GODLY MATTERS

I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them                                                                                                 
                         
                                                                                                                                        Galileo Galilei

HAPPINESS

Things that make people happy.
I was happy focusing on people's faces,
letting the words go
and keeping the faces
eyes smiling
hearts daring to recall and dream
just that

Try it
Maybe it will make you happy, too.

MY BIGGEST FEAR?

Fear No More

Fear no more the heat o' the sun,
Nor the furious winter's rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages;
Golden lads and girls all must,
As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.

Fear no more the frown o' the great;
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke:
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.

Fear no more the lightning-flash,
Nor the all-dreaded thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan;
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.

 No exorciser harm thee!
 Nor no witchcraft charm thee!
 Ghost unlaid forbear thee!
 Nothing ill come near thee!
 Quiet consummation have;
 And renowned be thy grave!

- William Shakespeare

from Cymbeline, Act IV, Scene 2.
lines spoken by Guiderius and Arviragus

COME BACK AS A FLOWER

I hide myself within my flower,
That fading from your Vase,
You, unsuspecting, feel for me --
Almost a loneliness

Emily Dickinson

COME BACK AS A FLOWER (Stevie Wonder, The Secret Life of Plants, 1979)

The strangest thought came
to me on this morning
As I awake to greet the coming dawn
The sun was hardly peaking
through the garden
It felt that with everything I was one

Then I wished that I could
come back as a flower
As a flower
As a flower
How I wished that I could
come back as a flower
As a flower
To spread the sweetness of love
To spread the sweetness of love

The dew had finished
making love to many
A rainbow smelling
sweet was in the air
I envied all the silence I saw growing
So unmoved by things
outside themselves

Then how I wished that
I could come back as a
flower
As a flower
As a flower
How I wished that I could
come back as a flower
As a flower
To spread the sweetness of love

How I wished that I could
come back as a flower
Oh as a flower
As a flower
How I wished that I could
come back as a flower
As a flower
As a flower
To spread the sweetness of love
To spread the sweetness of love

BACK TO THE ELEMENTS

After a while
coming back to the "nucleus of it all"
I found your song
: ))
You are the piper at the gates of dawning







"Flower Power", Stevie Wonder (The Secret Life of Plants, 1979)


Pan is my name 
I live outside the door 
I have to keep the score of things around you 

Fire and air, 
earth, water I prepare 
I am the piper at the gates of dawning 

It's not magic it's not madness 
Just the elements I style 
And I guarantee faithfully I will never go 
Until all is said and done 
In a twinkling I'll be gone 
Well excuse me I have so much more to do 

Fancy I feel, 
A childlike tap I'll steal 
Look twice my friend it's not the wind at all 

You'll never see, 
What you refuse to be 
The power in the seeing is believing. 


It's not magic it's not madness 
Just the elements I style 
And I guarantee faithfully I will never go 
Until all is said and done 
In a twinkling I'll be gone 
Well excuse me I have so much more to do 

[repeat] 

[Background] 
Flower Power, Power Flower, 
Flower Power, Power of Love 
Power Flower, Flower Power, Power 
Flower, Flower of Love 

[repeat] 
He's a power flower yeah, oh 
Protecting all the flowers, yeah, oh 
He's a flower's power, yeah 
Through earth, wind, fire, 
showers, yeah, oh, oh, oh, oh 
oh, oh, oh, oh 

He's a power flower yeah, oh 
Protecting all the flowers, yeah, oh