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Edit out anything you are not referring to. mad-mission-digest Monday, March 19 2007 Volume 11 : Number 086 Today's Subjects: ----------------- MM: No PG From Neil Young ["Jim Murphy" ] MM: Philly Show ["Jim Murphy" ] MM: philly show tickets ["Jim Murphy" ] MM: patty and John [debora le May ] Re: MM: patty and John [babadelaney@aol.com] Re: MM: starbucks [babadelaney@aol.com] Re: MM: starbucks [MELPSU@aol.com] Re: MM: starbucks ["NICOLE DEWALL" ] MM: Patty in Boulder ["Bridget Buchen" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:37:39 -0500 From: "Jim Murphy" Subject: MM: No PG From Neil Young A best moment in music? Sometimes when I'm playing my guitar, I get to a point where it gets very cold and icy inside me. It's very refreshing. Every breath is like you're at the North Pole. Your head starts to freeze. Your inhalations are big-more air than you ever thought there is starts pouring in. There's something magical about it. Sometimes when it happens, you wonder if you're gonna be okay. Can you handle it? Yes, there was something good that came out of having polio as a kid. Walking. The sound of a harmonica hits you directly. There's no language barrier. The wisest person I ever met had to be my companion in the hospital. I was recovering from complications after an operation to remove an aneurism in my brain. She was about eighty-five years old and maybe five feet tall. An old black lady from South Carolina. This young nurse wasn't really in touch with what she was doing, and the old lady would tell her how to do what she needed to do without telling her. She never talked down to her, just gave examples. I felt that this old woman must be deeply religious, but there was nothing forceful about her. I woke up one morning at a quarter to six and looked out the window. Fog was on the bridge outside the room, and I said, "Well, that's just beautiful." And she said: "Yes, it is." She turned toward me with this eighty-five-year-old face that didn't have a line on it, no strain, nothing, and she said: "So the master's not taking you. It's not your turn." Courage is a mindless thing. People say, "Wow! How could you do that?" And you say, "How could I not do that?" It's like having two eyes. You either look through one eye or you look through the other. Or you look through both of them. Sex is sex. Love is love. Love and sex is clear vision. There's something peaceful about boxing. If you beat the hell out of a bag or go against a competitor, you and your reflexes will be so at one that you won't have time to think about anything else. You have to be totally yourself to box. When I was six, I really didn't know what God was. But I did know about Sunday school. I was reading a lot about God, but I was bored. I couldn't wait to get out of Sunday school. God was secondary to the whole thing. But as time went by, I got more and more angry, to the point where I didn't like religion. Hate is a strong word. But I just kept getting angrier and angrier . . . until finally I wasn't angry anymore. I was just peaceful, because I thought: This is not fruitful for me. I rejected the whole thing and found peace in paganism. Jesus didn't go to church. I went way back before Jesus. Back to the forest, to the wheat fields, to the river, to the ocean. I go where the wind is. That's my church. Epilepsy taught me that we're not in control of ourselves. Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it. Our education system basically strives for normal -- which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside. One thing that has come out of having children with cerebral palsy is strength. At first it made me very angry. I was almost looking for a fight. I was always looking for someone to criticize my son in my presence. I would envision different scenarios in which I would become violent reacting to people's reactions to my children -- especially to my severely handicapped child. Eventually, he taught me that was not necessary. Just by being himself. By being a gift to us. He showed us how to have faith and belief and inner strength and to never give up. I look around and see people hurting themselves for no reason. Drinking too much. Taking drugs. Beating themselves up in some psychological way. That really bothers me, knowing that these people got everything they needed to succeed. All they have to do is believe in themselves and in the gifts they're wasting. And yet there are all these other people on the planet who have none of the gifts that are apparent. The gifts are all locked up inside, yet their spirits are so strong that they just keep on going. And I think: This person who has this spirit, why can't he have some of the outward gifts? Maybe this is a little too thoughtful, but we're all just passengers in a way. The best is approaching. I have everything -- well, not everything, but a lot of things that I've accumulated through my life experiences. It's easier to communicate through music than it ever has been before. It's easier to play. It's easier to sing. It's easier to write. Nothing is forced. When my doctor discovered the aneurism in my brain, he said I'd had it for about a hundred years. He told me I'd had it for such a long time that I shouldn't worry about it . but that we'd have to get rid of it immediately. Yeah, that's Zen medicine. He's very wise. I trusted him completely. All the people who took care of me were absolutely the best at what they do -- even though there was a complication, a complication that has a one-in-twenty-seven-hundred chance of happening in my type of operation. They go into your brain through an artery in your thigh. Later, when I was out of the hospital, my leg exploded. I was out on the street and it just popped. My shoe was full of blood. I was in some serious trouble. I was about fifty yards from the hotel and I just made it. The ambulance came about ten minutes later. I don't know if I need to go into this. I don't know if the event is important. But the result was. That's what led me to that lady. The wisest person I've ever met. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 08:51:02 -0500 From: "Jim Murphy" Subject: MM: Philly Show Mann Center June 16, 2007 with John Prine ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:00:02 -0500 From: "Jim Murphy" Subject: MM: philly show tickets http://www.manncenter.org/calendar/view.asp?id=10046000 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:24:48 -0400 From: debora le May Subject: MM: patty and John Saw John a couple years ago up here- and with Bonnie... Maybe John is the surprise Boston Guest? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 12:32:39 -0400 From: babadelaney@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: patty and John I'll be seeing the Boston show. Who's this John guy? -Ally http://www.myspace.com/21delaneys - -----Original Message----- From: debora@midcoast.com To: mad-mission@smoe.org Sent: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:24 AM Subject: MM: patty and John Saw John a couple years ago up here- and with Bonnie... Maybe John is the surprise Boston Guest? ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:01:31 -0400 From: babadelaney@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: starbucks I can relate....cause I heard Patty's new Heavenly Day playing in Barnes and Noble. She definitely is becoming more mainstream. It's long overdue!!! I also read ...here I think...thaT HEAVENLY DAY WAS ABOUT HER DOG! :-) LISTEN TO IT WITH THAT IN MIND...SORRY BOUT THE CAPS. IT JUST KINDA HAPPENED; I'M NOT SHOUTING.... - -Ally http://www.myspace.com/21delaneys - -----Original Message----- From: molly@mollymagdalain.com To: mad-mission@smoe.org Sent: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 2:58 PM Subject: MM: starbucks I was very proud . . . this morning i heard some of Patty's music playing in the starbucks store at the corner of Allen and Delancey - lower east side - New York City. the fact that she's becoming more mainstream is a good sign in my opinion!!! Molly Magdalain http://www.mollymagdalain.com/ http://www.myspace.com/mollymagdalainmusic "States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions." Noam Chomsky ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:09:32 EDT From: MELPSU@aol.com Subject: Re: MM: starbucks And I heard Stay on the Ride this a.m. in a Starbucks inbedded in a Super Target in Leesburg, Va. I was the only one smiling and singing along. Great stuff. ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 15:42:05 -0700 From: "NICOLE DEWALL" Subject: Re: MM: starbucks Not only Starbucks..... I heard Patty playing in Barnes and Noble last week, looked over and the cashier was singing NBN =) !!!! Life is about simple pleasures! Breathe! ----- Original Message ----- From: MELPSU@aol.com To: BabaDelaney@aol.com ; molly@mollymagdalain.com ; mad-mission@smoe.org Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 10:09 AM Subject: Re: MM: starbucks And I heard Stay on the Ride this a.m. in a Starbucks inbedded in a Super Target in Leesburg, Va. I was the only one smiling and singing along. Great stuff. ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:18:41 -0500 From: "Bridget Buchen" Subject: MM: Patty in Boulder I have 2nd row center tickets for this friday! wooohooo!!!! ------------------------------ End of mad-mission-digest V11 #86 *********************************