If you don't have time for this long rambling post but do have a few minutes, just scroll down to the bottom and listen to a cover of "Blackbird" by Rachel Ann Cauilan.
Today's meditation began with waking up in the early morning darkness to the continuing ice fog here in Bellingham and recalling and then looking for George Harrison's song about a fog upon L.A. on YoutTube and noticing that George Harrison is wearing white face makeup as he sings "Blue Jay Way," and recalling Bob Dylan's white face make-up in 1976 during the Rolling Thunder Review Tour:
and going to Google Images for more examples of white face makeup:
Geisha:
Kabuki:
Queen Elizabeth I:
From "Les Enfants du Paradis:
Peggy Alston (from "Zooman and the Sign"):
Heath Ledger (during filming of "The Dark Knight" in 2008):
and then reading:
Thought for the Day
and then documenting the fog here with Red-winged Blackbirds singing:
and then documenting the sun breaking through the fog while hearing George Harrison singing "Here Comes the Sun" in my mind:
and looking out from my porch again a little while later to see blue sky and sunshine:
"... all your life you were only waiting for this moment to arise ..."
Thank you to Rachel Ann Cauilan whose blog I discovered just now after listening to her acoustic cover of "Blackbird."
