by vada smith
BIRCHES
When I see birches
I think of nothing
But when I see a girl
Throw away her hair and brains
I think of birches and I see them
One could do worse than see birches
----Ron Padgett
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Alleghany County, North Carolina / Whitehead / Air Bellows / Blue Ridge Mountains / mountain music / and so on. An open journal of one person in one place in one time.
THE REAL YOU IS MORE INTERESTING THAN THE FAKE SOMEBODY ELSE. --- Lauryn Hill
If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he would never stop throwing up.
---Woody Allen
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.
---Marcel Duchamp
No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.
---Meher Baba
Old-time band worth a listen,
THE SOUTH CAROLINA BROADCASTERS
www.scbroadcaster.com
Once life is finished it acquires a sense,
up to that point it has not got a sense,
its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
---PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
---BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Brace yourself. The American Empire is over and the descent is going to be horrifying.
---Chris Hedges
Start learning to love by loving the people you cannot like. The more you remember others with kindness and generosity, the more you forget your self and when you forget yourself completely, you find God.
---Meher Baba
up to that point it has not got a sense,
its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
---PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.
---BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Brace yourself. The American Empire is over and the descent is going to be horrifying.
---Chris Hedges
Start learning to love by loving the people you cannot like. The more you remember others with kindness and generosity, the more you forget your self and when you forget yourself completely, you find God.
---Meher Baba
GO GREEN WITH BLUEGRASS.
IT'S NATURAL.
---TIM WHITE, banjo the VWBoys
DEATH CANNOT HARM ME
MORE THAN YOU HAVE HARMED ME,
MY BELOVED LIFE.
---Louise Gluck, from her poem OCTOBER
THROW ENOUGH STONES
AND YOU BUILD A WALL.
---Carole Roberts
STAY AWAY FROM IMPORTANT PEOPLE.
---Wiley Maxwell Jr
A THROW OF THE DICE WILL NEVER ABOLISH CHANCE.
---Man Ray
GOD DOES NOT PLAY DICE WITH THE UNIVERSE.
---Albert Einstein
American old-time music quarterly
The beliefs and opinions of a person often constitute a very superficial layer of the human psyche. They do not have any integral relationship with the deeper psychic forces. They remain in one region of the mind without bringing about any radical changes in the core of personality, which determines the attitude to life.
---Meher Baba
Justice is what love looks like in public.
--- Cornell West
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
---Leo Tolstoy
The mountains don't lie to you; they stand for the things that don't change, that stay true to themselves. They've been around a hundred million years and they'll be around a good while more, I reckon. They keep you humble. They put you in your place.
---Dr Ralph Stanley
www.butchrobins.com
An excellent catalog of music from the Central Blue Ridge
NOT KNOWING IS TRUE KNOWLEDGE.
PRESUMING TO KNOW IS A DISEASE.
-Tao te ching #71
There are more love songs than anything else.
If songs could make you do something
we'd all love one another.
---Frank Zappa
on playing a banjo:
WHEN YOU SCREW UP
TRY TO COVER IT UP
LIKE A CAT.
---Wiley Maxwell, Jr.
ACTION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN PRAYER.
---Dalai Lama
TRY TO COVER IT UP
LIKE A CAT.
---Wiley Maxwell, Jr.
ACTION IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN PRAYER.
---Dalai Lama
THE WHOLE SECRET LIES IN CONFUSING THE ENEMY SO HE CANNOT FATHOM OUR REAL INTENT.
Sun Tzu
The Art of War
WE'LL KNOW OUR DISINFORMATION
PROGRAM IS COMPLETE WHEN
EVERYTHING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
BELIEVE IS FALSE.
---Wm Casey
CIA Director
1981
In this unbroken intense booming symphony, suddenly there is the tinkling of a bell so faint that I almost think I am hearing things. It is like the trembling cry of a cicada on a late autumn night. It is so ephemeral, so delicate, so pitiful, yet it is so distinct and clear above the chaotic booming of the drum that it is unmistakable.
- Gao Xingjian
from SOUL MOUNTAIN
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