Dragonflies and Kingfishers: Today's music

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

She has some beautiful songs, this Natalie Merchant. Yup. She used to be the lead singer for 10,000 Maniacs, but took off on her own in '93

Listening to right now: Life is Sweet.

Another singer/songwriter I'm enjoying today is Tracy Chapman, who I first noticed when I heard Change.

JordieMarieAugust 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM
I really like Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs. :)
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Bobbi JoAugust 18, 2010 at 8:00 PM
Yay, we agree (again!).
Do you have a favorite album?
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JordieMarieAugust 19, 2010 at 10:20 AM
I like their MTV Unplugged album, as well as Our Time in Eden, which is funny because they both contain a lot of the same songs. :P Also, Natalie Merchant has an album called Tigerlily and the song Carnival is a fav. :)
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inspiration

As Kingfishers Catch Fire

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;

As tumbled over rim in roundy wells

Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's

Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;

Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:

Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;

Selves - goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,

Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

I say more: the just man justices;

Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;

Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is -

Christ - for Christ plays in ten thousand places,

Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his

To the father through the features of men's faces.

Dragonflies and Kingfishers