Band of Horses - Is There a Ghost (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Is There a Ghost .....

".... I could sleep.... I could sleep....." The Cienna "CC" song of all songs!! See the separate post with the video.

Sometimes it takes the peace and wisdom and gentle insanity of a child to remind me of what counts. My son usually provides this balance, but of late, a little 3 year old a 'tude and her little singing voice does the job sometimes. This is the song by Band of Horses that comes up in many venues, both personal and legal, in my world of late. I hope i successfully pasted the link here or else it will have to follow. The ghost in my computer is running amok these days.

September

I have loved September most all of my life because the cooling of summer is what those of us in the desert wait for. The cooling is like a drink of crisp water on the parched tongue. My best writings, perhaps with the exception of today, emerge during the cooling. My best balance hits that sweet spot during the sun's journey to the solstice.

Today, I woke up hating today, but not for the reason most Americans are hating today. I woke up hating today because it memorializes the definitive mark of the end of my union, marriage and more importantly partnership. Many families were severed after the social schism took place. Kind of reminded me of the Berlin wall actually. None of us in my family, Protestant or Muslim, think it was ok what happened in the airplane bombings. But this is a selfish day for me now, and with months of discussion about how we handled the change in tone and freedom after the "change" in foreign policy, I think we are clear, the both of us, that we allowed the social schism to cut all of us apart.

Hindsight tells us we didn't have to succumb to it, but history tells us we did.