This track came on whilst I was on the peak-hour tube on my way to my last day working full-time in my current job in London. I got instant frisson. And it hit me how wonderfully, how beautifully this song sums up the last two years of my life… including the current chapter.
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Show your hands
If you need a new coat of paint
If your bones are now heavy things
Like anchors hidden somewhere ‘neath your skin
And if your head’s just an empty box
If your heart has become spare parts
If your days are now just something you must bear
No, it seems you’re a lot like me
You dug yourself into places
You never thought you would be
Don’t you fret and don’t you mind
The only constant is change and
You never know what you’ll find
Yeah, tomorrow I might wake up nice and clean
And I might believe the things I said I didn’t mean
And this might turn and wind up just the way we dreamed
And I might become the things I swore I’d always be
But we’re always on our way, we’re on our way
I wanna be up there.
I wish I’d discovered this blog earlier. Neil’s nearly there and has reached his top ten awesome things! Please take a few minutes to read some of his 1000 awesome things and smile when you realise it is truly the simple things in life that are most important.
Here are some of my highlights:
- #18 - The Airport Pickup
- #38 - Earth
- #132 - Playing music so loud you lose yourself in it
- #172 - Laugh lines
- #256 - When the bass kicks in
- #296 - Making a baby laugh
- #490 - Driving around with the windows down on late summer nights
- #699 - A long hug when you really need it
- #785 - Falling asleep in the backseat of a car late at night on the drive home
- #796 - The sound of rain from inside the tent
- #886 - High fiving babies
- #937 - The smell of rain on a hot sidewalk
- #973 - Sleeping in new bed sheets
There’s so many awesome ones to choose from! What are yours?
I just found my friend’s stethoscope and stood listening to my own heartbeat whilst in a really relaxed state of mind. A worthwhile moment of peaceful self-observation…
An initial observation…
The western world is a long, long way away from the real world.
Interesting (if controversial) perspective on the events of September 11, 2001. Thoughts?
Spotted on Reddit: http://reddit.com/comments/kckol
Right now there are TWELVE MILLION people being directly affected by the famine in Somalia. The most disturbing figure I have read is that 13 children under five years old are dying daily for every 10,000 people in the Somali population. That is an almost incomprehensible amount of children that will die per day. It’s heartbreaking.
Please consider donating to assist Oxfam to reach a total of 3 million people by digging wells, trucking water to villages where all other water sources have dried up, and providing life-saving food and medical supplies to people in crisis. Donate at https://www.oxfam.org.au/donate/current-appeals/africa-food-crisis-appeal?
(Source for figures: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-04/famine-spreads-in-africa/2824016)
(Source for photo: http://www.abc.net.au/news/image/2826368-16x9-940x529.jpg)
