Living with Caer

Living with Caer
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Birthday
October 22
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CAER HALLUNDBAEK is an award-winning author, on-air host and commentator on spirituality, religion and faith worldwide. A Founding Director of the Godspeed Institute, she is the host of the radio program of the Institute, which airs live on the Progressive Radio Network every week. To hear her conversations with spiritual leaders and scholars around the world, see links below to connect!

OCTOBER 28, 2011 2:22PM

Occupy: An American Tune

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Many's the time I've been mistaken
And many times confused
Yes, and often felt forsaken
And certainly misused
But I'm all right, I'm all right
I'm just weary to my bones
Still, you don't expect to be
Bright and bon vivant
So far away from home, so far away from home

 

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And I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
or driven to its knees
But it's all right, it's all right
We've lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the road
we're traveling on
I wonder what went wrong
I can't help it, I wonder what went wrong

 

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And I dreamed I was dying
And I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly
And looking back down at me
Smiled reassurringly
And I dreamed I was flying

 

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And high up above my eyes could clearly see
The Statue of Liberty
Sailing away to sea
And I dreamed I was flying

 
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We come on the ship they call the Mayflower
We come on the ship that sailed the moon
We come in the age's most uncertain hour
and sing an American tune
But it's all right, it's all right
You can't be forever blessed


Still, tomorrow's going to be another working day
And I'm trying to get some rest
That's all I'm trying to get some rest

 

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Godspeed, America

 

 

Lyrics: Paul Simon

Images: Google

 

 

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The juxtapositioning of Paul Simon's lyrics with the images you selected was wonderful. The Occupy movement seems to come from a place deep in America's heart, the same place that produced the War of Independence and formed the backdrop for the struggles and eventual accomplishments and achievements of the American people. And not just Americans, but people around the world.