The Coming Rains

i've had a bit of an infatuation with this tune for ... i don't know ... a year? i get particularly pensive over the line,

"In my heart I hold your photograph
and the thought of you comes on like the feel
of the coming rains..."

the song has an earthy, non-North American feel that i've become more comfortable with as i've aged and a romantic texture that captivates me with,

"If I had wings like those there'd be no waiting
I'd come panting to your door,
slide like smoke into your room"



All day the mountains rose behind
the veil of smoke from burning fields
And road dust dyeing black skin bronze
and the road rolling like a rough sea
It's quiet now, just crickets and
a dog fight somewhere in the far away
In my heart I hold your photograph
and the thought of you comes on like the feel
of the coming rains...
Hot breeze ran its fingers through
the long grass of the thatched roof eave
They stuck me in the only chair
while they cooked casaba and a luckless hen
They asked for one well, three lanterns and
200 litres of fuel and I said,"Who, me?"
And the time for planting's coming soon
and the thought of you comes on like the feel
of the coming rains
In the town neon flickers in the ruins
Seven crows swoop past a luscious moon
If I had wings like those there'd be no waiting
I'd come panting to your door,
slide like smoke into your room
All day the mountains rose behind
the veil of smoke from burning fields
And road dust dyeing black skin bronze
and the road rolling like a rough sea
It's quiet now, just crickets and
a dog fight somewhere in the far away
In my heart I hold your photograph
and the thought of you comes on like the feel
of the coming rains
And the time for planting's coming soon
and the thought of you comes on like the feel
of the coming rains

who plays you in the movie of your life?

i'm not saying it'd be a terribly "interesting" movie, or maybe it would but i'd like to know who you figure would get to play you in the movie of your life?



i'd like to think that George Clooney would get the role of me but maybe that's just the full of himself me that thinks he's better looking than the rest of you may think he is. naw, i really am that good looking. i love me.



with my luck it'd end up being French Stuart who got the role of me.



i suppose a happy medium that i could live with might be Ed Norton ... in a couple years when he's more grey. Norton's just way cool by the way, not sure he's dweeby enough to play me but i'm sure he'd enjoy the acting challenge that i'd pose for him.

what say you? who would you want to play you? who are you likely to get instead and then who's your compromise choice?

hee hee

excellent advice

via 22 words

i've got to admit that i HATE it when someone i don't know refers to me as bro or bud or anything outside the not-even-acquaintance relationship that we have, particularly if they're just trying to "play" me for a favour. it's just better to treat me with more respect off the top so that i can discover if we'll ever be "bro's".

Peace

peace is not the absence of war, that's just a truce. if you want true peace you have address the underlying issues that started the fighting in the first place.

- Ian Fergusson

that's right, i just linked myself.

i consider myself to be relatively peaceful. in truth though, i'm not very peaceful at all because i don't often find the courage and fortitude to do the heavy lifting involved in crafting peace in my relationships.

i live in truce.

i need peace.

peace requires a self awareness that is too often beyond me. sometimes i find the fortitude for finding peace but it's always sweat or tear provoking as well as rewarding.

God, let me find the strength to go beyond relationships of truce. let me dig deeper and address those issues that create growth in me so that i can in turn craft peace.

i want to be better. i want to be healed.

i want peace.