Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...I find to be endlessly fascinating, brilliant and sublime beyond compare. For me, it reflects the power of the human spirit, and it fills me with joy and hope! Thank you for the reminder, Lisa! I am listening as I write :D. Maybe the best concert I ever attended was Bee...

Streamed live yesterday, Andrea Bocelli - Music For Hope from Milan Cathedral:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huTUOek4LgU

Bev, your having caused me to alight here had me pick up The Flame again...I had missed some gems:-O The book melded very well with Easter Sunday's online concerts from both Andrea Bocelli and Tom Russell...as LC is kind of a folk mystic isn't he - both earthen and ethereal. Grazie mille to you, Mat...

That's very sad to hear. Linda seemed to have her pulse on every LC-related video out there. I will remember her for how we enthused together about the Crossroads Guitar Festivals. Safe flight.

Nice idea, Bev. I hope everyone in LC world is well.
And thanks for keeping the embers going:-)

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Hi folks. If you happen to be at home over the weekend, check out (LC fan) Jack Kornfield's recent live-recorded zoom talk/guided meditation for this coronavirus time:

https://jackkornfield.com/april-3-tricycle-magazine/

Dear Phil and Jean, everybody knows how much thought and sweat you put into this fantastic weekend.

Thank you both (and your support team) so very much!!!

By the way, there is a forthcoming album of snippets from a decade of Walking Weekends. It is called Thanks for the Prance .

It was a nice surprise to hear Leonard Cohen mentioned at the end of this clip of
Advaita Vedanta/non-dual teacher Rupert Spira, talking here about love and the resolution of longing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAdaqLy ... e=youtu.be

.. Beannacht: A Blessing for the New Year , by John O'Donohue On the day when The weight deadens On your shoulders And you stumble, May the clay dance To balance you. And when your eyes Freeze behind The grey window And the ghost of loss Gets in to you, May a flock of colours, Indigo, red, green, A...

Jean, really nice to bump into you again. Lizzy, the coffee spoons thing was just a TS Eliot quote. Mat, happy travels... Diane...it sounds like a load of bull to me...:) That's pretty much what Ramesh Balsekar said to Leonard! And now I can't help wondering what nonsense I have wasted pixels on, fo...

Hi Lizzy! Long time no see, hope you are well. Merry Christmas to you x.

Regretfully, I finished this memoir by Eric Lerner today. The depth, honesty, caring and sheer pricelessness of the friendship between Eric and Leonard - until the very last minutes of Leonard's life - is so very beautifully revealed by Mr Lerner. I don't usually care for lots of biographical inform...

Tony, Bev, Karren, Kush and all other 'other music' visitors, thank you and Merry Christmas!

Another Tom Russell, a live clip of The Light Beyond the Coyote Fence (which narrowly defeats The Last Time I saw Hank as my most played from Folk Hotel):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tedh6QVinY

Any plans to take this performance beyond the shores of Ireland, Mr Poppy?

Thank you Jarkko and Eija. May you, and Everyone in Cohen land have a happy and peaceful holiday period X