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Dinah Washington – My Devotion
“One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love.”
― Sophocles
30 Today.
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0927 Dinah Washington – My Devotion
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#0926 Olafur Arnalds – Undone (When We Are Born)
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Olafur Arnalds – Undone
TEN years ago today .. We laid our daughter/sister down for the final time. NOTHING can prepare a person for that and there are no words for it just the fact that it happened. Since that day I have thrown down a requiem every year between Con’s birthday and this day. The pain and sorrow doesn’t ease and every day is one more day to practice ACCEPTANCE and letting go in remembrance that this angel was a gift beyond words for those blessed 19 years and one that will never be forgotten by those who loved her.
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0925 Deepchord – Prayer Wheel
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Deepchord – Prayer Wheel
“True love defies the realm of death.” ― Anoir Ou-Chad
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0924 Buddy Guy – TEN Years Ago
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“Grief must be embraced. It reveals our truths our weaknesses and our strengths. It is healthy and important and should not be avoided. For when we do allow ourselves to sit with that most complex of human emotions, we become wiser and perhaps even happier.” – Phoebe Ravencraft
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0923 Freddie King – Let Your Love (Watch Over Me)
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Freddie King – Let Your Love (Watch Over Me)
“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0922 the Five Keys – Four Walls
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the Five Keys – Four Walls
“Loss is like a wind, it either carries you to a new destination or it traps you in an ocean of stagnation. You must quickly learn how to navigate the sail, for stagnation is death.” – Val Uchendu
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0921 Lubomyr Melnyk – Le Miroir D’Amour
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Lubomyr Melnyk & Peter Broderick – Le Miroir D’Amour
“You Still Live (Overcoming Grief Sonnet)
After your month long battle for breath,
Today I place you in nature’s lap.
I know she’ll care for you well, like she once brought you to the world.
Fact of the matter is, you still live, just in different form among the elements.
Nature’s forces make us awake and restless, Nature’s forces coerce us into eternal rest.
There is no heaven, there is no hell, these are concepts made by cowards.
Life is too sacred to be confined by obsolete lies and superstitions.
Your light of affection shall continue to shine bright in my memories.
I won’t say goodbye, for you still live.”
– Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0920 Kyson – Missing Things (MMOTHS remix)
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Kyson – Missing Things (MMOTHS remix)
“Good Grief
Let your
heart break
so your spirit
doesn’t.”
― Andrea Gibson
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0919 Burial – Young Death
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Burial – Young Death
“This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.” ― Joseph Conrad
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0918 Rod Modell – Beach
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Rod Modell – Beach
“Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heap’d for the belovèd’s bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley.
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0917 Al Green – The Love Sermon
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“A grain of love is falling down
And time is there beside.
The carnival and the fair is always here,
Having fun on the rides.
Love is the dimension between time and feeling,
The distance from heaven to earth.
Well, that’s my understanding
And I pray on, I pray on” …..
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0916 Glen Miller – You Must Be Love
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Glen Miller – You Must Be Love
“And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;” ― William Cullen Bryant
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0915 Jon Hopkins – I Remember
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Jon Hopkins – I Remember
“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air.” ― Pablo Neruda
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0914 O’Jays – Sunshine
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O’Jays – Sunshine
“Let yourself be inert, wait till the incomprehensible power … that has broken you restores you a little, I say a little, for henceforth you will always keep something broken about you. Tell yourself this, too, for it is a kind of pleasure to know that you will never love less, that you will never be consoled, that you will remember more and more.” ― Marcel Proust
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0913 Anthony Hamilton – Life Has A Way
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Anthony Hamilton – Life Has A Way
Look around you. Everything is fleeting. To love and let go, love and let go, love and let go…it’s the single most important thing we can learn in this lifetime.
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0912 DeepChord – Barcelona
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DeepChord – Barcelona
“Your Love & Light
Shines through Me
Even in Your Physical Absence.”
― Ujjwal Arora
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0911 Larry Heard/Mr White – The Sun Can’t Compare
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Larry Heard/Mr White – The Sun Can’t Compare
“The soul is healed by being with children.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0910 Adam Prescott – Moving In The Shadows
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“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
― Leo Tolstoy.
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0909 Five Corners Quintet – Trading Eights
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Five Corners Quintet – Trading Eights
“Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
#0908 Osunlade – A Day Without You
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“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” – William Shakespeare
Until we meet again ConTzu …. xx
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