…with the Couch Choir!
I submitted two parts for this, so I’m assuming they’re both in there. There’s even a quick glimpse of me at about 1.05 minutes 🙂
Lots of fun, even though my singing is not the best.
Want to join me next time?
Happy Together
August Storm, Appearing
This afternoon a storm came up unexpectedly – at least I didn’t expect it! I was reading on the patio in intermittent sun when suddenly the day seemed to drop into darkness. I looked up into deep grey clouds rolling in fast, closely followed by thunder and rain.
Here’s a snippet 🙂
This whole year has felt a bit like that…
Fires, pandemic isolation, not to mention all the individual challenges we’ve each had to face so far. Sometimes it all gets a bit overwhelming, and the storm descends while we’re still unprepared.
I’ve noticed the songs YouTube recommends to me often have a “let’s get through this” theme lately. We’re all walking into each day, wondering what will happen. The creative people of the world are sharing those thoughts in song.
We’re prone to being taken unawares by the eccentricities of nature, whether flood, fire or global health crisis. For all the great strides science and medicine have made in the last century or so (and I’m grateful for what’s available!) we seem to forget that we don’t completely control this world – and sooner or later we have to come to terms with that.
I believe that God holds my life in His hands, and that helps when everything is uncertain. It doesn’t guarantee a life free from challenge or pain, but it does provide help and comfort when the clouds descend…
“My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.”
– Psalm 73:26
Everything New Is Old Again…
Once more on my YouTube odyssey, and this time it has suggested I have a listen to contemporary songs done in vintage styles. Postmodern Jukebox has all sorts of styles, from the ’20s onwards, jazz, swing or show tunes…
This is the first one suggested – what would the Spice Girls have sounded like in the ’40s?
Gatsby style Lady Gaga?
Zombies in the ’30s?
Or Marilyn singing Blondie?
This one is a jazz version of Guns N’Roses. There are a number of pop ups (with annoying pop up noises), but I’m posting this one because the info was interesting. There is a non pop up version as well 🙂
Enjoy! 🙂
Whimsy And Wonderment
This will probably be a post about nothing, fuelled by a day of not much but wondering…
It all started on Sunday, with an afternoon spent watching a worship session, eyes closed, sometimes even singing along!
Lately I’ve fallen back into the trap of late nights and early mornings (waking up, not necessarily getting up), with a sleep debt creeping up on me without my noticing. Sunday night I went upstairs early and listened to some CDs I hadn’t unearthed in a while, then went straight to sleep. Nearly twelve hours later I was up again…
You’d think I’d be bright and energetic! No, still feeling lethargic – still have more debt to pay. I sat on the patio yesterday and wrote and read, enjoying the near silence and the breath of the wind in the trees.
Whenever I hear that sound, I think of the planet breathing, which then leads me to this song –
(This is where the whimsy comes in 🙂 )
Today has been a day of headaches (another side effect of wonky sleep patterns), but I’m still enjoying the earth’s breathing!
I hope you sleep well tonight –
and never lose your wonder.
❤
Singing Folk
One thing I like about YouTube is the recommendations I get when I go there. Yesterday’s post was about bardcore, and I listened to quite a few, so now I’m getting a lot of different recommendations…
I quite enjoy folk music, but don’t really listen to it a lot. At the moment, there are a lot popping up, so I’ve wandered down that road today. It’s worth searching YouTube for something you’ve wanted to check out, then scrolling down the sidebar and choosing whatever else shows up!
In the meantime, here’s a Latvian song in praise of oaks…
an Egyptian lullaby,
an Irish love song for books (and the Irish language).
and a Greek tale of a thirsty eagle.
I’m not sure how to categorise this one – it’s a song written for a video game, but the lyrics are a Swahili translation of the Lord’s Prayer – make of it what you will!
Go forth and browse!
Love Songs For The Middle Aged
So it seems that corona lockdown makes us all a little weird…
I have no idea how these videos made their way into my YouTube list, but there’s a genre apparently called “bardcore” – a sort of medieval imagining of popular songs. It appears to have sprung up in April, but there are a lot of songs if you look for them.
This is the first one I watched…
…and this one made me laugh out loud…
Most seem to be instrumental, so it’s your choice whether you want Sweet Dreams
or to be Thunderstruck!
😀
Back On The Couch!
I participated in another Couch Choir song collaboration recently – managed to learn the part and actually get it recorded! This is the result – enjoy. 🙂
Getting Up Again
After a long afternoon yesterday, my Babe and I are taking it easy today. Not sure that I would have believed, twenty (or even ten!) years ago, that unexpected exertion on one day would lead to exhaustion the next, but…here we are!
Came across this just now 🙂
I’m not one to advocate ignoring troubles for the sake of pretending to be joyful. I prefer to look at what’s happening, decide what I can do about it, and remind myself of what’s good in my life in the process.
So, rejoice!
Even in the midst…
And if your day is just that much harder right now, and you need some roses…
“So no wonder we don’t give up. For even though our outer person gradually wears out, our inner being is renewed every single day.” 2 Corinthians 4:16 (TPT)
Rattle!
(and live…)
He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”
– Ezekiel 37:3
“Yahweh, you are my soul’s celebration.
How could I ever forget the miracles of kindness
you’ve done for me?
You kissed my heart with forgiveness, in spite of all I’ve done.
You’ve healed me inside and out from every disease.
You’ve rescued me from hell and saved my life.
You’ve crowned me with love and mercy.
You satisfy my every desire with good things.
You’ve supercharged my life so that I soar again
like a flying eagle in the sky!”
– Psalm 103:2-5
I Rest My Soul…
Peter spoke up and said, “But Lord, where would we go? No one but you gives us the revelation of eternal life.
(John 6:68)
1000 Fields of Roses 