22 Tuesday Feb 2011
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Horse Feathers
Discovered this at Kind over Matter’s Tuesday Tunes posting several weeks ago.
Immediately loved this group, went to Itunes and bought two albums,
spent the day painting to their music.
Soothing.
Reaches deep down into the quiet of me
and magnifies my well being.
01 Tuesday Feb 2011
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Found a small space inside that is big enough for me to hoop and not hit anything as long as I don’t move around too much so I spent some time hooping this morning. This is the song at the end of my hooping session this morning.
Where is the Love
simple song, simple lyrics, but oh my goodnes …
I love his voice!
You’ve got what I Need by Joshua Radin
One of my favorites by NeverShoutNever
25 Tuesday Jan 2011
All of my Days – Alexi Murdoch
Which I first heard in Away We Go. Stumbling across it again reminds me how much I love this movie. So beautiful.
what about you?
what music is stirring your soul this week?
18 Tuesday Jan 2011
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Home
And Home
and home again
I looked and looked around online to see if anyone was actually hosting Tuesday Tunes. I saw lots of posts with that title but nowhere were they linked to a host. So, I’ve created a button and I would be happy if you want to play along and take Tuesdays on your blog to share what you are listening to, music that inspires you, tunes that make you move. If I have imposed on something that someone else has created, please let me know. I’d be just as happy to play along with someone else.
09 Sunday Jan 2011
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Isn’t it AWESOME when your iPod shuffle playlist plays song after song that you love?! And am I the only one who will keep reshuffling because I believe the first song determines what the rest of the list will be like and if I don’t love the first one, I won’t love the rest? And when you hit a really good shuffle don’t you want to preserve it … don’t let your iPod die or do anything to mess it up?
I am there right now. Best iPod shuffle playlist in a long time. Here’s the line up so far …(with links to video or audio if I could find it)
Dig it by The Beatles
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For by U2
Little Lion Man by Mumford & Sons
It’s Easy When You Smile by Lori McKenna
This is the Time by Billy Joel
Whataya Want from Me by Adam Lambert
Cut by Plumb
St. Joseph’s by The Avett Brothers
Hands of a Woman by Ryan Horne (best song on his Love and War album, in my opinion)
I’ll be Your Baby Tonight by Nora Jones
Spies by Coldplay
Anything Good About Me by Edwin McCain
When I’m Sixty Four by The Beatles
Red and Black from Les Miserables
Coming Down by Edwin McCain
Got to Get you Into My Life by Earth Wind and Fire
I am Nothing by Ginny Owens
Can’t Get You Off my Mind by Sister Hazel
How Strange it Seems by Edwin McCain
Dust by Augustana
23 Tuesday Nov 2010
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Lynne at Family of Movers participates in Inspiration Mondays and she has commented here so I visit her site regularly … but obviously not regularly enough! She hosted Song Friday on the 19th and I missed it. So true to not always following the rules, here is Tuesday’s Response to Song Friday.
Can’t remember where I stumbled across this song (need to do a better job of that so I can credit who first introduced me to an artist, a musician, a book) but this is so beautiful it makes my heart ache.
06 Friday Aug 2010
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Have I mentioned that I LOVE Mumford and Sons? I think I keep posting repeat videos over on my facebook page. So for a change, I will post here … which also gets posted on my facebook page. Oh well!
13 Wednesday Jan 2010
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Though we went through a weird, legalistic stage as young adults and threw out all our “secular” music, we have navigated back to center and enjoy so many different types of music now. I refuse to use the word Christian as an adjective for music but believe that all music is spiritual in some sense.
I am privileged to have children with wide musical tastes who have introduced me to some of my now favorite bands. They have shared their concert experiences with us and one of our best family times was Cornerstone 2008. So much so that we are planning to return this year.
My second daughter, Katie, is the volunteer coordinator for a local non-profit music venue. I am so glad that she has a place to nurture her love of music. She has committed to writing about some of her favorite artists and with this first post she writes about one of my favorite memories with her, one of our favorite artists, Will Hoge.
I really do have an eclectic taste in music ranging from country and blue grass to pop and retro-rock to classical and musicals. But for the most part, I tend to land pretty solid with the adult alternative sounds. I have a playlist in my sidebar with a few of my favorites. Hope you find something that you like there.
19 Friday Jun 2009
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Several things have attached to my heart and are drawing me back to blogging. Rachelle Mee-Chapman’s Thursday 8 Things Meme is one. I have been writing responding posts in my head for awhile, yet never taking the time to actually get it all down here.
This week especially called to me:
So, what *8 Songs connect you to the Divine? Songs that aren’t classically “religious” or “church music” but create a harmonic bridge to all things holy. Songs that soothe the soul. Songs that encourage and shore you up. Songs that connect you to something bigger and beyond, or more deeply and truly to the here/now. What songs are just Good Medicine? Do tell…and if you have time link us to online versions and youtube videos, just for fun. Here’s my list of *8 Songs for the Soul.
How could I resist the opportunity to list 8 songs that connect me to the Divine, to the Spirit that lives within me. But I have driven myself crazy trying to find just the right songs. It’s too difficult to choose because one song will be perfect for one day yet another for another. Instead, I think I will just list 8 artists who woo my heart, singing my pain and my joy, exposing my spirit to the world where I must choose to follow to the heights and depths of love and life.
Various Soundtracks … Les Miserables, Rent, Across the Universe, Once, etc
and when I am looking for something that would be considered more classically religious, I love the projects from Enter the Worship Circle
Ok, yeah, I know it is more than 8 things. I am never good at staying between the lines. I’ll leave you now to explore some music.
07 Wednesday Jan 2009
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I have expressed my love for Josh Garrel‘s music on this blog before. Thanks to Jonathan Brink, I have a video to share of one of my favorite songs from his new album Jacaranda. This is a tough listen as I recognize myself in Babylon and my yearning to abide in Zion.
In case you need the lyrics (Josh speaks/sings so quickly … it was almost humorous to watch the sign language interpreters try to keep up with him at Cornerstone):
Zion and Babylon
Oh great mammon of form and function
Careless consumerist consumption
Dangerous dysfunction
Described as expensive taste
I’m a people disgraced
By what I claim I need
And what I want to waste
I take no account for nothing
If it’s not mine
It’s a misappropriation of funds
Protect my ninety percent with my guns
Whose side am I on?
Well who’s winning?
My kingdom’s built with the blood of slaves
Orphans, widows, and homeless graves
I sold their souls just to build my private mansion
Some people say that my time is coming
Kingdom come is the justice running
Down, down, down on me
I’m a poor child, I’m a lost son
I refuse to give my love to anyone,
Fight for the truth,
Or help the weaker ones
Because I love my Babylon
I am a slave, I was never free
I betrayed you for blood money
Oh I bought the world, all is vanity
Oh my Lord I’m your enemy
Come to me, and find your life
Children sing, Zion’s in sight
I said don’t trade your name for a serial number
Priceless lives were born from under graves
Where I found you
Say, my name ain’t yours and yours is not mine
Mine is the Lord, and yours is my child
That’s how it’s always been
Time to make a change
Leave your home
Give to the poor all that you own
Lose your life, so that you could find it
First will be last when the true world comes
Livin’ like a humble fool to overcome
The upside-down wisdom
Of a dying world
Zion’s not built with hands
And in this place God will dwell with man
Sick be healed and cripples stand
Sing Allelu
My kingdom’s built with the blood of my son
Selfless sacrifice for everyone
Faith, hope, love, and harmony
I said let this world know me by your love
By your love
Oh my child, daughters and sons
I made you in love to overcome
Free as a bird, my flowers in the sun
On your way to Mount Zion
All you slaves, be set free
Come on out child and come on home to me
We will dance, we will rejoice
If you can hear me then follow my voice
