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DANIEL J TOWNSEND - Thoughts
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Personal fable and the imaginary audience. I get paid to help adolescents make music. They're funny critters, teenagers. Seems everybody's got an opinion about them. Even Socrates had a well-quoted whinge. Back when he was teaching teens as a way to supplement his thinking career, and folks have been chucking rocks at kids ever since. The usual stones to throw are about how they think they know everything and live like they're the centre of the universe. But here's the fun bit. So I've been working with ...
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Ubuntu - DANIEL J TOWNSEND
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This joyous ditty was composed by Tasmanian songwriter Ben McKinnon in 2008. Not only does McKinnon condense 1500 years of church history into four words, he manages to voice the essence of ubuntu, the Nguni Bantu word first brought into the English lexicon by Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ubuntu translates literally as "human-ness", but Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee. Elaborated in what was to become a maxim: "I am what I am because of who we all are.". Is where love walks in, pain walks out.
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Store - DANIEL J TOWNSEND
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Uniquely brilliant." (Drumbeat). With 8-page lyrics booklet and very quirky cover art, this is a collection of stories from a tiny island on the edge of the world. Iscariot: Songs and Stories by Daniel J. Townsend. Incredible. A bit of a discovery." (Jonathan Alley,. This is so much more than an album. It really gets you thinking about the power of stories and the importance of using songs to tell stories.". Penny Terry, ABC). Thus the old is made new. ABOVE THE GROOVE OF A LONELY LIFE'. Catchy singalong...
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New Things - DANIEL J TOWNSEND
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The Builder's Boy - DANIEL J TOWNSEND
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The Five Truths of Manhood. 1 You are going to die. 2 Life is hard. 3 You are not that important. 4 Your life is not about you. 5 You are not in control of the outcome. Ldquo;It is the decease of the father which opens the prospect of one's own end, and affords an unobstructed view of the undug but awaiting grave that says 'you're next'.”. 8213; Christopher Hitchens. 8213; Marilynne Robinson. I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.". 8213; Sigmund Freud.
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Of Two Mothers - DANIEL J TOWNSEND
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An Incomplete List of Songs With Talking Trees:. Three Trees' (composer and date unknown). 2 ' A Beautiful Book. 3 'Of Two Mothers. Daniel J Townsend, 2013). Unavailable online, 'Three Trees'. Is derived from a traditional tale. An Incomplete List of Songs With Talking Birds. 1 'Young Hunting' (Scottish folk song, 18th century - Child Ballad 68). Sine up bespak the wylie parrot as he sat on the tree:. And hae ye killd him Young Redin, Wha neer had love but thee? Recorded a version of this song.
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I Can Keep the Peace No More - DANIEL J TOWNSEND
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I CAN KEEP THE PEACE NO MORE. This original composition was written in one inspired hour on a winter's afternoon in 2008, while listening to Blood On The Tracks. Sung from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, the song contains dozens of scriptural references. If you're into that sorta thing.). Forty days of desert: Matthew 4:1-2. Forty days of flood: Genesis 7:12. An ocean made of sand: Exodus 14:21-22. A promise made of blood: Exodus 12:23. We gave it all away for something more: Mark 1:18. One sun is a-r...
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Hymn of Kassiani - DANIEL J TOWNSEND
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This Eastern Orthodox psalm is based on the Gospel story of a "sinful woman". Who anoints Jesus' feet with costly perfume in a room filled with religious leaders, including Jesus' disciples. Judas protests at the extravagance, arguing that the money would have been better spent feeding the poor. Afterwards he heads to the chief priests and offers to hand Jesus over to them for money. The song is named for its composer, Kassia, a Byzantine nun, poet and hymnographer in the eighth century. As a composer, s.
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The Holy Well - DANIEL J TOWNSEND
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First documented in an 1847 book of Christmas carols, this ballad relates a bizarre and apocryphal idea of the boy Jesus. Fourteen verses long, the song is sometimes known as. Because of the branch with which Mary whips Jesus in the closing stanzas. A Good Christmas Box. Christmas-tide, Its History, Festivities and Carols, With Their Music. William Sandy, John Russell Smith, London, 1852. Create a free website. Create your own free website. Start your own free website.
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