http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaGHVq4zYLQ&feature=related
from Simon and Garfunkel
November 7, 2008
Sound of Silence
Sound of Silence
by Simon and Garfunkel
Hello darkness, my old friend,
I’ve come to talk with you again,
Because a vision softly creeping,
Left its seeds while I was sleeping,
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence.
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
‘Neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.
And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more.
People talking without speaking,
People hearing without listening,
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.
“Fools” said I, “You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows.
Hear my words that I might teach you,
Take my arms that I might reach you.”
But my words like silent raindrops fell,
And echoed
In the wells of silence.
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made.
And the sign flashed out its warning,
In the words that it was forming.
And the sign said, “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls.“
And whisper’d in the sounds of silence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhdGkZ6Fngw
2 Corinthians 4 v7-9
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild
Christopher McCandless
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Christopher Johnson McCandless | |
Christopher McCandless in his camp on the Stampede Trail (self-portrait found undeveloped in his camera at the time of his death)
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| Born | February 12, 1968 Southern California, USA |
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| Died | August 18, 1992 (aged 24) Stampede Trail, Alaska, USA |
| Parents | Walt and Billie McCandless |
Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968 – August 18, 1992) was an American wanderer who hiked into the Alaskan wilderness with little food and equipment, hoping to live a period of solitude. Nearly five months later, he died of starvation near Denali National Park and Preserve. In 1996, Jon Krakauer wrote a book about his life, Into the Wild, which inspired a 2007 film of the same name (with Emile Hirsch portraying McCandless.)
Quite a story.
A poem from the beginning of the film from Lord Byron
There is pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society where none intrudes
By the deep sea, and music in it roar
I love not man the less, but nature more
Nat King Cole L-O-V-E
NAT KING COLE L-O-V-E
