Shakesthegrounds Rumblings

[loneleeb3]

Donovan
» Catch The Wind

In the chilly hours and minutes
Of uncertainty
I want to be
In the warm hold of your loving mind.
To feel you all around me
And to take your hand
Along the sand
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.
When sundown pales the sky
I wanna hide a while
Behind your smile
And everywhere I'd look, your eyes I'd find.
For me to love you now
Would be the sweetest thing,
T'would make me sing
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.
Dee dee da da la da da da da da
Ya da da, da da, da da
When rain has hung the leaves with tears
I want you near
To kill my fears
To help me to leave all my blues behind.
For standing in your heart
Is where I wanna be
And I long to be,
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind
...
 
I love this song!

And to take your hand
Along the sand

Reminds me of someone. 

Now will remind me of you!! 

[southendmd]

Here's the Bob Dylan version (I think he wrote it).  Strangely, paired with animation from Pocahontas.  Perhaps, the "Colors of the Wind" was the connection. 

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diAwSKMWhG0[/youtube]

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Thanks Paul, I don't believe I have ever heard a Dylan version of this before. I never did see the Pocahontas movie, it was pretty well boycotted in Virginia. Lots of her decendants in high profile places did not care for it and her tribe pretty well shot it out of the water. 

[Shakesthecoffecan]

When I entered the 4th grade of elementary school, my teacher was Ms. Blankenship. She was a real piece of work.

On the one hand she endeared herself by reading to us. She read us every single one of the Little House books of Laura Ingalls Wilder, as well as Caddie Woodlawn. But she control freak too. When she would leave the room she would always appoint a monitor to "take names" of those who spoke while she was gone.

I always suspected this was because she was paranoid we would change the last letter of her name from "p" to "t".

What did I learn from Ms. Blankenshitp? I learned that people in Europe do not have problems with wisdom teeth. I swear to gawd, she said that in countries where nationalities were not all mixed up like the US, peoples teeth fit their jaws and didn't have to be pulled. But when you get a German jaw and French teeth, your just asking for trouble.

I always viewed this as suspect, but recently I conducted a very unscientific study here at BetterMost. I asked one person who is 100% Italian and another who is a Scot, and no, they had to have their Wisdom teeth pulled as well.

Be an elementary school teacher, them kids will believe anything.

[Shakesthecoffecan]

I was thinking I was in Western North Carolina because the intersection resembled the photo Phillip sometimes uses in the banner, that has arrows pointing to ASU and highway 421. It was a pretty day, I think I was driving a station wagon, the radio was on and I heard the station was in Oslo. There is an Oslo, North Carolina, but I was not there, I knew. Somehow I was in Norway.

I found refuge in an LDS church. They were having lunch and a nice lady gave me a bag lunch from Burger King and I sat at the organ and ate it. The organ was next to the piano. When I was done I went behind the expandable partition and threw the bag away and the lady said I did not have to stay. I was glad, I had to get home somehow. Then I heard the preacher announce I was there and I peeked out at the sparse congregation and felt like I couldn't just drive off now. Then the phone rang.

"Did I wake you up?" he said

"Yes," I replied "and I'm glad you did!"

Outside was a beautiful day, warm enough to go without a jacket. The fresh coffee made the muscles in my arms feel like they were ready to do something, so I picked up the winters sticks and limbs from the wild cherry tree. The forsythia just busting forthe. The Hellebore's gone wild, I talked on the phone a bit and cleaned the birds bath so they could come and bathe.

I did not know what it was at first. Animal for sure, too small for a deer or a dog. I went and got the shovel and stuck it into the murky muck of the fish pond and lifted the bloated corpse out and there was the tail. It was a possum, swollen and bloated 3X its normal size, gone down to get a drink of water and couldn't get out. I dug a hole quickly and buried it before it popped open, releasing a world of foulness.

The black flies, confused, soon lit on the deer shit.

 

[injest]

poor possum....great post...

[CellarDweller]

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Thank kew! Thank kew! Something about St. Patrick's arriving on a monday just don't seem right.

I went thru the books and found it:

Lá Fhéile Pádraig

Tabhair póg dom, táim Éireannach

An bhfuil tú ar meisce fós?

Pionta Guinness, le do thoil.

 

No wonder so few people speak that language any more. I have tried in the past but when your one person it gets kind of discouraging.   

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Happy Monday to you, Truman, and to all of your friends.

I was listening to NPR yesterday and they were interviewing Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt about their roles as Catwoman and at one point she asks Batman to marry her and he says: "But what about Robin?" 

[Jeff Wrangler]

I was listening to NPR yesterday and they were interviewing Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt about their roles as Catwoman and at one point she asks Batman to marry her and he says: "But what about Robin?" 

I remember both of them as Catwoman.