Neil Young -“Through My Sails”

by Ebb Then Flood

NY’s 1975 song is my song of 2018 – lots of brilliant new stuff in the musical cosmos ,but this is the one that meant the most to me personally – great playing, harmonies and lyrics, a simple song really but amazing nonetheless. It helped in some tough times, and was a friend to me…lyrics below:

Through My Sails

Still glaring from the city lights

Into paradise I soared

Unable to come down

For reasons I’d ignored

 

Total confusion

Disillusion

New things I’m knowing

 

I’m standing on the shoreline

It’s so fine out there

Leaving with the wind blowing

But love takes care

 

Know me, know me

Show me, show me

New things I’m knowing

 

Wind blowing through my sails

It feels like I’m gone

Leaving with the wind blowing

Through my sails

 

Consider The Lilies

by Ebb Then Flood

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“Consider the lilies of the field whose bloom is brief :- we are as they; like them we fade away, as a leaf does.” – Christina Rosetti

My comment : I was reminded earlier in the year that life is actually really fragile, when I survived a close brush with death – all the more reason to enjoy and treasure the times of bloom.

Zen Wintergarden

by Ebb Then Flood

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Sometimes things get out of their place and time; it can be that way for us too.

This image is of flora housed in a fantastical glass pavilion, a conservatory. In this artificial bubble, plants that have no place to be where they are right now, thrive.

Being  a bit, or even completely, out of sync with the outside world doesn’t mean that growth cannot occur…

 

SPILL FEATURE: ASTRAL WEEKS – 50 YEARS LATER: THE STORY OF VAN MORRISON’S MYSTICAL MASTERPIECE | The Spill Magazine

by Ebb Then Flood

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Hard to believe it is half  a century since the release of this album. Excellent story from Spill Magazine on its background and creation. I marvel that Van was only 22 at the time. While not my favourite of his -I really have to be  in the  mood  for it  – there is a reason it is up there in the pantheon of rock albums critics’ picks;it is an ambitious and seamless record, melding different musical genres together into something special.

– Andy L.

 

ASTRAL WEEKS – 50 YEARS LATER THE STORY OF VAN MORRISON’S MYSTICAL MASTERPIECE In 1967 Van Morrison had himself a top-ten single with “Brown-Eyed Girl”. Today the song is his most well-known and can be heard daily on any classic rock themed radio station and is a staple for any bar band. However, the artist who penned it does not quite share the same views of it that the public has. Since it was released, Morrison has had mixed feelings with the song and has tried to distance himself from it as much as possible. In early 1968, the Belfast native moved to Boston with his then wife Janet “Planet” …

Source: SPILL FEATURE: ASTRAL WEEKS – 50 YEARS LATER: THE STORY OF VAN MORRISON’S MYSTICAL MASTERPIECE | The Spill Magazine

Under The Wharf, Above The Waves ( II )

by Ebb Then Flood

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Some thoughts on this and the preceding picture: They are about that place that is neither/nor. On the wharf, people wait for boats to come and go, maybe fish , gaze upon or leap into the sea, where , below the waves ,marine life teems in the place it totally belongs to.In between is the nowhere zone – dank timber deteriorating over time, rough barnacles hanging on grimly. And sometimes that is where we find ourselves ,but even then, there is light beyond and enough support to give hope.