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Uplifting Thoughts for the Isolated and Depressed in Times of Plague
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Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Trust in One
This is my father's world
And to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings
The music of the spheres
This is my father's world
The birds their carols raise
The morning light, the lily white
Declare their maker's praise
This is my father's world
I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas
His hand the wonders wrought
This is my father's world
Oh, let me never forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong
God is the ruler yet
This is my father's world
Why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is king, let the heavens ring
God reigns, let the earth be glad
This is my father's world
He shines in all that's fair
In the rustling grass, I hear him pass
He speaks to me everywhere
In the rustling grass, I hear him pass
He speaks to me everywhere
This is my father's world
And to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings
The music of the spheres
This is my father's world
The birds their carols raise
The morning light, the lily white
Declare their maker's praise
This is my father's world
I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas
His hand the wonders wrought
This is my father's world
Oh, let me never forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong
God is the ruler yet
This is my father's world
Why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is king, let the heavens ring
God reigns, let the earth be glad
This is my father's world
He shines in all that's fair
In the rustling grass, I hear him pass
He speaks to me everywhere
In the rustling grass, I hear him pass
He speaks to me everywhere
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Uplifting, but only if you watch to the end.
View attachment The Bench.mp4
View attachment The Bench.mp4
Frank Petrexa
Tribune
They've added a juvenile category this year. I am sure "foreigners" (as are we all in these places) are welcome to vote.
This made the Wall Street Journal this week, so though there are no ads yet I'm not sure there will never be any.
A proposal to mine a rich gold/copper deposit nearby, which would surely cripple the salmon run into the park, has been blocked. I'm not sure how long that will last either, although I read that some rich conservatives who like to fish are in opposition.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
Many musical gifts that are uplifting have been posted.
Texts of poems and wise sayings have been seen.
In addition, some visual items cannot help but uplift your heart.
The colors are false and enhanced, but the glory of this phenomenon is awe-inspiring.
6,523 light-years from the earth; 5.5 light-years across; first discovered by English astronomer John Bevis in 1731 (with no help from Butthead); named by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, who observed it in 1842; a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula; the remains of a bright supernova recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054; still expanding at about 1,500 kilometers per second.
Texts of poems and wise sayings have been seen.
In addition, some visual items cannot help but uplift your heart.
The colors are false and enhanced, but the glory of this phenomenon is awe-inspiring.
6,523 light-years from the earth; 5.5 light-years across; first discovered by English astronomer John Bevis in 1731 (with no help from Butthead); named by William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, who observed it in 1842; a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula; the remains of a bright supernova recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054; still expanding at about 1,500 kilometers per second.
The Crab Nebula
Hit the enlarge button to be awed!
Hit the enlarge button to be awed!
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
A pretty girl and fine music, very uplifting. And an opportunity to see a fine picker's fingers at work - amazing!
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
One of the classics of Inspirational Poetry
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
An homage for the newly completed season. Two great covers of what is reputed to be the most covered (over 25,000 versions) song in history, the lullaby/aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based.
A classic performance by one of the greatest all-time female vocalists
A more modern version by the daughter of Ravi Shankar, the great Indian Sitarist.
A classic performance by one of the greatest all-time female vocalists
A more modern version by the daughter of Ravi Shankar, the great Indian Sitarist.
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
With Autumn coming, a song of November's cold. A sad tale, but told in a marvelous song. Telling of a routine trip on the Lakes from Wisconsin, around Michigan to Ohio. But as it says in the song:
"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early"
"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee
Superior, they say, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early"
Silent_Water
Tribune
OK, but because it is becoming a very dark autumn and there is less sunlight everywhere on the Northern hemisphere of our planet, isn't it also time to remember the beautiful "Stimmungskanonen" (= "mood cannons") of other times with more sunlight? I remember some songs which were incredible hits just because they were released in the darkest German months like late October or November, for example this following one.
As far as I remember the story behind this song, the singer is really a German who emigrated during the 1970's to Jamaica because he could not stand any more the dark and rainy months in Germany between October and March.
He had some businesses in Jamaica, a little hotel and connections to some female singers there. Finally, he had the idea to bring this own song together with them back to Germany in December 1979. It was the greatest financial success of his life and one of the most successful songs during the whole decade around this song, which sounds better in English than in German:
As far as I remember the story behind this song, the singer is really a German who emigrated during the 1970's to Jamaica because he could not stand any more the dark and rainy months in Germany between October and March.
He had some businesses in Jamaica, a little hotel and connections to some female singers there. Finally, he had the idea to bring this own song together with them back to Germany in December 1979. It was the greatest financial success of his life and one of the most successful songs during the whole decade around this song, which sounds better in English than in German:
Silent_Water
Tribune
Additionally and as far as I remember, around the time between 1978 and 1982, there were ladies' groups from the Netherlands who were famous in Germany as the greatest Dutch "Mood Cannons" when they had their performances in Germany and will I love them until I die:
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Hugin&Munin
Presenter Of Images
Oh yes, I remember all of these songs.
Silent_Water
Tribune
... and I do not really know why, but I always feel somehow much better after hearing these songs and after seeing these singers, their performance, their faces, their moves & motions, their legs ... hrm ... I should better stop now ... 
Gibbs505
SERVORUM DOMITOR
I never heard of these, damnit!
Praefectus Praetorio
R.I.P. Brother of the Quill
An uplifting love song to a place
Jackie1111
Tribune
How I love that mournful bagpipe band, marching by the sea. It can make me cry.
