This is one of my favourite songs. When I listen to it, I am singing it to all the unmothered places in myself. And I am singing it as a promise to my children whose first year was in an orphanage.
Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
*Mothering
Posted in Adoption, Music, My Life, tagged Adoption, sinead o'connor, this is to mother you on August 27, 2009 | 10 Comments »
*Done Wrong Done Right
Posted in Music, My Life, tagged Dave Carroll's guitar, United airlines breaks guitar on July 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »
About 3 years ago, when I was visiting a friend in the U.S., I was thrilled that, for the first time, there was a direct flight out there, courtesy of Air Canada and United, which had a partnership for the journey. On the way home, unfortunately my flight was cancelled and instead I was booked [...]
*Book Privilege
Posted in Literature, Music, My Life, tagged amazing grace orphanage, literacy on June 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »
People don’t read anymore–that’s the common wisdom. Except that, even in this recession, book sales are up in some places, in others down but less so than anything else.
But this is what everyone knows:
People don’t read anymore because they’re all on the internet.
And when I was a kid, people didn’t read anymore because they [...]
*School’s Out
Posted in Music, My Life, tagged 59th bridge street song, feeling groovy, TNT on June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve been busy this week and a bit under the weather, taking lots of cold f-x and napping, so I just haven’t had enough time to blog much. So in a tribute to the last day of school, here is a cover of one of Simon and Garfunkel’s funnest:
*Dreamed
Posted in Music, tagged Susan Boyle, you've got talent on April 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This is fabulous. Watch as 47 year old Susan Boyle’s voice blows away the audience.
H/T Tide Waters
*Peace Concert
Posted in Music, tagged middle-east peace on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was called Light in the Desert and so it is: Israeli and Palestinian musicians Yair Dalal, Naser Musa, and Ty Burhoeis in concert.
There is a beautiful rendition of this song here.
*When I Was A Boy
Posted in Music, tagged dar williams, folk music, gender, when i was a boy on February 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I love this song for its compassion as well as its beauty as a song. Listen right up until the end because that gives the whole song another layer of meaning.
*Lucky
Posted in Music, tagged Lucky, Melissa Etheridge on January 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Melissa Etheridge, forty-something, with magnificent pipes. She rocks! So does her band. Here’s to living shockingly.
Listen and Enjoy
Posted in First Nations, Music, tagged Claude McKenzie, Florent Vollant, Innu Town, Kashtin on January 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kashtin: The video quality is awful, but Claude McKenzie turns my crank even so. All the more because the car accident that shut down his career in 1999 didn’t stop him. He came back with an album in 2004, and I’m looking forward to the next one. I don’t get a word of Innu, but [...]
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