Depeche Mode: Higher Love

I can taste more than feel
This burning inside is so real
I can almost lay my hands upon
The warm glow that lingers on

Moved, lifted higher
Moved, my soul's on fire
Moved, by a higher love

I surrender all control
To the desire that consumes me whole
Leads me by the hand to infinity
Lies in wait at the heart of me

Moved, lifted higher
Moved, my soul's on fire
Moved, by a higher love

Heaven bound on the wings of love
There's so much that you can rise above

Moved, lifted higher
Moved, moved, by a higher love
By a higher love

I surrender heart and soul
Sacrificed to a higher goal

Moved, moved by a higher love
By a higher love

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This afternoon was superlative; attending surgery, waiting in the beautiful feng shui waiting room that capivates me, not, and seeing a glorious needle shoot into the top right part of my...arm! Yes, of my choosing, no cheek now, and I love watching the injection process, because after months of spinal pain, a mere needlepoint, even if it is a spurter is not so off-putting really, but what did make my blood rush with increasing vigour, was the fact that my spinal treatment scans, tests etc have still not arrived. I'll have to wait until December 23rd, joy to the world.

So, with that I hobbled into my rental car, pushed-in Depeche Mode, 1993, Songs of Faith Hope and Devotion and set about a drive into the sunset, along tracks and runs I knew so well in years past, when I first managed to handle the wheel, and also enjoyed Depeche Mode at that time, and they've been with me ever since schooldays, very reassuring really.

Are there any bands who follow you, comfortingly, through life?

The sunset, along narrowing lanes, still enclosed with rusted oak leaves, was muddied, and empty, the caramel sky tinting the car as Walking in My Shoes fed the imagination and stoked the memories, cascading down mid-Norfolk valley's, threatened, trampled, firm, and amazingly little-changed. The northern by-pass will trounce, a filthy Council-proposed insinerator will pollute, a housing development will scar, but nothing can destory what is mightier than us all. We think a tree can never move, a field never oppose, a river never change course, but actually nature travels further than any human, it traverses the wholeness of time, with a fullness of life, way beyond what we understand, even now. It excels where we fall.

My injection is making me hot, so paracetemol and off to bed.
Bonuit mon brave

If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, If you teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime (Confucius)

Colour: Sky blue and sunset orange
Music: Depeche Mode: The Mercy in You
Linkin Park: Hybrid Theory
Reading: EEN

Some very interesting Thai beliefs which I learnt over there, regarding creatures landing near you.
I was taught these by a revered Thai lady, and noted them down.
Please enjoy them too;

(1) If the creature lands in front of you and its tail points to you: you will be lucky, you will receive precious gifts and the angels will look after you.

(2) If the creature lands in front of you and its tail points to your right: you will get presents from your relations.

(3) If the creature lands in front of you and its tail points to your left: you and your relations will be in danger or ill. You should go and make merit straight away.

(4) If the creature lands on your left hand: you will have good luck and you will either inherit something expensive, get a promotion or live a happy life.

(5) If the creature falls down and hits your right hand: bad things will happen to the people in your family. There will be no happiness in your life.

(6) If the creature lands in the middle of a circle of people: everyone should be careful as bad things could happen to each and every person.

(7) If one of these creatures falls down dead in the street while you are walking by: bad things might happen which might cause you to bleed and consequently die.

(8) If one of these creatures falls down in the street and manages to crawl away unassisted: bad things might happen, you will get injured or get involved in a fight.

บางครั้งก็เป็นการยากอย่างยิ่งที่จะนำความคิดของเราม ากล่าวด้วยคำพูดอันเหมาะสมได้

baang krang gor bpen gaan yaak yaang ying tee ja nam kwaam kit kong rao maa glaao duay kam poot an mor som daai
(It is sometimes difficult to find words appropriate enough to express our ideas)

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The weather is mild and dry; I stayed out far into the twilight; for to-day no troops were marching past; when they are at Vitré, I am obliged reluctantly to withdraw an hour earlier.
-Madame de Sévigné, December 15th, 1675

caught on the horizon, I see you
standing here I'm within your glow
today, tomorrow till time doesn't know
finding no distance, a hunger calling further

untroubled by the false dawn
I'm setting upon your sun so radiant
shielding my eyes, entwined in your warmth
comforting heartbeats, our loving breath

looking away hastens a returning glance
silence calls such longing trance
forever gripped this shrugging frame
soothed by desire's flickering flame

eyes open for your smile so sweet
senses alive, your touch I greet
heart open to your love embraced
mind savours a oneness graced