yearning

Yearning For Your Love
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Yearning
$16.98
Seeing the beautiful album cover and the title "yearning" i just knew i was gonna like this album. The songs are invoking...i find total calm and peace listening to them. I do alot of yoga ...and this is the type of music that sets nice as background music thats not distracting... specially for meditation. sometimes i fall asleep to it too. If you are out to find spirituality, to observe your mind and thoughts and to experience bliss...this album is for you

Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics
$18.00
~ there are books that one reads and remembers,

there are others that become family members; books that stay with one throughout longines of suffering;

words from the author stoicly holding up the soul when one doesn't have the strength


~ this book lives by my nightstand; the words from bell hooks essay, "Choosing the margin,"
found me when i was an undergraduate and struggling; struggling with figuring out how to write

the truth;

moreso; how exactly to write the truth in front of everybody; how to look people in the eye; and still,

write the truth; it is a painful undertaking; this writing of the truth in front of everybody; this essay

will teach a writer more than any lecture on learning to live within

the safe language space; it will speak to the intellectual who is figuring out still,

how to say it;

the truth;

how to make it look good and feel good and taste good; there is no way to do this; and in a radical

chess move, ms. hooks writes as if to say there is a better way to keep the flame of your soul alive

learn to reside within the margin space ; learn to live within the group, by living on the outside, refuse to

step

inside the circle ; refuse

to become one who agrees to everything ; stay here in this radical space ; this

margin ; will sustain you ; by living within the margin ; this is where you will begin to thrive ;

call bell hooks radical call her racist call her what you will but she too, has mastered living in the margins

and this is where she will thrive and survive this is the great open radical space where no one can touch her ;

she is ultimately

one of the worlds purest forms

of greatness ;

i admire her ; and i cherish

nearly every single thing she ever writes ;

The Yearning: Romances for Alto Flute
$17.98
I've been getting professional massage for many years, and have been exposed to a wide range of relaxing AND beautiful music. During a recent massage I heard this CD. It touched me uniquely. It was a combination of the timbre of the alto flute (with which I was unfamiliar prior to this) and the compositions themselves. The performance and recording quality were also excellent. But on a personal note, the music evoked an amazing collection of associations, memories, sheer romance-in-the-moment that music rarely does for me.

In its particular class---as both a relaxing collection for massage, and a stimulating collection for romantic memories and romantic hopes/dreams---this CD is the best.

And I agree with the reviewer who asked for a sixth star. There are some albums that are so clearly at the top of their genre that they need a category beyond "excellent".