Take a Gamble:
A Poem in 21 Songs
Runtime: 1hr 18min
Lucky Day
let’s play
I took you for
The Gambler
if you can
Jump into the Fire
we’ll pretend
Ain’t it funny
in my
Impossible Dream
I’ll be asking
How D’ya Like Your Eggs in the Morning?
and you sing your reply
Yes, We have no Bananas
All Your Yeahs
with
Burning Love
inspire
Enlightenment
but
The Truth
is
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
un
Lucky
why not
Pawn it All
instead?
you’re still gamblin’
Lucky You
I bet.
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 Centre. I 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.
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.
Your Playlist:
A Poem in 80 Songs
Runtime: 5 hr 10 min
Do you think about me often?
Like I’m a
Hex Girl?
Lucky You
because I
Diga, Diga, Doo
too
How I’d like to do
The Jitterbug Waltz
with you
Unchain My Heart
Spellbinder
I find your voice
Super Good
Tonight in the Moonlight
I Hope You Dance
Dog Trot
Dip It Low
and even
Lose Control
with me
we’re
Very Busy People
part of this
Nowhere Generation
Cherry Picking
On The Banks Of The Owichita
In Another Life
I think we were
Up and Rolling
I think we enjoyed
A Quiet Life
by the
Riverside
maybe on
Such a Night
I was your
Gypsy Queen
you, a
Wayfaring Stranger
melting my
Stonecold
heart
are you the
House of My Soul?
because
The Truth
is that your
Spring Fashion
is in
Perfect Harmony
with my
Taste
I felt I could be
The Yellow Rose of Texas
but then the mournful soul that sang
Tennessee Waltz
(It was Patti Page)
because you already had
Too Many Friends
Counting Bodies Like Sheep To The Rhythm of The War Drums
while I was
Running Up That Hill
yearning for a
Higher Devotion
thinking
How Do I Get There
thinking I’m a
Bad Liar
thinking I can’t
Stop Thinking About You
even
Dreaming of You
nothing
Quite Like
anything I’ve felt before
at
Bedtime
with a
Mind on Fire
thoughts of you
Tearing Me Up
making me want to
Ruin Your Night
too, for making me
Think It Over
think that it was
Signals
for me, but it was just
Scotch and Soda
for you
I was a
Girl from the North Country
wandering, wondering
Where Have All the Average People Gone
not the one with
Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
so when I feel this
Ghost Pressure
I call you
Troubleman
wondering
What Else Is There?
wondering is this the
Wrong Vibration
I
Got It Bad
and you’re
Making Me Nervous
because
I Got it Bad And That Ain’t Good
so I picture you saying
None Shall Pass
and the beg my
Fatal Fantasies
of you
Fade Away
knowing just the same
I’ll See You in My Dreams
In the Early Morning Rain
with your
Slow Hand
and I
Dream in the Dark
that I’m
Chainsmoking
Your Love
as if it’s the only way to
Stay Alive
and I’m
Beggin
Think About Me
Turn Your Love
to me
in
The Land of the Silver Birch
we’ll
Moondance
Tonight
Wasted
until I
Fade Into You
until the
Evening Star
is
Fallin’
For You
too
and I know I’m
Falling for U
too, thinking
I Fall in Love too Easily
The Halfwit Writer