For Dingdang 

" I was young when I set out

I can hardly remember the tales that I could tell you

If I only could remember

and the fog it is drumming

and the new world is coming

oh this song I will be humming when the words won't come out

on the slow boat to China

I will be, I will be

in the sea when we get there

we will see what will be..."

dear you,

very long time no see...how've you been lately? I'm ok, with some certain obvious weight gain though.

Well, it's just the post-spring-festival-syndrome, no big deal. 

Has anything ever touched your soul in this new year, year of pig? at some unpredictable moment? 

/ who's Dingdang ? 

I'll tell you later./

How many roads must a man to walk, before we call him a man?

How many times must the cannon balls fly, before they're forever banned?

How many years can a mountain exit, before it is washed to the sea?

How many years can some people exit, before they're allowed to be free?

      Bob Dylan <Blowin' in the Wind>   

Life is a trip. A trip is all about experience. Sometimes it's a good trip, sometimes it's a bad one. You'll forget what people say, what people do, but you'll never forget how people make you feel. Feelings last.

There's some saying from Tibet :

On every journey, you must die once - the person who arrives should not be the person who left.

and a poem of Xin qiji, who's one of the poets I adore :

少年不识愁滋味，爱上层楼。爱上层楼，为赋新词强说愁。

而今识尽愁滋味，欲说还休。欲说还休，却道天凉好个秋。

丑奴儿·书博山道中壁   [南宋] 辛弃疾

When things go deeper, they look sentimental.

but just look like, in fact, it's compassion.

Eternity is the sun mixed with sea.

"...now I'm old I am weathered

my beard is long and white

I have seen many crawling winters 

on this sleepy ark

still we go for our fathers

and we go for the lost

still we go ever on into the common dark

on a slow boat to China I will be, I will be

in the sea, when we get there 

we will see 

what will be"

Luke Thompson <On a Slow Boat to China>

Luke once talked about this Album <To the Common Dark>:

"I want to give these songs the best start in life they can get, I want people to hear them and hopefully connect with them. … Sometimes I make money from music, but it’s not why I make music. It’s not the main reward. The main reward is when someone shares with me how they connected with a song, or felt the same way I did. That’s when I feel most useful as a person.

So this album is free. I hope you like it. I hope it makes you feel something."

I felt someting, what about you?

bis bald~

love,

ladyNeptune

21.02.2019

SEE ! here's my temp roomie Dingdang who was accompanying me half the whole time while i was writing this one down. thank you so much! love ya! 

did you find him?