Metal Monday CCXXV - Weathering

8/13/2018

I have awaited this week...ALDA's album Passage is nothing less than marvelous, houndingly majestic. A culmination of experience and progress all generating this mountainous creation. I could pick any track on this album for a showcase however Weathering includes something personal to me, a quote from the film Jeremiah Johnson, coupled with the already stellar ambiance this track is wonderful put together. I would ask you to listen to the entire album if this single wonder enchants or entertains you in any way for I am certain you would not be disappointed. As for this week, may you weather it with the same timid grace as that of the old earth.

Oh solar fume, may we drift never further
and come never closer
We, the parched land aching for a drink
In the fallow dew we would have followed you
but for the rain refusing to fall
when we're cast from the shores and left to the drought
tossed in the currents of venomous thought
Eyes shut, teeth clenched
straining against the changes
scying and searching the signs of the skies
a glyph in the grass, a rune in the wood
Facing the storm within
finding the courage to breath

Souls pour molten in the crucible
Where stars flicker and die in the glint of our eyes
Strength hard won, memories lost
The waried road far from home
The long arm of spiral coiling within
To weather the storm again
To weather the storm within

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Alda/Passage/512040

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THE MAD BARRON

QUOTES I ADMIRE
"A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." - from the Wilderness Act, 1964

"I owe my solitude to other people." - ALAN WATTS

“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.”
― Walt Whitman

"In the ancient world, people placed heavy stones on the graves of the dead so their souls would not wander and inflict the living. I always thought this was simply the practice of superstitious and primitive people. But I was about to learn that the dead can hover on the edge of our vision with the density and luminosity of mist, and their claim on the earth can be as legitimate and tenacious as our own."

- Dave Robicheaux (In The Electric Mist With Confederate Dead)