Peace

by Nick on 6th February 2010



Peace

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  1. Elissa on 6th February 2010 at 12:35 am permalink

    A lovely man I met once said “If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.” it was the Dalai Lama.

  2. Von on 6th February 2010 at 1:14 am permalink

    Beautiful photo Nick as always you have many talents!

  3. Tex on 6th February 2010 at 1:56 am permalink

    Something. about it looks just like the happy ending you’d see in a movie.

  4. Nick on 6th February 2010 at 1:58 am permalink

    Let’s put Dalai Lama’s words to work for him then: “If I wish to experience peace with my neighbour, I provide peace for my neighbour.” Or simply, “To experience peace with China, I provide peace for China.”

    Thank you Von. I’m just following the sun. He’s a great tour guide!

  5. Elissa on 6th February 2010 at 2:34 am permalink

    I wonder if true peace will ever come Nick. You make a very very good point. :)

  6. Elissa on 6th February 2010 at 3:32 am permalink

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4C7nzceL8Q&feature=related

  7. clive on 6th February 2010 at 3:46 am permalink

    Juan day, yule luck, to sea I’ve gone

    Four tomorrow may reign so………….

    I’ll follow the son

  8. zbd on 6th February 2010 at 4:34 am permalink

    Outside is very peaceful at this time of morning – just the early twitterings
    of the birdies and the pitter patter of the fox that lives at the bottom of the garden

  9. Tex on 6th February 2010 at 4:39 am permalink

    Speaking of, tonight I leave you all in peace…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7tA5f5RU2A

  10. zbd on 6th February 2010 at 5:03 am permalink

    There will be a little fishie in a little dishie when the boat comes in –
    I come in peace I leave in peace rest in peace sleep in peaceful slumber

  11. thelonehydrangea on 6th February 2010 at 9:07 am permalink

    This gives me great peace on earth. It’s pretty and he’s pretty and that is a pleasing combination.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-KAvPbO8JY

    Does anyone else get that feeling before something happens? e.g. with Haiti for me it was simply feeling of Something Big Is Going To Happen. Then it happens and you think: There it is. There is an energy that can be felt. It’s global. I say if we want to have peace Be Peace -and peaceable and honest – that is an energy that can also be felt. Others around us feel it as it ripples out from us. Every time we are petty or get too much change at the supermarket and don’t return it or cheat the taxman or yell at people on the road or any of the things that we think don’t matter we create negative energy and put it out there and fight against the very thing we say we want. I would like to point out that the only thing from that list I am guilty of is being petty :D :D

  12. Helen on 6th February 2010 at 9:09 am permalink

    Sometimes you don’t need words and the picture says everything.

  13. Cpt Bluebell on 6th February 2010 at 9:24 am permalink

    2 am nick ?? Aching limbs again sir?? The sun is indeed a worthy guide once you find him he never let’s you down

  14. kate on 6th February 2010 at 10:55 am permalink

    this is my absolute favourite bit of music – so peaceful it brings tears to my eyes..
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39VtPtm9m18

  15. Nick on 6th February 2010 at 1:09 pm permalink

    surely you cant be that petty LHR? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i18nSZBgOfs

  16. Helen on 6th February 2010 at 1:13 pm permalink

    This is my most favourite music – for the same reason.

    Hello Nick by the way…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R21ZJBAK_6U

  17. Tex on 6th February 2010 at 1:25 pm permalink

    Ha! Wow. Amazing. The sun came up this morning like it always does.

    So much for peace…. pfuh! ; )

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK08XU4VaLQ

  18. Tex on 6th February 2010 at 1:57 pm permalink

    Enjoyed that Tom Petty song, haven’t heard it in awhile. Was just remembering he’s from the same rather small, offbeat town in Florida called Gainsville where actor William H. Macy also grew up. By the same token, director Wes Andersen grew up a 3 blocks away from here. Hmmm. What does it all mean, I wonder? From a sociological point of view, I have always been endlessly intrigued by how environment (and to what degree) can influence personality and outlook. Anyway, just a Saturday morning musing. Party on guys…

  19. Tex on 6th February 2010 at 2:22 pm permalink

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spCknVcaSHg

  20. thelonehydrangea on 6th February 2010 at 2:39 pm permalink

    I’m nowhere near as petty as Tom; no one could be that petty. That song is a favourite. I think Tom’s Full Moon Fever is a most enjoyable record indeed. No wonder with Jeff Lynne all over it and helping write a lot of it. All the good ones, anyway :) . I’m waiting for this video to load at the moment and have never seen it before – only the very start of it just now and am pleased as all get out with who is in it :D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlTJrNJ5lA&feature=fvsr

    It’s Sunday morning here Tex and so late/early that the mind can’t process about environment influencing things. Might have to think about that in the environment of bed.

  21. Tex on 6th February 2010 at 3:02 pm permalink

    A Saturday palate-cleansing hip-hop classic…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hZKN4AZ63g

  22. sheryl on 6th February 2010 at 6:54 pm permalink

    inner peace is such a beautiful thing-when i see pictures like this it makes me feel privilidged to be alive-thanks nick for inspiring my inner peace.

  23. Tex on 6th February 2010 at 11:37 pm permalink

    Heading for the Mexican border, greasy Dairy Queen chicken finger basket, fading AM radio reception, blinking neon motel sign, miles of sky. And a classic American road song…

    Ya’ll with me tonight? Of course you are…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hKJbC8Rurg

  24. Elissa on 7th February 2010 at 12:47 am permalink

    I’m with you Tex! I’ve driven that road before to Ciudad Acuna….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkHFjm_9iew

  25. Tex on 7th February 2010 at 12:57 am permalink

    Yee har, Elissa! And guess what? We don’t need no stinking badges! (Sorry, shameless movie quote snipe from the 1948 Bogart film, ‘The Treasures of Sierra Madre’. But you already knew that…)

  26. thelonehydrangea on 7th February 2010 at 6:19 am permalink

    Tex, now I’m thinking about Charleton Heston and dirty stinking apes. I guess there are worse things than thinking about Charleton Heston…

    Ended up listening to Bailero (I don’t know how to get the little thingos over the word) 5 or 6 times until my son must have become sick of it and next thing I heard the song You’re So Strong by Mental as Anything coming loudly from the loungeroom stereo :) . The two together was a bit of an unusual combination. Interesting, though. Different. I can’t find a proper version of You’re So Strong so here is Date With Destiny instead. It’s a much better song anyway.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQVw0Z-BnQM

  27. kate on 7th February 2010 at 11:10 am permalink

    That’s bit more up-beat TLH, need to get a move on today
    ..have to listen to this (a Helen from several weeks back) first tho’

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFxN_DawtOw

  28. Tex on 7th February 2010 at 2:00 pm permalink

    Spit out my tea just now reading the Charlton Heston part!
    Now, I’m coughing… good on ya, maaaate.

  29. Helen on 7th February 2010 at 3:08 pm permalink

    Kate – my most favourite band of the moment (with the exception of Haircut 100 of course )

    :D

  30. Tex on 7th February 2010 at 3:39 pm permalink

    Cup of tea and the slow, easy feel of a Sunday morning…

    Peace.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qtSVqQAULI

  31. thelonehydrangea on 7th February 2010 at 10:58 pm permalink

    Kate, my reaction when that song very first started was to get the giggles because of what that bloke (in hat) was doing with his voice – it sounded so unusual to me – and then I listened to it a couple of times and then the song grew. Ones that grow are good. It has clearly grown on Helen. Any more sightings of Patrick Duffy? :)

    Tex, I really like this one from Chaos and Creation as well. Someone said to me recently that they thought Paul McCartney hadn’t written a decent song since 1969. It’s not true! :D I like the way he says Laff in in it. Such an old Pom, he is.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDXxX2IhT98

  32. thelonehydrangea on 7th February 2010 at 11:02 pm permalink

    I’m very put out today. I put this picture up somewhere last night and it’s been suggested this morning that this man looks as though he has..ummm…areas that would more likely be found on a woman. Now I can’t think of him in the same way :D

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xAeL8qRM0Cc/SeMoB6wY5vI/AAAAAAAACnk/Et2C5AetG2o/s400/adam_and_the_ants_1.jpg

  33. Tex on 8th February 2010 at 12:27 am permalink

    Since we’re having a little festival of sorts, I’ll go ahead and throw in this one. Paul McCartney’s English Ewok moment…

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5rxkQ9bia8

  34. Tex on 8th February 2010 at 2:16 pm permalink

    Dear lonehydrangea,
    I love how you said McCartney is ‘Such an old Pom’….On a English-based website. erheehee…

  35. Tex on 8th February 2010 at 2:21 pm permalink

    And on that note…

    By the way, that is one lovely flare our sun is sporting in our thread photo, isn’t it?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCqsG1t7RoU

  36. Dawn Stancer on 8th February 2010 at 2:58 pm permalink

    Nick this picture is perfect, it reminds me of the small country town I used to live in(no more than 2000 ppl), getting up early to start work, letting the goats out & the chooks(chickens as some common folk call them lol) then walking the 10 minutes to work at the local school, summer mornings was always my favourite time, nice crispy mornings but scorching hot by lunch, kids would go to school in their winter uniform then come home at lunch time to change to their summer uniform. How I miss the tranquility :(

  37. Dawn Stancer on 8th February 2010 at 3:17 pm permalink

    Where on earth is this wonderful dreamy place? I could so pack up my house & kids right now & move there with no questions asked & you wouldnt have to ask me twice as Id be there quicker than you could say “Jack Be Nimble”, I hate the city, to fast but as Ive been told “You can take the girl outta the country but not the country outta the girl”

  38. Andrew on 8th February 2010 at 3:56 pm permalink

    Why the pot hole police have been filling in … keep to the b roads in our time …

  39. Tex on 8th February 2010 at 4:25 pm permalink

    You noticed that too, huh? Yeah, I think they do it just to remind us they are here by virtue of pure unadulterated irritation.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmbzU6DGeno

  40. Dawn Stancer on 8th February 2010 at 4:45 pm permalink

    Andrew & Tex: nah its a speed hump the cops put in place to make things more interesting lol

  41. thelonehydrangea on 8th February 2010 at 11:55 pm permalink

    Tex, I only said that about McCartney because he is one :D . Sort of a fitting comment on a website run by an…a disgustingly young and fit looking person, especially a peace taker :) . Old Pom just seems to Go in the way that e.g Old Yank or Old Aussie Doesn’t. It is an affectionate thing, I think, and is not intended to offend anyone. Actually, I think if someone said: Oh that old Aussie ******* (Mystery Word) – that would have more of the same tone about it. Then there are the Irish – the old Fureys

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jme-IatH5tQ

  42. Tex on 9th February 2010 at 1:53 am permalink

    Aw, not to worry,lonehydrangea.
    I knew where your heart was but just had to tease you a little tonight.

    ; )

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