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something about trains - my daughter just popped in and said "Oh, look...
jane! i love this cd - it reminds me of saturday cleaning days of my
childhood - especially this song." i will find my self sittling on the porch
at night and this line will come to mind "something bout trains, and love, and
the way this old earth looks tonight." it's inspiring even tho you can't find
the one that you love, you keep moving on. golly. i just connect so deeply to
these songs. it was an intense time for me. having just woke up and all.
Hockey - very nice. i think of it all the time. "someone just got called for
dinner." This whole cd for me paints such vivid pictures of just ordinary life
- that turns out to be extraordinary in the telling. just because it IS. "he
might look out the window... or not" and then not letting the sunday
afternoons get away - which is when i struggle with depression - sunday blues.
now i ride my bike on sunday afternoons.
Everything reminds me of my dog: one of my very most faves. because I have a
dog you see, and so often I will talk to him and wonder "what is it you want?
look at it, do you want me to dial the number for you?" so much in my
everyday life will bring this song to mind. artists, golfers, old people. it
has excellent imagery. i got to work after hearing this song on the way this
morning, and my zen calender for the day seemed to match this song
completely:
"When a Zen monk writes the word dew, it is not to the natural phenomenon
that he refers, but to direct revelation. Nothing concealed anywhere. Truth,
revealed in all things. Buddha revealed in all things. Dharma revealed in all
things. If you all just let the scales drop from your eyes, you realize that
everything everywhere is filled with truth; everything everywhere is filled
with Buddha; everything everywhere is to be appreciated! That is what the
scroll of dew is hanging there to say." - soko morinaGa
which is to say that i think dogs = truth. dogs reveal all things. truth is
revealed in dogs, buddha is revealed thru dogs and everything everywhere is to
be appreciated - just as dogs do. i'm going to far aren't i?
The valley - wow, this songs brings a heavy sigh. it is so beautiful and yet
reminds me of how often i find myself walking thru the shadows in that valley.
i want to live in the hills! i really do. and yet, i do walk in such good
company. so blessed. ...no wonder i fell for jane with this album. they are
all so excellent.
The life is the red wagon - this was initially my favorite track on the cd.
because i needed so much pulling for me. i pulled sure, but it felt like
mostly the other way around. my friend and i were divorcing our spouses at the
same time and came to find ourselves living together with her 2 young boys,
and my 2 young girls. how we survived that 78 days, i will never know, but i
think it had something to do with this song.
..more tomorrow, unless y'all just tell me to be still.
Tracy
--- On Sun, 3/8/09, Michael Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Michael Williams <[email protected]>
Subject: SoJ/I, Week Five: "Bound by the Beauty"
To: "Siblings" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, March 8, 2009, 1:36 PM
Released in 1987, 10 tracks, including (what we thought was) the conclusion
to
the "Map of the World" song sequence, and the immortal
"Hockey".
"Hockey" is a perfect example of what i mentioned when i wrote about
"The Walking" yesterday - jane draws a vivid picture not just of the
scene at the hockey game, but also in just a couple of lines the
boy-now-a-man
speaking with his girlfriend, looking out the window, remembering the hockey
games of his youth.
when i wrote about one of the earlier albums i mentioned that i didn't
think the whole of the album was greater than the sum of its parts. in case
you
couldn't tell, i think "The Walking" is much greater than the sum
of its parts. as i re-listened to "Bound by the Beauty" yesterday i
thought that as an album it's not as great as the sum of its parts ("la
jalouse" has never done much for me, for example). but some of those parts
are so beautiful that this was my favorite jane album for a time, and "the
life is the red wagon" is probably one of my top three jane songs, if not
my favorite.
there's much more that can be written about this album - i look forward to
your comments.