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6-29-12 LOVE IS ---

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Friday, June 29, 2012,
HAVE all the gifts of healing?

do all speak with tongues?

do all interpret?


But
(in addition? or instead?)
covet earnestly the best gifts: 

and yet

I show unto you
A MORE EXCELLENT WAY.


THOUGH
I speak
with the tongues
of men and angels

and have not LOVE,

I am become as sounding brass,
or a tinkling cymbal.


And though
I have
the gift of prophecy
,
and
understand
all mysteries,
and
all knowledge;


and though
I have faith,
so that I could remove mountains,

and have not LOVE,

I am nothing!


And though
I bestow all...

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6-28-12 IS REAL LOVE CONDITIONAL?

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Thursday, June 28, 2012,
Yesterday, I once again posited this question to myself.

I have not really thought the matter through, but it seems to me to be an area which could produce much which is worth knowing.

The question is this:

If my love to you is conditional, is it love at all?

We have looked at two fundamental views of love.

The one says that it is a feeling which should be acted on.

The other says that it is a life philosophy of giving unto others as continuously as possible, in what we call self-sacrifice.

(I think...

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6-27-12 IS LOVE A FEELING? (continued)

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Wednesday, June 27, 2012,
There is a popular song called "Feelings".

There are songs which speak of "feeling --- and being in love".

Or "that loving feeling".

Or "the thrill is gone".

And who could ever forget "Gloria": G-L-O-R-I-A, Gloria.
Coming to KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK, on my door.

Or "you give me fever".

Etc. etc. etc. - the list could go on and on for months;  maybe even years.

So, what does this tell us?

That there is some kind of common conception which links love and feelings and sexuality, all into one very unhealthy lu...

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6-26-12 IS LOVE A FEELING?

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Tuesday, June 26, 2012,
The foundation upon which all else sits is RESPECT.

MUTUAL RESPECT is what sustains any long term relationship between couples.

If you doubt for even one second what I am saying, then take away the repsect and let's see just how long this state of affairs is going to continue with contempt and well deserved mutual contempt and disrespect for one another.

This is when they come to me.

And I am supposed to fix this?

Yea, sure ---

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6-25-12 WHAT IS THIS THING ---? (cont)

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Monday, June 25, 2012,
O.K, so let's see how this plays out in the real world.

TEENAGE SEX
and YOUNG PREMARITAL SEX
 
Let's start with the fact that the frontal lobe of the cranium does not become fully functioning before 18 years of age.

This means just what it looks like.

A lack of higher reasoning power until about 20 years old.

Cannot see the consequences of the actions, at all!

The symphysis pubis on women does not become fully developed, such that it is able to open and let the baby out, until the woman is 18 years o...

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6-25-12 SO WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Monday, June 25, 2012,
When most people think of love they think of emotions and emotional responses.

They do not think about cleaning dirty diapers all day and all night long, or calming little children who are teething and thus screaming all day and all night long.

No, instead, they think of boy and girl somewhere that they will soon be having sex if at all possible.

This is the sex=love=sex nexus.

In the prior post we established, for purposes of this writing, that underneath all love, properly defined, there is a h...

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6-22-12 ON THE ROAD AGAIN

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Friday, June 22, 2012,
Northbound 101.

To Highway 1.

To where the forests meet the sea.

All business.

Note that I am posting the texts to the various plainchants which I have posted so far.

I hope to give translations of them soon.

It is all a matter of having the time and the willingness to deal with the unbelievable tedium.

Those don't always go together simultaneously.

As a matter of fact ---

Now, now, I guess I had better not go there.

Just for the record we are preparing artwork this next week for several album covers a...

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6-22-12 - PLAINCHANT TEXT - DIES IRAE

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Friday, June 22, 2012,
DIES IRAE

Dies irae

dies illa

solvet saeclum infanvilla

teste David cum Sibylla


Quantus tremorest futurus

quando judex est venturus

cuncta stricte

discussurus


Tuba mirum spargens sonum

per sepulchra regionum

coget omnes ante thronum


Mors stupebit et natura

cum resurget creatura

judicanti responsura


Liber scriptus proferetur

in quo totum continetur

unde mundus judicetur


Judex ergo cum sedebit

quid quid latet apparebit

nil inultum remanebit


Quid sum miser tunc dictu rus?

Que...


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6-12-21 PLAINCHANT TEXT - SALVE REGINA

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Thursday, June 21, 2012,
SALVE REGINA

Salve Regina

mater miserericordiae

vita

dulcedo

et spes nostra

salve


Ad te clammus

exsules

filii Hevae


Ad te suspiramus

gementes et flentes in hac lacrimareum valle


Eia ergo

Advocata nostra

illos tuos misericordes occulos

ad nos converte


Ed Jesum

benedictum fructum ventris

tui nobis post hoc exsilium ostende


O clemens

O pia

O dulcis Virgo Maria


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6-21-12 PLAINCHANT TEXT - O Virgo Pulcherrima

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Thursday, June 21, 2012,

O VIRGO PULCHERRIMA

O Virgo Pulcherrima

O mater melliflua

O Dei filia


O stella clarissima

O rosa purissima

O pascens lilia!


O lumen lumunam

O flos convallium

O labis nescia


O decvus virginum

O spes fidelium

O plenna gratia


Facnos tuum Filium amare in perpetuum

Mater pia


Ac perduc in gaudium Olympi suavissimum

O Maria


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6-20-12 EVENING POST

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Thursday, June 21, 2012,

It is 9:40 p.m., Wednesday night.

I am as sleepy right now as I was at 1:30 a.m. last night.

No explaining these things.

So, if I fall asleep in the middle of a sentence, don't worry.

It's only insomnia which has finally played out into a full blown comatose state.

Not to worry ---

Or, as my Hispanic brothers and sisters would say, "da nada", i.e. "it is nothing".

While I need to continue my little dissertation on "mastering", this is definitely not the time for that.

So, what instead?, I am wonder...


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6-20-12 LYRICS to plainchants

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Wednesday, June 20, 2012,

SUBVENITE SANCTI DEI

Subvenite Sancti Dei
Occurrite Angeli Domini
suspcipientes animame jus
offerentes eam inconspectu Altissimi

Suscipiatte Christus
qui vocavitte et in sinum
Abrahae Angeli deducante

Suscipientes animame jus
offerentes eam inconspectu Altissimi

Requiem aeternam donna ei Domine
et lux perpetua luceat ei

Offerentes eam inconspectu Altissimi


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6-19-12 UPDATE

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Wednesday, June 20, 2012,
Have spent the past several days setting up near field reference monitor speaker system for mastering.

For those who are not familiar with the terminology, in music recording, the master was originally a wax disk from which the plastic discs would be made.

It was the original disk from which all others would ultimately derive.

So, it was "the master", in the sense of the original.

All others being copies of the original.

The terminology continued on as the technology changed.

In our modern digital ...

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6-12-12 POSTED LINKS FOR FUKUSHIMA

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Wednesday, June 13, 2012,
I have been mainly in the field during the past ten days, and have been, accordingly, off the grid.

I have a few minutes here and there during which I can get near a signal and then send out what little I can in the short time that I have to do it.

Are going one day at a time, right now, so that do not know exact schedule for next week/s.

Although I do expect to have a better idea before too long.

In the meantime, I completed the FUKUSHIMA 2011 album, so that it is now ready for mastering and pre...

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6-10-12 POSTED FUKUSHIMA PAGE

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Monday, June 11, 2012,

I am on the run.

But took a little bit of time to finish up the Fukushima album.

It was missing the first and last songs, which I had lost, in the hundreds of files in which they were found resting.

Finally, I have located them, and added them and then made a page just for this album.

There are notes at the bottom, which are going to be very important.

Particularly the links which I hope to supply.

Once again, I did all of the work during the months following the event in March of 2011, but have ma...


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6-01-12 MORE PHOTOS POSTED ON RINCON HIGHWAY May 2012 PAGE

Posted by Vincente E. Woodward on Friday, June 1, 2012,
I have to drive up to northern California in next couple of hours.

I posted several photos after collecting together a bunch to choose from.

Didn't have time to post all of them, so this will have to do.

I wanted to share several stories and I have a note here reminding me of just which ones.

First, two nights ago as I was walking out on a lonely trail in the middle of the night when I suddenly noticed that a huge series of shadows just blotted out the moon for several seconds, coming in from rig...

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