1954, I heard on the radio a song about an old house and an old man who had become too tired to fix it even further. Now I myself am grown old, but I still play guitar and make uploads to soundcloud, so if time, listen to my fingers:
https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/old-house-dobro
title=”With an increasing twist” – photo by im pastor rick, kindly sent to my group BLOG IT! – click on the picture to enter Pastor Rick’s photo galleries on Flickr.com
Billy Graham / George Younce = this ole house …
related:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Ole_House
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http://www.songlyrics.com/shakin-stevens/this-old-house-lyrics/
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title=”House on a hill top” – photo by im pastor rick, kindly sent to my group BLOG IT! – click on the picture to enter Pastor Rick’s photo galleries on Flickr.com
below a third pic from Pastor Rick:
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do you know the movie “Shipping News”? There they pull an old house with ropes to the other end of the town…
https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/shipping-news/
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Great fingers, Frizz!
Grown old? No! Getting wiser: yes!
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if I had money, dear Marina in Athens, I would like to play my guitar in Greece …
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…you are!
I’m listening to it aren’t I?!!!!
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indeed, Marina, feeling like living in Athens, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Moscow, Jerusalem, Frankfurt etc. all at the same time – thanks to the internet! We must not move anymore. Or we move every hour – but only our souls are travelling – a very cheap solution – unbelievable for our ancestors!
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Yes, Frizz, soul traveling… best there is!
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I think our ancestors knew all about it but it took us centuries to realize it! Funny but with the evolution of transportation, we lost our inner travels…
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you wrote:
“…with the evolution of transportation,
we lost our inner travels…”
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that’s an interesting idea, Marina!!!
INNER TRAVELS:
= by reading
= by painting
= by singing ballads…
= practicing meditation exercises
= storytelling while eating with friends
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the core: “Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.” – Oliver Sacks
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That house is a perfect house, indeed. 🙂
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I think you had too many of them after that horrible earthquake in Japan, der M….
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Loved listening to your guitar playing just now with my coffee, here in a little country town about 60 miles east of San Francisco, so here you are too. Perfect way to start the day. I really like the thoughts you and Marina posted; so true that the soul travels and that brings happiness.
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it’s cheaper to escape via internet than by airplane 🙂
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and with an airplane you can have a bad accident
– worse than any internet connection crash:
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Your fingers sound pretty young to me. 🙂 Thanks for the nice music this morning!
And now you can say your music has been heard in Washington, State too. Lisa
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first time I heard the song – love it
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I love this song Frizz! For the first time I had problems listening to your sound cloud and had to download it instead of just clicking!
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That photo of the old house is INCREDIBLE!! It’s a work of art in its old age.
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I remember that song. I loved how easy the words were to remember. I sang along many times – very popular. Geat post … super fingerstyle playing and photos.
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great sound wonderful pictures
you are as old as you feel my young friend…
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Always enjoy hearing you play, Dietmar.
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Thoroughly enjoyed this post.
And you are good on the guitar. Bravo!
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Wise fingers, knowing and experienced fingers with accents and nuances new fingers can’t express… yet.
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You play the guitar well and I enjoyed it. Too bad the first house was neglected. It was definitely a beautiful house once.
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Reblogged this on photographyofnia.
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I am listening to you dear Frizz, I loved this post. And your playing fingers 🙂 Thanks and Love, nia
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oh Nia, what an honour that you reblogged me to your more than 600 followers! So you inspired me to play immediately another little piece of music – for you: https://flickrcomments.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/a-small-soundcloud/
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Fantastic post … enjoyed everything about it.
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Enjoyed both you and George playing and singing a song I’ve always loved! That poor old house posted by Pastor Rick is amazing — hard to figure how it stood long enough for the pictures, lol! What neat photos!
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Oh my, that twisted old house is beyond repair!
But your fingerplaying on the guitar grows stronger!
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