Happy Holidays: The Gift of Music
6:52 pm, December 22nd, 2005,
Happy Holidays one and all!
In thanks for reading this rubbish all year, I give you the gift of music.
Here’s the best holiday song ever: Walking in the Air, sung by 11-year-old Declan Galbraith, who’s blessed with an extraordinary set of pipes.
Of course, the song isn’t available anywhere on iTunes, or I’d buy it in a second (nothing I want ever is).
I did find this though: an excellent version of Carol of the Bells by MystiQuintet from the Christmas Re-Grooved album.
(Via Robotwisdom)
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I saw tonight in the observatory, through Alvan Clark’s telescope, the Dumb-Bell nebula in the Fox and Geese Constellation… I have rarely been so much gratified… Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime… What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair as you ascend; – that this is the road to the stars. Every fixture and instrument in the building, every nail and pin, has a direct reference to the Milky Way, the fixed stars, and the nebulae, and we leave … the Americas and history at the door when we come in.
Merry Desperado, on July 16th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day….
Lucky Swami, on July 17th, 2007 at 9:21 am