Wandered into my head as I was doing errands, yesterday and today.  Original song, and tune, by the late Leonard Cohen:

We ring the bells on Solstice night
Burn candles to bring back the light
To fight the cold and darknes flowing through us
The instruments ring out the song
As everybody sings along
And all faiths join the chorus, Hallelujah!

The ( Read more... )

Pennsic Warrior's Lament

There is a song in the SCA, which I first ran across in an East Kingdom songbook thirty years ago. The book was gifted me in thanks for something I'd done, but that's another adventure and a LONG (at least two-beverage) tale itself. The song is “Farewell Ye Banks of Cooper's Lake”, by Bronwyn Jourdemaine. It's to the tune ( Read more... )

Let's see... Hobbled in to work on Tuesday, and survived the week. I do wish the Gummint, when they come up with cutesy PDF type forms to fill out, would produce some FEEDBACK, PLEASE when you click "save and submit" on the grant applications. Our Organizing department has been going totally bug-nuts on it.

We had a bit of simple decadence the ( Read more... )