Oasis Reflection
The sun is shining this morning in San
I'm lucky! I'm so fortunate to live here on
In our ordinary moments, we can let
I'm moving along at an even pace at
"The moment your judgement stops
through acceptance of what is,
you are free of the mind.
You have made room
for love,
for joy,
for peace."
The Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
The sun is shining this morning in San
Juan, Puerto Rico. As the breeze gently
catches the ocean mist, I'm reminded of
the goodness in this life. It's so easy
to forget to notice the beauty that
to forget to notice the beauty that
surrounds us everyday but today I am reminded to accept:
I'm lucky! I'm so fortunate to live here on
this beautiful island. I appreciate my
friends and family all across the States
and Puerto Rico who welcome me into
their homes and make room for me in
their lives. It's good to know my health,
if not perfect is good ! (I've done my
summer routine checkups and I'm fine.)
I'm looking forward to little pleasure, for example,
soon we will have bikes to ride around the
town and to the beach! My girl is coming
home for a couple of weeks! Oh, yes, I'm happy
indeed!
In our ordinary moments, we can let
go and just be in this moment and
experience it without any changes.
It's lunch time now. My simple pasta is
It's lunch time now. My simple pasta is
warm and sprinkled with freshly cubed
tomatoes. Soft and sweet peaches,
freshly sliced, await. No, I think I'll try a
bit of fruit right now with the pasta. Why not?!
I'm moving along at an even pace at
home and at work...look for this, look for
that ...it's a mellow yellow kind of day.
I hope your day is brightly imbued
with radiant joy.
MUSIC NOTES:
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
Some comments by Donovan about the lyrics and his inspiration:
"In an interview with the June 18, 2011 edition of the NME, Donovan was asked what the song was actually about? He replied: "Quite a few things. Being mellow, laid-back, chilled out. 'They call me Mellow Yellow, I'm the guy who can calm you down.' Lennon and I used to look in the back of newspapers and pull out funny things and they'd end up in songs. So it's about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene - which were ladies vibrators." (What!? These are the songwriter's risqué words! haha)
MUSIC NOTES:
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
(Quite rightly)
They call me mellow yellow
Some comments by Donovan about the lyrics and his inspiration:
"In an interview with the June 18, 2011 edition of the NME, Donovan was asked what the song was actually about? He replied: "Quite a few things. Being mellow, laid-back, chilled out. 'They call me Mellow Yellow, I'm the guy who can calm you down.' Lennon and I used to look in the back of newspapers and pull out funny things and they'd end up in songs. So it's about being cool, laid-back, and also the electrical bananas that were appearing on the scene - which were ladies vibrators." (What!? These are the songwriter's risqué words! haha)
