3 posts tagged “loving”
A long long time ago I gleaned that my old father had a problem with people celebrating his birthday. From my young and limited perspective I formed the erroneous belief that 'men' in general, did not appreciate having their birthdays create a stir (what my father would call 'making a fuss' or 'a waste o' money').I know better these days, including that their was something much more profound going on in my dear Sire. Nevertheless, the vestiges of this early training remain, such that I have noticed it is often far more easy for me to apply whimsical imagineering to the birthdays of my female friends and sisters then for most of the men in my sphere.
For 19 years.. James has been my brother-in-law and I have never registered his birthday day. This year though, something about it seeped into me and this is what was born..
So to dear James let me say; I have cherished you along with your dear wife from the day I first met you. I fully celebrate the rich character that you are, the husband and father I saw when first I fell in love with your wife's brother, and the light in your eyes that plays through all the years of our changes and maturing. May you look back from the 2020s and be deeply deeply satisfied with the Summer to Autumn of our Lives
Happy Birthday James!
May the Long Time Sun Shine Upon You
All Love Surround You
And the Pure Light Within You
Guide Your Way On
And Now (if he had let me embed it I would have but you have to go there!)...
I Give You: Dance Me To The End of Love:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIdZ-rRnUkg&feature=related
{With special thanks to my sister Maggi who sent me the YouTube video in the first place, which succinctly coalesced my James' birthday celebrating thoughts into this!).
Lyrics (for everyone who has ever been afraid, for everyone whose Love has grown..):
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violinDance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Oh let me see your beauty when the witnesses are gone
Let me feel you moving like they do in Babylon
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the wedding now, dance me on and on
Dance me very tenderly and dance me very long
We're both of us beneath our love, we're both of us above
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the children who are asking to be born
Dance me through the curtains that our kisses have outworn
Raise a tent of shelter now, though every thread is torn
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin
Dance me through the panic till I'm gathered safely in
Touch me with your naked hand or touch me with your glove
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
Dance me to the end of love
(Leonard Cohen if you didn't know!)
I do heartily encourage you to check out this blog posting which has everything to do with reclaiming life in all its rich vibrancy. I am filled with gratitude when anyone amongst us utters forth the words that are in their heart of hearts to Speak. Thus do we have the power to shape destinies...
