I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently, after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times, begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into. Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic." The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come. ----Milan Hamilton Here is the link to Homo Colossus Lament: https://youtu.be/5X2MJwJFY40
Thanks for sharing your video song, Milan--that says it all. Could you please post/email the lyrics in poetry form? Time for an Ecozoic acoustic folk music revolution. Karen Snyder has some ideas about this. Folks, send your songs to the list serves! Ellie :) -----Original Message----- From: Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: ORDER LISTSERVE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>; ORDER LISTSERVE <oe@wedgeblade.net> Cc: Milan Hamilton <mellowmilan2@gmail.com> Sent: Mon, May 23, 2022 1:18 pm Subject: [Oe List ...] Songs for Collapsing Times I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently, after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times, begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into. Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic." The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come.----Milan Hamilton Here is the link to Homo Colossus Lament: https://youtu.be/5X2MJwJFY40 _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
Wow, Milan. ¡EXCELLENTE! *Sunny Walker * *She/her/hers* *On **Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) tribal land* Certified Facilitator (Also Certified ToP Facilitator) ToP Methods Mentor Trainer - Upcoming Courses <https://www.top-training.net/w/> Virtual Facilitation Collaborative Senior Facilitator sunny.sunwalker@gmail.com 303-587-3017 For virtual facilitation inquiries: sunny@virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com www.virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM Milan Hamilton via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently, after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times, begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into. Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic." The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come. ----Milan Hamilton
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This is a great one, Milan! Thanks so much for sharing it. Your guitar and your voice were both wonderful. I do hope you keep composing, Maybe it’s time to gather a new edition of the Global Songbook?! Nancy On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 2:05 PM Sunny Walker via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: thanks vvx
Wow, Milan. ¡EXCELLENTE! *Sunny Walker * *She/her/hers* *On **Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) tribal land*
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On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM Milan Hamilton via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently, after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times, begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into. Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic." The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come. ----Milan Hamilton
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Here is another one I wrote some time ago. I just got up one morning and it sort of came out. https://youtu.be/t8Qk8V81tXY On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 4:13 PM Nancy Trask via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
This is a great one, Milan! Thanks so much for sharing it. Your guitar and your voice were both wonderful. I do hope you keep composing,
Maybe it’s time to gather a new edition of the Global Songbook?!
Nancy
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 2:05 PM Sunny Walker via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: thanks vvx
Wow, Milan. ¡EXCELLENTE! *Sunny Walker * *She/her/hers* *On **Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) tribal land*
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On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM Milan Hamilton via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently, after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times, begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into. Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic." The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come. ----Milan Hamilton
Here is the link to Homo Colossus Lament: https://youtu.be/5X2MJwJFY40
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Wow! A moody blues singer! Who knew? Joan -----Original Message----- From: Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Milan Hamilton <mellowmilan2@gmail.com> Sent: Mon, May 23, 2022 4:17 pm Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Songs for Collapsing Times Here is another one I wrote some time ago. I just got up one morning and it sort of came out.https://youtu.be/t8Qk8V81tXY On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 4:13 PM Nancy Trask via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: This is a great one, Milan! Thanks so much for sharing it. Your guitar and your voice were both wonderful. I do hope you keep composing, Maybe it’s time to gather a new edition of the Global Songbook?! Nancy On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 2:05 PM Sunny Walker via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: thanks vvx Wow, Milan. ¡EXCELLENTE!Sunny Walker She/her/hersOn Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) tribal land Certified Facilitator (Also Certified ToP Facilitator) ToP Methods Mentor Trainer - Upcoming CoursesVirtual Facilitation Collaborative Senior Facilitatorsunny.sunwalker@gmail.com303-587-3017 For virtual facilitation inquiries:sunny@virtualfacilitationcollaborative.comwww.virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently, after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times, begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into. Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic." The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come.----Milan Hamilton Here is the link to Homo Colossus Lament: https://youtu.be/5X2MJwJFY40 _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net -- “If you love it enough, anything will talk with you” ~George Washington Carver_______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net
Ellie Stock has a complete set of all the movement songs plus some recent additions in 3-ring binders. Eunice and I just visited Carleton and Ellie in St Louis and sang together over lunch 😊. (not sure what the Archives in Chicago hold, but guessing Ellie’s set is comprehensive… Cheers / Sherwood From: OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> On Behalf Of Nancy Trask via OE Sent: Monday, May 23, 2022 7:13 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Nancy Trask <nlt462@gmail.com>; ORDER LISTSERVE <oe@wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Songs for Collapsing Times This is a great one, Milan! Thanks so much for sharing it. Your guitar and your voice were both wonderful. I do hope you keep composing, Maybe it’s time to gather a new edition of the Global Songbook?! Nancy On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 2:05 PM Sunny Walker via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> > wrote: thanks vvx Wow, Milan. ¡EXCELLENTE! Sunny Walker She/her/hers On Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) tribal land Certified Facilitator (Also Certified ToP Facilitator) ToP Methods Mentor Trainer - Upcoming Courses <https://www.top-training.net/w/> Virtual Facilitation Collaborative Senior Facilitator sunny.sunwalker@gmail.com <mailto:sunny.sunwalker@gmail.com> 303-587-3017 For virtual facilitation inquiries: sunny@virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com <mailto:sunny@virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com> www.virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com <http://www.virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com> On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> > wrote: I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently, after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times, begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into. Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic." The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come. ----Milan Hamilton Here is the link to Homo Colossus Lament: https://youtu.be/5X2MJwJFY40 _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net> http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net _______________________________________________ OE mailing list OE@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:OE@lists.wedgeblade.net> http://lists.wedgeblade.net/listinfo.cgi/oe-wedgeblade.net -- “If you love it enough, anything will talk with you” ~George Washington Carver
The Archives presently has the1983-4 songbook (60 pages): https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21981.pdf <https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21981.pdf>.
On May 24, 2022, at 9:34 AM, Shankland, Sherwood via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Ellie Stock has a complete set of all the movement songs plus some recent additions in 3-ring binders. Eunice and I just visited Carleton and Ellie in St Louis and sang together over lunch 😊. (not sure what the Archives in Chicago hold, but guessing Ellie’s set is comprehensive… Cheers / Sherwood
From: OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net>> On Behalf Of Nancy Trask via OE Sent: Monday, May 23, 2022 7:13 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> Cc: Nancy Trask <nlt462@gmail.com <mailto:nlt462@gmail.com>>; ORDER LISTSERVE <oe@wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@wedgeblade.net>> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Songs for Collapsing Times
This is a great one, Milan! Thanks so much for sharing it. Your guitar and your voice were both wonderful. I do hope you keep composing,
Maybe it’s time to gather a new edition of the Global Songbook?!
Nancy
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 2:05 PM Sunny Walker via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote: thanks vvx
Wow, Milan. ¡EXCELLENTE! Sunny Walker She/her/hers On Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) tribal land <~WRD1152.jpg> Certified Facilitator (Also Certified ToP Facilitator) ToP Methods Mentor Trainer - Upcoming Courses <https://www.top-training.net/w/> Virtual Facilitation Collaborative Senior Facilitator sunny.sunwalker@gmail.com <mailto:sunny.sunwalker@gmail.com> 303-587-3017
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On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:
I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently, after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times, begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into. Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic." The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come. ----Milan Hamilton
Here is the link to Homo Colossus Lament: https://youtu.be/5X2MJwJFY40 <https://youtu.be/5X2MJwJFY40>
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Karen, do the archives have all the song books! Ellie Sent from my iPhone
On May 24, 2022, at 1:05 PM, Karen Snyder via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
The Archives presently has the1983-4 songbook (60 pages): https://wedgeblade.net/files/archives_assets/21981.pdf.
On May 24, 2022, at 9:34 AM, Shankland, Sherwood via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Ellie Stock has a complete set of all the movement songs plus some recent additions in 3-ring binders. Eunice and I just visited Carleton and Ellie in St Louis and sang together over lunch 😊. (not sure what the Archives in Chicago hold, but guessing Ellie’s set is comprehensive… Cheers / Sherwood
From: OE <oe-bounces@lists.wedgeblade.net> On Behalf Of Nancy Trask via OE Sent: Monday, May 23, 2022 7:13 PM To: Order Ecumenical Community <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> Cc: Nancy Trask <nlt462@gmail.com>; ORDER LISTSERVE <oe@wedgeblade.net> Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] Songs for Collapsing Times
This is a great one, Milan! Thanks so much for sharing it. Your guitar and your voice were both wonderful. I do hope you keep composing,
Maybe it’s time to gather a new edition of the Global Songbook?!
Nancy
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 2:05 PM Sunny Walker via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote: thanks vvx
Wow, Milan. ¡EXCELLENTE! Sunny Walker She/her/hers On Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) tribal land <~WRD1152.jpg> Certified Facilitator (Also Certified ToP Facilitator) ToP Methods Mentor Trainer - Upcoming Courses Virtual Facilitation Collaborative Senior Facilitator sunny.sunwalker@gmail.com 303-587-3017
For virtual facilitation inquiries: sunny@virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com www.virtualfacilitationcollaborative.com
On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM Milan Hamilton via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently, after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times, begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into. Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic." The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come. ----Milan Hamilton
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Great Milan! Good ideas for helping to get us through these times! Marian Karpoff On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:05 PM Sunny Walker via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Wow, Milan. ¡EXCELLENTE! *Sunny Walker * *She/her/hers* *On **Arapaho, Cheyenne, Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and Očeti Šakówiŋ (Sioux) tribal land*
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On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM Milan Hamilton via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently, after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times, begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into. Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic." The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come. ----Milan Hamilton
Here is the link to Homo Colossus Lament: https://youtu.be/5X2MJwJFY40
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Love those blues, Mellow Milan! Nancy Trask On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 6:21 PM Fred Karpoff via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
Great Milan! Good ideas for helping to get us through these times! Marian Karpoff
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On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:18 PM Milan Hamilton via OE < oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
I've been pondering for some time how those who care in these times of failing systems and "great unraveling" sustain themselves. We always had the singing whenever we gathered. I've wondered if singing can still be a sustaining dynamic in these diasporate times. I've turned to writing poetry after running out of prose, finding it a bit too prosaic. And recently, after listening to Ellie Stock's "Let the Earth Breathe" several times, begun to think and feel after a way to have some 'singable' songs, to both take in the seriousness of our predicament, and to try to lighten the load as we grieve our way through the great transition we are surely well into. Thanks to Ellie and her crew, Michael Dowd and his Post Doom, Post Gloom work, and William Catton and his "Overshoot," introducing us to the Homo Colossus we have become as a result of our industrial revolution. This song, "Homo Colossus Lament" was also inspired by the song I remember singing back in the 1950s at summer camp, "Oh They Built the Ship Titanic." The lyrics I wrote follow the P.M. Adamson version of that tune, found on YouTube. My guitar picking fingers are a little more still and my singing voice is not as pure as it once was. So maybe Ellie or one of you musicians could have made a better singable cover of it. I hope there might be more "Singalongs for Collapsing Times" to come. ----Milan Hamilton
Here is the link to Homo Colossus Lament: https://youtu.be/5X2MJwJFY40
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ELINOR STOCK -
Ellie Stock
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Fred Karpoff -
Joan -
Karen Snyder -
Milan Hamilton -
Nancy Trask -
sherwoodshankland＠comcast.net -
Sunny Walker