the mother of the world

here's a face full of colour. i took this pic of my front window through a pair of glasses brought back from the 07 burning man gathering by vancouver ali.



i've been blessed in being the father of three children - two of whom live with me - all of whom get along. the two younger ones like to bug and tease each other but nothing near as much as my own brother and i did at the same age.

bill callahan - a.k.a. “smog” bangs out a lot of worthy tunes, but this one has stuck with me as a favourite in my headphones for a long while - almost a year!

"i feel like the mother of the world". i wonder when i hear this if my own mother and father felt this way about my brother and i who found almost any excuse to knock the snot out of each other, bug each other and generally make life less-than-pleasant for all around us.

here are the lyrics so you can sing along . . . . . .

I Feel Like the Mother of the World

Whether or not there is any type of god
I’m not supposed to say
And today
I don’t really care

God is a word
And the argument ends there

Oh do I feel like the mother of the world
With two children
Oh do I feel like the mother of the world
With two children fighting

When I was a boy I used to get into it bad
With my sister
And when the time came to face the truth
There’d only be tears and sides
Tears and sides
And my mother my poor mother
Would say it does not matter
It does not matter
Just stop fighting

Oh do I feel like the mother of the world
With two children