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[RainCityWoman]

Aw. Rest in peace, you talented, spiritual man.

[Noel7]

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@SeaMaiden wrote:

Hmm... never heard of him before.

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@SeaMaiden

Have you heard the song Hallelujah?  I think almost everyone has heard a cover of it.

He was a singer, a song writer and a poet.  A brilliant man.

[Noel7]

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@dooBdoo wrote:

Excerpt:

"Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."

~Anthem, Leonard Cohen

 

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I just love that quote, thanks @dooBdoo

[Noel7]

My roommates and I used to play this one a lot:

Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by, you can spend the night forever
And you know that she's half-crazy but that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges that come all the way from China

[Justice4all]

@Puzzle Piece

She was my beloved Professor, who wrote two, among other, great books on the Holocaust, "There Once Was A World: A 900-Year Chronical of the Shtetl of Eishyshok," and "Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust."  Only four years old when almost everyone in her Lithuanian village was massacred by the Nazis and their collaborators, she survived  hiding under pigstys, etc.  After the war, she gathered interviews, photos, etc., to document and memorialize the victims. But most of all, she was deeply kind, sensitive, brilliant and loving, truly one of a kind.

[Pearlee]

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@Noel7 wrote:

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@SeaMaiden wrote:

Hmm... never heard of him before.

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@SeaMaiden

Have you heard the song Hallelujah?  I think almost everyone has heard a cover of it.

He was a singer, a song writer and a poet.  A brilliant man.

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Hallelujah on Youtube (link) is posted in my very first post on my thread, with Cohen himself singing it as an aged man. It's wonderful to see the songwriter doing his own interpretation of it, with so much emotion.  It's so heartfelt.  For anyone not familiar with the song I suggest you view Cohen singing it from the link I posted. It is very, very moving.

[Noel7]

I've seen that one many times @Pearlee  He had to go back on the road as an old man who was not well because his accountant had robbed him of his retirement money.

He wrote several versions of Hallelujah and gave some to particular other singers.  I liked it that he didn't mind if they changed it a bit.

[Puzzle Piece]

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@Justice4all wrote:

@Puzzle Piece

She was my beloved Professor, who wrote two, among other, great books on the Holocaust, "There Once Was A World: A 900-Year Chronical of the Shtetl of Eishyshok," and "Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust."  Only four years old when almost everyone in her Lithuanian village was massacred by the Nazis and their collaborators, she survived  hiding under pigstys, etc.  After the war, she gathered interviews, photos, etc., to document and memorialize the victims. But most of all, she was deeply kind, sensitive, brilliant and loving, truly one of a kind.

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Thank you for your sharing. 

Many books have been written as to the Native American Genocide as well.  Did you know that Hitler stated that the Americans had the right idea when explaining how they dealt with the Native Americans?  He referred to the photos where the dead bodies were piled up like cords of wood.  Eugenics was also referred to.  More and more history of how things were done keeps coming out.  Some Euro-Americans bragged about the killings. 

[Noel7]

@Puzzle Piece

Do you mean Native American bodies piled up at the time Hitler was in power?  I haven't heard of that.

Eugenics was popular at that time in Germany and America, sterilization was used on a lot of Americans, the disabled and mentally challenged. 

[Justice4all]

@Puzzle Piece

I know of the appalling history of which you speak.  I have always been a staunch supporter of Native Americans.  The pipeline is one example.