I Shall Not Live in Vain

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
— Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886

Led Zeppelin

Sometimes music are better than sex. Music last longer...
Listen to Led Zeppelin is like making out...
Jimmy Page plays like making love with the guitar, John Paul Jones with the bass, John Bonham with the drums and Robert Plant with the audiences.

Live Simply

Live simply so that others may simply live
— to detach with material things, including, in the first place, money.
— to detach with distorted beliefs, including ideas of how things ought to be, how people should live their lives.
— to detach with destructive emotion, such as anger, resentment, revenge, jealousy, hatred, shame, guilt, regret, blame and most important of all, fear.......

And take responsibility, starting with yourself, your own body, mind, emotions and then the people and things in your immediate circle. In this way, you live at all times as you would want everyone to live, in peace, with respect, in compassion, with forgiveness, in service, with generosity, in humility, with humanity, and the other noble virtues we have been pondering since the time of Socrates and Confucius.

And yet that's not enough

 






 

Summer is fleeing.

And soon will be nothing left.
We're so happy in the sun
And yet that's not enough.
A four-leaves clover rests on my hand
And yet that's not enough.
Good and evil haven't passed in vain.
All was limpid and bright
And yet that's not enough.
Life takes me under its wing
and carries me off.
I have been lucky
And yet that's not enough.
Leaves and twigs aren't dead
The day is as clear as crystal
And yet that's not enough.

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.19, K.459 (Murray Perahia)

Let me tell you how this piece of music came to me!

I parked my car behind Chapter in Ottawa, waiting to pick up my teen daughter finish her work. It was winter, snow still on the ground and there was no way to be melt soon. 

It was cold, normally Ottawa's winter bitterly cold. I sat inside the car and my mind started wondering off….  What this life lead me to? I spend most of my "as a mother" life in waiting, waiting to pick up the girls after school, after piano lessons, after birthday parties, after sleep overs, in the doctor's office, the dentist's, I did, while waiting, I saw my life passing before my eyes... 

I opened the car door to catch some fresh air, and I looked down, there was a cassette tape on the snow, I picked it up, it was Mozart's Piano concerto #18 in B flat major, K456 and Piano concerto #19 in F major, K459 on the other side.

I put it into my car cassette deck and... it was like in heaven. At that moment, I was so alive in this lovely country on this planet earth listen to Mozart. The angels' flavour, the rest was really doesn't matter... 

Marilyn is 83

Amélie is 34

Veronique is 42

If Diana didn't die she'll light 48 candles

Can you imagine Marilyn Monroe is 82

Doesn't matter you are commoner or beautiful

wealthy poor witty stupid mean spirit sweet nature

glamour down to earth

a small town gal

has been visit China Japan Thailand Bali Rio

our mother was baby girl teenager

so was our beloved granny

Everyone is getting old

Time is fair share and equal

Can't buy it back with endless zero

If it's time to go it's time to go

no heaven no hell no recall

love care patient kind gentle nice cherish all others

that's why you come that's why you go

The Best of Jane Austen

—Pride and Prejudice is a six-episode 1995 British television drama, adapted by Andrew Davis and starring by Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

—Sense and Sensibility is a 1995 film, adapted by Emma Thompson, directed by Ang Lee, starring by Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman.

—Persuasion is a BBC Drama 1995, directed by Roger Michell starring Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds.

—Mansfield Park is a 1999 British film, written and directed by Patricia Rozema starring Embeth Davidtz and Jonny Lee Miller.

Paolo and Vittorio Taviani / Kaos, 1984

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Cavatina: "L'ho perduta....me meschina!" Le Nozze di Figaro.

Kaos is a 1984 Italian drama film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani based on short stories by Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936). 

北島 Bei Dao

一切都是命運
一切都是煙雲
一切都是沒有結局的開始
一切都是稍縱即逝的追尋
一切歡樂都沒有微笑
一切苦難都沒有淚痕
一切語言都是重復
一切交往都是初逢
一切愛情都在心里
一切往事都在夢中
一切希望都帶著注釋
一切信仰都帶著呻吟
一切爆發都有片刻的寧靜
一切死亡都有冗長的回聲

北島 Bei Dao, 趙振开 Zhao Zhenkai, August 2, 1949, is a Chinese poet. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature many times. 

Function of money

the artist cannot understand the function of money in modern society for him there is no relation between subject value and market value —W. H. Auden 

The WorldCom — $11 billion 

Enron —$60 billion 

Marc Dreier — 380 million 

Bernard L. Madoff —$50 billion 

Joseph Cassano —$69 million 

John Thain — $15 million, $750,000 salary 

Citigroup —$25.9 billion... 

"Yes, We Can"

With so many people lost their jobs
(525,000 in U.S. and 129,000 in Canada)
or their retirement savings
everyone is affected directly or indirectly
How can we cope with this diversity?
Quoted from President Barack Obama
"Yes, We Can"
By counting our having
(blessing sound too religious)
We have our health and our loved ones' health
We have our family
We have roof and good food
We have our freedom to do what we love to do

Obama effect

I've been non-stop smiling since January 20, 2009 Or should I say since election day 2008 I thought I forgot how to laugh I thought I gave up hope for humanity the wars the flood the poor the homeless the selfish she her hers he his him the bailouts the greed and the money money money... more money $18.4 billion, how many minimum wages The evil empire had been defeated I wish Charleston Heston live long enough to see this then he can join his gun dealers war mongers animal hunters antigay abortion doctors killers religion cultist ozone polluters money grabbers buddies back in their dark holes again the air is much fresher now I have time for poetry