Memento Mori~Remember Death

I am the one who remembers death.

I give you the heart-ache of loss.

I want you to live your life to the fullest because the next moment may well be the last.

You will remember when you no longer fear death, for death is just another phase of life. You will remember when you embrace life.

Happy Birthday Al Green

Today is the Reverend Al Green's birthday.



I love the horns in this song. Fantastic groove.

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11 April 2009 My baby is now a man

My son George turns 18 today. When he was born I was laughing during my contractions and he was a very good baby.





He was a good boy.









He was even a pretty decent teenager.







Today he is a man (by legal definition). He'll always be my baby.

Happy Birthday George!

Alone by Maya Angelou

In honour of Ms. Angelou's birthday tomorrow, today's poetry offering is

Alone by Maya Angelou

Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don't believe I'm wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

There are some millionaires
With money they can't use
Their wives run round like banshees
Their children sing the blues
They've got expensive doctors
To cure their hearts of stone.
But nobody
No, nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Now if you listen closely
I'll tell you what I know
Storm clouds are gathering
The wind is gonna blow
The race of man is suffering
And I can hear the moan,
'Cause nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.

Friday Poetry - Happy Birthday Robert Frost

Actually his birthday was yesterday, but I'm sure he won't mind.

CARPE DIEM

Age saw two quiet children
Go loving by at twilight,
He knew not whether homeward,
Or outward from the village,
Or (chimes were ringing) churchward,
He waited, (they were strangers)
Till they were out of hearing
To bid them both be happy.
"Be happy, happy, happy,
And seize the day of pleasure."
The age-long theme is Age's.
'Twas Age imposed on poems
Their gather-roses burden
To warn against the danger
That overtaken lovers
From being overflooded
With happiness should have it.
And yet not know they have it.
But bid life seize the present?
It lives less in the present
Than in the future always,
And less in both together
Than in the past. The present
Is too much for the senses,
Too crowding, too confusing-
Too present to imagine.

- Robert Frost

Obama Marijuana Question

I actually do disagree, Mr. President. But thanks for taking the time to respond.

I Feel For You ~ Chaka Khan

Happy Birthday Chaka Khan and thank you for one of my favourite Prince covers. You do it so well.