i just sang a song to my sleeping wife and child. it was just simple descending chords on an acoustic guitar with a vocal line…”we’ve seen this moon light a million times, and it’s like the first time”.
the line is nothing special, and it just came out, literally as they slept and as i sat with guitar and a view of the moon.

in regards to what robbi talks about in the sense of longing, i think looking at the moonlight and trying to grasp it’s light in this context of what it is now and what it was before we even existed is an interesting thing.
it’s a simple perspective, but at the same time it presents a strange sense of wonder. what was it like before human existence? was the earth full of serenity? was it volatile as it was so young and still forming? what was the moonlight like then? was it the same or different as to what it looks like now?
ultimately this wonder is just a light source that leads back to godhead. (even if godhead doesn’t exist).
getting back to the source. how we came to be, and if there is a purpose or if it’s all just random.
either way, the fact that through music and through song, like many other forms, this ultimate question gets subconsciously asked in the love song through longing and discovery. who am i? who are you? who are we?…(who are the who?…ha!).

from woody guthrie, to dylan and to mark knopfler…who wrote an amazing modern version of romeo and juliet on dire straights making movies record.
to this day, that song hits me like a ton of bricks about all the relationships gone bad with the sense of longing and loss.

i really appreciate robbi’s mention of john lennon in the context of longing and love.
“mother” and “god” are good representations.
in lennon’s “god”, it’s his longing for humanism. this song is so connected to imagine it’s quite amazing if you think about it. to get beyond religious dogma and the longing for that realization… is pure love.

past, present and future is summed up by ziggy marley…’you don’t know the past you don’t know ya future”.

the longing is all around us. it’s not about not having what you want, it’s about owning the not in what you don’t have. nurturing that to see if it can grow into something, anything.
what have we got to lose?
the song of love and the love of song.

leonard cohen longing on a full moon night!

the song’s of greek rembetico, another great example…
all of it gives us the reminder and the sustenance of living life to the fullest.

working to live, not living to work.

love song and the song of despair, becoming one….

hallelujah!