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Post by mika on Jun 19, 2012 19:25:46 GMT -5
Who is handing out the libations here...I need a rusty nail!! :-)....I have been pontificating away on the dark thread and I need to chill out in this beautiful moon garden. Lynn....I love your comparison to analyzing a book..you have a great way of explaining things. ..that is not so utterly different from my feeble attempt to differentiate between being critical and doing critical thinking/analysis. I think you should go back there and clean up my mess before I get banned to Bedlam.... Mszue, based on my own experience trying to get across pts about critical analysis (esp re:substituting opinion in the absence of sufficient and/or key data) - well, girl, let's just say I think you're a braveheart, but have a couple or three drinks and put your feet up.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2012 19:30:41 GMT -5
Aw, jeez, poor old "Re: 5.22.2012." I can't bear to watch anymore. Alex, I loved your post about wanting to know everything about Adam. I was reading just now and came across a description of a man and it reminded me so much of Adam: "The edges of his emotions were as sensitive as the antennae of an insect." Were you the one who was wondering the other day what books Adam really reads? I do too. I was listening to Nirvana: watch the mystic and cryptic unfold and thought ... with all due respect to The Hunger Games, this guy isn't ingesting a steady diet of adventure stories for 13-year-olds. mirages, thank you for bringing over the video of Tony Bennett and kd lang. I love both of them so much and together they are magical. Years ago Bennett recorded a song called The Right to Love about interracial marriage. I don't know how to embed it but you can listen to it here: www.myspace.com/tonybennett/music/songs/the-right-to-love-28641880The lyrics would also apply to gay marriage. I would love it so much if Adam could sing this song with Bennett; imagine the statement that would make. Or sing it with kd, that would be so touching. mszue: Here is my offering for now. Someone sent me this enthrallling video earlier today. It really brought perspective into my life at work or when I was checking in with this place ... at 11 minutes, it looks long, but keep it open and watch it a minute or two at a time when you need a break from other stuff ... I think it might be even better that way.
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Post by mszue on Jun 19, 2012 19:51:34 GMT -5
Oh mika, junie...et al....I literally feel my bp drop a little when I enter this thread....whew. Thanks...I needed that.. I am going to put this vid you posted on, my feet up and let the rhythm wash over me...I am making assumptions that there is rhythm to wash over me now....hmmm :-)
ps I would so love to hear Rufus and kd sing some Cohen. That could be bliss....not that Rufus is much of a singer but he has intellect and soul and audacity. gotta love that....
eta again....just watched kd do birds on a wire....if I could be gay I would have such a massive crush on kd....phenomenal....I have tears
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2012 19:55:24 GMT -5
The Moon Garden...awwww...thanks, Junie, for the invite! Lookie who all are posting here! YAY! I'm a bit confused, tho. If the Moon Garden is for all posts about Adam, is there a need for the 'Dark Side'? My honest observation is that altho I am reading some posts in lurkdom, the more threads we create, the more fracturing of Atop as a whole occurs. Nobody knows where to go anymore it seems..(you could interpret that in a number of ways, of course ;D). Maybe it because I am reading 'The Hunger Games' trilogy right now..is this District 13? The Dark Side..the Capitol? Is Atop the Arena? This vibe of a Moon Garden with the lull yet potency of the moon attracts me very much. Please help enlighten me because I am not complaining. I am very much confused about the intent of this thread if the 'Dark Side' also continues on. Thanks Jamie and Junie!! Hi to everyone! Been a long time since posting last. Appreciate anyone illuminating this poor wanderer.. ETA: obviously not reading everything thoroughly. Dark side: criticism? Moon Garden: critical analysis? So, one's a bitchfest and the other a place for contemplative idea exchange? Am I getting closer? If so, might I suggest making this clear on the welcoming mat? If the two threads are desired, they should have clear and separate intents JMO.. LOVE this thread.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2012 20:42:16 GMT -5
vivlite, I pm'd you.
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Post by mmmgoodcracker on Jun 19, 2012 22:25:06 GMT -5
The light needs the night to rejuvenate, to evaluate, to process the fast paced inundation of information of the day. One needs the other to define itself. Part of me thinks it is ironic that we stan a man who believes that everyone should dance together, but for some reason the contemplative are deemed too dark to integrate with the light.
Hogwash!!!
My life has been way too busy lately. (My son had a destination wedding on June 9th and my gift was sewing a quilt for the first time which I finished on June 4th! My other son just moved into his first apartment.)
But....when I started to spend more time at ATOP again, I found the news thread too....newsy! I missed the differing opinions and the thoughtfulness. It didn't feel balanced anymore. So, I ninja'd Mika. I hadn't read any posts of his for a while and I missed him. So I followed him back and started reading his last 5 posts which led me to 5/22 - the thread that forbodingly and forbiddenly asked me if I really wanted to be in the dark! I spent all day yesterday reveling in the thoughtfulness and introspection. You shared part of yourselves when you responded and I loved the relaxed pace and acceptance.
Ironically, I got excited about a thread that was moving, but I found you and I hope you don't mind if I hang out on the pillows and enjoy the garden from time to time.
Thanks to all who are here for making this a great place to be.
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Post by mahailia on Jun 19, 2012 22:45:28 GMT -5
Hi Guys!
Alison invited me here, and I see some of my fave peeps already here, YAY!!!!!
I told Alison, I am getting ready to leave for a 1 week vacay, then will have company when I get back for another week, but I definitely want to chime in here. Will have to go back to the dark side to see how this evolved, but I like Viv's idea of "critical analysis" Adam makes me wonder about all kinds of things, so this will be a great place to explore. Thanks again, and could somebody shout out to anjalee? Think she would love it here. I will be back when I can...........
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2012 23:12:26 GMT -5
Welcome mmmgoodcracker. Your screen name makes me so happy. My dad had a red sweatshirt that said MMM MMM Good that he wore until it was just a disgraceful rag because he loved it so much. Good memories. :D Great idea, mahailia,, I will shout out to anjalee tomorrow! And I will be seeing you soon ... yay! Also, it has been suggested by a couple of peeps in pm's to add a little more definition to the welcome mat statement, so I will work on that a little more tomorrow and see what y'all think. nighty-night
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Post by annala on Jun 20, 2012 1:13:28 GMT -5
The place is indeed lovely by day, too (though still not nearly enough tassels), but I'm still stuck on the moon ... Leaving this video to thank those of you who brought k.d. Lang back to my attention recently. Sublime voice, Adam calibre. I have her first album on cassette, A Truly Western Experience ... She hails from close to where I live now and had the courage to be a very vocal vegetarian in the heart of cattle country early in her career. Lately her activism has been about Tibet and tied to her own Buddhism ... Thanks to you, I started checking out her recent interviews and there's a lovely one in Australia recently where she talks about the reality of darkness, of suffering, but then says that that is really just the surface ... That below that is something else at the heart of reality, something very good. This is my own experience, too, though I can get distracted by the very real angst-inducing stuff ... But if you can make yourself sit still and be quiet with it, you sort of fall through it into something that feels like love, and the heart responds with joy and wonder. I am glad we have this moon garden to fall into. I hope anyone who wants to, comes ... I was sad to see people posting on our previous thread about not feeling deep enough because that was never the point, there was no depth test for admission and if there were I'd be dog paddling home myself. I think we all just come bearing whatever gifts are in our hands and hearts. Mine tend to be pretty geeky, and I appreciate finding a place to put them because they always kind of clunked in the main thread, and for good reason, probably. Anyway ... Change is always unsettling, so I hope the Moonglow is soothing while we wait for the dust to settle. All the goodness is still here, all over this forum and in that force of nature named Adam who called us together out of the world and sends us back into it, too, better. Let's abide a bit and have patience with one another. Thanks Mirages for bringing over this sublime rendition of Moonglow with Tony Bennet and kd lang (two of my all-time favorites). In relating to Adam, Tony Bennett has had an up and down career nearly losing out during the heady days of the rock n roll era when he was not considered cool any more. But he has come back on his own terms, and in my mind there is no one more cool than Tony Bennett - love his recent collaborations. Now there's a guy who has shown longivity and perservance by staying true to himself in spite of the odds in the fickle world of public taste and the music industry. And kd lange - She and Adam are with the same management company. I do so hope that at some time there will be a collaboration with these two major talents. Both have such clear singing voices, and I think they could blend well. Final note of the day in this Moon Journal - my avi - I picked a luna moth as my avi because I am a nature lover and wanted some kind of tie-in with Adam, and I remember seeing a video and pictures of Adam at the Ste Agathe concert in Quebec last summer (July 2010) when this exquisite ephemeral little creature floated up to Adam's shoulder for a brief second.
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Post by jamie on Jun 20, 2012 1:14:46 GMT -5
The problem with you guys is that there are so many posts I want to play around with and add my 2 cents to that I end up responding to nothing LOL, even at this slow pace it's too fast for me. From the start... Glittergma I love the story about your parents' song and your love of the moon. The only tattoo I ever considered was i little full blue moon but I chickened out. I always felt like it was the holder of secrets. Then mirages always gets me thinking....kd lang her voice And the list goes on. So good to see everyone! I feel a little silly being thanked and asked what my intentions are for this thread. I'm sort of an accidental thread starter who didn't really think things through. I just wanted a place for the people who used to post on the dark thread until people actually started needing it for it's original intention. I was just testing it out and threw in a moon picture and Junie was on it LOL, thank you Junie for bringing all these beautiful people here . I think the concern about fracturing the community is valid and I really didn't expect it to be noticed on such a large scale or at all. If it doesn't feel right please don't feel bad if it ends up being not a good idea or fades away to a post every once in a blue moon. I went back to the start of that thread to get an idea of how it became what it did and it was Mika who started if off as a sort of dark-side flipped on it's head but many of those first posts are gone now (including the one with Yeats and the Adam as shaman picture :-[) so it might not make sense now for those that didn't find it in the beginning. I do miss the illicit feeling of the somewhat forbidden, largely unnoticed vibe it had. Unlike Adam I was a kid who liked to literally trespass, sneak out and generally get away with doing things I shouldn't....but with a smile ;D So I'm not big on rules and if I'm supposed to set any guidelines or tone for the place, I'm going to make Mika angry and say that he's really the spiritual starter of this thread along with everyone else who jumped in and joins the fun/deep/not deep/sad/happy/safe/frustrated/cozy/laide-back thing it became and abdicate any of those unwritten responsibilities to him Sorry mika :-/ I'm a bad and lazy thread starter. I'm mainly a lurker and as much as I love reading what you all write, my ability to respond is sporadic. But I'll be here in spirit as long as it's here and jump in when I can.
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