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Once in a life time…

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And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
wife
And you may ask yourself-Well…How did I get here?

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money’s gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money’s gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.

Talking head 1984.

Posted by: Juanmanuel Cunninghan

Under Grace

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Today I would like to share this feeling of joy that’s been pushing me all this years. I am not living in my country, I am a foreigner, an outsider, no matter how much I try I will always be different. I live in China. Chinese are very good people, they share lots of common behavior from Latin American people, they have a high value for family and the elderly, they love sharing and spending time together, love eating out and above all they worship their children.

Somehow, lots of people complain about them, I sometimes feel ashamed because it’s not polite to talk about your host, so I practice the non- complaining-about-what-I don’t like- policy, I think it’s normal to feel out of ground sometimes, feel rejected and sometimes laughed at, but isn’t it the same wherever you go?

But my point today is not about being a foreigner in China nor rising kids here either, it’s about grace. when I left home, I could hardly feel grace for simple things, a good time with my mother, my brothers, being at a beautiful place, we took everything for granted… Here in China I really appreciate simple things, such as having a small dinner with my family, going out and realizing I am so far away, talking with my neighbors and being understood, going to church, watching a movie , in fact most of the common things are now  wonderful experiences. I feel I am under grace, fell blessed and full of hope.

Love my children and my wife, miss my mom and brothers, it’s all part of life, I hope in the end all comes back to me and lift me up in Grace….

Juanmanuel Cunningham Armas

September 4 2011

The mob rules!

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Oh! You’ve nothing to say
They’ll drag you away!
If you listen to fools,
The mob rules, the mob rules!

Black Sabbath / Mob Rule. 1981

If you listen to fools!   we are all the time listening to fools, on the TV, on the Radio, At the bus stop… We’ve nothing to say, just babble empty words, when was your last real conversation? A real constructive one.

We are losing our life away, losing time complaining about this and that . Do you remember when you didn’t have computers? When life was simpler, well people often complained about life in a simpler way but it was the same. Family has lost the communication between parents and children, we spend more time sharing a TV program than talking about something you find interesting….

We are just a mob, carried away by the media…

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Break the circle and stop the movement
The wheel is thrown to the ground
Just remember it might stop rolling
And take you right back around!

You’re all fools!
The Mob Rules!

Black Sabbath / Mob Rule. 1981

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