I set my orange flowers in a boat and send them off to heaven.
I feel heaven raining down in drops of orange-scented love.
--Gabby Turner

This song is meant to be sung with the first line repeating 8 times, followed by 8 repetitions of the second line. That form is inspired by the singing I've been doing at the Kirtan and Meditation I go to twice a month. Devotional singing/chanting does not need variety, so much as devotion! The meaning is not lost through repetition, it is transcended, so that...
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"Let's go slow, I ain't got nowhere to go...
I'll make you love to you, like you want me to."


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Want to Be

A snake doesn't worry that it used to have that skin it shed.
I want to open... like a thousand-petaled lotus in the sun.
I want to live... and let the past roll out behind me.
I want to give... all of myself to the dark edges of eternity.

Want to Be sung by yours truly 

I write little song snippets every now and then (sometimes they graduate into full songs, usually not) and then I enjoy singing them poorly. ;)
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    When I was growing up I would spend hours with books and music in my bedroom, alone with my thoughts and my feelings. These days it seems we live not for ourselves but for our Facebook or Twitter newsfeeds. I find it difficult to feel authentic in this Jupiterian Magic Kingdom of social media technology. Neptune underlies any kind of magical interaction, but sometimes I want my magic for myself.


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    Lately I have been actively trying to draw-forth and utilize prana energy, which is available in never-ending quantities but which many if not most of us fail to fully vitalize ourselves with. Prana is the life-force energy that makes living more present and joyful. The following painting (by Scott Edward Harrington from the Google Creative Commons) is an excellent image of what living fully engaged with prana energy can be like.



    I was listening to Neil Young's Heart of Gold tonight as...
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