“
Rave on John Donne, rave on thy holy fool
Down through the weeks of ages
In the moss borne dark dank pools
Rave on, down through the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
Rave on down through time and space down through the corridors
Rave on words on printed page
Rave on, you left us infinity
And well pressed pages torn to fade
Drive on with wild abandon
Uptempo, frenzied heels
Rave on, Walt Whitman, nose down in wet grass
Rave on fill the senses
On nature’s bright green shady path
Rave on Omar Khayyam, Rave on Kahlil Gibran
Oh, what sweet wine we drinketh
The celebration will be held
We will partake the wine and break the holy bread
Rave on let a man come out of Ireland
Rave on on Mr. Yeats,
Rave on down through the Holy Rosey Cross
Rave on down through theosophy, and the Golden Dawn
Rave on through the writing of “A Vision”
Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on, Rave on
Rave on John Donne, rave on thy Holy fool
Down through the weeks of ages
In the moss borne dark dank pools
Rave on, down though the industrial revolution
Empiricism, atomic and nuclear age
[live version, which is much better, is extended]
”
van morrison, rave on john donne/rave on part two [live]
permanently on my short list of favorite songs, unfortunately the song is too long to share here
(via nondimenticar)
rdb36663 (via athensview.com)
May we all be so blessed to sing along with The Band.
“
The bad news is, your choices and intentions, some people and places, those nights spent awake and all you’ve done, can lead you to the bottom of the pit.
The good news is, this wouldn’t be the first time someone’s crawled, tooth and nail, out of hell.
”
via: i wrote this for you (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“ The house lights go off and the footlights come on. Even the chattiest stop chattering as they wait in darkness for the curtain to rise. In the orchestra pit, the violin bows are poised. The conductor has raised his baton. In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is far off in the deeps of it somewhere a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You walk up the steps to the front door. The empty windows at either side of it tell you nothing, or almost nothing. For a second you catch a whiff of some fragrance that reminds you of a place you’ve never been and a time you have no words for. You are aware of the beating of your heart…The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.” — Frederick Buechner ”
(via shayner)
Maryilynne Robinson, on "Home"
sometimesagreatnotion:
Marilynne Robinson: I think that the real emotional content of lives tends to be negotiated in terms of small gestures, little courtesies towards one another, little provisions for one another’s comfort, and that whether we’re conscious of these things or not we read them continuously as a sort of…we see them as the fabric of our lives with others, and I think that a great deal of generosity and care and love and so on are communicated in what we would call prosaic gestures, and that’s just lovely to me. It’s a great part of my imagination of the character, really.
Ramona Koval: Because they’re just living their human lives.
Marilynne Robinson: Yes, they are, and they’re also…I mean, if you know someone well and you know what will make them laugh or what kind of food they prefer or what casual meaningless sort of memory you have in common with them, I think that that is as close to a bond of intimacy as you have in the world, and that you can nuance it, you can convey a great deal through it when there is mutual affection, when there is mutual familiarity. And basically I think that’s what the cultures of families and so on consists of. I think it’s very artful really.
La Vierge en cage (The Encaged Virgin) (via gilderic)
Wall of desires :) (via Tanya.K.)
House of the Virgin Mary. Ephesus, Turkey.
Advent. Fully. All together now
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