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Oh how I miss the good old days When people were nice and tender-hearted When I had trees to climbs and birds to raise And green fields where I would rest on with my buddies, feeling contented But now I feel lost and deeply wretched Craving for love and companionship and warmth For out there people themselves are struggling in their tiring orbit Or perhaps with this disgrace I must come to terms I would turn to angels then ‘Cause by hearsay they’re pure and benevolent Yet where they are and how to find them are beyond my ken I’m crushed, impoverished, and disheartened… (English is not my mother tongue and I don't know the rules of English verse.) |
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I'll post a piece I wrote yesterday before I leave this iste.-Ron
--------------------------- ABBA, ME, and WILLIAM JAMES Part 1: ABBA: Bang a Boomerang1 tells the inside story of Australia's colossal 70s crush on the Swedish supergroup ABBA and their music. It’s the story of how this unequalled and enduring fan-worship changed them, Australia, and Australians, forever. My wife and two step-daughters loved ABBA. From 1972 to 1982, when they were a phenomenon in Australia, I was busy: (i) with my teaching career working 60+ hours a week, (ii) with my work as a Baha’i in Whyalla, Gawler, Launceston, Melbourne, Ballarat, Smithton, Zeehan, and Katherine, (iii) going through a divorce, remarrying, and raising a family of 3 children, as well as (iv) dealing with episodes of bipolar 1 disorder. ABC's innovative music program Countdown and its host Molly Meldrum were instrumental in bringing ABBA to a burgeoning mid-70s television audience. It was due to Countdown that Mamma Mia was released as a single, first in Australia and then the world. With this, the ABBA phenomenon was born. Part 2: This TV doco, ABBA: Bang a Boomerang, digs deep into the heartfelt memories of Australians with its cardboard cartons of memorabilia, its face-to-face encounters, its local pop-icon recounts, its lavish personal and public ABBA museums and Australia's rich media archives. It relives a moment of collective national 'craziness' when Australia literally went ABBA mad. The result of that experience is a warm, bright, captivating engagement with ABBA's time Downunder. The open-hearted embrace of all things ABBA would eventually, in part at least, define Australia. One in three Australian households owned an ABBA record, from the then Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser, to eight year olds around the nation. One of those 8 year-olds, Angela, lived in my home in 1978. That 8-year old girl now has a successful public relations career and is 42 years old. In 1979 my first and only son was born with ABBA somewhere out on the periphery. Australians, like Angela, were hooked even if some didn't want to admit it back then. It would appear, at least this is the view presented in this video, that the crush was for keeps.-Ron Price with thanks to ABC1 TV, 30/1/’13, 8:30-9:30 p.m. When you are up to your eye-balls in life’s trilogy of responsibilities: job, community, and family, those things in the electronic-media are at best peripheral to the mainstream of your life. After 80 to 90 hours in an immersion in those life-demands all you can do is try to get the sleep you need to do it all again tomorrow, and tomorrow. ABBA were, for me, like a shooting star in some galaxy which repeated itself off-and-on for 10 years in my life while I was as busy as that proverbial beaver just surviving and making as much out of my life as I possibly could with William James’s booming-buzzing confusion of it all.1 1 William James(1842-1901), an American philosopher and psychologist who had trained as a physician, was the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States. In his Principles of Psychology (1890) he refers to this booming and buzzing confusion in the following passage: [Promotional link deleted & edited for length - MODERAT0R] Ron Price 1 February 2013 Last edited by Dr. Drib; 01-18-2015 at 09:36 AM. |
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The eggs lay dreaming Stretched out on the pan The heat of romance The kiss of butter sweet Lies I held it before my eyes The glass The soul shaped salt shaker It looked just like me Empty |
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The smoke lies heavy in the air as though all my neighbors are stoking their fireplaces yet it’s the middle of Summer. It burns my eyes, irritates my throat as I walk yet for me it is merely an inconvenience. The trees along the canal are whispering, ‘My brothers are dying.’ Kenny A. Chaffin – 6/14/13 Last edited by kennyc; 06-14-2013 at 11:54 AM. |
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Orion has always been my guiding light I yearn to reach, to touch to follow Yet when I do the stars shift and change as I leave the Earth, Polaris is no longer the North Star and the closer I get to Orion the further away I become Kenny A. Chaffin – 6/19/13 |
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I like that, Kenny. And for some reason I can't explain, for years I've felt strangely drawn to Orion. Perhaps that's because the three bright stars of Orion's belt make it one of the few constellations that are still plainly visible in Tidewater's increasingly light-polluted sky.
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08-10-2013, 07:58 AM | #1212 |
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An Even Trade Death it seems is an even trade for the privilege to be born into this life, this incredible life in this wondrous universe To have the honor of looking up at the billions of night sky stars as though they were twinkling just for me and perhaps, perhaps they are They say we are made of star stuff and to star stuff one day I’ll return to be flung again by supernova into vast and empty space Given time I’ll once more become alive and gazing out staring up at billions of stars knees weak and struck with awe Kenny A. Chaffin – 8/9/13 |
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Oh, I do like that. Eternal recurrence in a limitless universe is not so far fetched.
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Thanks Tom. Kind of atheist reincarnation.
Here's one more: Nixon on Walden Pond Forever and inextricably linked by Gregorian fate Henry David resigned to Walden Pond in order to get away Richard Nixon also resigned in hopes of getting away Henry communed with nature, Nixon commuted by Ford On the Ninth of August both were released Kenny A. Chaffin – 8/9/13 Hopefully I haven't drifted too far into religion or politics. Last edited by kennyc; 08-10-2013 at 11:28 AM. |
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