Starry Nights and Sunlit Days
This is the beautiful song dedicated to Van Gogh set to his paintings, it is soothing
and thought provoking. ( Music Don McClean) I like to think that VanGogh would have appreciated YouTube.
Share it with your kids...your loved ones.
( If you want to know WHY I can't sleep....read about the Lancet Study below).
8 comments:
I don't sleep well myself. I haven't really slept well since I was pulling guard duty as a soldier in Vietnam in 1969. We'd sleep wherever we could and whenever we could, but if we weren'y being woken up by gunfire, we were awakened by our warrior brothers who would tell us it's our turn to be awake and watch the perimeter.
Long after the Vietnam war is over, these habits of a few hours of sleep at a time persist. It is not uncommon in my life to sleep for a few, then be awake with a feeling of uneasiness as I walk the perimeter of my own home, trying to survive the night from a dream or the feeling that I must serve again and continue to fight with a weapon in my hands.
Sleeping pills help sometimes, but I am afraid of addiction. I already have fought off two addictions, alcohol and drugs, and the third, gambling rears its ugly head from time to time. I just don't want to worry about sleeping pill addiction. When I am tired to the point of exhaustion, I'll fall asleep for a time, then wake up and do it again.
It is no easier for me to read the things you post and other posts that call our attentions to the atrocities of war and in this sitting presidents inability to comprimise or lead our country into a ceasefire if not a who;le out end to his made up war based on lies.
I know that there are many that do not sleep. I pray for them as I lie awake wishing myself golden slumber. Hope we all get some rest soon.
Peace.
sorry about the typographical errors. Fat finger syndrome and no proofreading skills. :-)
Speaking of sleeping...Peter Boyle, R.I.P. You will be missed.
i love this song...i was around when it first came out...
spadoman, I know what you mean about waiting to the point of exhaustion. Hope you have nice starry nights to look up at when you simply cannot sleep.
I saw Don in concert a few yrs ago. He still has exactly the same crystal clear voice. The whole audience cried during this song. Thanks for posting it, enigma. We are fortunate Vincent's brother Theo saved so much of his work. ~~ D.K.
SPADO: well, certainly don't worry about typos..we all make them....First thank you for serving our country.....We have a fair number of VETS that come here- I love them all- and always give them coffee on the house....It sounds like you have suffered the after effects of what you went through. Now finally and sadly more is known about PTSD, and yet there are over atleast 100,000 VETS suffering with it daily, and we need to learn more and try harder to care for this disorder....and the effects it brings to those around...it effects whole famlies...but first would be to PREVENT it....We need to bring the troops home- all of them from Iraq- they are in a place that can not be healed with their presence....And then when they get home we need to care for them and honor them and the hell our asshole king has put them through....
I think art and music are very healing...and essential in these restless times...this blog is many things..a place to vent, laugh, and think and sometimes dance and sometimes be immersed in something else...but is also a community .....even for us midnight bloggers...
Lucky: Thank you so much for the RIP....I will blog on him later....so sad...but a great vid clip...
DK: yup Don is wonderful.... I saw him too...he never ages...and yes we do owe Theo a big thank you for saving such art...
thanks AZ for comng by....
December 23
I watched "Vincent and Theo" today on Sundance, really really welldone and beautiful- but gee not a good Christmas movie...at all
And yes, Theo really did save his Paintings , in the midst of his own dying...so sad.
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