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Food For Thought: Seduction

I ran across this yesterday on Facebook from Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes. It’s a marvelous nibble of Food For Thought on the topic of seduction. Enjoy…

“If you’ve ever hung over the railing of a bridge looking down at the water passing, sometimes you feel a little vertigo as though you are being pulled to maybe jump in and be taken by the current. This is true of seduction also.

There can be a pull that is unexplainable, a desire to just fall forward, jump in for a fabulous destruction of self by which i mean a ‘take down’ of… the overly egotistical psyche. This positive deconstruction can be liberating for it shakes out all detritus and wholeness rises thus…

but there’s also detrimental destruction of self via seduction …by a blue bearded woman or a blue bearded man who claims they cannot do without… who whilst wheedling, wheeling and dealing, holds aces up the sleeve that you… do not know about. And you wonder why they always pull so compellingly on your tripes (gut) and you always seem to lose one more pound of flesh.

Make sure you know which kind of seduction you’re facing… within yourself, and with others. And if its the kind to throw you into a rapids you cannot survive… step away, step away from the railing… and walk to solid, non-moving ground. Find a tree. Lean forehead against it’s bark.” ~~ from The Contemplari manuscript, ©2000, by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, all rights reserved.

And heed the advice if need be… we can be seduced on so many levels by so many things. We live in a technological world that feeds our temptations everyday, with an explosion of images and words and things we feel we must have. It’s always so important to stand your ground, when something doesn’t feel right.

(Photo: Tree on the Merrimack River ~~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2012)

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Alison Krauss & Union Station: Lay My Burden Down

Live from The Letterman Show, Alison Kraus & Union Station perform Lay My Burden Down:

Enjoy…

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Sarah McLachlan: I Will Remember You (Live)

Sarah McLachlan performs “I Will Remember You,” Live from her 1998 Tour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wOny6ZeOIo

Enjoy…

 

 

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Melody Gardot: Baby I’m A Fool

A sweet little love song from the sweet voiced songstress Melody Gardot

Baby I’m A Fool, live:

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Love Be Not of Reason

There’s no better day than Valentine’s Day to share a love poem. I have long been a great fan of romance poets, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Love Be Not of Reason is from my own journals…

Love Be Not of Reason
 
Love be not of reason,
No right nor wrong,
Love be of the season
For which there is no song.
No sense be made of desires
That once can cripple
But, the strongest tree
And, bring mere mortal man
Down to his knee.
Who sayeth that love must be so,
Who speak the words
Of Love and Woe
For truly as the sun doth shine
Your touch upon my lips
Be pleasure that is,
 But, yours and mine.
Who knows what aching
Upon thy breast
Does bring your soul to lay and rest;
Weary in the arms of love,
That heal the questions
For which there be no answer.
Love be the stars that shine,
In darkest night
Bright in your eyes;
Love be the sun that rises
To seek a new day
Of pleasure in your arms.
Love be the song of ecstasy
When in its throws
We merge as one.
Love be not of reason
No right nor wrong,
Love be of the season
For which there is no song,
But that only of two hearts
That beat as one
In it’s sweet pleasing.

c. Pamela J. Leavey

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R.I.P. Whitney Houston

Whitney Houston’s publicist Kristen Foster announced a short time ago that Whitney Houston has died. Houston, “reigned as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice and regal image were ravaged by drug use, erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown.” She was 48. At this time, the cause and location of her death are unknown.

I have to say this will probably always be my very favorite Whitney Houston song ~~ I Will Always Love You. The video below is from her performance at the 25th Arista Records Anniversary Show in 2000 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, which I attended:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IejunkZGh58

Tragic… So much talent… Lost to the world of drugs. Rest in peace Whitney…

* Cross posted at The Democratic Daily with more

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