tales from home

Ladysmith Black Mambazo ,O mmu beno mmu

Joni Mitchell , All I Want

Cabhayeye, Ladysmith Black Mambazo

The Tiger Lillies - Shockheaded Peter [1998] full album

isn't it all ...complex and simple at the same time..

no reason. no thought. only feeling.

again and again i have been shocked ...
by myself, my reactions.
i wish so much peace, but in it my way must be open too.
when i see a border, i react like a bull in  a fight or a fight-to-be.

how can people like me use wise words and write poetry
and at the same time be so impulsive and explosive and implosive?
even, i didn't know i still am like this or can be.

when i come to calm sea inside and the circles spread
slowly on the water, in silence, i come to all this true feeling
again, inside, i see the other one, and i cannot run from the truth,
because it is just there, asking me to follow.

so, as all, complex and simple.
fire is true and water is true and earth is true
and air is true, unfortunately shit is too, true.
i hope the latter one will make good manure.
it dries in the sun, cracks, forms dust, sinks into
the soil with the rains.

i feel i can mostly just forget it, this is why
it comes out, to be forgotten and to do its own work.
I hope this does not go for me this time already,
but somehow and some time to come it goes for all of us.

well, this was polemic as it appears true only in relation
to death as THE  annihilation. nobody is nothing.
to tell you the truth, i think we are here to see
and to be as much as we can revelation, of... i cannot define.
i feel. I feel it to be true.

Gogol Bordello , Sun Is On My Side (acoustic)

Goran Bregovic feat. Eugene Hütz (of Gogol Bordello) - Be That Man

Emotional Independence, Paulo Coelho

" Emotional independence

June 8, 2016 by Paulo Coelho

“At the beginning of our life and again when we get old, we need the help and affection of others. Unfortunately, between these two periods of our life, when we are strong and able to look after ourselves, we don’t appreciate the value of affection and compassion. As our own life begins and ends with the need for affection, wouldn’t it be better if we gave compassion and love to others while we are strong and capable?”

The above words were said by the present Dalai Lama. Really, it is very curious to see that we are proud of our emotional independence. Evidently, it is not quite like that: we continue needing others our entire life, but it is a “shame” to show that, so we prefer to cry in hiding. And when someone asks us for help, that person is considered weak and incapable of controlling his feelings.

There is an unwritten rule saying that “the world is for the strong”, that “only the fittest survive.” If it were like that, human beings would never have existed, because they are part of a species that needs to be protected for a long period of time (specialists say that we are only capable of surviving on our own after nine years of age, whereas a giraffe takes only six to eight months, and a bee is already independent in less than five minutes).

We are in this world, I, for my part, continue – and will always continue – depending on others. I depend on my wife, my friends and my publishers. I depend even on my enemies, who help me to be always trained in the use of the sword.

Clearly, there are moments when this fire blows in another direction, but I always ask myself: where are the others? Have I isolated myself too much? Like any healthy person, I also need solitude and moments of reflection.

But I cannot get addicted to that.

Emotional independence leads to absolutely nowhere – except to a would-be fortress, whose only and useless objective is to impress others.

Emotional dependence, in its turn, is like a bonfire that we light.

In the beginning, relationships are difficult. In the same way that fire is necessary to put up with the disagreeable smoke – which makes breathing hard, and causes tears to pour down one’s face. However, once the fire is alight, the smoke disappears and the flames light up everything around us – spreading warmth, calm, and possibly making an ember pop out to burn us, but that is what makes a relationship interesting, isn’t that true?

I began this column quoting a Nobel Peace Prize winner about the importance of human relationships. I am ending with Professor Albert Schweitzer, physician and missionary, who received the same Nobel prize in 1952.

“All of us know a disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. What we need to know is that there is a similar disease that attacks the soul – and which is very dangerous, because it catches us without being noticed. When you notice the slightest sign of indifference and lack of enthusiasm for your similar, be on the alert!”

“The only way to take precautions against this disease is to understand that the soul suffers, and suffers a lot, when we make it live superficially. The soul likes things that are beautiful and profound”.  "