A Different Kind of Post 7/31/08
My two favorite songs with the word "Brain" in the title:

Pink Floyd, Brain Damage http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pink+floyd/brain+damage_20108608.html

Ray Bolger, If I Only Had a Brain
http://www.jumbojimbo.com/lyrics.php?songid=2539&type=chords

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One parody song I found that I like and some lyrics written by kids:

Phil Alexander, Brain Glops Keep Fallin' From My Head
http://www.amiright.com/parody/70s/bjthomas8.shtml

Neuroscience for Kids, Brain Songs (collected)
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/songs.html

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Singers and bands I've heard of although I am unfamiliar with these songs:

Malvina Reynolds, D.D.T. on My Brain
http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/MALVINA/mr029.htm

Green Day, Brain Stew
http://www.musicbabylon.com/artist/Green_Day/
Internation_Superhits/42486-brain_stew-lyrics.htm

Pearl Jam, Brain of J
http://www.twin-music.com/artist_p/pearl_jam_lyrics/brain_of_j_lyrics.html

Justin Timberlake, Still On My Brain
http://www.goldlyrics.com/song_lyrics/justin_timberlake/justified/still_on_my_brain/

System of a Down, Ego Brain
http://www.fruitylyrics.com/song/System%2BOf%2BA%2BDown/Ego%2BBrain/

Bob Marley, Brain Washing
http://www.poemhunter.com/song/brain-washing/

Eminem, Brain Damage
http://www.lyricsbay.com/e/eminem/braindamage.html
http://www.lyricskeeper.com/eminem-lyrics/10579-brain_damage-lyrics.htm

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Singers, bands, and songs that I don't recognize and probably never heard of:

New Brain Soundtrack, Trouble in His Brain
http://www.nomorelyrics.net/new_brain_soundtrack-lyrics/
225300-trouble_in_his_brain-lyrics.html

Annihilator, Brain Dance
http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/A/annihilatorlyrics/annihilatorbraindancelyrics.htm

Deine Lakaien, Brain Fic
http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/d/deinelakaien12429/brainfic451236.html

Pinky and The Brain, Theem Song
http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/p/pinky_and_the_brain/theem_song.html

Paisley Brain Cell, Paisley Brain Storm
http://www.elyrics.net/read/p/paisley-brain-cells-lyrics/paisley-brainstorm-lyrics.html

Jimi the Jet, Song About My Brain
http://www.completealbumlyrics.com/lyric/50561/
Jimi+the+Jet+-+SONG+ABOUT+MY+BRAIN.html


Gene Vincent, Flea Brain
http://www.songlyrics.com/song-lyrics/Gene_Vincent/
Miscellaneous/FLEA_BRAIN/179014.html

Blood for Blood, Evil in the Brain
http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/B/bloodforbloodlyrics/bloodforbloodevilinthebrainlyrics.htm


sapphoq healing t.b.i. and having fun

Labels: brain, lyrics

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  OF ALTARS 2/14/07 My first teacher taught me to use my brain as the ultimate tool.
In fact, I knew nothing of casting circles-- I had learned how to
go on those soul voyages in dreaming, the care and feeding of
gris-gris bags, and rudimentary protection skills using bath salts.
[Conjure bags filled with common kitchen herbs and stones, and
bath salts were the only things she allowed me along with a tarot
deck. Since I didn't know about other tools or altars, I didn't mind].
I had no official altar for many years.

My first physical altar was a piece of wood onto which I had
used magic markers to designate the four directions and had
also inscribed some astrological symbols on.
I had run into a description of how to set up an altar and that was
my result. I kept it in the bathroom and laid it over the sink when
I wanted to use it to light candles or burn incense for specific
things I perceived I needed or wanted.

In this house, I have a circle altar where I do circle work, a moon
altar, an ancestors' altar all in one room which is warded. Also
a mini-shrine to Yemayah in the bathroom. Rocks all over the
house. [I love rocks.] A room of frogs which I also consider
to be sacred space [though not exactly what the authors of
all those books I got had in mind]. And a "witch tree"
with stones around it in the backyard. And gris-gris in my car.

After my car accident and traumatic brain injury, there was very
little I could do. I spent a couple of months sleeping twenty hours
a day. During that time, any spiritual work I did was basic. I found
a fondness for classical music and insisted that the radio station
playing it be left on all night long. I envisioned Kwan-Yin helping
me to heal up when I was laid up. I renewed my acquaintance
with the blessed darkness and shadows. What I didn't know then
was that I was experiencing photophobia from the brain injury
itself. What I did know was that the sunlight outside the window
was too bright.

As my healing progressed, I became gradually able to return to
a bit of circle work while vertical. And now I can once again enjoy
my surroundings. I no longer curse the sunlight daily. [I got prism
lenses/prescription sunglasses]. Today I still retain that sense
of my surroundings being my altar. My brain remains the
only tool I truly need.

sapphoq healing tbi

Labels: altar, brain, brain+damage, ocular motor dysfunction, pagan, photophobia, prism lenses, t.b.i.

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