There are moments when,
whatever the posture of the body,
the soul is on its knees.
— Victor Hugo, from Les Miserables, Chapter IV. A Heart beneath a Stone
Tag: soul
you just keep on using me until you use me up
No chance you won’t LOVE this.
ZERO chance.
Ay Ay Ay Ay
I want to spread the news that if it feels this good getting used
Oh you just keep on using me until you use me up
Until you use me up
Notes:
- Related Posts including Bio: Leron Zamir
- Find his other music on Youtube: Leron Zamir
It’s been a long day
Maybe poems are made of breath,
the way water, cajoled to boil,
says,
This is my soul, freed.
— Dean Young, from “Scarecrow on Fire,” Fall Higher
Notes:
- Poem: Thank you The Vale of Soul Making. Photograph: Electric Blue Polanski (via this isn’t happiness)
- Related Posts: “It’s Been a Long Day“
Sunday Morning
Today, at the sacred site of your soul, make peace with your present reflection as you go in search of the body and face you were born with and excavate the many extraordinary faces that have evolved during your many lives…
Embrace the lines that stare back, the parts that sag in the middle or stick out where you think they shouldn’t, the hair that never keeps a curl or never loses it. Invoke the Tibetan poet Saraha’s psalm of praise:
“Here in this body are the sacred rivers; here are the sun and moon as all the pilgrimage places. …I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body.”
~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, from “Our Pilgrimage Places” in Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self
Notes: Quote: Thank you Beth @ Alive on all Channels. Photo: Philippe Conquet
St. Paul & The Broken Bones
St. Paul & The Broken Bones is a six-piece soul band based out of Birmingham, Alabama, which formed in 2012.
“Paul, according to all the reviews and stuff that are written of the band, he looks like your high school history teacher, or he looks like Drew Carey,” Phillips explains. “Bottom line is that we’re a bunch of kind of nerdy-looking white guys, and when this sort of earth-shaking soul roar comes out of his mouth for the first time, you can always hear the air being sucked out of the room.” Janeway wasn’t raised to be a soul singer. He grew up in rural Alabama in a strict religious household. “I could only listen to, like, gospel Christian music,” Janeway says.” And he got most of his musical chops from church. He even trained to be a preacher. “I learned more from preaching than I did singing in church,” Janeway explains, “because you learn a little bit more about how to interact with the crowd — feeling momentum, just feeling that intensity — and it’s not a whole lot different than what we do now.”
(NPR Music: From Preacher To Grass Cutter To Earth-Shaking Soul Singer)
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Find the group’s 2016 album Sea of Noise on iTunes