high desert

I’ll show you a place / High on a desert plain / Where the streets have no name ~ Photo courtesy of Serena Kali Devi at Aum Love

way home

Come down off your throne and leave your body alone / Somebody must change / You are the reason I've been waiting so long / Somebody holds the key / Well I'm near the end and I just thank God for time / And I'm wasted and I can't find my way home          ~   Blind Faith

Tree of life

Down down cut me down so I can lie on familiar ground / I've witnessed all that you ignore / and I don't wanna see it no more / Hold on steady and plunge it deep / I’m more than ready for the secrets I keep / Think you sit upon my grave but I'll be here / when your children rule the day    ~ KT Tunstall

Out of my face

Now wait a minute stranger / I'm not sure I like your angle / My manner is a matter of taste / So I gotta go, whoa / get out of my face      ~ Lissie

Juliette

Want to get it all behind me / you know everything reminds me / I can be myself without you / whenever I set out running / Past the city houses / And the ditches on the highway / Under the bridges in valleys / Out on the open prairie / ’Cause I just can't shake this feeling / That I’m nothing in your eyes   ~  Neko Case

God's country

Desert rose / I saw a desert rose / beneath a desert sky / where rivers run / but soon run dry / sleep comes like a drug / in God's Country / glad eyes crooked poses / in God's Country

St Vincent

well, we know where we’re going / but we don’t know where we’ve been / and we know what we're knowing / but we can’t say what we’ve seen / we’re on a road to nowhere / come on inside / taking that ride to nowhere / we'll take that ride (lyrics by Talking Heads)

better times

Better times collide with now / moving faster than the speed of gravity / faster than you and me / and better times / are coming still      ~  Neko Case

Departure

    Be it sight, sound, smell, or touch 
    Something inside retains so much
    The sight of a touch or the scent of a sound
    Or the strength of an oak with roots deep in the ground
    The wonder of flowers to be covered and then burst up
    Through tarmac to the sun again
    Or to fly to the sun without burning a wing
    To lie in a meadow and hear the grass sing
    To have all these things in our memory stored
    And we use them to help us ..

    Moody Blues

Take my pulse

I tremble   /  They’re gonna’ eat me alive   /  If I stumble   /  They’re gonna eat me alive   /  My heart keeps beating like a hammer  /  Beating like a hammer  /  And why shouldn’t it  /  Gotta’ get where I'm going  /  Get whatever I need   /   While my blood’s still flowing   /  And my heart’s still  /  Beating like a hammer   ~~> Metric

 

Butterfly beach

Take me disappearing through the smoke rings of my mind / Down the foggy ruins of time / far past the frozen leaves / far from the twisted reach / through the haunted, frightened trees / out to the windy beach /  With all memory and fate / driven deep beneath the waves /  Let me forget about today until tomorrow ~ Bob Dylan

 

Butterfly Beach, Santa Barbara, California

Sensory integration

This garden universe vibrates complete. Some we get a sound so sweet. Vibrations reach on up to become light, and then thru gamma, out of sight. Between the eyes and ears there lay, the sounds of color and the light of a sigh   [ cont.. ]

A reoccurring thing

Sometimes I get discouraged
Sometimes I feel so down
Sometimes I get so worried
But I don't know what about
But it works out in the long run
Always goes away
And I've come now to accept it
It's a reoccurring thing

          Century City by Tom Petty