a Song (Lyric) — There’s Love — compassionate, altruistic, and understanding; and then there’s love — procreative: the Chase. I read somewhere that the average normal American male between eighteen and thirty-five years old one way or another thinks about sex once or twice a minute; as in sixty seconds. I can’t find the…

Lust vs. Love — No matter what you might think love is a poor substitute for freedom Yes, undeniably, love as we know it can be wonderful. I’m not contesting that. This walking-on-clouds, sleepless bliss. The world finally making sense. Yet, so fragile. Turn it over after a while and it might have a…

How the Spirit Knows —

Beautiful Memories — I was eighteen this summer, the famed Summer of Love. I did a lot of hitchhiking in those days — it was relatively safe then, and drivers were not so weary about picking up strangers and offering them a ride. The song has a very specific and clear seed. Strangely…

Its True Meaning — The word “diet” (from Greek diaita, “course of life”) needs to reclaim its original sense of being what a person or animal usually eats and drinks to sustain life, a daily fare. Rather, these days the word has taken on the meaning of a special or limited selection of foods…

a Song Lyric — Stephen Let me confess, this song was directly inspired by Cordelia’s Dad’s The Frozen Girl; I just loved the long, story-telling ballad, so reminiscent of the Swedish Skillingtryck (things that cost a shilling to print/buy — a broadsheet ballad) which my dad loved and which I used to sing as…

a Song Lyric — Sleep, when you stop to think about it, I mean really stop, and really think about it, is one of the strangest phenomena around. Really, what is it good for? Rest? You can rest sitting down reading a book. Recharging batteries? I can think of many things that are better…

a Song Lyric — Phantoms At times, growing up, I felt — almost knew — that behind love (and here I’m talking about infatuation or sexual attraction/compulsion) there was nothing. Just shadows. All my reason has fled me left I stand with one single hope in hand Hearts and lovers have led me darkly and I wish…

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