Hi Abby, Let's hope you have a wonderful time with Kindred Spirits. O Solitude! O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings; climb with me the steep, — Nature's observatory—whence the dell, Its flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a s...

"I remember when I moved in you the Holy Dove was moving too" and every breath we took (on the high plateau) ...was halleluiah ! halleluiah hal le luuuu uuu iah... ;-) 8) "Oh the world is sweet The world is wide And she's there where The light and the darkness divide And the steam's c...

Two prayers from a Cowboy "... I remember that I could not bear the pyrotechnics of human existence: how life ignited for an instant, burst in the air in a myriad of color flares, then all at once vanished. Who ignited it? Who gave it such fascination and beauty, then suddenly, pitilessly, snu...

Ha! Hi B4 Somehow Leonard's Absent Mare song analysis took me to Bowies "Space Oddity" :roll: :? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRMZ_5WYmCg Buddhism ultimately leads to what might be termed "empty space" The Hebrew Bible via Job also leads to a similar "empty space" .....

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Hi B4, thanks for entering the fray, :) Some say there are instances of exchanging adjectives, interchanging gender and introducing a singular personal possessive case pronoun in the third person ;-) Ha! Well I suppose that, that is what Unity, communion and Oneness is all about! (Playing with words...

"So he binds himself to the galloping mare ...and he leans on her neck and he whispers low Whither thou goest I will go ... I want to travel with you And I want to travel blind I think maybe I'll trust you ...for you've touched my perfect body with your mind. " ...and I sink beneath your w...

... My heart in hiding stirred for a bird, Hopkins and Leonard, like other cosmic cowboys, cowherd, ox-rider, mystic Sufi or she-Solomon-soul "make a break for the High plateau", and saunter from their loss and wounded dawns, toward another way of knowing... "... then off, off forth ...

...let's move onto and into that High Plateau... ...so it is, according to our songwriter, Leonard, possible to go...or be taken to some place beyond theory. ...we find ourselves at times lost in experience... There is a real difference between understanding something and experiencing something. Lit...

...The Clare Valley was vino-sumptuous with its rolling vineyards, productive valleys the ever-present spray of gum-trees and the River Murray's "Riverland", a few hundred kilometres away, green and lush and overflowing with grapes and other fruits... and nature walks, also with massive Gu...

...it may be the broken bridges and tall grass or longing to be lost; ...it may be about meditation practice or traditional prayer or non-theistic indulgences; but ultimately it's all about the "high plateau", no matter where you are coming from. The High Plateau ...Tomorrow, I'm going on ...

Ten Oxen can be understood, apparently, as steps in the meditation process towards stillness. "And the bridges break up In the panic of loss ...There's nowhere to go ...the night is all wrong" ...the mind is in a bad state, can't switch off, worries about life, death, meaning and every day...

The Ten Ox pictures and poems took Leonard directly to these opening lines of Solomon; Her "Tell me, you whom I love, tell me where you graze your flock..." Him "If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats by the tents of the ...

...and there are two "positions" that the seeker finds, no matter what tradition they are grown in, nurtured and exposed to, and these two positions are; 1) follow the mothers, fathers, masters and traditions and do as they advise me, or 2) break out, follow my own nose and see where it ta...

...means and meaning? Most of us already know: It is not so much what a song or a poem means; but rather that a song is a means to... and for me, it is a means to saunter through our collective search for meaning. As always, of course, you hang onto your own understanding of the song as I usually g...