<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Happy Group Holiday Season, The Abraham children and other communities. Sun RA: This is the Music Sound Of the Momentum:<br><br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT3ZYVb0wFY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT3ZYVb0wFY</a><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I love listening to all the threads through this past year and looking forward to the year ahead. Pure Fun and Sincerity with Respect and Gratitude, Smile, ilsa<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#ffffff"><font color="#ff0000">Ilsa Bartlett</font></font><div><font color="#ffffff"><font color="#ff0000"><font color="#3333ff">Institute for Rewiring the System</font></font></font><br><a href="http://ilsabartlett.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://ilsabartlett.wordpress.com</a><br></div><div><a href="http://www.google.com/profiles/ilsa.bartlett" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/profiles/ilsa.bartlett</a><br><a href="http://www.hotlux.com/angel.htm" target="_blank">www.hotlux.com/angel</a><br><br>"Don't ever get so big or important that you can not hear and listen to every other person."<br>-John Coltrane</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 1:02 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Those of us in the English-speaking world (and probably everywhere outside the Middle East) are mind-raped this time of year by constant bombardment with Christmas music. It is hard to escape. You know the words; you can’t help knowing them, you can’t forget them even if you try. Every year I overthink the whole thing, hearing stuff in those lyrics. My son took after me. When he was four and his two cousins were five and seven, they were convinced one of the Christmas songs had a part about a zombie eating people’s faces. In the middle of a quiet family discussion the three of them suddenly shrieked in terror and fled from the room. We learned the bothersome part was that bit about Jack Frost nipping at your nose. The three California kids knew nothing of Jack Frost, but didn’t want anyone nipping at noses.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Others that I recall: that little drummer boy playing while “…the ox and lamb kept time…” The questions that come to mind is what exactly were the beasts doing to “keep time”? And whatever it was (swaying to the beat?) that in itself would be so freaky as to have me fleeing in terror.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Today I noticed yet another one in a song about a snowman who came to life, played with the local kids and then went off downtown. Things were apparently going well enough until he encountered a cop, and only paused a moment when he heard him holler stop. Well OK then, but that is an absurdity in itself, for cops don’t holler stop. Rather they holler FREEZE motherfucker! Assume the position, before I blow your ass off!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I will grant the absurdity of ordering a snowman to freeze, or referring to anatomical features which are almost surely absent.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">It seems every winter solstice season I stumble upon yet another logical flaw in those lyrics I am forced to know. Perhaps after today I will be spared for another year.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></font></span></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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