Our World Is Our Magic

There are magic places in our world.

Does magic exist..many believe that it does.
Which magic places have you visited?
Is magic dangerous…it can be, depending on who or why someone practices.

Stonehenge…Britain

I once met Dusty Miller. His family dates back to the druids. Quite a character!
His family has made magic wands for generations.
He made wands for the film Harry Potter. He lives on a Ley line. Ley lines are drawn between ancient monuments and are said to contain pure energy, so the trees around his house are on a Ley line.

Megalithic temple Gozo, sister island of Malta.

Wales is a mystical country, and their language was used by the elves in Lord of the rings.

Once driving across the Preseli hills in Wales, a ghostly figure blocked our road. It turned out to be a white horse. It stood in the moonlight unmoving in the middle of the road for about an hour, its mane blowing in the wind. My friend got out of the car dancing with excitement. She had lived in Wales for twenty years and had never been close to the famous white horses only seen in the hills from a distance.
Wales is the land of King Arthur, Merlin and Morgan le Fey, the Queen of Witches.

Have you ever performed any rituals or spells or played music for magical purposes, eg to attract a person, for luck, or protection?

Brides wear something borrowed, something blue, and some stones are said to have different qualities, like your birthstone.
I bought a rose quartz stone Buddha in Albany and unusual stones for friends.
Do you buy beautiful stones or wear them? Gold gives protection, and is liquified light from the beginning of time. I was given a ring that I love with emeralds, sapphires and rubies. I always admired the ring, and while I was phoning at the airport my friend held my bag. When I arrived home after my flight, my friend had placed the ring in my bag. I consider it a lucky ring!

Ley lines

Sadly, Red is no longer on LFE. He chose to be with family in his final years. His LFE family will miss him.
We all have to choose if given the grace to choose, how to spend our final years. May he find peace. We all loved Red.

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Lian and Kieran

Stories, Images, And Metaphors In Songs

Lady in Red was written By Chris de Burgh about his beautiful wife who was dressed in red.

Chris DeBurgh - lady In Red

Later when Princess Diana was ‘outed’ by the royals and was stripped of her title, the song symbolized Diana. He risked his position by befriending Diana, but the people supported Diana and declared her the people’s princess.

Many people have a story to tell. Life experiences can relate to a story, as do songs.
Johnny Cash was in prison one time, and heard a train passing and wrote a song about the freedom that alluded him.
The Green Green Grass of Home by Tom Jones is also about someone in prison wishing for freedom.

Tom Jones - Green Green Grass Of Home

In songs, there are many hidden political references to people or their lives, sad songs, songs of loss, and hidden storylines. The Beatles used many references…eg. The Fool On The Hill was a reference to the White House.

The Beatles - The Fool On The Hill

Imagine by John Lennon, of how the world could be without prejudice.

Horror Business by Misfits…. has a dark reference to a murder alleged to have been committed by Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols. I saw them once at a shop opening and had to dodge the vomiting…ugh.

Misfits - Horror Business

Leonard Cohen had a powerful romance on a Greek island, then left his lady and child to seek fame and fortune. The biggest regret of his life. On his deathbed, he proclaimed his great love had never died.

Leonard Cohen - So Long, Marianne

Being an artist…I can enjoy the images conjured in one of my favorites Starry Starry Night, that’s so beautiful.

And there’s a place in my heart for Evita sung by Madonna. I didn’t know of Evita until the song, so we can also gain knowledge from listening to songs, or perhaps identify with a situation and the feelings encapsulated.

Enjoy your music, chat, memes, gifs, trailers, and old friends here, share your music and stories.

Lian and Kieran

The only way to travel! Travel adventures

I just love boats, but not huge cruise liners.
I nearly bought a narrow boat, but was afraid it might sink. They need a lot of maintenance!

The canals in Britain are a different life style, a silent way to travel and be at peace with the world. A wonderful experience.

In my twenties, I was living on a farm called Manor Farm.
For a few, who know part of my life story, I was homeless as a teen. I had the good fortune to move into the house of a film director, who was Danish. I lived with her teenage kids, of similar age to me, in a beautiful townhouse.
She was away for six months, and I had never met her.
I went downstairs one day, and there she was…‘Hello, I’m Ann, and you can stay!’

Much later, an envelope plopped through my letter box. My partner had a lead role in a film. I was to be an extra and work in the catering team.
We hired two barges, one for catering and the other for the filming.
The story was of three guys who had to deliver a narrow boat from Knapton Juction, Warwickshire to London for as much as they could drink along the way. The canal is 137 miles in length, ending in the Regents canal that goes through the  London zoo.
The teens in the family chose to sleep on the filming narrow boat and I with my partner on the catering boat. Everyone else chose hotels with all expenses paid. The boat appealed to the Gypsy in my soul. More peaceful too.
The filming took place in a frosty, icy February for six weeks. The budget was shoestring. The canal was the Grand Union. It was cold and icebreakers cleared our journey every day for filming.
The landscapes were magical, with frost sparkling in watery sunshine. The town showed the backs of houses not as smart as driving through main streets. My other job was as a runner on flights of locks. One lock was against us uphill, and I had to run with a large key to open all the 30 locks with a corresponding partner on the other side of the canal.
Evenings, we either watched the days filming, in a hotel, or frequented the old fashioned pubs, socializing and playing skittles or shove  halfpenny. Very old traditional games.
As an extra, I walked along the river bank my long blond hair blowing in the wind flirting with the three stars in our film. It was a beautiful sort of travelogue, but although the director had won awards previously, not much happened with the movie. It was sold to Spanish television. I only saw one copy a few years later. So I can’t even show you a clip.

Narrow boats are traditional and were used for transporting heavy goods. They are painted in dark green and red, painted with flowers. They were horse drawn originally. They traveled in pairs, the first boat transported heavy goods. The family’s who owned the boats lived in the second boat called a butty.

Have you had any boating adventures? Do you love boats? Or another form of home or travel?
Our theme is travel, boats, and your travel adventures.
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Enjoy… Lian and Kieran

Backwards, Forwards, Round and Round to Nowhereland. Where Are We Going To?

We never learn from history, we repeat the same mistakes again and again.
We recently put the clocks forward, later in the Autumn we will put them back? Summertime is better, isnt it?

Is progress moving backwards or forwards? I really do wonder with some of the crazy ideas like micro chips on humans, using poor animals to experiment on.
Certainly no respect for the pain on amimals to achieve a goal? If misused will we all suffer?

Is good music moving forwards?
Few of us here like Rap or want to listen to really modern music.
We do like to return to Rock or the Boogie, or the sixties or seventies.

We think rap and many types of modern music is backwards, yet we are reverting to the past.
Can’t beat some classical, but rarely so we listen these days.

Then in the sixties there appeared to be hidden agendas in music. Easy to spot in Pink Floyd.

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall

Norman Gunston interviews Paul McCartney 1975

Butthole Surfers - Pepper

Yet some crazies thought music was beckoning them to commit crimes, such as Charles Mansion, who believed he was resurrected as Christ and should kill.

The Beatles - Helter Skelter

I Don’t Like Mondays was inspired by a school shoot out.

There have always been hidden messages in advertising, playing on emotions!
Some political goals will never succeed and actually damage real progress.
The world appears to be less optimistic. Does money make the world go around or power?

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Lian and Kieran.