A DREAM --- PRISCILLA AHN

We all should have such dreams and live such full lives. A new artist (to me) I came across when wandering through halls laden with music and tunes. Hope you enjoy her voice as much as I did.
Her new album

DREAM
written and performed by Priscilla Ahn

I was a little girl alone in my little world who dreamed of a little home for me.
I played pretend between the trees, and fed my houseguests bark and leaves, and laughed in my pretty bed of green.

I had a dream
That I could fly from the highest swing.
I had a dream.

Long walks in the dark through woods grown behind the park, I asked God who I'm supposed to be.
The stars smiled down on me, God answered in silent reverie. I said a prayer and fell asleep.

I had a dream
That I could fly from the highest tree.
I had a dream.

Now I'm old and feeling grey. I don't know what's left to say about this life I'm willing to leave.
I lived it full and I lived it well, there's many tales I've lived to tell. I'm ready now, I'm ready now, I'm ready now to fly from the highest wing.

I had a dream

MY MUSE IS STILL MISSING, BUT I FOUND MY GUARDIAN ANGELS

Yes, sad to report, my muse is still missing, but on the bright side I did find my Guardian Angels,





and that sure does explain a lot that has happened in my life.
                       

  

MYSTERY MEAT ???????

It is no wonder a Sausage company helped sponsor this research. . .we have come a long way from that brown gravy over toast served in school cafeterias, and that strange looking pinkish rectangle in the blue can. . .I just cannot figure what direction we went in. . .

MEAT GROWN IN LABRATORY; A WORLD FIRST
from The Telegraph.co.uk on-line edition, science section; Nov. 29, 2009

Researchers in the Netherlands created what was described as soggy pork and are now investigating ways to improve the muscle tissue in the hope that people will one day want to eat it.

No one has yet tasted their produce, but it is believed the artificial meat could be on sale within five years. 

Vegetarian groups welcomed the news, saying there was “no ethical objection” if meat was not a piece of a dead animal.

Mark Post, professor of physiology at Eindhoven University, told The Sunday Times: “What we have at the moment is rather like wasted muscle tissue. We need to find ways of improving it by training it and stretching it, but we will get there. 

“This product will be good for the environment and will reduce animal suffering. If it feels and tastes like meat, people will buy it.

“You could take the meat from one animal and create the volume of meat previously provided by a million animals.”

The scientists extracted cells from the muscle of a live pig and then put them in a broth of other animal products. The cells then multiplied and created muscle tissue. They believe that it can be turned into something like steak if they can find a way to artificially "exercise" the muscle.

The project is backed by the Dutch government and a sausage maker and comes following the creation of artificial fish fillets from goldfish muscle cells.

Meat produced in a laboratory could reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with real animals.

Meat and dairy consumption is predicted to double by 2050 and methane from livestock is said to currently produce about 18 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gases.

Animal rights group Peta said: “As far as we’re concerned, if meat is no longer a piece of a dead animal there’s no ethical objection.”

However the Vegetarian Society said: “The big question is how could you guarantee you were eating artificial flesh rather than flesh from an animal that had been slaughtered.

“It would be very difficult to label and identify in a way that people would trust.”

(Did anyone else start thinking of that classic Charlton Heston movie, SOYLENT GREEN as you were reading this??)

 

  

ODD ONE OUT -- PICTURE PERFECT

Is one odder than the next?







Camera is a Kodak Z612 Easyshare.  Some Orbs I have collected.  Every Orb, is a good Orb.

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SHOSHOLOZA THE DRAKENSBURG BOYS CHOIR

I do not think there are many things that are as powerful and as moving as massed voices.  I came across these young men when searching for music from The Mississippi Mass Choir.  I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.  The first part is showing the parts of the song, the second is the entire Choir singing, the change in energy and power that is felt is overwhelming! You cannot help but smile.  I hope you feel recharged and energized as I did. Heather, consider this an early Happy Birthday from the Homeland.  Enjoy.

(Following entry from the Wikipeida Encyclopedia)

Shosholoza is a traditional Southern African folk song. The song was traditionally sung by all-male work gangs in a call and response style.

The song has been recorded by a variety of artists, including Helmut Lotti, Ladysmith Black Mombazo, PJ Powers, The Glue, Soweto Gospel Choir, and Peter Gabriel,  as well as being a standard of most gumboot bands. The song gained further popularity after South Africa won the 1995 Rugby World Cup, and is a favourite at sport events in South Africa.

The Zulu word Shosholoza means go forward or make way for the next man, and is also reminiscent of the sound made by the steam train (stimela) described in the song. The song has also given its name to Team Shosholoza, the first African challenger for the America's Cup, and to Shosholoza Meyl, the long-distance passenger train service operating in South Africa.

The lyrics of the song vary, as do the transcriptions. Here is one example:

Shosholoza

Ku lezontaba

Stimela siphum' eSouth Africa

Wen' uyabaleka

Wen' uyabaleka

Ku lezontaba

Stimela siphum' eSouth Africa

A rough translation:

Move fast

on those mountains

train from South Africa.

You are running away

on those mountains

train from South Africa.

The original version has the country name Rhodesia instead of South Africa, since this song was sung by migrant labourers from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) travelling on the train down to the mines in the Transvaal.