Don't just DO something, SIT there

 We never give up on love.  Until we stop being human, the desire to love and be loved is for ever.  Only love itself, in its many different appearances, seems to come and go - hence the stories and songs of love found and love lost.  This verse is from 'Come All ye Fair and Tender Ladies' (a Mountain Song): 'I wish I'd known before I courted  / that love would be so hard to find / I'd have locked my heart in a box of golden / and tied it down with a silver pin'.   I'm coming to accept that I grew up in a household without love. A boyfriend noticed this years ago when he spent time in my family house.  I was so used to this experience it just became the atmosphere I lived in - and I adapted and functioned quite well.  Even so, like plants without sun or good soil, we may survive but not fully flourish or bloom.  Unless perhaps you're a certain type of wildflower which only blooms on poor soil!  Wow - yes, so many creative people, ...

Today is officially the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and the Equinox - equal day and night.  It's also the anniversary of Osho's enlightenment as a young man in 1953.   But why 'a love supreme'?  For lovers of jazz and soulful music,  A Love Supreme is John Coltrane's masterpiece.  I chose this title after last week's live gig by the 'Coltrane Dedication Quintet' in Narberth, Pembrokeshire.  Hearing the four notes by the bass player repeated again and again - 'a love su-preme, a love su-preme'   ("Acknowledgement", Part I) I was transported back to hearing this amazing LP decades ago.  It  is a spiritual work -  Coltrane admitted that he didn’t own his talent but was channelling a higher power. He had the discipline, the tools and the technique, but the actual music seemed to happen by itself.  This is an example of skill combined with 'allowing love to happen' leading to sublime results.  Archie Shepp w...