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Uncomfortably numb ~ David Gilmour and I can’t put our finger on it

Written by Patrick on August 21, 2011 - 1 Comment
Categories: Music, Pop, Progressive Rock, Rock, Stories

I’m going to tell you a story about someone who became a part of my life in a way few other people ever experience. Well, I wonder about that. I wonder how many other people go about their day-to-day lives only vaguely aware that there’s something unusual going on in their life, but just can’t [...]

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Matches and the eternal sunshine of the spotless soul ~ Lawrence of Arabia

Written by Patrick on July 28, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: Insight, Movies, Narrative

Metaphor. I love metaphor. Matches. I just posted one about matches. Matches and pain. This one isn’t about pain. Not at all. It’s about perfection. This one is about the fire that burns inside each of us. Well, maybe there’s a little pain. It’s the pain you feel in your eyes as the sun rises [...]

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Paul Simon ~ slip slidin’ my way from the blues to the rainbow’s loving hues

Written by Patrick on June 12, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: Blues, Insight, Music

A day of sunshine and warm summery breezes, moving conversation and revealed transformations, a day of intimacy and worries unburdened, of gratitude and the most difficult of life’s moments shared… A day not so much impervious to the hardships, the horrors, the blues, but one that finds itself on the other side of them, finds the lessons [...]

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Jason Bourne and identity — who am I?

Written by Patrick on May 30, 2010 - 0 Comments
Categories: Action, Books, Fiction, Insight, Literary, Movies, Spy

Who are you? Are you the sum of your experiences, your actions, your memories? Are you your dreams, your plans, your aspirations, the person you’ll someday become? Are you your past, or your destiny or your present? The best films in any genre are always the ones that touch on essential human questions. What is [...]

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Cycling Mantras ~ Establishing Desert Rhythms

Written by Patrick on April 24, 2010 - 2 Comments
Categories: Jazz, Music, Pop, Rock, Stories

Bicycling is among my passions, one of the ways I connect to the world, my body, my being. The rhythm of riding, the cyclical nature of cycling, of spinning the crank arms, to spin a cogset, to spin the chain, so that the wheels spin. Round and round and round in a circle game…the movement [...]

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I know why you’re crying ~ Orbison & lang know why too

Written by Patrick on April 22, 2010 - 2 Comments
Categories: Music, Rock, Stories

Sometimes the words bring a song to mind. This poem was in my thoughts this morning and as the words of it washed over me a melody rose out of words. And out of a melody rose k.d. lang’s wail, Crying. Roy Orbison wrote about a cry arising from reasons much different than those I [...]

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