@luminous  I am currently wiping coffee off my laptop screen where I spewed coffee laughing at this!! ? 

I'm glad it made you laugh @journeywithme2 ? 

@luminous Excellent video. It was funny and then it got funnier. 

My husband (then-boyfriend) and I saw Michael Hedges play in a club  about 6 months before he (Hedges) passed.  He was brilliant and amazing and had a great absurdist sense of humor. We both had the sense we were in the presence of a higher-order soul.  Moderately inebriated BF came up to the stage at the end of the show and shook MH's hand said (inebriatedly) "I love you man!".  LOL  

@jeanne-mayell   That link also contains her newest poem just released "New Day's Lyric"

‘New Day's Lyric’ by Amanda Gorman

May this be the day

We come together.

Mourning, we come to mend, 

Withered, we come to weather,

Torn, we come to tend,

Battered, we come to better. 

Tethered by this year of yearning,

We are learning

That though we weren't ready for this, 

We have been readied by it.

Steadily we vow that no matter

How we are weighed down,

We must always pave a way forward.

This hope is our door, our portal.

Even if we never get back to normal, 

Someday we can venture beyond it,

To leave the known and take the first steps. 

So let us not return to what was normal, 

But reach toward what is next.

What was cursed, we will cure.

What was plagued, we will prove pure.

Where we tend to argue, we will try to agree,

Those fortunes we forswore, now the future we foresee, 

Where we weren't aware, we're now awake;

Those moments we missed

Are now these moments we make,

The moments we meet,

And our hearts, once all together beaten,

Now all together beat.

Come, look up with kindness yet,

For even solace can be sourced from sorrow. 

We remember, not just for the sake of yesterday, 

But to take on tomorrow.

We heed this old spirit,

In a new day's lyric,

In our hearts, we hear it:

For auld lang syne, my dear, 

For auld lang syne.

Be bold, sang Time this year, 

Be bold, sang Time,

For when you honor yesterday, 

Tomorrow ye will find.

Know what we've fought

Need not be forgot nor for none.

It defines us, binds us as one, 

Come over, join this day just begun. 

For wherever we come together, 

We will forever overcome.

End

As soon as I read it I was so moved that I had to share and when I signed on ..this page came up and you were speaking of the poems...so I felt compelled to share it here. Hugs!

I just ran across this poem online and it really resonated about our current time:

Do you ever feel spiritually

that something is happening.

@cc21 I read your poem and it wasn’t enough to just click “like”. Then I went to the poet’s webpage. She lives on a south sea island and it seems that she sits around all day observing the exquisite details of nature.  I want to be there with her in that observation.  

Most all, her poem has stated plainly what is happening now.  So thank you. 

@coyote

RIP

This is helpful and exactly what I needed to hear. Hope that this is true for you also. 

Buddhist Mantra Healing all suffering USNISA VIJAYA DHARANI- 佛頂尊勝陀羅尼經- 모든 고통을 치유하는 만트라 -Tinna Tinh

https://youtu.be/HA75zd5eE-w

I'm not always negative, ya know?

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Buddhist Mantra Healing all suffering USNISA VIJAYA DHARANI- 佛頂尊勝陀羅尼經- 모든 고통을 치유하는 만트라 -Tinna Tinh

https://youtu.be/HA75zd5eE-w

I'm not always negative, ya know?

I wouldn't have ever called you negative!  We all have our moments, and we're all more than a little anxious right now :-)

Thank you for sharing this video!

A couple of nights ago we went to a concert by Ringo Starr and his All Star Band.  

Wow, what a shot of positive energy!!  The entire audience had smiles on their faces, it seemed.  The feeling stayed with us for quite a while afterwards.

Not only was the music fantastic, the mood was just joyous.  Ringo tries to be an ambassador for 'Peace and Love" (his catchphrase) and he succeeds.  

The All-Star Band members are all high-profile, highly skilled, experienced musicians who mostly had hits in the 70's and the 80's: Edgar Winter, Steve Lukather (Toto), Hamish Stuart (Average White Band), Colin Hay (Men at Work), Warren Ham (Toto and Kansas), and Greg Bissonette.  Ringo does a number of Beatles and "Ringo" songs, and each band member leads numbers that were their hits back in the day.  It is a fantastic collaboration and they all look like they are loving it. 

The really crazy thing is that Ringo is 82 and could pass for a fit 55 or 60.  

Anyhow, if you are anywhere near a concert on this tour I highly recommend you try to get tickets and just GO.  You will feel so much happier with the world if you do. 

Remaining tour locations and dates are at https://www.ringostarr.com/tour

There are many amateur videos of the tour on YouTube-- here's a good one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kmLTxY2bi8

This song spoke to me very deeply. I hope it can do the same for others:

Enigma - Return To Innocence (Official Video)

https://youtu.be/Rk_sAHh9s08

Lyrics:

Love
Devotion
Feeling
Emotion

 

Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence

 

The return to innocence

 

And if you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself don't hide
Just believe in destiny

 

Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and use the chance
To return to innocence

 

That's not the beginning of the end
That's the return to yourself
The return to innocence

 

That's return to innocence

While not exactly fitting this category, I wanted to mention I have found a lot of pleasure recently listening to BBC World Service news on Sirius.  It is global, in-depth, informative and honestly, I love listening to their calm peaceful voices.  I also enjoy their in-depth stories about things I didn't know were currently happening in the world  or didn't know happened decades ago.  Yes, U.S. news is covered well , but I like understanding what is happening globally also and this is a great source for both.

If you have access to it, give it a try for a change of pace or for a "slice" of your news pie. 

I have another spiritual song for you all that is again from Enigma.

At the very beginning of the song it is sung in sanskrit and just afterwards, there is some Gregorian mantras being sung as well.

The video is really fitting with the song I think. When you see nature and all life contained with in it, and the child like innocence of all living things. It definitely pulls at the heartstrings (well, it did for me anyway haha) but I think it is worth it for the overall message and experience.

Enigma - The Child In Us

https://youtu.be/B1wUVExfkkM

Prasanna vadanaaM saubhaagyadaaM bhaagyadaaM
HastaabhyaaM abhayapradaaM maNigaNair-
Naanaavidhair-bhuushhitaaM
(who is of smiling face, bestower of all fortunes,
Whose hands are ready to rescue anyone from fear,
Who is adorned by various ornaments with precious stones)

 

Puer natus est nobis,
Et filius datus est nobis
Cujus emperium super humerum
(For to us a child is born,
To us a son is given:
And the government will be upon his shoulder)

 

Some day you came
And I knew you were the one
You were the rain, you were the sun
But I needed both, cause I needed you

 

You were the one
I was dreaming of all my life
When it is dark you are my light
But don't forget
Who's always our guide
It is the child in us

I think the lyrics might be slightly incomplete because there is definitely more said both in the sanskrit and the Gregorian mantras than is listed in Google. 

Anyway, I hope the song resonates with others.

https://youtu.be/CNApcyzaY60

Ah-uh nayah oh-wa oh-wa
Shon-day oh-wa oh-wa
Shon-day can-non non noha (noha)

 

Ah-uh nayah oh-wa oh-wa
Shon-day oh-wa oh-wa
Shon-day yeha-noha (noha)

 

Ah-uh nayay tor-shna nena-nay-yayah
Nena-nay-yay yeha-noha (noha)
Ah-uh nayay tor-shna nena-nay-yayah
Yeha-noha (noha)

 

Nee-yoh-wah nee-yoh
Nee-yoh-wah nee-yoh

 

Ah-uh nayah oh-wa oh-wa
Shon-day oh-wa oh-wa
Shon-day can-non non noha (noha)

 

Ah-uh nayah oh-wa oh-wa
Shon-day oh-wa oh-wa
Shon-day yeha-noha (noha)

 

Ah-uh nayay tor-shna nena-nay-yayah
Nena-nay-yay yeha-noha (noha)
Ah-uh nayay tor-shna nena-nay-yayah
Yeha-noha (noha

There is a lot of suffering and difficulties happening in the world right now. But there is a hope I feel in all that pain. 

I feel this song is very fitting and relevant for the world's situation. The music video is also very well done.

Again, this is a song from Enigma, but you will see like the other two, that they each give something different. This one is probably quite a bit different from the other two songs I shared and a more recent song of theirs. They have collaborated with music duo called "Aquilo" who are from Lancashire here in the UK, and provided vocals for this song. 

I have some other videos and songs from other people that I will be sharing either over the weekend or next week. So I hope with those it will capture other people's tastes more, if you are not into this.

Amen

Song by Enigma

https://youtu.be/ZYlNjQ5TTF4

I'm out on a new road in search for a land with no name
And I never looked back cause I'm walking through sunshine and rain
I'm a man who has lived in the tombs and who's broken the chain

 

Amen x 2

 

I was blind and now I see
What I've got is not for me
And I know, it's time to go
I've been used
And I've been played
I've been spied on and betrayed
And I know, it's time to go

 

Watch out
I feel the pain
Watch out
I'm alive again
The past is gone for good, it's time to say:

 

Amen x 4

 

In lust I believe I will be found
In the silence of my nights
I can hear a distant voice
Someone out there is calling my name

 

Watch out
I'm not afraid
Watch out
I'm beyond the trail
It's time to turn the page and love again

 

Watch out
I can feel your pain
Watch out
And I cry again
I'm leaving all my shadows behind

 

Amen x 4

 

Tentanda Incognita

I know that the US Midterm Elections are coming up for you all, so I couldn't help but take a trip down memory lane to Obama's concert in Washington in 2009 after he won the US Election in 2008 ...

U2 - City Of Blinding Lights Live Obama Concert Washington [HD]

https://youtu.be/EBs6Tvpjl3Y

I hope this song inspires some hope for you all, because I know it is nervous times right now.