Veterans Day 2011

A Veterans Day Remembrance
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Veterans Day Prayer and Meditation
Susan Kramer

"You gave for peace with courage
That families may be free
So children could grow strong
And safe they'd ever be.
In giving for the sake of peace
You may have suffered loss
Your body may still show its wounds
From taking up the cause.

May remembrance of your time away
Your sacrifice for peace
Spur us on to strive more strongly
For freedom, that there'll be release.

From causes that sent some away
To fight that we may freely live
With gratefulness we thank you, veterans
For all you gave and give!"

Until the Stars Sighed Out

10 November 2011, 1943 Hours PST; Eastern Sky
Full moon (lower left); Jupiter (upper right)
Canon PowerShot SD780 IS

"And leave the moon-path free for all my thoughts
To wander peacefully
Away and still away
Until the stars sighed out in dawn's great pallor,
Just as the lands of my desire appeared.
What memories ... have I of it!"
    - Cale Young Rice (1921)

Fools Give You Reasons

Bryn Terfel
Welsh Bass-Baritone
(born 9 November 1965)

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Bryn Terfel (2001)
- Some Enchanted Evening
(Rodgers & Hammerstein)

Bali Ha'i

Le choeur non crédités de femmes
"South Pacific" - Bali Ha'i (reprise)
(Rodgers et Hammerstein)

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Paroles de la chanson - Bali Ha'i (reprise)

Bali Ha'i t’appelle
dans le jour
dans la nuit
dans ton cœur toujours résonne
par ici
me voici

Nos plus chers espoirs
nos plus joyeux rêves
scintillent sur l’eau et sur les monts surgissaient

Si tu veux tu m'trouveras
où le ciel trouve la mer
me voici laisse-moi te prendre
par ici
me voici

Bali Ha'i
Bali Ha'i
Bali Ha'i

The Belgic Confession at 450

November 2011 marks the 450 anniversary of the publication of The Belgic Confession. Of the thirty-seven articles of the confession, Article 26, "Christ Intercession", being the longest and pivotally gospel-centric:

"...For there is no creature, either in heaven or on earth, who loves us more than Jesus Christ;" - Article 26, The Belgic Confession

"What more can be required? since Christ Himself says: I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me. To what purpose should we, then, seek another advocate, since it has pleased God to give us His own Son as our Advocate? Let us not forsake Him to take another, or rather to seek after another, without ever being able to find Him; for God well knew, when He gave Him to us, that we were sinners." - ibid

So May One Word Dispel a Cloud of Tears

November
John Presland
(1911)

There is a gleam of sunshine on the earth
After so many weary days of rain,
A break of yellowing clouds, which offers plain
The sun's veiled disc (a very shadow-birth,
But still the sun, with sun's November worth);
The sky is of a Turner lived again,
Such colours through the misty greyness gain
They almost seem to touch with spring the earth.

How should we not be glad, when this one day
Out of the saddest of all months, appears
Suddenly beautiful? A single ray
Of sunlight strikes through cloud, and clears
The whole drear countryside of grey;
So may one word dispel a cloud of tears.

La chanson que tu me chantais

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Interprète de Chantal Chamberland (2004)
- Les feuilles mortes (Prevert et Kosma)

chante-moi tes baisers et chante-moi à tout les vents de automne.

A First Smartphone, Finally

Johann Strauss II and Georges Bizet, two 19th century composers, shared the same birthday today, 25 October. I was planning on posting a composition written by either noted (pun) luminary. Then my pre-ordered iPhone 4S arrived today. It's time to play with this technologic marvel and, of course, the renown Ms. Siri, the AI female personal assistant. A music tribute to either composer will have to wait.

Photo: An iPod 3G with a home-made capacitative stylus. On the right of the iPod is the new 16 Gb white iPhone 4S. It has a Moshi iVisor screen protector. The black bumper on the phone is the Hazard; one of the newest iPhone 4 family cases made by Oakley.

Sear Are the Leaves

I am pleased the house exterior upkeep is almost complete and disposed for the tyrannical winter ahead.

The trees are changing into their autumn attire. Shedding their summer leaves in eddies, the woods are ready for another spectacular fall color finale. This October morning's brisk air is redolent with the smell of garlic stocks being planted in some field.


Autumn (1913)
James E. Pickering

A light mist creeps across the downs:
A gleam through clouds is faintly seen:
The grass is wet with heavy dew:
Sear are the leaves that once were green.
I walk at midday when the sun
Throws still some welcome warmth and light:
A chill comes with the afternoon,
And icy is the air at night.
Summer is dead. Its shrouded form
Lies on the logs that make its pyre,
And fancy sees its ghost ascend,
A shadowy wraith above the fire.

Franz Liszt 200th Birthday

Franz Liszt
Hugarian pianist and romantic period composer
200th Birthday Anniversary
(22 October 1811 - 31 July 1886)
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Paul Crossley, piano (1998)
- Un sospiro in D Flat Major (Grande études de concert No. 3, Liszt)