There and Back Again

Pondering: Beauty and sadness always go together.Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth upon the earth without a meet alloy. (George MacDonald)
Some pictures or images invoke a feeling of sadness and happiness. These ones I found while perusing Google Images brings a melancholy for moments that happened before my time.

The Kennedys

Charlie Chaplin

The Beatles

Brian [...]

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Pondering: It’s all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back. (Mick Jagger)
I saw this question at some random website, can’t remember anymore which one: if you were a songwriter, what songs do you wish you composed? If I were a songwriter, these are the songs I wish I wrote [...]

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Pondering: Sailing on summer breeze and skipping over the ocean like a stone. (Harry Nilson, Everybody’s Talking)

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Pondering: Gravity release me and don’t ever hold me down, now my feet won’t touch the ground. (Coldplay)
Coldplay video at its best. Most hilarious!

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Pondering: Now the sky could be blue, I don’t mind, without you it’s a waste of time. ‘Could be blue, could be grey, without you I’m just miles away. (Coldplay, Strawberry Swing)
Well what can I say? I guess I’m what you’d call a die-hard Coldplay fan and so of course, I have to [...]

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Pondering: Facing a mirror you see merely your own countenance; facing your child you finally understand how everyone else has seen you. (Daniel Raeburn)
One of the greatest songs ever written IMHO, and a great cover by one of my favorite bands of all time - Keane. (Sing it, Richard Hughes!)

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Pondering: Aging is not ‘lost youth’ but a new stage of opportunity and strength. (Betty Friedan)
I am trying to get into the new Coldplay CD which I have been so excitied about for the past few weeks and it’s taking awhile. There are definitely songs that I instantly fell in love with - Lost [...]

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Pondering: I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. (Herb Caen)
Coldplay performed for the first time, in a long time, at the MTV Movie Awards tonight. Let me just say, I CAN’T WAIT for the new CD and I can’t wait for the tour to reach our shores. [...]

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Pondering: When people meet me I think they’re surprised to find out I’m not always angst-ridden. (Martin L. Gore)
This one just cracked me up. Isn’t this just adorable?

Truly a replica of Martin L. Gore’s looks circa Playing the Angel tour in 2006. This gal created this and posted more pics in [...]

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Pondering: You make me feel alive, alive, alive! (Duran Duran)
Good golly, Miss Molly! Went to see Duran Duran’s concert last night and I have to say, I have a bit of a crush on John Taylor now. My sister Myra spent her young adolescent years swooning over this man - and this [...]

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