock to. And guess what the song that was on? This one, by Iain Matthews. Brought back memories…. yeah, so I’m dating myself Still a great song to dance to and shake off whatever’s ailing you. That’s what I’m doing this morning.

Shake it baby, shake it all you can tonight
Go on and, and break ‘em baby
Break ‘em all you can tonight
‘Cause it won’t last forever
But do it for worse or for better
And give the boy somethin’ to dream on later

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To all who long for a love that once was and can never be again, this one’s for you.

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This is one of my favorite songs from Beyonce’ and continuing on with my groovin’ holiday mood, although my moves are un-Beyonce’-like, here’s Halo. Beautiful lyrics, perfect song to dance with someone you love or just to listen to on a cold Friday morning at work.

Lyrics below:

Remember those walls I built
Well, baby they’re tumbling down
And they didn’t even put up a fight
They didn’t even make up a sound

I found a way to let you in
But I never really had a doubt
Standing in the light of your halo
I got my angel now

It’s like I’ve been awakened
Every rule I had you breakin’
It’s the risk that I’m takin’
I ain’t never gonna shut you out

Everywhere I’m looking now
I’m surrounded by your embrace
Baby I can see your halo
You know you’re my saving grace

You’re everything I need and more
It’s written all over your face
Baby I can feel your halo
Pray it won’t fade away

I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo
I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo

Hit me like a ray of sun
Burning through my darkest night
You’re the only one that I want
Think I’m addicted to your light

I swore I’d never fall again
But this don’t even feel like falling
Gravity can’t forget
To pull me back to the ground again

Feels like I’ve been awakened
Every rule I had you breakin’
The risk that I’m takin’
I’m never gonna shut you out

Everywhere I’m looking now
I’m surrounded by your embrace
Baby I can see your halo
You know you’re my saving grace

You’re everything I need and more
It’s written all over your face
Baby I can feel your halo
Pray it won’t fade away

I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo
I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo

I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo
I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo
Halo, halo

Everywhere I’m looking now
I’m surrounded by your embrace
Baby I can see your halo
You know you’re my saving grace

You’re everything I need and more
It’s written all over your face
Baby I can feel your halo
Pray it won’t fade away

I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo
I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo

I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo
I can feel your halo halo halo
I can see your halo halo halo

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