Recently, April 2, I played an hour of reggae music to remember my father. These tunes aren't necessarily tunes he knew just tunes that I hope would serve him well. The set list goes like this:
1.Zion Land Ras Michael & The Sons Of Negus
2.On Mount Zion Wingless Angels
3.This Train Bunny Wailer
4.Leaving To Zion Black Uhuru
5.Moving To Zion Johnny Clarke
6.Holy Mount Zion Culture
7.Zion Train Bob Marley
8.Zion Shepherd Solomon Jabby 9.Dear Dad Kymani Marley
10.Wash The Tears Gramps Morgan
If you are interested in a copy of my play list minus my voice let me know.
I Miss You Bro!
Really, Really Miss You Brother!
Even in our sleep,
Pain which cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
Until, in our own despair,
Against our will,
Comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
-- Aeschylus
May 28, 1951 - March 20, 2011
Please pause for a moment with a moment of silence....
Please pause for a moment with a moment of silence....
Silence... Silence...Silence
Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death reminds us that we are part of the same river, the same flow from the same source, rushing towards the same destiny. Were you close? Yes, but we didn’t know it then.
Barbara Ascher
Landscape Without Gravity
21 gun salute
The Few. The Proud. The Marines.
Semper Fi Bro, Semper Fi. It has been said when your parents die
Semper Fi Bro, Semper Fi.
It has been said when your parents die, you lose your past; when your spouse dies, you lose your present; and when your child dies, you lose your future. However, when your Brother dies, you lose a part of your past, your present, and your future.
Bro did not desire Obits. Oh well Bro, News travels quickly these days.
An ongoing evolving Tribute
An ongoing evolving Tribute and Memorial for Big Al Holcombe...
Ideas, pictures, video (one of him and his brothers in the Year 1960 soon to appear) anything and everything can be delivered to TightRopeSSI@hotmail.com.
One of Pops favs through the yrs.
One of Pops favs through the yrs.
Every generation Blames the one before And all of their frustrations Come beating on your door I know that I'm a prisoner To all my Father held so dear I know that I'm a hostage
To all his hopes and fears I just wish I could have told him in the living years Crumpled bits of paper Filled with imperfect thought Stilted conversations I'm afraid that's all we've got You say you just don't see it He says it's perfect sense You just can't get agreement In this present tense
We all talk a different language Talking in defence Say it loud, say it clear You can listen as well as you hear It's too late when we die To admit we don't see eye to eye So we open up a quarrel Between the present and the past We only sacrifice the future It's the bitterness that lasts So Don't yield to the fortunes
You sometimes see as fate It may have a new perspective On a different day And if you don't give up, and don't give in You may just be O.K.Say it loud, say it clear You can listen as well as you hear It's too late when we die To admit we don't see eye to eye I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away I didn't get to tell him All the things I had to say I think I caught his spirit Later that same year I'm sure I heard his echo In my baby's new born tears I just wish I could have told him in the living years Say it loud, say it clear
You can listen as well as you hear It's too late when we die To admit we don't see eye to eye
Phil Collins
My dad instilled a deep love for Phil Collins in me. I think this song summed up his life pretty well. This song along with the New World Son tune below I think allow you in to his life in a profound way. Lyrics under video
All Of My Life lyrics
All of my life, I've been searching
For the words to say how I feel.
I'd spend my time thinking too much
And leave too little to say what I mean
I've tried to understand the best I can
All of my life.
All of my life, I've been saying sorry
For the things I know I should have done
All the things I could have said come back to me
Sometimes I wish that it had just begun
Seems I'm always that little too late
All of my life
Set 'em up, I'll take a drink with you
Pull up a chair, I think I'll stay
Set 'em up, cos I'm going nowhere
There's too much I need to remember, too much I need to say
All of my life, I've been looking
But it's hard to find the way
Reaching past the goal in front of me
While what's important just slips away
It doesn't come back but I'll be looking
All of my life
Set 'em up...
All of my life, there have been regrets
That I didn't do all I could
Making records upstairs, while he watched TV
I didn't spend the time I should
It's a memory I will live with
All of my life
Siblings may be ambivalent about their relationships in life, but in death the power of their bond strangles the surviving heart. Death reminds us that we are part of the same river, the same flow from the same source, rushing towards the same destiny. Were you close? Yes, but we didn’t know it then.
Barbara Ascher
Landscape Without Gravity
Big Al Holcombe Show
This video brought Bro so much Joy!
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I will have a gadget installed from boxnet or the digital bucket where the list can be played from the blog or even downloaded....
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