NB: May 15 is the eighteenth anniversary of my father’s passage into eternity. He died in the Research and Referral Military Hospital in Delhi on this day in 2007; and was given a military funeral at the Army cremation grounds. Scores of his old students, many of them senior military and service officers were present… Read More Street Cafe
Castles in the Sky: by A Flock of Seagulls I used to want to touch the sunBut it can’t be done, you can’t touch the sunI used to want to walk on the moonWhat a fool, I can not walk on the moon WhoaJust building castles in the skyWhoaYou never know until you try You… Read More Castles in the Sky
Nicest, happiest song I’ve heard in months. Even though I don’t much care for whiskey Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy) [Official Visualizer] My baby want a Birkin,she’s been tellin’ me all night longGasoline and groceries, the list goes on and onThis 9 to 5 ain’t workin’, why the hell do I work so hard?I… Read More Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Trent Dalton On 10 January 2000 I started my first job in journalism at the Brisbane News. I was 20 years old, a starry-eyed rube from suburban Bracken Ridge who didn’t even know what a flat white was. On my first day my editor had the rest of the journos join us at a cafe to welcome… Read More I thought I was too cool for love. My rock idol knew better
Sam Himself: La Paz I’ll ride into town on an old truck from JapanAcross a dead dust desert where the heat rots everythingThrough a cold sweat jungle where the leaves whisper the nameOf the first place I’ll lastI’m never gonna leave again When I go to La Paz to dieFor a while I’ll scale any… Read More La Paz
André Rieu and his orchestra and choir make people happy all over the world. Music is living proof that the human spirit is a reality. They are good people, God bless them. A happy new year to all. Pray for the children of Palestine André Rieu – Christmas Down Under (Live in Sydney) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Handel’s… Read More André Rieu – Christmas Down Under (Live in Sydney)
Pipers play Amazing Grace. Memoriam for Armistice, 1918 United Pipers for Peace, 1918-2018, was a gathering of around 400 bagpipers from across the globe to commemorate the centenary of the armistice of the First World War. In a short remembrance ceremony in Amiens Cathedral, Emma Brown sang Amazing Grace, followed by Pipe Major Tom Jamieson… Read More Amiens Cathedral (Pipers play Amazing Grace. Memoriam for Armistice, 1918)
Song by U2 The sea wants to kiss the golden shoreThe sunlight warms your skinAll the beauty that’s been lost before wants to find us again I can’t fight you any more, it’s you I’m fighting forThe sea throws rock together but time leaves us polished stones We can’t fall any further ifWe can’t feel… Read More Ordinary Love
Henri Bergson and Albert Einstein fundamentally disagreed about the nature of time and how it can be measured. Who was right? Think of a melody. Each note has its own distinct individuality while blending with the other notes and silences that come before and after. As we listen, past notes linger in the present ones,… Read More Clock time contra lived time
Why do we never get an answerWhen we’re knocking at the doorWith a thousand million questionsAbout hate and death and war? ’cause when we stop and look around usThere is nothing that we need.In a world of persecution that is burning in its greed. Why do we never get an answerWhen we’re knocking at the… Read More Question (1970)
After the truth-shower 