An inspiring birthday

Posted:Feb 21, 2015 6:03 pm Last Updated:Feb 22, 2015 10:24 am

My dear friend DoDoes has surfaced the fact that TODAY is Nina Simone's BIRTHDAY !!! This here Pixie was not entirely ignorant of this li'l fact. During the course of all the time she spent on the Nina & Nina, soothe my soul ... posts, yesterday, she just did not compute that she was doing all of this right on eve of the ever-inspiring icon's BIRTHDAY !!! 😯 😮 😧 The wee Pixie WAS feeling just an eency-weency bit inspired when started the Nina & Nina, soothe my soul ... posts ... She was oblivious of the origin of said inspiration, though ... All she knew was that she needed to write about Nina. She has now elected / chosen to believe it MUST all have been pre-determined.

Nina, soothe my soul ...

Posted:Feb 20, 2015 9:49 pm Last Updated:Feb 21, 2015 5:27 pm

It's been a while since This-here-Pixie's had a sitting like this. I've missed it ... I didn't know I needed to see you ... Nina, which means 'tis long overdue ... Nina, d'you understand me now If sometimes you see that I'm mad Doncha know no one alive can always be ... an Angel ... ? When everything goes wrong, you see some bad But I'm ... Just a soul whose ... intentions are good Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood You've been gone too long, You've been gone much too long, Pixie, I'm telling you You've been gone too long ... ... All these years I've been learning to save fingers from burning Tomorrow is my turn No more doubts no more fears Tomorrow is my turn to receive without giving Make life worth living Now it's my life I'm living My only concern for tomorrow, Nina, is MY turn Pixie, I always say nobody knows you When you're down and out In your pocket, you ain't got one penny And your friends, you didn't have any Just as soon as you get up on your feet again Here they all come, they say that they're your long-lost friend Oh lord without a doubt Nobody wants you Nobody needs you Nobody wants you When you're down and out People laugh each time they see us walking by and their whispering just make You feel like you want to cry. Keep on walking by my side, don't look behind. You know I'm always with you, Pixie so don't you pay 'em no mind. Nina ... In the morning when the moon is at it's rest, You will see me at the time I love the best Watching rainbows play on sunlight; Pools of water iced from cold night, In the morning ... 'Tis the morning of my life. In the daytime I will meet you as before. You will find me waiting by the ocean floor, Building castles in the shifting sands In a world that no one understands, In the morning ... 'Tis the morning of my life! I take it you ready for this action, Pixie? Does it give you satisfaction Are you hip to what I'm sayin' If you are then let's start walkin' The answer better be yes ... Yes! ... That pleases me All I want, Nina, is someone who can, earnestly, say.: "I can only give you country walks in spring time The hand to hold when leaves begin to fall And the lover's burning lights were born on the winter nights That's all that's all There are those who have told you They could give you the whole round world for a toy All I have are my arms to enfold you And a love time can never destroy destroy So if you're wondering what I'm asking in return You'll be so surprised to know my demands are small Just say it's me that you adore for now and evermore." is this too much to ask for, Nina? Cause that's all I ask for ... that is all xOxOx ALL credit to Nina Simone!!

Nina ...

Posted:Feb 20, 2015 9:43 pm Last Updated:Feb 21, 2015 5:12 pm

Nina Simone, a light that continues to illuminate my path ... ] Nina Simone /ˈniːnə sɨˈmoʊn/ (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music. She worked in a broad range of styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel, and pop. The sixth child of a preacher's family in North Carolina, Nina aspired to be a concert pianist. Her musical path changed direction after she was denied a scholarship to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, despite a well-received audition. Simone said she later found out from an insider at Curtis that she was denied entry because she was black. So, to fund her continuing musical education and become a classical pianist, she began playing in a small club in Philadelphia where she was also required to sing. She was approached for a recording by Bethlehem Records, and her rendition of "I Loves You, Porgy" was a hit in the United States in 1958. Over the length of her career Simone recorded more than 40 albums, mostly between 1958, when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue, and 1974. Her musical style arose from a fusion of gospel and pop songs with classical music, in particular with influences from her first inspiration, Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied with her expressive jazz-like singing in her characteristic contralto voice. She injected as much of her classical background into her music as possible to give it more depth and quality, as she felt that pop music was inferior to classical. Her intuitive grasp on the audience–performer relationship was gained from a unique background of playing piano accompaniment for church revivals and sermons regularly from the early age of six years old. Credits to a wiki, wicked world ... And thank God the woman persisted ... This here Pixie would have been utterly lost without her!

Naked Girls Reading ...

Posted:Feb 19, 2015 9:39 pm Last Updated:Feb 21, 2015 5:30 pm

Naked Girls : 21 February 2015 The return of the nude literary event celebrating LGBTI writers and stories. Venue: Alexander Bar & Cafe, 76 Strand St, Cape Town Time: 5pm to 6.30pm | 7pm to 8.3opm Cost:...... ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Naked Girls Reading Cape Town presents Queerly Beloved Come and let our readers lead you away from tales of the straight and narrow at the first Naked Girls Reading event dedicated to queer writers and LGBTI stories. What is Naked Girls Read­ing? Naked Girls Read­ing is a nude lit­er­ary salon that takes place in twenty cities around the world and on five dif­fer­ent con­ti­nents At each event, a small cast of beau­ti­ful ladies removes their cloth­ing (yes, all of it) and reads per­sonal selec­tions to an ador­ing audi­ence. It is enter­tain­ing, mag­i­cal, often funny, some­times heart wrench­ing and really very sexy. Are the girls really naked?. Yes, we are. Is the audi­ence naked? No, they are not. There’s some­thing beau­ti­ful, some­thing alto­gether more inti­mate, about a woman read­ing in the nude. It’s just that sim­ple. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ... Found that this Cape Town event is not unique in its nature ... Here follows a not-so-recent NYC version ... Horse Trade presents : Naked Girls Reading When: 17 Sept, 2014 Naked Girls Reading NYC is the perfect intimate live event: a monthly nude literary salon featuring in-the-buff readings by local burlesque luminaries, professional librarians, authors and other Naked Girls. Past themes have included Banned Books, Science Fiction, and Tween Lit, as well as their annual holiday presentation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Guests to the salon are invited to sip a drink and listen with their eyes wide open as full-frontal literature meets fine art in this intimate theatrical setting. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* ... Upon further investigation we find that there is a Minneappolis chapter, as well as one in Philadelphia!! (Wonder if Koffla knows ... Or has been??? ... ) This is not an official BloggerVille Board of Pixies mandate so I'll stop right here and make a, relatively, safe assumption that these 'chapters' MUST exist in all US states where laws allow for it, world-wide even! Anyhow ... This here Pixie simply thought that this   m i g h t   be a nice way for everyone to kick-start the coming weekend ... The wee Pixie has always known that there is something inherently sexy (sexual, perhaps?) about poetry ... And we all know how definitely alluring some cleverly exposed flesh is ... Put the two together ???!!!!!!

Bal-le-rina Tink ...

I had the wee Tink during the year I turned 37.  I am always only too aware of how precious a gift she was/is.  

I'm feeling a wee bit mentisental (deliberately jumbled up, btw)  so I've decided to re-cord a paraphrasation (of a favorite Lionel Riche song) to convey what I'm feeling this very morn.

Ballerina Tink ... You are so love-ly
With you stand-in' there
I'm so a-ware
Of how much I care for you

You are more than now
You are for al-ways
I can see-in you my dreams come true
Don't you e-ver go a-way ... ... This is a promise no-one can make, Luv. No-one knows or has God's consent to fulfill a promise such as this. ALL I can promise you is that, no matter where I am OR what I'm doing, YOU are the light of my life. YOU are my greatest gift. YOU added a whole new dimension to my sense of completion. And I will love you until well after waters run dry and time stands still ... Till after the end of forever.

You make me feel like
There's no-thing I can't do
And when I hold you
I on-ly want to say
I love you ... 

Ballerina Tink ... The joy you bring me
E-very day and night
Hold-ing you tight
How I've wai-ted for your love

Some-imes I won-dered
If you'd e-ver come my way
Now that I've fi-nally found you
This is where my heart will stay ...

I am never gonna break your heart
Ne-ver will we drift a-part
'Cause all I want to do
Is share ALL of life with you-ou ... To prepare you for the joys, opportunities and challenges & disappointments and heart-aches. To ensure that you know you can be, and achieve ANYTHING you set your mind to. To know that it's quite o'rite to be different, strong and independant. To ALWAYS know that you are loved and worthy of love and respect, no matter what life throws, or catapults at you. 

You make me feel like
There's no-thing I can't do
I guess I fi-nally re-al-lized
There's no-thing else like lo-ving you

Bal-le-rina Tink ...
You are so love-ly
I can see in you
My dreams come true
Don't you ... e-ver ... go a-way ...



Always,
Your Pixie-Mum 

Semana del Amor - Dia 6 (FINAL EDITION)

[tr][tr]        Happy Valentine's Day!!!! (Final Edition) You are the call and I ... the answer. You are the wish and I ... the fulfillment . You are the night and I ... the day. What else, It is perfect enough. It is perfectly complete You ... and I ... *** D. H. Lawrence *** * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * ~ * One half of me Is yours, The other half ... yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so ... all yours.  *** William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) *** Time of posting: Saturday, 14/02/2015 18:18:00

Semana del Amor - Día de San Valentín - 6(iii)

[tr][tr]         Happy Valentine's Day!!!! (Edition 3) How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of every day's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints - I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. *** Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861) *** Time of posting: Saturday, 14/02/2015 14:42:00

Semana del Amor - Día de San Valentín - 6(ii)

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[tr][tr]      Happy Valentine's Day!!!! (Edition 2) Over the mountains And over the waves, Under the fountains And under the graves; Under floods that are deepest, Which Neptune obey, Over rocks that are steepest, Love will find the way … If the earth it should part him, He would gallop it o'er; If the seas should o'erthwart him, He would swim to the shore; Should his love become a swallow, Through the air to stray, Love will lend wings to follow, And will find his way. There is no striving To cross his intent; There is no contriving His plots to prevent; But if once the message greet him That his true love doth stay, If death should come and meet him, Love will find the way! *** (An anonymous 15th/16th Century Poet) *** Time of posting: Saturday, 14/02/2015 12:05:00

Semana del Amor - Día de San Valentín - 6(ii)

[tr][tr]       Happy Valentine's Day!!!! (Edition 2) Over the mountains And over the waves, Under the fountains And under the graves; Under floods that are deepest, Which Neptune obey, Over rocks that are steepest, Love will find the way … If the earth it should part him, He would gallop it o'er; If the seas should o'erthwart him, He would swim to the shore; Should his love become a swallow, Through the air to stray, Love will lend wings to follow, And will find his way. There is no striving To cross his intent; There is no contriving His plots to prevent; But if once the message greet him That his true love doth stay, If death should come and meet him, Love will find the way! *** (An anonymous 15th/16th Century Poet) *** Time of posting: Saturday, 14/02/2015 12:05:00

Semana del Amor - Día de San Valentín - 6(i)

[tr][tr]         Happy Valentine's Day!!!! (Edition 1) s Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war, How to divide the conquest of thy sight; Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar, My heart mine eye the freedom of that right. My heart doth plead that thou in him dost lie, A closet never pierced with crystal eyes, But the defendant doth that plea deny, And says in him thy fair appearance lies. To 'cide this title is impannelled A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart; And by their verdict is determined The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part: As thus: mine eye's due is thine outward part, And my heart's right, thine inward love of heart. *** Shakespeare’s Sonnet XLVI *** Time of posting: Saturday, 14/02/2015 00:03:00

Semana del amor - Día de San Valentín

HAPPY VALENTINE’s DAY !!!

There is a certain vibe, 

circulating in the air

Cast from all the energy –

That emanates from everywhere.

Positive friction, under the upper crust …

What does all the negativity

Really have to do with us? 

True grit, timeless love –

There is no reason to pretend

Ah, such a lovely truth …

Beginning to unfold – 

It is the lovers of the world

All coming in from the cold.

*** Positive friction (Donna Buffalo song lyrics: Pixie-paraphrased) ***

Time of posting: Friday, 14/02/2015 00:02:00

Semana del Amor - Dia 5(iii)

[tr][tr]            Happy 5th day of Valentine's Week!!!! (Edition 3) Under tower and balcony, by garden-wall and gallery, A gleaming shape she floated by, dead-pale between the houses high, ... Silently into Camelot. Out upon the wharfs they came, knight and burgher, lord and dame, And round the prow they read her name, ... 'The Lady of Shalott' *** Alfred Lord Tennyson *** Time of posting: Friday, 13/02/2015 15:00:00

Semena del Amor - Dia 5(ii)

[tr][tr] .                       Happy 5th day of Valentine's Week!!!! (Edition 2) Oh, Beauty, passing beauty! sweetest Sweet! How canst thou let me waste my youth in sighs?  I only ask to sit beside thy feet. Thou knowest I dare not look into thine eyes, Might I but kiss thy hand! I dare not fold My arms about thee--scarcely dare to speak. And nothing seems to me so wild and bold, As with one kiss to touch thy blessed cheek. Methinks if I should kiss thee, no control Within the thrilling brain could keep afloat The subtle spirit. Even while I spoke, The bare word KISS hath made my inner soul To tremble like a lutestring, ere the note Hath melted in the silence that it broke. *** Alfred Lord Tennyson *** Time of posting: Friday, 13/02/2015 12:30:00

Semana del Amor - Dia 5(i)

[tr][tr]         Happy 5th day of Valentine's Week!!!! (Edition 1)   s But were I loved, as I desire to be, What is there in the great sphere of the earth, And range of evil between death and birth, That I should fear - if I were loved ... by thee? *** Alfred Lord Tennyson *** Time of posting: Friday, 13/02/2015 07:13:00

Semana del Amor - Dia 4(iii)

[tr][tr]                Happy 4th day of Valentine's Week!!!! (Edition 3) O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by ... a woman's gaze And by the un-labouring brood of the skies: And therefore my heart will bow, when dew Is dropping sleep, until God burn time, Before the un-labouring stars ... and you. *** W.B. Yeats *** Time of posting: Thursday, 12/02/2015 13:30:00                      ​