The Lion Sleeps Tonight

[omega minimo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQQ-DwLqoGY
My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He wrote:

"In our sleep,
pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop
upon the heart until,
in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God."


    



http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Aeschylus+Quotation.htm

[Name removed]

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. What a beautiful and moving post...

Thank you for these images...

They have brought the sting of tears to my eyes...


K&R


:cry:

[omega minimo]

4. .

:grouphug:

[oldtime dfl_er]

20. God, I am so sad

so sad.

[omega minimo]

26. +

:pals:

[proud patriot]

3. I lit a Candle , It's on my porch

I can't stop crying .

[omega minimo]

6. +

...........

[Fearless]

23. ++

[create.peace]

5. thanks for breaking it so sweetly, i just checked in, and this is the first i knew

sincerely, thanks,
no tv, radio, to shock me

[omega minimo]

8. oh wondlerful LOL

thank you for that bright spot. :pals:

[David Zephyr]

7. Thank you for the images and the words.

:cry:

[Sparkly]

9. Just heard...

On my way to bed -- not sure whether to wake Stinky and tell him...

He'll be very sad.

:cry:

RIP... Your dream shall never die.

[EFerrari]

10. After Apple-Picking

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grass.
It melted, and I let it fall and break.
But I was well
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could tell
What form my dreaming was about to take.
Magnified apples appear and disappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.
My instep arch not only keeps the ache,
It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.

And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.
For all
That struck the earth,
No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap
As of no worth.
One can see what will trouble
This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it's like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.

-- Frost

[omega minimo]

15. Lovely

:hug:

[burrowowl]

11. Requiese in pacem!

Liberea me
He is now free but we are the poorer for it!
DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!

[BlooInBloo]

12. Aw jeez. RIP, Senator - you helped make the country better.

[omega minimo]

36. Not so "malicious" tonight, eh, ya big softie?

:spray: :hug:

[bliss_eternal]

13. .....................

:cry:

[omega minimo]

19. Aw, Bliss

"May you live in Interesting Times" :grouphug: :cry: :pals:

[bliss_eternal]

21. ...so sorry.

can't stop crying.

:cry::cry::cry:

:hug::pals::hi:

[DonCoquixote]

14. You know, in a way, thanks to the freeper

It's obvious that people like Obama wanted to avoid the inane, stupid streetfights that bring us shame, but this idiot reminded us that our enemy has no shame, and that THIS is the moment to fight!

[omega minimo]

17. In our grief

we are open to our common humanity
compassion
and can even wish health and healing on that miserable soul.

And you're right. Fight on.

Another thread has suggested that Edward Kennedy's death be the impetus to REALLY push for health care in honor of him. :thumbsup:

[dgibby]

16. Thank you, Mods,

for being so swift in ridding us of that miserable troll.

[ClayZ]

18. .

[Control-Z]

22. Moving post

Thank you. I can't seem to stop crying. I don't think I've ever cried over the passing of anyone I didn't know personally.

I feel angry and sad...and a little lost right now.

[omega minimo]

25. TY

Dear Control-Z, yes, it feels that way doesn't that. A door closed and one is opening.
And some things we leave behind.
This is where those who remember get to feel old, as if no one outside that time can ever quite grasp what it meant.........

or something.

[Control-Z]

29. It is -

'This is where those who remember get to feel old, as if no one outside that time can ever quite grasp what it meant.........'

- for so many of us tonight.

It's comforting that we have each other. :grouphug:

[MiniMe]

24. Whoa, they woke up Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw for phone-in interviews

They are east coast, and they are being interviewed at 2am

[MissDeeds]

27. Thanks for this beautiful and moving post

The picture of the three Kennedy brothers brought me to tears. I am so honored to have lived during the Kennedy years. RIP, dear Teddy. I fear we will not see your kind again. :cry:

[omega minimo]

28. .

:cry: :grouphug:

[TexasObserver]

30. He became my hero in 1973 when he led the fight for health care.

The first time I met with him was 1973 at a HEALTH CARE CONFERENCE. Then in 1984, I put together a project for him in Texas with Willie Valasquez, a massive registration of Hispanics effort. Willie was a hero, who died in 1988, but left a legacy: Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. I went through Teddy's staffers and got him to write a letter to Hispanic families all over Texas, as he was immensely popular with Hispanics. Willie handled the effort, and I raised the money for it.

I saw Teddy at functions in the 1980s and 1990s, mainly functions to help Democrats win US senate seats. His head was huge, maybe the biggest head in Washington. He was bigger than life, even though not as tall as I had thought before meeting him. I was part of a group of Texas libs that included my long time friend, Lloyd Doggett. Teddy was an icon to us, and has been a stalwart in the senate. He will be missed.

[omega minimo]

33. Thank you for a wonderful post, Texas Observer

Peace :toast:

[VolcanoJen]

31. Rest in peace, Senator Kennedy.

Beautiful post, Omega. Thank you so much for this.

[omega minimo]

34. TY VJ!

:toast:

[EFerrari]

32. Teddy eulogized Bobby, his mother Rose and Jackie

For Bobby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFsMCXXAWI0&feature=fvw

For Rose

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIaijdyaYdo&NR=1

For Jackie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBnxKD30L4E&feature=related

[omega minimo]

35. Thanks for those and your beautiful OP. I borrowed the quote to add here:

"Some men see things as they are and say why.
I dream things that never were and say why not."


Some of us are caught off guard when we cry at the news of these deaths. Considering that I HEAR Robert's voice when I read those words, we have internalized so much of who these people are and what they've achieved.........

[TicketyBoo]

62. Also for JFK, Jr.

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/ted-kennedy-jfk-jr.htm

[democrat2thecore]

37. RIP, I was a Kennedy delegate in 1980 - damn proud of it and SO SAD to know he is gone

Beautiful post, by the way.

"And the dream shall never die"

[omega minimo]

38. May he and his siblings rest in peace.

:yourock:

[Hekate]

39. KnR.

Glad I checked in at DU tonight. :grouphug:

Hekate

[lamp_shade]

40. OMG... just the Title of your post was enough to make me sob out loud.

I'm so freaking sad.

[omega minimo]

45. Peace and health for all

:grouphug: and his timing may just help bring it about. :toast:

[malaise]

41. Rest in peace

Ted Kennedy.

[butterfly77]

42. Rest in peace...

[Vidar]

43. Vaya con Dios, Teddy.

[cali]

44. beautiful, ,moving post. it brought tears to my eyes.

[omega minimo]

55. cali, if the compassion inspired by this news can fit around Arnolt S., it has room for you as well

:hi:

[lukasahero]

46. Thank you

It seems quiet here in Massachusetts today.

:cry:

[omega minimo]

48. .

That brought tears to my eyes all over again, LH.

:hug: :grouphug:

[D23MIURG23]

47. K&R

[merh]

49. K&R

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=9003800&mesg_id=9003800

[opihimoimoi]

50. KnR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LBmUwi6mEo

[Nikki Stone1]

51. They're all gone.

Hard to believe. :(

[omega minimo]

53. Yup

:pals:

[Nikki Stone1]

57. Thanks. It's such a sad, sad day.

:(

[WonderGrunion]

52. Very moving post

Thank you.

[omega minimo]

54. Very moving moment

Thank you.


And "WonderGrunion" goes into my TopTen fave SU names :hi:

[Uncle Joe]

56. Nicely done, omega minimo,

thanks for the thread.:hug:

I will miss Teddy,:( peace to everyone.:grouphug:

[omega minimo]

59. Peace on you as well, Uncle Joe

:pals: :grouphug:

[mzmolly]

58. "The Lion Sleeps Tonight"

Most appropriate...

[omega minimo]

60. Thanks mzmolly

It seemed peaceful last night, came back tonight and it seems to fit. I'm struck by the sadness we all are and I am so glad that he may rest in peace. His passing makes those old enough to recall reflect on the tumult we've been through. Who knows what it feels like, to someone like him, who has been through the nation's nightmares, up close and personal in a way few have. All I can say is:


(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)
(A-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh, a-weema-weh)

In the jungle, the mighty jungle
The lion sleeps tonight
In the jungle the quiet jungle
The lion sleeps tonight

Near the village the peaceful village
The lion sleeps tonight
Near the village the quiet village
The lion sleeps tonight

Hush my darling don't fear my darling
The lion sleeps tonight
Hush my darling don't fear my darling
The lion sleeps tonight

[omega minimo]

61. On this tribute to Ted Kennedy only, I am going to tell the person who just unRecced from #48

you are despicable.

[omega minimo]

63. Folks, please find the video in Pol Vids of the motorcade slowing for the procession

:cry: :loveya: