This Side of Invisible

Why is it that I can't seem to do anything without music ? Music really does speak to my soul and bring the beat to my heart .  It's amazing how there is something there for everyone, every mood, every situation, every breath.   Poetry as it should be, flowing through the notes and chords and straight through us.  I'd just like to share with you some of my fav's both old and new.  I have a hard time pinpointing fav songs (just like fav books) so here are just some of the bands I'm in to, it's more about the feel and theme of the music. My companions for many years: The Cure The Cranberries The Smashing Pumpkins Indigo Girls Loreena McKennitt Veruca Salt No Doubt My new friends: The Killers Keane Blue October Muse Bond Blackmore's Night all things Celtic Women Coldplay Deathcab for Cutie Leona Lewis Mediaeval Baebes Ludovico Einaudi Trio Mediaeval   The Elders It's a bit of a list, I know, but I assure you that each of these artists/groups has

Got this via email today and thought that at this time of year it was appropriate to share.  It's interesting, I don't know how wrote this email.  Don't know how much is true and how much is exaggerated, but I find myself not caring.  It is inspirational.  I know that some of the basic facts are true, i.e. women went to jail so I could vote!!!  Wake up call Ladies, get your butts out there and make a difference.  Get your butts out there and show some gratitude for the privilege given to you through sacrifice and torture.  Get out there and VOTE!!! This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago. Remember it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote. (Lucy Burns) And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.  Forty prison guards wielding clubs and