September | 2019 | Hope In Exile

Things it would have been helpful to know before the revolution – Father John Misty (2017) d983

By Peter / September 30, 2019 / 2010s, Cognitive & Emotional Dissonance, Despair, Resistance, Slider

Sometimes I miss the top of the food chainBut what a perfect afternoon

Tiger Mountain Peasant Song – First Aid Kit [Fleet Foxes cover] (2008) d982

By Peter / September 28, 2019 / 2000s, Consolation, Encouragement, Slider

Wanderers this morning came byWhere did they goGraceful in the morning lightTo banner fairTo follow you softlyIn the cold mountain air

Highwoman – Highwomen w. Sheryl Crow, Jason Isbell, and Yola (2019) d981

By Peter / September 27, 2019 / 2010s, Action, Celebration, Encouragement, Equity, History, Hope, Resistance, Slider

We carry the sons you can only holdWe are the daughters of the silent generationsYou sent our hearts to die alone in foreign nationsIt may return to us as tiny drops of rainBut we will still remain

Both sides now – Joni Mitchell (1969) d980

By Peter / September 26, 2019 / 1960s, Celebration, Encouragement, Hope, Slider

But now old friends they’re acting strangeThey shake their heads, they say I’ve changedWell something’s lost, but something’s gainedIn living every day.

After the rain – Gemini Rising f. Fiora & Tensnake (2017) d979

By Peter / September 25, 2019 / 2010s, Consolation, Encouragement, Hope, Slider

Moments come just as moments goSome things never leave you aloneBut would you let it pass you byCause we’ll never be the sameAfter the rains opened our eyes

Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have – but i have it – Lana Del Rey – (2019) d978

By Peter / September 24, 2019 / 2010s, Hope, Resistance, Slider

There’s a new revolution, a loud evolution that I sawBorn of confusion and quiet collusion of which mostly I’ve knownA modern day woman with a weak constitution, ’cause I’ve gotMonsters still under my bed that I could never fight offA gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off

High on a mountain top – Loretta Lynn (2004) d977

By Peter / September 23, 2019 / 2000s, Celebration, Encouragement, Gratitude, Hope, Slider

High on a mountain topWe live, we love, and we laugh a lotFolks up here know what they got

1975 – The 1975 f. Greta Thunberg (2019) d976.5 oops

By Peter / September 22, 2019 / 2010s, Action, Encouragement, Resistance, Slider

All political movements in their present form have failed, but Homo sapiens have not yet failed. Yes, we are failing, but there is still time to turn everything around. We can still fix this. We still have everything in our own hands, but unless we recognise the overall failures of our current systems, we most probably don’t […]