in deep earthern black heart
purr sweet note in the silence

23x33 Charocal

My Body is a Cage ~ Arcade Fire/ Peter Gabriel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeFezGJF7mA&feature=related

Somerset ~ Glastonbury & Compton Dundon

Loving the Two Halves

Usually, without growth being forced on us, few of us go willingly on
the spiritual journey. Why would we? The rug has to be pulled out from
beneath our game, so we redefine what balance really is. We eventually
get a feel for true balance when we fall and rise a number of times.

More than anything else, this falling/rising cycle is what moves us into
the second half of our own lives. All falling, no growth! Always on top,
no growth! There is a "necessary suffering" to human life, and if we
avoid its cycles we remain immature forever. It can take the form of
failed relationships, facing our own shadow self, conflicts and
contradictions, disappointments, moral lapses, depression in any number
of forms. All of these have the potential to edge us forward in life, or
dig in our heels even deeper, producing narcissistic and adolescent
responses that everybody can see except ourselves. We either "fall
upward," or we just keep falling.
(Fr. Richard - Loving the two halves of life)

***

Peter Gabriel ~ Downside Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2TZyYkohxk

I looked up at the tallest building
Felt it falling down
I could feel my balance shifting
Everything was moving around
These streets so fixed and solid
A shimmering haze
And everything that I relied on disappeared

Downside up, upside down
Take my weight from the ground
Falling deep in the sky
Slipping into the unknown
All the strangers look like family
All the family looks so strange
The only constant I am sure of
Is this accelerating rate of change

Downside up, upside down
Take my weight off the ground
Falling deep in the sky
Slipping into the unknown

I stand here
Watch you spinning
Until I am drawn in
A centripetal force
You pull me in

Pull me in
Pull me in
Pull me in
Pull me in
Pull me in

ovo ovo ovo
ovo ovo ovo
ovo ovo ovo

ovo ovo ovo
ovo ovo ovo
ovo ovo ovo

Downside up
Upside down
Take my weight off the ground
Falling deep in the sky
Slipping into the unknown
***

Make Tomorrow ~ Peter Gabriel. OVO.

"....Look at tomorrow today.
Make tomorrow today.
When it seems hopeless.
Make tomorrow today.
Where the sacred meet the scared.
Where the dreamers dream is dared.
In each one of us.
A dream can burn like the sun.
Lets try it all one more time.
To get this lesson learnt.
Make tomorrow today..."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdA_V_HYdCI&NR=1