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International Women’s Day 2012: Watch Us Stand Strong

Today is International Women’s Day:

I wrote Watch Us Stand Strong in 1994. I’ve shared it here before but felt today was a good day to share it again:

Watch Us Stand Strong

Long have we walked
Through the valley of our sadness,
Searching for a way
To end all the madness.
Long have we toiled,
Silent and unnoticed,
Suppressing our knowledge
And our gift to heal the world.
We are large by number,
We are small through the ages,
There are few that have spoken,
Few that dare to read
Our pages.
We are mothers,
We are daughters,
We are sisters,
We are friends;
We contain the lifeblood,
And the passion
Of all the universe
In our souls.
We are women,
Full of knowledge,
And beauty;
The Queens of our planet.
We are home now,
Watch us stand strong,
It is time to heal
Our world.

Check here for 10 Ways to Celebrate International Women’s Day. I spent a good part of International Women’s Day outside in my yard enjoying to 70 degree day here on the river. A little time communing with the Great Mother Goddess is always balm to the soul.

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Chris Isaak Performs Blue Spanish Sky

Chris Isaak in a 1991 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno sitting in for Johnny Carson.  Doc Severinsen is featured on trumpet for this live performance of Blue Spanish Sky:

One of my favorite Chris Isaak songs… I must admit to being a big fan of Chris Isaak for many years, always making a point of catching one of his performances in L.A. year after year.

I’ll never forget the first time I saw Chris perform at what was then the Universal Amphitheater (now the Gibson), the audience was filled with a lot of 30-something year old women all swooning over him… self included. That show was probably around the same time as this performance was filmed.

Enjoy…

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Late Night Blues: Big Mama Thornton with Buddy Guy – Hound Dog

Going way back… Big Mama Thornton with Buddy Guy, 1965:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XUAg1_A7IE

Enjoy…

 

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Sunday Night Jazz: Diana Krall – Cry Me A River

Diana Krall performs Cry Me A River, from the “Live In Paris” DVD:

Enjoy

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Sade: Somebody Already Broke My Heart

Sade performs Somebody Already Broke My Heart live:

Classy, classic, smooth and just beautiful soul touching music…

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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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