galianomama said:mind you, i had a very sheltered life, even though i thought i was tip toeing around neat stuff, it was never as exciting as anyone elses. good story there girl.
galianomama said:Hi jillvyn - no i have never read any of his books....are they good?
"What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. He rides the drifts like an escaped ski. His course is the caress of the hill. His track is a drawing of the snow in a moment of its particular arrangement with wind and rock. Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love."
peapod said:Dam rev, you got good taste in music..I bet you can earth dance to 8) Tom waits....rain dog 8) right after the revolution starts here :lol:
Jillyvn said:I am a huge HUGE huge Leonard fan, so I was very excited to see this thread.
Have any of you read his books?
Sabine said:Jillyvn said:I am a huge HUGE huge Leonard fan, so I was very excited to see this thread.
Have any of you read his books?
Hello Jillyvn, I am a HUGE fan of Leaonard Cohen 8) to . Yes I have read some of his books. Beautiful Losers, The Favourite Game, Stranger Music, and some parts of The Spice Box of Earth and The Energy of slaves, so far. I have to read them some day.
Do you have a favorite song (and/or songS)?
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You must know about Dear Heather, the album to come on October 26.
Au revoir take care,
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