Music

Perfect Moment Monday: Let’s dance

February 9, 2009

Perfect Moment Monday is more about noticing a perfect moment than aboutcreating one. Perfect moments can be momentous or ordinary or somewhere in between. We gather here once a week to engage in mindfulness about something that is right with our world. Everyone is welcome to join. Details on how to participate are at the [...]

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Why I keep my blog password a secret from my daughter

January 8, 2009

A few weeks ago, I put up a post that Reed helped with. Today is Tessa’s turn. She and I have an ongoing disagreement about brothers. Not hers, and not mine (I have none), but about these brothers (I picked a short song, and you don’t have to listen to it all) versus these brothers. [...]

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Show & Tell: If Reed had a blog

December 20, 2008

Subtitle: what do you get when you put Weird Al Yankovic in a blender with Star Wars, American Pie, the Kinks, and a transgendered person ? I asked Reed what he would put on a blog if he had one. Here is his answer. Both are worth watching clear to the end, even if you’re [...]

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Perfect Moment Monday: Oh, yeah!

October 27, 2008

(Read all the way to the bottom for Lori’s Childhood Trivia .) Reed and I pick up Tessa from school. We head to the dollar store to look for costumes. No luck, and on a whim (OK, mine) we drive through the nearby Dairy Queen for our favorite treats: bright blue squishees for them and [...]

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Hallelujah!

October 22, 2008

Which version do you prefer? (most are not embeddable, sadly). 1. Leonard Cohen, the song’s composer. Make sure you get to at least 0:45 (video no longer available, Dec2010). 2. Rufus Wainwright, singer of the Shrek version 3. Brandi Carlisle. I attended her concert at Chautauqua earlier this year, and this song was phenomenal. Not [...]

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Perfect Moment: a ripple on the water

October 6, 2008

Perfect World. How appropriate. I noticed my Perfect Moment while I was on the elliptical. This song came on and I felt a wave of connection to All. I love when that happens. I can’t make it happen. I can only open to receive it when it does. We get to be. A ripple on [...]

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