YOU RAISE ME UP

    The composer of this song, Rolf Lovland, from the Irish-Norwegian duo Savage Garden,  song said of this song "“there's something about the song people are embracing - which becomes emotionally strong".  What is clear is that if you see love in the lyrics, the words guide you to a deeper appreciation of how love transforms us.

           When I am down and, oh, my soul, so weary;
                When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
          Then I am still and wait here in the silence,
           Until you come and sit awhile with me.

    The singer of this song, Martin Hurkens, from Holland, lost his job as a baker and decided to go to the streets to sing for money. He had mouths to feed. The different couples who stopped to listen to him are sharing something beautiful together.
  When love reaches into your heart and you are changed by it, you feel no violence, you feel only joy.  That joy bursts forth despite our circumstance.
 Perhaps another , Dutchman said it best.
    "What is done in love, is done well. " - Vincent van Gogh

A Pair of Lovers - Vincent van Gogh

 

Monsters of the Sky

"A great flame follows a little spark."   

  ~Dante Alighieri (from the book "The Divine Comedy" )

  Some people call the piercing storms with thunder and lightning "The Monsters of the Sky".
That sudden spark of light lights up the sky. It can be terrifying or beautiful depending on your perspective, age and understanding. We are more vulnerable during a thunderstorm and we must take cover for protection and safety.
    But from a little spark, the lightning of love can brighten our paths. We take shelter in each other. The sounds of thunder are intense heartbeats and the lightning is a wave of energy that brighten the sky like a haunting flame.

Love is a great power and illuminates our lives in the same way that lightning does. It is a majestic or divine source of energy. When it is the right kind of love, "there exists no other truth".  Like the thunder, we are tossed about by our passions.
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You and I Have Learned

   The actor Leonard Nimoy was also a poet. In this poem, read beautifully and with  great compassion, by Seth Hunter Perkins, Nimoy is also a teacher. He wants to share the miracle of his love with us.
   He says simply, "If you want to love, learn the love song."
   This love song he describes is "ageless" and his lesson on loving is composed of sharing and giving.
     We are here on this earth to experience many thing and share many things. Love is a strong part of  our experience.
     Find your love song, learn to sing it, and be grateful. If you learn to "sing it well", tell others about it. Pass that feeling on to others. Our learning, like our love, never ends.
 

Losing My Mind

How do you know when you love somebody? It certainly seems composer Stephen Sondheim has answered that question when he wrote the song Losing My Mind for his Broadway musical Follies.

  "The sun comes up,

   I think about you.

  The coffee cup, 

  I think about you..."

  

    When  you are in  love, you think of that other person constantly. You feel their presence everywhere. You find them in the dazzling starlight, in the shape of the shadows at twilight, and in the early morning sunlight.

   I like when Barbara Cook says "I think I sing it better now, then I did in 1985."

When love comes to your mind, does it bring sleepless nights?

  

                                                                   Stephen Sondheim Interview