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Lavender Blue | Session 7

Lavender Blue:
A Poem in 30 Songs

Runtime: 1hr 41min

this oneโ€™s
for that
Time of the Season
when I get sad, a
Season Suite: Late Winter, Early Spring
singing Iโ€™m
Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)
sometimes feeling silly (silly)

You Are My Sunshine
at the time of year when sunshine is rare

I hum
Kiss the Girl – From โ€œThe Little Mermaidโ€
and
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
drinking
Scotch and Soda
watching the
Early Morning Rain
it never gets that cold โ€˜round here
just so very (very) grey

I met a
Wayfaring Stranger
on a
Saturday Night at the Movies
before saying 
Adieu
he asked
Is That All There Is?

I still see the
Colours
of his
Morning Nightcap
hear his morning
Bird Song
smell
The Wild Mountain Thyme
outside his door
feel the
Boots of Spanish Leather
a gift, before the dance
The Loversโ€™ Waltz Duet
and
8 Humoresques, Opus 101
[whispering in a foreign tongue]
Poco lento e grazioso

now, I see
The Gathering of Spirits
when I go
Down to the River to Pray
hearing
Tennessee Waltz
in my mind, asking

Where Have All the Average People Gone?
where has he gone?

though I
Keep on the Sunny Side
I think
Iโ€™ll Fly Away
Across the Great Divide

to find
The Yellow Rose of Texas

I Love 
Anyone Who Knows What Love Is

and still
No Other Love
will do 

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Holiday Cheer Music

12 Days of Christmas | Song 5

Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).


On the fifth day of Christmas, I recommend to thee,

Have A Holly Jolly Christmas with me!

I have great memories of busting out my Burl Ives Christmas cassette tape – a favourite in my holiday line up. I loved dancing to A Holly Jolly Christmas! The song Snow for Johnny was obviously a close runner up.


Time travel back with me! Enjoy this classic and, while you’re in the past, maybe catch one of my favourite Christmas films: Santa Claus is Coming to Town.


I think Grace & Frankie and me are going to curl up for a holiday movie night!


Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.

Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.

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Buddhism Holiday Cheer

12 Days of Christmas | Song 4

Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).


I feel like it’s time to be honest and admit that my real true favourite most enjoyed Christmas song is… Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.

I feel like this is a song even Scrooge can get behind. A reminder I love my grandmas, but I also love laughter, fun and not taking things so seriously.

This song is a a comedic sketch, humorous holiday storytelling. On a deeper level, perhaps it’s also a great reminder that we never know if today is our “last day” – after all, death is life’s only guarantee. With this somewhat Dharmic teaching, I’ll make my segue.


Bonus: 12 Days of Charity

Looking for a charitable organization to support this season?

Consider Samudra Buddhist CentreI recommend signing up for beginner classes or click here to go to their donation collection platform. Through the practice of Buddhism, I have found an abundance of inner peace simply by learning and applying basic meditation techniques and contemplating virtuous objects (like love and compassion).

Studying over the last five years, I have cultivated faith through experimenting and observing. I am happy to share this wisdom with others and encourage them to sign up for general program classes to learn wonderful, practical and basic meditation techniques to enrich one’s life.

Here Grace and I are studying together:


Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.

Find my full  Winter Playlist on Spotify here.

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Holiday Cheer Thirsty Thursday

12 Days of Christmas | Song 3

Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).


On the third day of Christmas my true love gave to me…

a drink because I was thiiirstyyyy
(no?)

Welcome to the Thirsty-third Day of Christmas. Today I showcase Baby It’s Cold Outside – my favourite version – by Leon Redbone and Zoey Deschanel.

I can’t say if it’s because I was raised on Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, but I find no offense with this song. I think it’s sweet and sexy and a lovely dated portrait of a young couple doing the dance of flirtation on a cold winter’s night.

The best part of my all time favourite Christmas soundtrack from Elf, in my humble opinion.

I also love the song Sleigh Ride (from the same soundtrack) which always reminds me of the masterpiece, “Bless Your Beautiful Hide”, from Seven Brides (for some absolutely unknown reason):

How to find yourself a wife

Bonus: 12 Days of Charity

Looking for a charitable organization to support this season?

How about Women’s Place of South NiagaraThis organization helps women escape domestic violence. They provide education in schools on how to identify healthy and unhealthy relationships. They made a huge positive impact on a friend of mine. Their support is critical to the thousands who have been helped by them.

How to go courtin’

A holiday hello from Grace & Frankie, the foster kittens ๐Ÿ™‚


Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.

Find my full  Winter Playlist on Spotify here.

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Holiday Cheer Music

12 Days of Christmas | Song 2

Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).


Today I recommend the jazzy God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen performed by Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan. Fun to sing and dance to. Join me?


Bonus: 12 Days of Charity

Looking for a charitable organization to support this season?

Choose YWCA Niagara Region. This amazing organization provides emergency shelter, transitional housing, and other critical programs to women, men, and families throughout the Niagara Region. Helping people in times of crisis, they function year-round to provide essential service no matter what the state of the world. As they grow sustainably, they are always in need of donations and support to maintain their tremendous efforts.

These guys think YWCA is great:

Foster kittens to be adoptable through Pets Alive Niagara.


Find my full Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.

Find my full Winter Playlist on Spotify here.

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Holiday Cheer Music

12 Days of Christmas | Song 1

Happy Twelve Days of Christmas! A Christmas Countdown featuring my Christmas favourites (plus pictures of my foster kittens).

Kicking it off with Bing Crosby’s Mele Kalikimaka – the wise way to say Merry Christmas to you.

One of my all time favourite Christmas Songs and Christmas albums!

Bonus: 12 Days of Charity

Looking for an organization to support this season?

Why not Pets Alive Niagara? – an amazing organization that helps prevent needless euthanasia of shelter pets through its creative network of volunteers, fosters, adopters, and donors.

They work to support and save lives and benefit little cuties like these guys:

I hope this helps get you into the holiday spirit! ๐Ÿ™‚


Merry Christmas! Or should I say, Mele Kalikimaka ๐Ÿ˜‰


Find my full ๐ŸŽ… Christmas Playlist on Spotify here.

Find my full โ„๏ธ Winter Playlist on Spotify here.