Celebrating Jackson Brown

Every generation has its great singers, its heart movers, an Orpheus who can move you to tears with their words and their songs...........JacksonBrowne has been one of those singer poets for me, along with Robin Williamson and Leonard Cohen......people whose songs will no doubt be with me until the end.    This post is sheer indulgence for me, and thanks to the technology of UTube and the generosity of Blogging, I can come back to these favorite songs again and again.  

Like Leonard Cohen, Jackson Brown has always been bitter sweet, infused with both pragmatism and a deep mysticism, sad, ironic and celebratory  at the same moment. Everything, as Cohen pointed out, "has a crack in it - that's how the light gets in".  

Thank you, Jackson Brown.


https://youtu.be/AWIJ8RAcsHQ  In the shape of a heart



https://youtu.be/BV03illYdTM  the pretender

"For a Dancer" ~~ Remembering Gabrielle Roth

 "To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past. Sweat is an ancient and universal form of self healing, whether done in the gym, the sauna, or the sweat lodge. I do it on the dance floor. The more you dance, the more you sweat. The more you sweat, the more you pray. The more you pray, the closer you come to ecstasy."

- Gabrielle Roth

One person I miss so much is Gabrielle Roth, and wanted to remember her here.  To   Gabrielle, author of Sweat Your Prayers,  physical movement is the key to unlocking the spirit.  I'm sad when I see some of the great teachers of my time leave, and Gabrielle Roth was one of them, a teacher of  dance as meditation,healing and self discovery, and  creator of the 5Rhythms  movement practice.  She  passed away on October 22, 2012.




To see a  beautiful  movie about Gabrielle Roth and her work:

http://www.cultureunplugged.com/play/8010/The-Wave--Ecstatic-Dance-with-Gabrielle-Roth

Here's one of the most beautiful songs I ever heard,
 "For A Dancer" by Jackson Browne:


 http://youtu.be/IU1rZa8Ur_Q