The Telling...

[Greco]

A draft...

The Telling

The office, finally quiet of the pain it still held...Luciana wrote her last therapy note in long hand and locked the pad in her desk. Thinking of her last client and her body relaxing after the experience of intense sensuality she felt with the beauty, her body still reeling with thought of the beauty.

Luciana turned off the light on her desk feeling sadness with what she already knew she would not do with her date this evening.

This place with it's trees, and gray skies was still a mystery. She got into her car, and turned on the ignition, her thighs still stinging with desire. Luciana pulled the car toward her date's address as she thought of herself as a relic of some other time, a distant place where control of Self was a virtue.

Mariana was already at the door at Luciana's arrival...opened door...helped her in...closed door, still Luciana's thighs were on fire as she got behind the wheel once again.

Luciana looked at Mariana across the table, the candlelight flickering, of course. This woman's green eyes, kind, desirable, as Luciana took in the tone of her eyes, their shape, the brilliance there and felt sacredness at their beauty, and sadness at knowing she would not kiss them, or even acknowledge their want. Luciana had taken Mariana home after dinner had brought itself to its end.

Luciana entered her home and began her next life...the phone rang..."Lu, I just wanted to know that you got home ok." Luciana could hear Mariana's breathing..."Yes, I got home ok. I'm getting to work now, I'll call you tomorrow.", Luciana said even as she thought she would not use the phone for the entire weekend.

Luciana took her jacket off, walked to her palette and immediately relaxed. Taking the cadmium red deep she thought it the color of blood...a good thought...she turned to her painting in progress, of the woman who had sat for it...and remembered the energy between them as Luciana painted her...and now alone, without her it felt safer...controlled...and Luciana grayed down the cadmium red deep and began to paint the lips that she had briefly tasted...and relaxed knowing she would go no further...no further...her need for self control imperative.

A draft...©Greco 2013

[Greco]

The painting went well this night. Luciana looked at herself in the mirror and contemplated her own image. She lived with images, and feelings, made her living sensing, and seeing. She smoothed coconut oil over her face, and the image of Mariana opened before her...Mariana, stunning, sensual. Why did she not take her? All the signals were there.

Luciana gazed at the silver hair riding her temples, and the mirror seemed to open to her thoughts...Mariana, was also gazing at herself in the mirror, wondering, thinking about Luciana and why this night came to such an early ending...Mariana gazed at her body, touched her arms, her breasts, and thought, "I am gorgeous. Why didn't Lu want me?" She felt Lu's energy embrace her at that moment, as if Lu were there touching her, caressing her, but she shook herself out of this fantasy.

Luciana, gazed into the mirror and for an instant felt the impulse to call Mariana...to tell her that she wanted her, desired her at that very moment. Luciana did not call Mariana. Luciana went into her bedroom, and prayed for self-control. She did not sleep soundly that night. Tomorrow she would do her long run.

A draft...Greco

[SugarFemme]

I just swooned :bunchflowers:





A draft...

The Telling

The office, finally quiet of the pain it still held...Luciana wrote her last therapy note in long hand and locked the pad in her desk. Thinking of her last client and her body relaxing after the experience of intense sensuality she felt with the beauty, her body still reeling with thought of the beauty.

Luciana turned off the light on her desk feeling sadness with what she already knew she would not do with her date this evening.

This place with it's trees, and gray skies was still a mystery. She got into her car, and turned on the ignition, her thighs still stinging with desire. Luciana pulled the car toward her date's address as she thought of herself as a relic of some other time, a distant place where control of Self was a virtue.

Mariana was already at the door at Luciana's arrival...opened door...helped her in...closed door, still Luciana's thighs were on fire as she got behind the wheel once again.

Luciana looked at Mariana across the table, the candlelight flickering, of course. This woman's green eyes, kind, desirable, as Luciana took in the tone of her eyes, their shape, the brilliance there and felt sacredness at their beauty, and sadness at knowing she would not kiss them, or even acknowledge their want. Luciana had taken Mariana home after dinner had brought itself to its end.

Luciana entered her home and began her next life...the phone rang..."Lu, I just wanted to know that you got home ok." Luciana could hear Mariana's breathing..."Yes, I got home ok. I'm getting to work now, I'll call you tomorrow.", Luciana said even as she thought she would not use the phone for the entire weekend.

Luciana took her jacket off, walked to her palette and immediately relaxed. Taking the cadmium red deep she thought it the color of blood...a good thought...she turned to her painting in progress, of the woman who had sat for it...and remembered the energy between them as Luciana painted her...and now alone, without her it felt safer...controlled...and Luciana grayed down the cadmium red deep and began to paint the lips that she had briefly tasted...and relaxed knowing she would go no further...no further...her need for self control imperative.

A draft...©Greco 2013

[Sweet Bliss]

That's it?

That's all we get to read?

Very interesting start. Would like to read more Greco. :rrose:

[Greco]

I

Luc sees her behind her desk, front office.
Luc opens the door and enters knowing that Claudia
doesn't know what Luc looks like nor that she is coming
to meet her this day.

Luc's gaze is steady, taking in Claudia as she approaches
the front reception desk...Luc wonders what her scent
will be, what temperature her skin at caress?

Luc stands in front of her silently savoring her
beauty with eyes that sense Claudia's surprise, and
feeling the energy of her wetness. Luc walks around
to the entrance of Claudia's station and extends
her hand, Claudia rises as she gives Luc her hand.

Luc draws Claudia to her gently.
Slowly Luc breathes her in, and places lips
warm, and hungry on Claudia's soft shoulder.

Luc then stands back and both look into
each others eyes with the knowing of its promise.

continuing

©2014 Greco

[Sweet Bliss]

Okay. It's been a loooong time.

Dear Greco, may we please receive a new installment?

:rrose:

[Greco]

You have a way with words...Luc and Claudia are "dead in the water". This story I've decided not to continue, but who knows, I'm sure Luc is alive and well...smiling...and will have a story to tell.

Until then :rrose:, Greco

Okay. It's been a loooong time.

Dear Greco, may we please receive a new installment?

:rrose:

[Greco]

Paper and Pen

This seems a beginning of words again...

Writing you...

Sometime if we ever live in a place called our home

I will still write you letters,
even while your in another room,

I will write

So that when I'm no longer there

You will know I have not
left you and that love
never dies.


©2017 Greco

[Greco]

AJNHE6g8K_o
ASMR and a Good Cigar

one way I relax...with the espresso and...

Greco

[Greco]

atELVQ9aVGw
Crackling Fireplace with Thunder, Rain and Howling Wind Sounds (HD)

Always thought these videos were kind of strange...but
tonight I want a thunderstorm...and a fire...hmmm, a story
in the offing?...quizas...quizas...safe and cozy while the
storm rages outside...this is music too...

Greco

[Greco]

0IeQESRGv6U
Beneath the Surface - A Free Diving Film HD


vfCrBob3N-c
Ashleigh Baird - Freedive against all odds


Greco

[Greco]

yDacIkFBDLE
A Finnish woman swims in a frozen lake to treat her broken leg. When she jumps in, I'm speechless.



(f)

Greco

[Greco]

Ftm2uv7-Ybw
4K Campfire by the River - Relaxing Fireplace & Nature Sounds


Greco

[Greco]

zSrx-z7mA94
Cos'è l'Apnea - Emozioni senza respiro - Apnee - Apnoe - Freediving

Greco

[Greco]

U475MNNjLN0
Silence... - Vargo

(f)


Greco

[Greco]

-aXCSFV-aMw
Alexander Tarasov – "Touch"


Greco

[Greco]

WRA8HpIX9Kk
The Sound Of Love - Closer To Me

Dancing a tango in the rain...(f)

Greco

[Greco]

7YEXMn_a8WM
Bliss - Quiet Letters ( Full album)


Greco

[Greco]

mNwCBp9xNVA
Planet Earth: Sami Yousuf - Meditation (f)

Greco

[Greco]

When I first began this thread my intention was to use words

the videos have been a wonder as I'm a visual person

but the words can "paint" pictures too...

"Musa

Aveces sueño
que te conozco

que te he abrazado
suavemente casi
siempre

que te he besado
tus labios
siempre con locura.

Pero de repente
despierto

y otra vez
sé la verdad

que vives solo
en mí Silencío.

Dedicado a mi Musa"

"Muse"

I sometimes dream
that I know you

that I have embraced you
gently most times

that I kiss your
lips with fury always

Then suddenly
I awaken

And again
I know the truth

that You live
only in
my Silence."

Dedicated to my Muse

Greco
copyright The Studio
2008 - 2017

[Greco]

"Studio Visit

La Línea

You don't know me

Line is what I love...

I stalk the line in

you.


In the sweet melody
that resonates in its
smooth flowing

thick in some places

thin in its higher voice

No, you do not know me

I stalk the Line.

If I was a musician

the line would sound
a concerto, or better yet

my folkloric melodies
singing across our
generations

bringing me back

home

to the Sea.


by Greco


"The Studio" book
copyright Greco
2008 - 2017

[Greco]

"Hablame

Talk to me.

Don't be afraid
of the inevitable -

or better yet draw me
a picture

sculpt me a sculpture

you see I understand
visuals better.

Or lace your fingers around
my neck -

look deep into my eyes

and tell me you
are woman enough for me.

Hermosa, sé que lo eres

I know you know it

Now show me how.

How lightening catches fire
between your lips -

between your legs -
those lips too.

Bringing you to me
I savor your
succulence-

eres como mango -
passionfruit gone awry!

I suck you to
the nth degree

then I spank you
for being so f_cking good -

no sculpting tonight."

Greco

"The Studio"book
copyright by Greco
2008 - 2017

[Greco]

AHOskvQvCrI
The Woman Who Dives the Deepest - FULL DOCUMENTARY

Ok folks, back to the Sea...Greco

[Greco]

lP_9aWr4pJU
'EXHALE' - A must watch for all Freedivers

damn I miss the Sea...

Greco

[Greco]

OrRj6mMtZFk
Anna freediving Dean's Blue Hole

Greco

[Greco]

JaO2HEkC_qQ
Studio Ghibli Artist Kazuo Oga Painting Process

...more joy than pain...Greco

[Greco]

I8usi0X-ys0
(3D binaural sound) Chalk and chalkboard/blackboard & ASMR & relaxation & writing/drawing

Greco

[kittygrrl]

BFT-M18N2A4

[Greco]

pRebkWHsHC0
Custom Namiki Falcon Resin Fountain Pen HD

Greco

[Greco]

v11b84Okcm8
OCEAN GRAVITY - Guillaume Néry / Julie Gautier

Greco

[Greco]

F69HjB-4ljI
"REDEMPTION" - Al Marconi

(f)

...it is said that water penetrates relentlessly, yet
gently...tenderly...feel.

Greco

[kittygrrl]

o0lwmpkpCDI

[Greco]

-7NYt09TsP8
Leonard Cohen - Dance Me To The End Of Love
http://twitter.com/PuertoLibre1


Greco

[Greco]

In experience-telling, patience is necessary, a sensual patience that
savors words, slowly sculpting them from pain, fear, desire, and the love
that you will remember forever...more experience-telling to come soon...
words...words...(f)

Greco


[I]"When I first began this thread my intention was to use words

the videos have been a wonder as I'm a visual person

but the words can "paint" pictures too..."
/I]

[Greco]

Grace

I seek no improvement
only translation
of your Beauty

so thousands can see
what I have tasted today.

I confess to have been
sacrilegious

in my attempt to glean
your Radiance

to continue the "work" of art

you already are...

In your culture

you, a woman who has walked
this Earth for
over sixty years
is thought to be
the other side
of done.

But in mine

we Know the Secret

that you hold in your
body

the knowledge
of all the pain
of loss

And the sensuality
of joy, love, pleasure,
and passion.

So, as I assist you off
of the model stand
and take you into
my arms

I know that you know
where we will go and
what ecstasy we will
move in rhythm to

And there is no regret
when I plunge into you

your body has the strength
of lifetimes, and the memory
of this thrusting you, and only
you could know what I feel

as I rise and plunge
deeper still you are not afraid
to look deeply into my eyes
as you clutch me to you
roughly as well

we rough ride together

through our lives gone before
finally arrive at our
Present

gleaming with sweat
breathless at this travel

You know the secret of distance.

Greco

"The Studio" copyright 2008-2017 Greco

[Greco]

AmAba5l0cW8
Relaxing Music, the best underwater footage, HD


LqNfBHHJR1M
Ambient Music Ocean Dolphins


must get to the sea...soon

Greco

[kittygrrl]

words crash upon the ruin of forgotten dreams-http://www.joliphotos.com/files/Empty%20Waves/empty_wave_joli_hqd11047.jpg

[Greco]

NflOxY-AJQU
Gotan Project - Vuelvo Al Sur --- Steff. B --- HD


(f)

Greco

[Greco]

fTxcrjBGves
Andrea Bocelli - Besame Mucho - Live From Lake Las Vegas Resort, USA / 2006

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

Studio Visit: New Model

A ring at the door, putting down my tool I go answer it.
The new model has arrived, I'm glad. Guiding her into
my studio, I show her where she can remove her clothes.
I've petitioned off a small part of my studio for
the models to have a space.

She follows me quietly. I go to another stand and prepare
for a new beginning.

The new model comes into the studio proper, nude, though
that is not how I "see" her; I see her as her most natural Self.
She waits for me to position the chair on the stand, it will be
a sitting pose.

I ask her name. "Elena.", she says.

Elena, sixty-five years old, Russian, and a writer.
Now in this country making ends meet by doing artist
modeling. I "see" her, and want to sculpt her pain, her
confidence, her sense of knowing that none of it matters,
and all of it matters.

Her "knowing" is etched on her face, her body. I don't ask of the pain.
I already know it. I ask about the days of sunshine, and joy in her
Russia, of her writing, how is it coming?

The sculpture takes a life of its own, with her energy, and mine.

Sometimes, many times, it's not about sex at all.

(f)

Greco
"The Studio Book" copyright 2008-2017 Greco

[Greco]

zLmFEIksvh8
Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausini - Dare To Live

lovely Pausini...

Greco

[Greco]

this one as well...

Studio Visit: New Model

A ring at the door, putting down my tool I go answer it.
The new model has arrived, I'm glad. Guiding her into
my studio, I show her where she can remove her clothes.
I've petitioned off a small part of my studio for
the models to have a space.

She follows me quietly. I go to another stand and prepare
for a new beginning.

The new model comes into the studio proper, nude, though
that is not how I "see" her; I see her as her most natural Self.
She waits for me to position the chair on the stand, it will be
a sitting pose.

I ask her name. "Elena.", she says.

Elena, sixty-five years old, Russian, and a writer.
Now in this country making ends meet by doing artist
modeling. I "see" her, and want to sculpt her pain, her
confidence, her sense of knowing that none of it matters,
and all of it matters.

Her "knowing" is etched on her face, her body. I don't ask of the pain.
I already know it. I ask about the days of sunshine, and joy in her
Russia, of her writing, how is it coming?

The sculpture takes a life of its own, with her energy, and mine.

Sometimes, many times, it's not about sex at all.

(f)

Greco
"The Studio Book" copyright 2008-2017 Greco

[kittygrrl]

your words appear as raindrops upon my mind-falling..
betwixt the space and time of the tick tock of the clock and
the heartbeat-pT685rcsB5E

[kittygrrl]

o5JbYhA06YkPlay these strings of the violin-Pluck them gently to their core-They ask for more-

[kittygrrl]

Remember we are as footprints in the sand, which disappear into shadow with the ebb and flow of time-http://229hkg2lw84tezus91ay33k2.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/beach-footprints.jpeg

[Greco]

X0hpxQ9H87M
Traditional Spanish Flamenco Music

Flamenco in its strictest sense, is a professionalized art-form based
on the various folkloric music traditions of Southern Spain in
autonomous community of Andalusia, Extremadura and Murcia.
In a wider sense, it refers to these musical traditions and more
modern musical styles which have themselves been deeply
influenced by and become blurred with the development of
flamenco over thepast two centuries. It includes
cante (singing), toque (guitar playing), baile (dance),
jaleo (vocalizations), palmas (handclapping) and
pitos (finger snapping).

The oldest record of flamenco dates to 1774 in the
book Las Cartas Marruecas by José Cadalso.The genre
originated in the music and dance styles of Andalusia, of
much older origin.[3] Flamenco has been influenced by
and become associated with the Romani people in
Spain, however, unlike Romani music in Eastern
Europe, its origin and style is uniquely Andalusian.

In recent years, flamenco has become popular all
over the world and is taught in many non-Hispanic
countries, especially the United States and
Japan. In Japan, there are more flamenco
academies than there are in Spain. On
November 16, 2010, UNESCO declared
flamenco one of the Masterpieces of the Oral
and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

Greco

[kittygrrl]

6vx6gWuu98Y

[Greco]

bb5wFnXJF7Y
Ludovico Einaudi ~ Islands, Essential Einaudi

Greco

[Greco]

WJcv18IyvKM
Ludovico Einaudi - Time Lapse - In A Time Lapse

Greco

[Greco]

RIf2OXtDhhQ
Ludovico Einaudi - Burning (In a Time Lapse)

Greco

[Greco]

3u-IMopPBa8
Ludovico Einaudi "Le onde"

Greco

[Greco]

GdU6snztM0A
Nothing Else Matters - Metallica - William Joseph feels the Rain

"Internationally acclaimed Pianist, Composer, and Producer William Joseph’s amazing personal take on Metallica's legendary ballad of love and pain."

Greco

[Greco]

4j4FQ7lyLz8
Marc Anthony - Preciosa / SOMOS LIVE
Composer: RAFAEL HERNANDEZ - Preciosa (Grand Piano)

Our Island may be down...but it will always be !PRECIOSA!

Much of devastation...and much love (f)

have returned recently from that precious island, thankfully my Aunts, and cousins are as well as could be expected...

8v_NtoHriqc
RAFAEL HERNANDEZ - Preciosa (Grand Piano)

Todo respeto a usted Don Hernández


vB1EWoayQmQ
Marc Anthony - Vivir Mi Vida/En Vivo (SOMOS UNA VOZ PUERTO RICO 🇵🇷)

Greco

[Greco]

8P6Afvo37ns
Pablo Alborán - El Beso (Videoclip oficial)

"Si un mar separa continentes
Cien mares nos separaran a los dos
Si yo pudiera ser valiente
Sabría declararte mi amor

Que en esta canción
Derrite mi voz
Así es como yo traduzco el corazón...

Pero si yo pudiera darte el beso
Sabrías como duele este amor
Y podre invertir el universo
Para quedarnos en la nada tu y yo...

Si acaso te vas
Sin poderte tocar
Me veo de nuevo dando de qué hablar...

Para mi locura no existe una cura que no sea tu boca
Que abre el mundo que yo derrumbo si te marchas sola..."

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

L18b3UQQ49I
El Amor Brujo - Danza Ritual del Fuego & Canción del Fuego Fatuo
trans...Ritual of Fire, right up my alley...smiling

Have always loved this film and this scene especially, the fire, the music,
the dancers..Antonio Gades e Cristina Hoyos, y el director Carlos Saura.

!Es justo tiempo de disfrutar de ella otra vez!

Greco

[Greco]

e9RS4biqyAc
Paco de Lucía Concierto Aranjuez - Adagio

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

EWKCS55yhpQ
NARCOSE, by Julie Gautier with Guillaume Néry

Greco

[Greco]

yd7N8KmQEuU
Guillaume Nery exclusive Sportlife documentary

Greco

[Greco]

VqlykfcCDZ8
Rear Window - Maya Lin and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

BsrLVPu5otI***Triggering***
Maya Lin

Fk2atd5wdPo ***Triggering***
Creative Forces: NEA Military Healing Arts Network (13:32)

Greco

[kittygrrl]

XCN2LC_nBYQ&t=67s

[Greco]

2-8g03IUY2k
Breathe: A short documentary on freediving

Greco

[kittygrrl]

(My Dad in old time Hawaii)Hawaiians build strength and breath under the sea with rocks (lava rocks are favored)iuQZT8jBJO4

[Greco]

zQtfnPTlFFE
Relaxing Music - Flute, Gentle Birds and Rainforest Sound

Greco

[Greco]

CQy2kJDD6gA
"El Corazon" (Dim Zach & Deem Edit)

let's dance with fire...

Greco

[Greco]

WUpXd64m5a4
Adagio in G Minor - Albinoni ( On Guitar )

Lai - guitar

_eLU5W1vc8Y
"Adagio" (best live version)

Copernicus Chamber Orchestra, Horst Sohm (conducting/Leitung)
Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio en sol menor, in G minor,
Live in concert - Festival de Musica de L´Escala
Concerts Clàssics L'Escala-Empúries
Live performance - 2011

I like the first one alright, but the Copernicus Chamber
rendition is haunting, deep into the depths of...well, you
find your own...

Greco

[Greco]

ZpA0l2WB86E
Schubert "Serenade"


Greco

[Greco]

LRP8d7hhpoQ
"Hallelujah" - Pentatonix

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

6tEEWD8o8TE
Michael Buble & Kelly Rowland - How Deep Is Your Love

Greco

[Greco]

6mJuAlKFBd0
Stig Pryds -deepest P.O.V. freedive in Dean's Blue Hole

Have to admit this one felt frightening...still...beautiful

Greco

[kittygrrl]

ODv-EhF7RBg"If you can't have fun with a rock, you're not ready for toys yet." - Kimi Werner

[Greco]

M516g70IOII
Freedivers Create "Walking On Water" Illusion

Greco

[Greco]

L3vlYdBU2ko
Coventry Carol - Celtic Solstice

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

U62YkXZNs8M
Medieval Ballad - Winterwolf

Greco

[Greco]

Hh9gnAex_A4
"Wolf Eyes" (Paul Winter Consort)

Greco

[Greco]

iZqDonJ60fI
New Age Music Nº3:Paul Winter- Lullaby from the Great Mother

Greco

[Greco]

pzm9bF9oLqw
Flaer Smin ~ Wish U Were Here

Greco

[Greco]

Bump...for new readers...


When I first began this thread my intention was to use words

the videos have been a wonder as I'm a visual person

but the words can "paint" pictures too...

"

Musa

Aveces sueño
que te conozco

que te he abrazado
suavemente casi
siempre

que te he besado
tus labios
siempre con locura.

Pero de repente
despierto

y otra vez
sé la verdad

que vives solo
en mí Silencío.

Dedicado a mi Musa"

"Muse"

I sometimes dream
that I know you

that I have embraced you
gently most times

that I kiss your
lips with fury always

Then suddenly
I awaken

And again
I know the truth

that You live
only in
my Silence."

Dedicated to my Muse

Greco
copyright "The Studio"
2008 - 2017

[Greco]

for new readers...



"Studio Visit



La Línea

You don't know me

Line is what I love...

I stalk the line in

you.


In the sweet melody
that resonates in its
smooth flowing

thick in some places

thin in its higher voice

No, you do not know me

I stalk the Line.

If I was a musician

the line would sound
a concerto, or better yet

my folkloric melodies
singing across our
generations

bringing me back

home

to the Sea.


by Greco


"The Studio" book
copyright Greco
2008 - 2017

[Greco]

bump for new readers


"

Hablame


Talk to me.

Don't be afraid
of the inevitable -

or better yet draw me
a picture

sculpt me a sculpture

you see I understand
visuals better.

Or lace your fingers around
my neck -

look deep into my eyes

and tell me you
are woman enough for me.

Hermosa, sé que lo eres

I know you know it

Now show me how.

How lightening catches fire
between your lips -

between your legs -
those lips too.

Bringing you to me
I savor your
succulence-

eres como mango -
passionfruit gone awry!

I suck you to
the nth degree

then I spank you
for being so f_cking good -

no sculpting tonight."

Greco

"The Studio"book
copyright by Greco
2008 - 2017

[Greco]

bump...new readers



Grace

I seek no improvement
only translation
of your Beauty

so thousands can see
what I have tasted today.

I confess to have been
sacrilegious

in my attempt to glean
your Radiance

to continue the "work" of art

you already are...

In your culture

you, a woman who has walked
this Earth for
over sixty years
is thought to be
the other side
of done.

But in mine

we Know the Secret

that you hold in your
body

the knowledge
of all the pain
of loss

And the sensuality
of joy, love, pleasure,
and passion.

So, as I assist you off
of the model stand
and take you into
my arms

I know that you know
where we will go and
what ecstasy we will
move in rhythm to

And there is no regret
when I plunge into you

your body has the strength
of lifetimes, and the memory
of this thrusting you, and only
you could know what I feel

as I rise and plunge
deeper still you are not afraid
to look deeply into my eyes
as you clutch me to you
roughly as well

we rough ride together

through our lives gone before
finally arrive at our
Present

gleaming with sweat
breathless at this travel

You know the secret of distance.

Greco

"The Studio" copyright 2008-2017 Greco

[Greco]

last bump in this night for...new readers...





Studio Visit: New Model

A ring at the door, putting down my tool I go answer it.
The new model has arrived, I'm glad. Guiding her into
my studio, I show her where she can remove her clothes.
I've petitioned off a small part of my studio for
the models to have a space.

She follows me quietly. I go to another stand and prepare
for a new beginning.

The new model comes into the studio proper, nude, though
that is not how I "see" her; I see her as her most natural Self.
She waits for me to position the chair on the stand, it will be
a sitting pose.

I ask her name. "Elena.", she says.

Elena, sixty-five years old, Russian, and a writer.
Now in this country making ends meet by doing artist
modeling. I "see" her, and want to sculpt her pain, her
confidence, her sense of knowing that none of it matters,
and all of it matters.

Her "knowing" is etched on her face, her body. I don't ask of the pain.
I already know it. I ask about the days of sunshine, and joy in her
Russia, of her writing, how is it coming?

The sculpture takes a life of its own, with her energy, and mine.

Sometimes, many times, it's not about sex at all.

(f)

Greco
"The Studio" Book copyright 2008-2017 Greco

[Greco]

mkFVVQrA2ys
4K Relaxing Fireplace & The Best Instrumental Christmas Music & Crackling Fire Sounds 🔥 UHD 2 Hours

Greco

[Greco]

Fe6TUTSctdg
Ella Fitzgerald "The Secret Of Christmas"

Greco

[Greco]

zL3BvmBeJsQ
Leontyne Price "Ave Maria" Schubert

a slow tempo...stunning "Ave Maria" by
Leontyne Price who continues sharing
her classiness at 91yo.

And is presently fund-raising for
The Met...cannot imagine
NY without The Met...either one.

Greco

[Greco]

_ysNnMWv0r0
"Nuestra Isla, Nuestro Encanto" Especial Banco Popular 2017

Mi gente...pronto estaré con ustedes amores

Greco

[Greco]

J6zvnz847qk
De Puerto Rico Para el Mundo Especial BPPR 2016

para que aprendas nena...

Greco

[Greco]

56WjHWD7fAo
2 HOURS of Relaxing Snowfall: Beautiful Falling Heavy Snow

if your out in this...good luck...if your cozy inside enjoying your
fire...you are lucky...Greco

[Greco]

vT4r7AqUCPU
Adam Stern 104 metre dive in Dominica

Greco

[Greco]

cK3jBHzQctM
Yo-Yo Ma - Songs of Joy & Peace (2008) [Full Album]

to the returning Light in all ways...(f)


The complete 2008 studio album "Songs of Joy & Peace" by Yo-Yo Ma.

Tracklist:
1. Dona Nobis Pacem (Give Us Peace) (0:00)
2. You Couldn't Be Cuter (feat. Diana Krall and John Clayton) (2:00)
3. Joy to the World (feat. Dave Brubeck, Matt Brubeck, and Paquito D'Rivera) (5:29)
4. Here Comes the Sun (feat. James Taylor) (9:11)
5. Improvisation on Dona Nobis Pacem (Give Us Peace) (feat. Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile) (12:02)
6. The Wassail Song/All Through the Night (feat. Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile) (15:00)
7. A Christmas Jig/Mouth of the Tobique Reel (feat. Natalie MacMaster) (17:37)
8. The Wexford Carol (feat. Alison Krauss) (21:24)
9. Panxoliña: A Galician Carol (feat. Cristina Pato) (25:44)
10. Improvisation on Dona Nobis Pacem (Give Us Peace) (feat. Sérgio Assad and Odair Assad) (28:50)
11. Vassourinhas (feat. Sérgio Assad and Odair Assad) (29:48)
12. Improvisation on Dona Nobis Pacem (Give Us Peace) (feat. Paquito D'Rivera and Alon Yavnai) (33:14)
13. Invitación al Danzón (feat. Paquito D'Rivera and Alon Yavnai) (35:46)
14. My One and Only Love (feat. Joshua Redman) (40:40)
15. Familia (feat. Sérgio Assad and Odair Assad) (44:47)
16. Concordia (feat. Dave Brubeck and Matt Brubeck) (48:45)
17. My Favorite Things (feat. Chris Botti) (53:16)
18. Touch the Hand of Love (feat. Renée Fleming, Edgar Meyer, and Chris Thile) (59:46)
19. Kuai Le (feat. Wu Tong and The Silk Road Ensemble) (1:04:21)
20. This Little Light of Mine (feat. Lady Rizo) (1:07:48)
21. Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (feat. Jake Shimabukuro) (1:12:50)
22. Dona Nobis Pacem (Give Us Peace)/Auld Lang Syne (feat. Chris Botti) (1:17:36)

Greco

[Greco]

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Nat King Cole - "The Christmas Song" (1961)


My favorite English-speaking Christmas
song...what a voice Mr. Nat King Cole
you've left a beautiful legacy.

Greco

[Greco]

J1glriB54oE
Nat King Cole An Evening With Nat King Cole HD


The gentleman had talent and class!

Greco

[Greco]

MCTIB_JJbWg
CRESSI 70th ANNIVERSARY, by Guillaume Néry

so lovely to be back in the water after
so much talk...Wishing you all a great New Year...

Greco

[Greco]

apUeC8WFN7w
HAVEN

"Short film about the exploration on breathhold of the biggest wreck in Mediterranean sea, by 3 world champions Guillaume Néry, Morgan Bourc'His and Rémy Dubern. All the images were shot between 40 meters and 50 meters by Jérôme Espla (Poisson Lune Production) and his team with a RED EPIC. Those images were possible to make thanks to our great safety-logistic team. A huge thanks also to my sponsor CRESSI to have supported the project.
Credits:
Produced by: Les Films Engloutis
Directed by: Guillaume Néry
With: Guillaume Néry - Morgan Bourc'His - Rémy Dubern
Underwater images by: Jérôme Espla..."

Greco

[Greco]

_iUDxx9AtYY
12. Sexteto Canyenque & Yo-Yo Ma - Astor Piazolla/ Milonga del ángel

""Francisco Gonzalez
"Un ángel te abraza en cada nota de esta hermosa obra de Astor Piazzolla, interpretada por este impecable sexteto con el arco de Yo-Yo Ma. Es para transportarse al cielo.""

DPGuzDIjMIw
Libertango, Piazzolla live (1977)

what a treat, Astor Piazzolla himself at 3:02

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YO YO MA SOUL OF THE TANGO MUSICA DEL MAESTRO, ASTOR PIAZZOLLA

para tí siempre Hermosura (f)...Greco

[Greco]

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Yo-Yo Ma - Astor Piazzola - Soul of the Tango (Fugata)


interesting video...Greco

[Greco]

RwGObBcXtP8
Fugata Quintet - Adios Nonino (Astor Piazzolla) HD

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

3fCshPgEphQ
"Close your eyes and listen"

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

=amO8pw6dB5s
Astor Piazzolla - Romance del Diablo - Live at the Stift Festival

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

=RtzbMgLANJM
FREE DIVING FREEDIVERS BLUE OCEAN HD

Greco

[Greco]

=rMuTXcf3-6A
Joan Baez & Mercedes Sosa "Gracias A La Vida"

VIOLETA PARRA CHILEAN COMPOSER
(f)


The wonderful trilogy of MUSIC, ACTIVISM AND POETRY

Greco

[Greco]

UE4FL3fH2HQ
Caetano Veloso: Vuelvo al Sur (En vivo)


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Gotan Project - Vuelvo Al Sur --- Steff. B --- HD

Greco

[Greco]

rMuTXcf3-6A
Joan Baez & Mercedes Sosa "Gracias A La Vida"


VIOLETA PARRA CHILEAN COMPOSER

The wonderful trilogy of MUSIC, ACTIVISM AND POETRY

Greco

[Greco]

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Astor Piazzolla - Romance del Diablo - Live at the Stift Festival

Greco

[Greco]

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Tango Sexy dance Santa Maria HD video HQ audio

Greco

[Greco]

you'll enjoy this one as well...


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CARLOS GAVITO TANGO 2002

Carlos Gavito and Maria Plazaola dance at his own show in "La Trastienda" Buenos Aires 2002.

Greco

[Greco]

Remembering this from a different time...

"Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember
what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms
with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and
listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too
have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to
the spirit. ❦

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain
and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons
than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it
is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is
full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there
is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is
full of heroism.

❦ Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity
and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

❦ Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering
the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears
are born of fatigue and loneliness.

❦ Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and
the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe
is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him
to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy
confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still
a beautiful world. Be cheerful. ❦ Strive to be happy."

"This brilliant summation was written by the American
writer, Max Ehrmann in 1927. still true...""

Greco

[Greco]

So, am taking a break from the visuals
and words have returned...


Lady in the cafe

Taking a studio break.

And now in this
cafe...

you

sitting with him

look at me
from afar.

the thunder

the rain

this storm...

I know

that you also

desire

this lesson.

Let me

penetrate you

deep

with

This thunder
of desire
forcing into
you

with the fury
of My storm.

in My arms
I want you
to know me

your Master.

How long will
you wait to
come to me?

Greco

"The Studio" book
© 2008 -2018 Greco

[Greco]

Listen to this and enjoy the above poem...


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Crackling Fireplace with Thunder, Rain and Howling Wind Sounds (HD)

Always thought these videos were kind of strange...but
tonight I want a thunderstorm...and a fire...hmmm, a story
in the offing?...quizas...quizas...safe and cozy while the
storm rages outside...this is music too...

Greco

[Greco]

still true...


Remembering this from a different time...

"Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember
what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible without surrender be on good terms
with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and
listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too
have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to
the spirit. ❦

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain
and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons
than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it
is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is
full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there
is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is
full of heroism.

❦ Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity
and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

❦ Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering
the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears
are born of fatigue and loneliness.

❦ Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and
the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe
is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him
to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy
confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still
a beautiful world. Be cheerful. ❦ Strive to be happy."

"This brilliant summation was written by the American
writer, Max Ehrmann in 1927.""

Greco

[Greco]

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Adagio Concierto de Aranjuez - Daniel Casares

Adagio del Concierto de Aranjuez de Joaquín Rodrigo, intepretado
por Daniel Casares y la Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, bajo la
dirección de Arturo Díez Boscovich.

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

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Pat Metheny with Charlie Haden - Cinema Paradiso


Greco

[Greco]

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The Best of Jack Vettriano

"Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered"
Sung by Ella Fitzgerald
Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Lorenz Hart

Paintings by Jack Vettriano

Greco

[Greco]

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Beethoven "Silence"

Greco

[Greco]

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Garth Brooks - The Dance (With Lyrics)



para tí Hermosura (f)

tuyo siempre, Greco

[Greco]

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"If Tomorrow Never Comes"

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

YVxNJNHE9oc
Contrast X Jack Vettriano (李香蘭/Ikanaide )

Jack Vettriano
Born in Fife in 1951, Jack Vettriano has emerged
from the unlikely background of an early working
life in the Scottish coal-fields to become one of
Britain best known contemporary artists; he is
entirely self taught.


Contrast Group Biography
Contrast is a trio with a rare instrumental combination.
Its founding members, Kitty Cheung, violin;
Timothy Sun, Saxophone; Jenny Ng, piano are graduated
Masters students at the Guildhall School of Music and
Drama in London, United Kingdom. They came together
in 2007 with the same vision of creating new sounds
and giving the audience a new and exciting experience
through their performances.

dig Vettriano's paintings, and set to good music, the best.

Greco

[Greco]

Back into the water...

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Herbert Nitsch, The Deepest Man On Earth

Greco

[Greco]

Other Doors

And then there are other doors.

Doors are funny that way you know.

Some doors have away of closing
shortly after being opened

And some doors are revolving
you go through time and time again
repeating the same old ways
the same old dreams
the same old desires until

perhaps you wake up, stop
and close them forever more
Poe not withstanding you simply
do not open them again.

Then there are the doors that stay
closed. What is behind them?
What music could they sing?
What Love could be found.
Nonetheless they remain closed.

Open doors?
But that's another poem
another thread, here or in another
dimension.

Walking to this door, will I turn my
back? Will I open it?
Let's simply call it limbo time.

Until another evening awakens in me
more words, more images, more Love.

Greco

from "The Studio" book © Greco 2008-2018

[Greco]

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Adagio - Johann Sebastian Bach

(f)

Thanking the Universe for Music

Greco

[Greco]

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Chopin - Spring Waltz

Greco

[Greco]

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"Joie De Vivre"

composer - Fariborz Lachine

Greco

[Greco]

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Chopin, Complete Nocturnes, Brigitte Engerer
(Remastered)

1. 0:06 Op. 9, No. 1 in B flat minor. Larghetto
2. 5:53 Op. 9, No. 2 in E flat major. Andante
3. 10:29 Op. 9, No. 3 in B major. Allegretto
4. 17:09 Op. 15, No. 1 in F major. Andante cantabile
5. 22:07 Op. 15, No. 2 in F sharp major. Larghetto
6. 25:43 Op. 15, No. 3 in G minor. Lento
7. 30:53 Op. 27, No. 1 in C sharp minor. Larghetto
8. 36:32 Op. 27, No. 2 in D flat major. Lento sostenuto
9. 42:27 Op. 32, No. 1 in B major. Andante sostenuto
10. 47:27 Op. 32, No. 2 in A flat major. Lento
11. 53:01 Op. 37, No. 1 in G minor. Lento
12. 59:51 Op. 37, No. 2 in G major. Andante
13. 1:06:17 Op. 48, No. 1 in C minor. Lento
14. 1:12:25 Op. 48, No. 2 in F sharp minor. Andantino
15. 1:20:11 Op. 55, No. 1 in F minor. Andante
16. 1:25:36 Op. 55, No. 2 in E flat major. Lento sostenuto
17. 1:31:19 Op. 62, No. 1 in B major. Andante
18. 1:38:51 Op. 62, No. 2 in E major. Lento
19. 1:45:11 Op. 72, No. 1 in E minor. Andante
20. 1:49:19 Op. posth in C sharp minor. Lento con gran espressione
21. 1:53:18 Op. posth in C minor. Andante sostenuto

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

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Astor Piazzolla In Portrait - Tango Maestro [2005]

Greco

[Greco]

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Dulce Ponte y Andrea Bocelli : "O mare e tu"

favorite duet

Greco

[Greco]

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Andrea Bocelli: "Per amore"

dísfruta...Greco

[Greco]

9pqkHsdZDRU
Dulce Pontes & Ennio Morricone - Cinema Paradiso

(f) Hermosura, aún recuerdo

siempre tuyo, Greco

[Greco]

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Free diving with Dolphins

Greco

[Greco]

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Free diving. Takes your breath away.

Greco

[Greco]

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Marc Anthony - Tu Amor Me Hace Bien / Cambio de Piel / Vivir Mi Vida Medley

(f)

para este presente chinita

Greco

[Greco]

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Marc Anthony en viña 2012 HD sin interrupciones

disfruta cariño

Greco

0:02:48 Aguanile
0:10:48 Y hubo alguien
0:18:55 Volando entre tus brazos
0:26:50 Hasta ayer
0:33:10 Valio la pena
0:38:17 Mi gente
0:45:37 Y como es el
0:51:10 Contra la corriente
0:59:02 Que precio tiene el cielo
1:04:20 Hasta que te conoci
1:14:00 Te conosco bien
1:21:55 Tu amor me hace bien

[Greco]

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"Amada Mía"


Por siempre mí Hermosura (f)

tuyo, Greco

[Greco]

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"MADRIGAL"

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

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"Parece que fue ayer"

Gracias Hermosa Amor por todo lo bonito (f)

siempre tuyo, Greco

[Greco]

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"EN TU PELO"

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

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"Inolvidable"

(f) Hermosa, te llevo siempre conmigo.

tuyo, Greco

[Greco]

Crossing the Barrier

It began with another knock on my studio door
had been waiting for it

the New Model I called for -
I wanted her this afternoon,
Now.

Go to door, open

this New Model comes to me
Full of Life.

As she walks past me the glow
of excitement and expectation
radiates from her every pore
filling my studio with the
freshness of a Spring rain

her black eyes shadowed by her
long, thick lashes

doe eyes with a story to tell.

I show her where she can undress

she asks if she can lie down for a minute -
a minute?! I want to work.

And yet, this New Model has come to me
Full of Life, seven months worth of life
growing within

she undresses, I show her to my bed
I say it's ok - put a fresh sheet before
she lays down - Sun streaming in

I return to the clay to prepare for after
the "minute".

I build armature, roll the air out of lumps
of clay...

she's calling, "Please return, please..."
The clock says the minute has turned to
one hour - I return to my bed, and the two
lives there

"Please, please lay with me, hold me."

Stunned, I look at her precious body
Full and carrying Life

Time turns in on itself and I remember
another...

to be continued...(f)

Greco

"The Studio" book
© 2008 -2018 Greco

[Greco]

Crossing the Barrier

against my Will, my heart opens

it's door now ajar I get on my bed
reaching for her

My left arm supporting her head, my body
flush with her back a heavenly spoonful
she is

she pulls my right arm, and places my
right hand on her well formed bottom
taking my middle finger in her hand
saying, "Please, put it in me, please..."

her soft pleading voice quickening
my pulse - I reach back to my night
stand

"No, use your mouth.", she says

Now in trance I put my right fingers
in my mouth and cover them with
my spit..."Please now..." she begs

I place my middle finger first at the
entrance to her ass...she pushes
against it, my other fingers feel
the wet of her p-ssy

I am careful but steady, she on her side

long to mount her but will not because
of the seven months of belly between us

she rocks against me, my hand now
finding more give all my fingers in her now
I plunge slowly gently f-cking this Beauty
with all the compassion I can hold to

"Yes, yes..." she whispers as her back
and thighs glisten with a light dew -

she smells so good my head is throbbing
I yearn to ravish her

but will not hurt her, no.

My mouth finding her neck, shoulders
I kiss, suck, whisper against her
"girl, come now".

she grabs onto my left arm nails digging
into my forearm as she comes intensely but
quietly, soft whimpering

she has crossed the barrier into me
I hold her as she trembles

telling her gently to remain still
I slowly, carefully remove my fingers
one by one with each exit I feel
her muscle closing around the remaining
until it too is removed gently...

We lay for awhile hearing the traffic outside
I hold her thinking how this one has opened
a door in my heart I kept closed for so long

I must work.

Later...Sculpting her I don't rob her of energy
I join it - and we create another...

the Pregnant One full of life
Full of another Life...
we'll have the time of our lives.


Dedicated to artist models carrying life
everywhere...with much affection (f)

Greco
"The Studio" book
© 2008 -2018 Greco

[Greco]

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Marc anthony -" No Me Conoces"

Greco

[Greco]

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Marc Anthony "Te Conozco Bien"


Greco

[Greco]

IMIlgQJ7Bg4
Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach (Ep. 3) – Classical Music

Contemporary cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach’s six Suites
for Unaccompanied Cello in a series of films, each
showing a collaboration with
artists from different disciplines.


Love this series and couldn't find it until tonight...what a gift
Yo Yo Ma playing Bach suites and dancers.

Greco

[Greco]

ozGo12Z0t2U
Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach (Ep. 5) – Classical Music

Contemporary cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach’s six Suites for
Unaccompanied Cello in a series of films, each showing a
collaboration with artists from different disciplines.

How exquisite is Tamasaburo Bando...

Greco

[Greco]

APhRTw8lW3U
Yo-Yo Ma: Inspired by Bach (Ep. 6) – Classical Music

Contemporary cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs Bach’s six Suites for
Unaccompanied Cello in a series of films, each showing a
collaboration with artists from different disciplines.

The last video of this series...glad you enjoyed this
creative process (f)

Greco

[Greco]

Bump...for new reader...


Crossing the Barrier

It began with another knock on my studio door
had been waiting for it

the New Model I called for -
I wanted her this afternoon,
Now.

Go to door, open

this New Model comes to me
Full of Life.

As she walks past me the glow
of excitement and expectation
radiates from her every pore
filling my studio with the
freshness of a Spring rain

her black eyes shadowed by her
long, thick lashes

doe eyes with a story to tell.

I show her where she can undress

she asks if she can lie down for a minute -
a minute?! I want to work.

And yet, this New Model has come to me
Full of Life, seven months worth of life
growing within

she undresses, I show her to my bed
I say it's ok - put a fresh sheet before
she lays down - Sun streaming in

I return to the clay to prepare for after
the "minute".

I build armature, roll the air out of lumps
of clay...

she's calling, "Please return, please..."
The clock says the minute has turned to
one hour - I return to my bed, and the two
lives there

"Please, please lay with me, hold me."

Stunned, I look at her precious body
Full and carrying Life

Time turns in on itself and I remember
another...

to be continued...(f)

Greco

"The Studio" book
© 2008 -2018 Greco



A Studio Visit con't...

Crossing the Barrier

against my Will, my heart opens

it's door now ajar I get on my bed
reaching for her

My left arm supporting her head, my body
flush with her back a heavenly spoonful
she is

she pulls my right arm, and places my
right hand on her well formed bottom
taking my middle finger in her hand
saying, "Please, put it in me, please..."

her soft pleading voice quickening
my pulse - I reach back to my night
stand

"No, use your mouth.", she says

Now in trance I put my right fingers
in my mouth and cover them with
my spit..."Please now..." she begs

I place my middle finger first at the
entrance to her ass...she pushes
against it, my other fingers feel
the wet of her p-ssy

I am careful but steady, she on her side

long to mount her but will not because
of the seven months of belly between us

she rocks against me, my hand now
finding more give all my fingers in her now
I plunge slowly gently f-cking this Beauty
with all the compassion I can hold to

"Yes, yes..." she whispers as her back
and thighs glisten with a light dew -

she smells so good my head is throbbing
I yearn to ravish her

but will not hurt her, no.

My mouth finding her neck, shoulders
I kiss, suck, whisper against her
"girl, come now".

she grabs onto my left arm nails digging
into my forearm as she comes intensely but
quietly, soft whimpering

she has crossed the barrier into me
I hold her as she trembles

telling her gently to remain still
I slowly, carefully remove my fingers
one by one with each exit I feel
her muscle closing around the remaining
until it too is removed gently...

We lay for awhile hearing the traffic outside
I hold her thinking how this one has opened
a door in my heart I kept closed for so long

I must work.

Later...Sculpting her I don't rob her of energy
I join it - and we create another...

the Pregnant One full of life
Full of another Life...
we'll have the time of our lives.


Dedicated to artist models carrying life
everywhere...with much affection

Greco
"The Studio" book
© 2008 -2018 Greco
__________________

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LUIS MIGUEL - MIS BOLEROS FAVORITOS ALBUM COMPLETO

dísfruta china chinita

Greco

[Greco]

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Freedom – The beauty of our underwater world

Greco

[Greco]

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Johanna Under The Ice: Freediver Johanna Nordblad

Greco

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Thunderstorm Cabin Window Sounds - Nature


missing thunderstorms...

Greco

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David Whyte - The Journey

"You are not leaving, even as the light fades quickly
now, you - are - arriving." David Whyte


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VOLVERAS. ESTREMECEDORA INTERPRETACIÓN. BUIKA. Gran Rex. Buenos Aires.

Greco

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Buika - "Y Quién Soy Yo" + "Nostalgias"

!Díosa!

Greco

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"Mi Niña Lola" - Buika

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Buika: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Bella. Taléntosa. Pura Alma.

Greco

[Greco]

Y entonces...

Here is a story

hard won through time
against the body and soul
of my woman most loved.

There are no questions.
She answered them all.

So how to love a woman
you ask?

Graciously,

ferociously,

with no holds barred -

take her with your

Whole Soul -

Lift her to a place
she has never been
before you.

Leave your ego behind -
look into her eyes and

surrender to the Beauty
she is now

You may
never get another
chance.

Love her totally Now.

She is here, You are here -
touch her, Now.

*in gratitude...

Greco

©2009-20018 Greco
"The Pillow Book"

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Café del Mar Chillout Mix 12 (2017)

nice and easy afternoon...

Greco

[Greco]

aAI-ClTaU5cRelaxing Bossa Nova & Jazz - Summer Dream

Greco

[Greco]

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4K Tropical Rain & Relaxing Nature Sounds - Ultra
HD Nature Video - Sleep/ Relax/ Study/ Meditate

Yes, I miss how it rains at home...Yes, I miss water/rain.
Rain on the sea, at the beach, in the rain forest...think
it's time for a vacation...smiling

Greco

[Greco]

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Beautiful Piano Music Vol.1 ~ Relaxing Music Mix for Sleeping

(f)

Greco

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"Ojos Brujos" Leo Brouwer. Alí Jorge Arango

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LEO BROUWER at the Liceu Conservatory

Leo Brouwer is one of the great friends of the Liceu Conservatory, and
we could enjoy his participation in the Liceu Cambra - Masterclasses & Concerts
Series in Barcelona.

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"Paisaje cubano con lluvia" Leo Brouwer

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

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"Milonga" by Jorge Cardoso
featuring Andrea María Mendez Torres

From the Album "Vamos al Sur" by Antonio Malinconico
http://www.antonio.ch

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

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"Libertango" by Tatyana's Guitar Quartet

different...interesting...good playing

Greco

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Roberta Flack "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" '69

(f)


Y entonces...

Here is a story

hard won through time
against the body and soul
of my woman most loved.

There are no questions.
She answered them all.

So how to love a woman
you ask?

Graciously,

ferociously,

with no holds barred -

take her with your

Whole Soul -

Lift her to a place
she has never been
before you.

Leave your ego behind -
look into her eyes and

surrender to the Beauty
she is now

You may
never get another
chance.

Love her totally Now.

She is here, You are here -
touch her, Now.

*in gratitude...

Greco

©2009-20018 Greco
"The Pillow Book"

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"My Eyes Adored You" - Frankie Valli

Greco

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Janis Joplin - Southern Discomfort (BBC)

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

It's a revealing documentary about the
place and people that Janis grew up
in...for those of us of color, Native-American,
African-American, Latina-American, Asian-American
you know the rest of the World...not so surprising.

Greco

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Janis Joplin - Southern Discomfort (BBC)

(f)

Greco

[Greco]

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Stevie Wonder - "Knocks Me Off My Feet"


Greco

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Stevie Wonder - "As"

para tí siempre Hermosura (f)

tú Greco

[Greco]

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Stevie Wonder - "All I Do"

getting a bit ahead of myself...now in the 70's
...smiling

Greco

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Stevie Wonder - "Higher Ground"

Higher ground...G-d knows we could use it

Greco

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Gato Barbieri - Europa (composed by Carlos Santana)

Yes, the third interpretation of Santana's "Europa"

this sensual sound is all about making deep slow
love to your woman...in my case...as I make love to mine.

going for that walk...Greco

[Greco]

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Santana - "Aqua Marine"

listening to this song with headphones
is...the best...Greco

[Greco]

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The Stylistics - "You Are Everything" - 45 RPM Original Mono Mix

Now, I know there are some of you on this site
that remember slow dancing to this...

Greco

[Greco]

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The Temptations- "I Wish It Would Rain"

...this one was real...

Greco

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The Commodores - "Brick House"

(f)

Greco

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Danza classica "Mis Amores" from Puerto Rico

Now, from my roots, this is a Danza my
friend...and it is one of the first pieces of music
I remember hearing as a toddler...my Aunt had
a music box and she would play it/wind it up
for me...and I loved it...may she rest with the
angels...

Greco

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Jose Feliciano The Windmills of Your Mind

This song blew me away when I first
heard it in 1968 then a Junior in high
school...the images...so vivid Greco


"The Windmills of Your Mind" ("Les moulins de mon cœur") is a song by Michel Legrand and English lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman, from the 1968 film, The Thomas Crown Affair.[1] The French lyrics were penned by Eddy Marnay...this was a version of José Montserrate Feliciano García (born September 10, 1945) is a Puerto Rican singer, one of a great version..."

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Jose Feliciano - Boleros con Danny Rivera y Nydia Caro y Los Hispanos HQ

(f)

Greco

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Jose Feliciano - "Malagueña"

Sín palábras

Greco

[Greco]

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Jose Feliciano - "Odiame"

our "cortate las venas" music
heard always in the house growing
up...!imagínate!

Greco

[Greco]

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Miles Davis - "So What"
Coltrane's playing sax...

And then there was one of my male cousins
that introduced me to Jazz...with record albums
of course...smiling...thanks first cousin!

Greco

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"Naima" - John Coltrane quartet - Belgium 1965

Delicious...

Greco

[Greco]

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Madame Butterfly - Maria Callas (f)
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955 - Karajan) - Callas Remastered

And then there was Maria Callas and
Madame Butterfly...her voice tearing at
your heart...still

Greco

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Etta James - "At Last"
(f)

Greco

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Nina Simone "Mississippi Goddam"

respeto. real...real...real.

Greco

[Greco]

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Carole King "So Far Away" 1971

(f)

"...traveling around gets me down and
hungry...but your so far away..." Still have
a Carole King cd...dug her then...dig her
still...

Greco

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Carole King - "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" (1971)

tears?...yeah...me too...of gratitude to have
survived it all...and learned to thrive in spite of
it all...glad you made too (f)

Greco

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"Take five" - Tito Puente - Jazz latino


So many great musicians, singers that
have nurtured and continue to support me
vibrantly living life...to name them all?...
well, I'll spare you...in this time of rebirth
I'll just say let's all enjoy everyone's music
...no matter what country, language, race
let's enjoy the beauty in each other...and
...ok off my soap box...smiling I've yet to post
the music of each country that I love on this
beautiful Madre Tierra/Planet Earth of ours...
but they all have great music and all have
supported my growth and learning and
yes, continue to do so...enjoy your life my
friends...enjoy the music...enjoy the dance...
thank you for listening and enjoying
those of you who have shared with me...I'll meet
you on the dance floor...Happy Summer Solstice!
Greco

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Guillaume Néry's Freediving Expedition with the badjao (PHILIPPINES)

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The Art of Filming Freediving | Gillette World Sport

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AURORA - "Warrior"

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Aurora - "Under the Water"

water girl...I'll meet you at the ocean shore
and we'll walk...talk...let surface memories of
grace...miss you. Greco

[Greco]

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Pachelbel - Forest Garden (Album)

1 - Serenade
2 - Pastoral
3 - Pavan
4 - Serenity
5 - Elegy
6 - Songbirds

Greco

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Cesaria Evora Live D'amor 2004 (Complete Concert)

(f)

espero que lé gúste...

Greco

ps

"Jim Takahashi
World Music literally transcends culture and language, which
real music is supposed to do. I don't understand a word she
sings, but it doesn't matter at all. What matters is her
musical instrument (voice) - yes, she is (was, unfortunately) one
of the few singers who can be classed as vocalists. She stands
on the stage and just sings - no frills. And her audiences
appreciate it, knowing and wanting nothing but the best part
of this amazing artist. I've been listening to her music for hours
for the past 3 days."

[Greco]

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"Boleros" Gilberto Santa Rosa

Greco

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CHOPIN - NOCTURNE NO.20 IN C-SHARP MINOR OP.POSTH


(f)


Greco


Chopin: Nocturne in C sharp minor, BI 49
Artist
Jhong-Sin Liou (劉忠欣)
Album
Chopin Ballades

[Greco]

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Wynton Marsalis y Paco de Lucía: 'Deep Blue'

check this out

Greco

[Greco]

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Vivaldi Cello Concertos Yo Yo Ma

Artista: Yo-Yo Ma, cello baroque; Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Ton Koopman, condutor, organ, harpsichord

Compositor: Vivaldi, Antonio (Lucio) (Veneza, Italia, 04/03/1678 - Viena, Austria, 28/07/ 1741)

Greco

01. Vivaldi: Concerto In G Minor For 2 Cellos, RV 531 - 1. Allegro 0:00
02. Vivaldi: Concerto In G Minor For 2 Cellos, RV 531 - 2. Largo 3:19
03. Vivaldi: Concerto In G Minor For 2 Cellos, RV 531 - 3. Allegro 5:51
04. Vivaldi: Violin Concerto In F Minor, Op. 8/4, RV 297, "The Four Seasons (Winter)" - 2. Largo 9:03
05. Vivaldi: Cello Concerto In B Flat, RV 423 - 1. Allegro 10:53
06. Vivaldi: Cello Concerto In B Flat, RV 423 - 2. Largo 14:23
07. Vivaldi: Cello Concerto In B Flat, RV 423 - 3. Allegro 16:42
08. Vivaldi: La Fida Ninfa, RV 714 - Così Sugl Occhi Miei 20:18
09. Vivaldi: Concerto In D Minor For Viola D'Amore & Lute, RV 540 - 1. Allegro 23:16
10. Vivaldi: Concerto In D Minor For Viola D'Amore & Lute, RV 540 - 2. Largo 28:37
11. Vivaldi: Concerto In D Minor For Viola D'Amore & Lute, RV 540 - 3. Allegro 31:06
12. Vivaldi: Giustino, RV 717 - La Gloria Del Mio Sangue 34:17
13. Vivaldi: Cello Concerto In C Minor, RV 401 - 1. Allegro Non Molto 37:11
14. Vivaldi: Cello Concerto In C Minor, RV 401 - 2. Adagio 41:27
15. Vivaldi: Cello Concerto In C Minor, RV 401 - 3. Allegro Ma Non Molto 44:25
16. Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans, RV 644 - Noli, Ò Cara, Te Adorantis 47:25
17. Vivaldi: Gloria, RV 589 - Laudamus Te 52:28
18. Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans, RV 644 - Quanto Magis Generosa 54:56
19. Vivaldi: La Fida Ninfa, RV 714 - Dite Oihmè 1:05:15

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Dvorák: Cello Concerto in B Minor / Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)

Conducted by Rune Bergmann
Yo-Yo Ma, Cello
Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Thursday, 7 December 2017

Yo Yo Ma just plays more richly as time goes on...what
a pleasure it has been to hear him in my life time.

Greco

[charley]

... Yo Yo Ma just plays more richly as time goes on...what a pleasure it has been to hear him in my life time.
Greco

I agree, have always loved listening to him, especially Bach's Cello Suite N°1 in GM BWV1007, 1. Prélude

[Greco]

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TRIO LOS CONDES - "Alma, Corazon Y Vida"

Buenas noches.

Originally comprised of two Puerto Ricans and
one Cuban, the Trio Los Condes was formed in
1959 in New York City and became one the
leading exponents of romantic bolero music in
Puerto Rico, Latin America and the United States.
The trios founding members were Fernando
Ramos, from Río Grande, Puerto Rico, on first
guitar; Rafael Maldonado, from Arecibo, Puerto Rico,
lead vocalist; and Ricardo Blanco, from Havana, Cuba,
as second vocalist and second guitar.

Greco

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Chopin - Complete Nocturnes - Brigitte Engerer

Brigitte Engerer, for me, the best interpreter
of Chopin's Nocturnes. RIP

Greco


1. 0:06 Op. 9, No. 1 in B flat minor. Larghetto
2. 5:53 Op. 9, No. 2 in E flat major. Andante
3. 10:29 Op. 9, No. 3 in B major. Allegretto
4. 17:09 Op. 15, No. 1 in F major. Andante cantabile
5. 22:07 Op. 15, No. 2 in F sharp major. Larghetto
6. 25:43 Op. 15, No. 3 in G minor. Lento
7. 30:53 Op. 27, No. 1 in C sharp minor. Larghetto
8. 36:32 Op. 27, No. 2 in D flat major. Lento sostenuto
9. 42:27 Op. 32, No. 1 in B major. Andante sostenuto
10. 47:27 Op. 32, No. 2 in A flat major. Lento
11. 53:01 Op. 37, No. 1 in G minor. Lento
12. 59:51 Op. 37, No. 2 in G major. Andante
13. 1:06:17 Op. 48, No. 1 in C minor. Lento
14. 1:12:25 Op. 48, No. 2 in F sharp minor. Andantino
15. 1:20:11 Op. 55, No. 1 in F minor. Andante
16. 1:25:36 Op. 55, No. 2 in E flat major. Lento sostenuto
17. 1:31:19 Op. 62, No. 1 in B major. Andante
18. 1:38:51 Op. 62, No. 2 in E major. Lento
19. 1:45:11 Op. 72, No. 1 in E minor. Andante
20. 1:49:19 Op. posth in C sharp minor. Lento con gran espressione
21. 1:53:18 Op. posth in C minor. Andante sostenuto

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Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio (best live version)

lovely

Greco

[Greco]

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The Santana - Story Angels and Demons- [subtitulos] part 1

The best documentary of Santana.
Four parts.

Greco

[Greco]

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Shaman [Full Album] - 2002 - Carlos Santana

damn...4:13 says it all.

And solid album painting.

Greco

0:00 - Adouma
4:13 - Nothing At All
8:43 - Game of Love
13:00 - You Are My Kind
17:19 - Foo Foo
23:49 - Since Supernatural
28:21 - America
32:56 - Sideways
37:38 - Feel Like Fire
42:17 - Aye Aye Aye
47:05 - Hoy Es A Dios
51:42 - One Of These Days
57:36 - Amore
1:01:29 - Victory Is Won
1:06:50 - Why Don't You & I
1:11:25 - Let Me Love You Tonight
1:17:05 - Novus

[Greco]

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Lucio Dalla - "Nun Parlà"

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"CANÇÃO DO MAR" - Dulce Pontes

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"O mare e tu"

Andrea Bocelli y Dulce Pontes

doesn't get much better than this video
still love it.

Greco

[Greco]

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Mayte Martín y Virginia Gámez-Música de mi Locura (f)

Greco

[Greco]

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ASMR and a Good Cigar

SoulRepose indeed

This lady is so lovely and this video
relaxing...I smoke a cigar when finished
with a piece, so now about once every
3 months...yes, I paint slow...She has a
voice that is gentle, peaceful, her skin Mmmm
...her hair the color of night...her eyes...well, if
she does cigar service, that would be
delicious...good night all.

Greco

[Greco]

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Guillaume Néry: The exhilarating peace of free diving


Greco

[Greco]

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Chogoku Chiho No Komoriuta - Yo Yo Ma

Album: Yo Yo Ma - Japanese Melodies For Flute And Harp

Greco

[Greco]

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Mayte Martín & Belén Maya during IV Dutch Flamenco Biennale
- Amsterdam, 1 February 2013

Greco

[Greco]

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CALLE 54 Full DVD **The Hottest Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz Film Ever Made!**


Orema, check this out.

The universal language is music...Latin jazz music...smiling...

Calle 54 is a 2000 documentary film about Latin jazz by Spanish director Fernando Trueba.
With only minimal introductory voiceovers, the film consists of studio performances by a
wide array of Latin Jazz musicians. Artists featured include Chucho Valdés, Bebo Valdés,
Cachao, Eliane Elias, Gato Barbieri, Tito Puente, Paquito D'Rivera, Chano Domínguez, J
erry Gonzalez, Dave Valentin, Aquíles Báez, and Michel Camilo. The film takes its name
from Sony Music Studios, where much of the film was shot, which are located on 54th Street
in New York City.

Greco

[Greco]

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Mayte Martín Hecha a la medida

me haces falta nena, y cuando llégues...(f)

Greco

[Greco]

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Los Violines Romanticos De Cuba - Boleros Instrumentales


I know you'll enjoy this music.

Much peace to you as well.

Greco

[Greco]

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Beautiful Piano Music with No Loops & Soft Rain

good music to paint and/or do anything by today

Greco



Beautiful piano music (no loops, track list below) featuring soft rain sounds, composed by Peder B. Helland. Relaxing music mix that can be used as relaxation music, study music, sleep music and meditation music. Listen to more ►https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCOF9...

Track list:
0:00 - Rose Petals
6:53 - Always
13:38 - Our Journey
20:17 - Evening Thoughts
27:35 - Our Future
35:59 - Beautiful Day
45:43 - Somewhere
54:31 - Going Home
1:00:15 - Together
1:06:21 - A New Day
1:13:58 - A Long Time Ago
1:20:47 - Bedtime Lullaby
1:30:50 - I Will Remember
1:35:59 - Bright Future
1:43:45 - Golden Light
1:49:52 - Finally

[Greco]

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Khatia Buniatishvili plays Piano Concerto No 2 by Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff

Would love to find a film of Rachmaninoff playing his Piano
Concerto No 2...if you find it, do post it.

Greco

Khatia Buniatishvili is a Georgian-born French concert pianist.
It is our pleasure at La Couronne Monde Chaetau Versailles
to re-introduce her to you.
http://www.khatiabuniatishvili.com/

In the spirit of goodwill to all our artists we invite you to get know their websites and their persons.

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff
https://usnewsandworldreport.wordpres...

La Couronne Monde Château Versailles La Théocratie du Saint Esprit Place d'Armes,78000 France Son Altesse Royale Jose Maria Chavira MS Adagio 1st Agnvs Khan V Dominus Dominorum est et Rex Regum et Reginarum - Nom de Plume JC Angelcraft https://francelarenaissancedejesuschr...

What a lonely place the heart would be if the Holy Spirit were not true to us. Adagio 1st

We remain in a state of emergency for political news and information and we thank the world community for your support and your videos and musical performances that help us to entertain people around the world while we are in this media crisis. Adagio 1st

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Walking Home (Full Documentary Parts 1 & 2) - Appalachian Trail Documentary

Enjoyed this doc...no, I'm not walking the Appalachian Trail
and do admire those that do.

Greco


"The long awaited full-length Appalachian Trail documentary
is finally here! Walking Home, Appalachian Trail Documentary
Part 1 and Walking Home Appalachian Trail Documentary
Part 2 as 1 Full length Thru-Hiking Documentary.

What begins as a father and son's thru-hike from
Georgia to Maine, grows into a story of self discovery
and epic adventure on the Appalachian Trail.
Walking Home follows several Maine hikers as
they attempt to complete 2,200 miles through
the world's oldest mountain chain. The journey
is an ultimate test of endurance and will to find
freedom in five million steps."

[Greco]

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Khatia Buniatishvili - Franz Liszt Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2

Pianist Khatia Buniatishvili and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (conducted by Zubin Mehta) combine
in this recording of Franz Liszt’s second Piano Concerto.

Greco

[Greco]

Resurrecting Luc...stay "tuned".


A draft...

The Telling

The office, finally quiet of the pain it still held...Luciana wrote her last therapy note in long hand and locked the pad in her desk. Thinking of her last client and her body relaxing after the experience of intense sensuality she felt with the beauty, her body still reeling with thought of the beauty.

Luciana turned off the light on her desk feeling sadness with what she already knew she would not do with her date this evening.

This place with it's trees, and gray skies was still a mystery. She got into her car, and turned on the ignition, her thighs still stinging with desire. Luciana pulled the car toward her date's address as she thought of herself as a relic of some other time, a distant place where control of Self was a virtue.

Mariana was already at the door at Luciana's arrival...opened door...helped her in...closed door, still Luciana's thighs were on fire as she got behind the wheel once again.

Luciana looked at Mariana across the table, the candlelight flickering, of course. This woman's green eyes, kind, desirable, as Luciana took in the tone of her eyes, their shape, the brilliance there and felt sacredness at their beauty, and sadness at knowing she would not kiss them, or even acknowledge their want. Luciana had taken Mariana home after dinner had brought itself to its end.

Luciana entered her home and began her next life...the phone rang..."Lu, I just wanted to know that you got home ok." Luciana could hear Mariana's breathing..."Yes, I got home ok. I'm getting to work now, I'll call you tomorrow.", Luciana said even as she thought she would not use the phone for the entire weekend.

Luciana took her jacket off, walked to her palette and immediately relaxed. Taking the cadmium red deep she thought it the color of blood...a good thought...she turned to her painting in progress, of the woman who had sat for it...and remembered the energy between them as Luciana painted her...and now alone, without her it felt safer...controlled...and Luciana grayed down the cadmium red deep and began to paint the lips that she had briefly tasted...and relaxed knowing she would go no further...no further...her need for self control imperative.

A draft...©Greco 2013

[Greco]

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Relaxing Music & Ocean Waves - Piano Sleep Music

the sea...always...

Greco

[Greco]

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Naughty Boy - Runnin' (Lose It All) ft. Beyoncé, Arrow Benjamin

Greco

[Greco]

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The Camino de Santiago - A Pilgrim's Journey

Now this one I will walk...una promesa.
Camino de San Santiago de Compostéla

Greco

[Greco]

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Ribbon In The Sky Lyrics-Stevie Wonder

Hermosura (f)

Siempre tuyo, Greco

[Greco]

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Santana & Gato Barbieri "Europa" (live, 1977)

one of the most sensual melodies Santana has composed...love it.

Greco

[Greco]

A beautiful video...under water of course.


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Naughty Boy - Runnin' (Lose It All) ft. Beyoncé, Arrow Benjamin

Greco

[Greco]

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Libertango (Piazzolla) - Yo-Yo Ma

(f)

Greco

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Gustav Mahler - Adagietto from 5th Symphony | Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein [HD]

so..."Gustav Mahler was in love with Alma Schindler, the woman who would have become his
wife (“The most beautiful girl in Vienna”). He keeps from declaring his love, so, one day, he composes
this music and sends her the score, without even adding a word. She sits at the piano, plays
the music, and answers: "Now you should come here." I think it can be considered
the most beautiful love declaration of all time." Gerardo Coluccini

"Every night instead of watching the violence on the nightly
TV news I have been listening to Lenny's performance of Mahler's symphonies.
My favorite movement is from Symphony Nr. 5, the Fourth Movement, the Adagietto.
This might be considered a love song with bitter-sweet lyricism but it is much more
than that. It is about the healing love coming from the cosmos connecting through
to us and everything we embrace. There are also meditative verses in Rudolf Steiner's
verses, for example in "Guidance In Esoteric Training" that captures the light of the sun
as does Mahler's poem and music in the Adagietto. All three, Mahler's Adagietto, Steiner's
verses and Lenny’s performance as seen on this video, capture the soulful healing that is
needed for all of us to be friends and hold the World together." Ken Simpson

Greco

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Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 3 - Martha Argerich

inspiring piece as well

Sergei Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
Piano: Martha Argerich
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra

0:28 - Allegro ma non tanto
16:27 - Intermezzo: Adagio
27:27 - Finale: Alla breve

Greco

[Greco]

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New York City Marathon 2017: Full Event

This is last year's NYC Marathon filmed by
Youtuber Trading PhotoS, Videos of LiveEventS, AND MorE.
He did a great job from his place on 1st Ave and E. 63rd.

It is the marathon for 5hrs, and 20mins...and shows
Everyone, which is a great way to honor all who
ran, bicycled, walked. The official channels are
good but not Everyone is shown...I enjoyed watching
this as I've enjoyed watching the marathoners in
person, well just about...gives you a flavor of
the City I love, and it's people, and of course
the "feel" of the marathon and how the City
celebrates the participants.

keep on keepin' on my friends, Greco

[Greco]

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Mark O'Connor/Alison Krauss/Yo-Yo Ma/Edgar Meyer - "Slumber My Darling" (An Appalachian Christmas)

Greco

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Ludovico Einaudi - Una mattina FULL ALBUM

Greco


Tracklist:
1 - Una mattina 00:00
2 - Ora 06:48
3 - Resta con me 14:59
4 - Leo 25:32
5 - A fuoco 30:13
6 - Dolce droga 34:00
7 - Dietro casa 37:59
8 - Come un fiore 42:33
9 - DNA 46:30
10 - Nuvole nere 51:39
11 - Questa volta 56:18
12 - Nuvole bianche 1:02:21
13 - Ancora 1:11:44

[Greco]

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Songs My Mother Taught Me (from "Gypsy Songs", Op. 55, No. 4) (Audio)

Music video by Yo-Yo Ma, Kathryn Stott performing Songs My Mother Taught Me (from "Gypsy Songs", Op. 55, No. 4). (C) 2015 Sony Music Entertainment

Greco

[Greco]

Luc ponders...

Hy could hear snow flakes falling, and their soft gentle landing.
Luc didn't share this talent with anyone, not even with Mariana.
Yes, Mariana. The thought of her at home brought hym a warm feeling.

But, at the end of this day, Luc looked out the window after hys last client.
The one hy called Beauty was ready to terminate. Luc felt sad, and good at
the same time. Beauty had come a long way with her courage, strength, and
resilience, she had survived and now had began to thrive in her life.

Luc had finished the last notes and locked them in hys desk. While falling
flakes caught hys attention, thoughts of his friend Bern surfaced.

Bern had had a strange competition with Luc. Little did Luc and Bern
know that they had been talking with the same femme. But, they
had indeed met the same femme online.

Luc thought back to that year of still reeling from the loss of
his wife, and working 24/7 to survive.

Bern shared of this femme hy had met. Bern talked about
her beauty, her intelligence. Luc shared hy had met an exciting
femme as well.

The office began to get cold from the snowstorm outside
Luc's office...how long ago had it been? Hy began to
remember...But was brought back to the present by a call.
Cell phones where the thing now and Mariana called to ask
how long it would take for Luc to get home. Luc told her hy
would run home, and would be 30 mins .

Luc closed the shutters on the window, and changed into
hys running clothes and running shoes all the while thinking
about Bern. Hys friend, Bern.

Luc breathed the cold air into hys lungs and began the run
home. Hy thought about home, and Mariana, and the home
they had created together so many years ago. And, hy thought
about hys friend Bern and the home hy thought hy was creating
with a femme they didn't know was speaking to both of them at
the same time with online.

Luc had always had this extra sense of things beyond things.

It always helped hym in hys work with people suffering from
pain, and healing would grow as sure as the Spring would arrive.

Hy knew it was a calling, and hys purpose in this life.
And, hy loved it, "walking with people" for a bit on their path of
this life. But this femme had not made a ripple on his psychic radar.

This night as Luc ran home, hy recalled Bern's concerned voice
when last Luc spoke with hym, "Man, I don't know. She's moved in
her whole family. I can't get a word in edge wise! And, ok, no sex either.
Man, I made a mistake big time.
I'm sorry bro, I thought I had gotten one over on you.
But, it's me, I messed up. Wish I could change it."
Luc attempted to soften Bern's mistake.
"You know it's only the
beginning, give her some time."

But, time was up for Bern.

Luc discovered the fact of Bern's sudden death online. Hy cried from
disbelief. How hys friend was used and abused by a femme who used
butches easily, without remorse, without conscious.

Bern had been a good person, and a good friend.

Luc heard the crunching of his running shoes against the snow as
hy ran home. Coming to their street, hy saw the lights on in their home.
Mariana's shadow against the curtain moving inside the sanctuary
they had created. Luc heard the snow tell hym hy was home.

Home.

This night hy rang the bell.
"Honey, did you forget your keys?", said Mariana.
The woman, hair the color of night, now with gorgeous
silver streaks telling the story of their years together.
"Yeah babe, I forgot my keys.", and hy took her in
hys arms, and kissed her warmly, deeply, grateful for
having her in hys life.

"Honey, I have dinner ready for you, take your running
shoes, and stuff off and come eat.", said Mariana.
Luc took a quick shower and put on a crisp shirt, and
jeans, went to the dining room and lit their candles.
Mariana brought in the piping hot plates.
Luc said, "Amor, I love you.", as hy went to her and
held her close. Mariana said, "Honey, you ok?"
"I'm more than ok my love, I'm more than ok."

The "gift" told hym they would live a long life together, a
long love and beyond, and hy felt grateful.

Luc thought about the loss of his friend Bern.
Hy had lost his life thinking hy had won a woman that they
were, unbeknownst to them, both talking to online.
Such was gay life now.

Dedicated to my friend Bern, RIP Buddy

2018© Greco

[Greco]

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Guillaume Nery base jumping at Dean's Blue Hole, filmed on breath hold by Julie Gautier

Back to the Sea and Peace...

Greco

[Greco]

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Freediving with Dolphins

watched without the music...peace...


Freedive record holders Eusebio and Christina Saenz de Santamaria
freediving with a pod of over 60 incredible Hawaiian Spinner Dolphins
on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Greco

[Greco]

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Robbie Williams - "Angels"

Greco

[Greco]

Here's the story of Luc, this one is corrected...mostly
now back to my fire...enjoy the evening my friend. Greco



Luc ponders...

Hy could hear snow flakes falling, and their soft gentle landing.
Luc didn't share this talent with anyone, not even with Mariana.
Yes, Mariana. The thought of her at home brought hym a warm feeling.

But, at the end of this day, Luc looked out the window after hys last client.
The one hy called Beauty was ready to terminate. Luc felt sad, and good at
the same time. Beauty had come a long way with her courage, strength, and
resilience, she had survived and now had began to thrive in her life.

Luc had finished the last notes and locked them in hys desk. While falling
flakes caught hys attention, thoughts of his friend Bern surfaced.

Bern had had a strange competition with Luc. Little did Luc and Bern
know that they had been talking with the same femme. But, they
had indeed met the same femme online.

Luc thought back to that year of still reeling from the loss of
his wife, and working 24/7 to survive.

Bern shared of this femme hy had met. Bern talked about
her beauty, her intelligence. Luc shared hy had met an exciting
femme as well.

The office began to get cold from the snowstorm outside
Luc's office...how long ago had it been? Hy began to
remember...But was brought back to the present by a call.
Cell phones where the thing now and Mariana called to ask
how long it would take for Luc to get home. Luc told her hy
would run home, and would be 30 mins .

Luc closed the shutters on the window, and changed into
hys running clothes and running shoes all the while thinking
about Bern. Hys friend, Bern.

Luc breathed the cold air into hys lungs and began the run
home. Hy thought about home, and Mariana, and the home
they had created together so many years ago. And, hy thought
about hys friend Bern and the home hy thought hy was creating
with a femme they didn't know was speaking to both of them at
the same time with online.

Luc had always had this extra sense of things beyond things.

It always helped hym in hys work with people suffering from
pain, and healing would grow as sure as the Spring would arrive.

Hy knew it was a calling, and hys purpose in this life.
And, hy loved it, "walking with people" for a bit on their path of
this life. But this femme had not made a ripple on his psychic radar.

This night as Luc ran home, hy recalled Bern's concerned voice
when last Luc spoke with hym, "Man, I don't know. She's moved in
her whole family. I can't get a word in edge wise! And, ok, no sex either.
Man, I made a mistake big time.
I'm sorry bro, I thought I had gotten one over on you.
But, it's me, I messed up. Wish I could change it."
Luc attempted to soften Bern's mistake.
"You know it's only the
beginning, give her some time."

But, time was up for Bern.

Luc discovered the fact of Bern's sudden death online. Hy cried from
disbelief. How hys friend was used and abused by a femme who used
butches easily, without remorse, without conscious.

Bern had been a good person, and a good friend.

Luc heard the crunching of his running shoes against the snow as
hy ran home. Coming to their street, hy saw the lights on in their home.
Mariana's shadow against the curtain moving inside the sanctuary
they had created. Luc heard the snow tell hym hy was home.

Home.

This night hy rang the bell.
"Honey, did you forget your keys?", said Mariana.
The woman, hair the color of night, now with gorgeous
silver streaks telling the story of their years together.
"Yeah babe, I forgot my keys.", and hy took her in
hys arms, and kissed her warmly, deeply, grateful for
having her in hys life.

"Honey, I have dinner ready for you, take your running
shoes, and stuff off and come eat.", said Mariana.
Luc took a quick shower and put on a crisp shirt, and
jeans, went to the dining room and lit their candles.
Mariana brought in the piping hot plates.
Luc said, "Amor, I love you.", as hy went to her and
held her close. Mariana said, "Honey, you ok?"
"I'm more than ok my love, I'm more than ok."

The "gift" told hym they would live a long life together, a
long love and beyond, and hy felt grateful.

Luc thought about the loss of his friend Bern.
Hy had lost his life thinking hy had won a woman that they
were, unbeknownst to them, both talking to online.
Such was gay life now.

Dedicated to my friend Bern, RIP Buddy

2018© Greco

[Greco]

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Marc Anthony - You Sang To Me (Video)

(f)

cuánto te echo de menos Corazón

Greco

[Greco]

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Marc Antony - when i dream at night - Moon pictures + Lyrics

Greco

[Greco]

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Jacqueline du Pre & Daniel Barenboim - Elgar Cello Concerto

"Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, his last notable work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, when his music had already gone out of fashion with the concert-going public. In contrast with Elgar's earlier Violin Concerto, which is lyrical and passionate, the Cello Concerto is for the most part contemplative and elegiac.

The first performance was a debacle because Elgar and the performers had been deprived of adequate rehearsal time. The work did not achieve wide popularity until the 1960s, when a recording by Jacqueline du Pré caught the public imagination and became a classical best-seller."

Greco

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Tribute to Jacqueline du Pré (f) | by AllegroFilms

"30 years after she died, and 44 after she stopped
playing, Jacqueline du Pré remains
a much loved figure in the public imagination, and
in a way that is very rare. In the year that would
have been her 72th birthday, we pay tribute to
Jacqueline du Pré." - Christopher Nupen

The film "Hillary and Jackie" tells her and her sister's life story.

Greco

[Greco]

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Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio (best live version)

Copernicus Chamber Orchestra, Horst Sohm (conducting/Leitung) (f)
Tomaso Albinoni - Adagio en sol menor, in G minor,
Live in concert - Festival de Musica de L´Escala

The most profound interpretation of Albinoni's Adagio

When I die and go to heaven, play this, and if I go the
other way...well, play this...smiling

Greco

[Greco]

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Il Divo - Adagio (Live Video)

[I]Il Divo add their excellent voices to my favorite
adagio by Tomaso Albinoni...play this one as well,
but come to think of it, let's do it while I'm alive!

Much more fun that way...smiling, Greco


No sé dónde encontrarte
No sé cómo buscarte
Pero siento una voz que
el viento me habla de ti
Esta alma sin corazón
Te esperara Despacio
Las noches sin tu piel
Los sueños sin estrellas
imágenes de tu rostro
Que pasan inesperadamente
Me dan esperanzas todavia
Que te encontrare Despacio
Cierro los ojos y te veo
Encuentro el camino que
Me lleve lejos de la agonía
Siento latir en mi
esta música que
He inventado para ti
Si usted sabe donde encontrarme
Si sabes dónde buscarme
Abrazame con la mente
El sol parece apagado
Enciende tu nombre en el cielo
Dime que estás ahí
Es Lo que quiero
Vivir en ti
El sol parece apagado
Abrazarme con la mente
Estoy Perdido sin ti
Dime que estas y
lo creeré
música eres
despacio

-----------------------------------------
Non so dove trovarti
Non so come cercarti
Ma sento una voce che
Nel vento parla di te
Quest'anima senza cuore
Aspetta te
Adagio
Le notti senza pelle
I sogni senza stelle
Immagini del tuo viso
Che passano all'improvviso
Mi fanno sperare ancora
Che ti troverò
Adagio
Chiudo gli occhi e vedo te
Trovo il cammino che
Mi porta via
Dall'agonia
Sento battere in me
Questa musica che
Ho inventato per te
Se sai come trovarmi
Se sai dove cercarmi
Abbracciami con la mente
Il sole mi sembra spento
Accendi il tuo nome in cielo
Dimmi che ci sei
Quello che vorrei
Vivere in te
Il sole mi sembra spento
Abbracciami con la mente
Smarrita senza di te
Dimmi chi sei e ci crederò
Musica sei
Adagio/I]

[Greco]

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Fireplace - romantic - 10 hours Full HD crackling logs

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The Eye of Hokusai

and drawing...enjoy your Sunday

Greco

[Greco]

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George Winston: Forest - (Full Album)

soothing for tonight

Greco

[Greco]

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Pablo Alborán - "Por fin" (Videoclip oficial)


Greco


"Qué intenso es esto del amor,
qué garra tiene el corazón, sí,
jamás pensé que sucediera así.

Bendita toda conexión
entre tu alma y mi voz,
y jamás creí que me iba a suceder a mí.

Por fin lo puedo sentir,
te conozco y te reconozco
que por fin sé lo que es vivir
con un suspiro en el pecho,
con cosquillas por dentro y
por fin sé porqué estoy así.

Tú me has hecho mejor,
mejor de lo que era,
y entregaría mi voz
a cambio de una vida entera.

Tú me has hecho entender
que aquí nada es eterno,
pero tu piel y mi piel
pueden detener el tiempo.

No he parado de pensar
hasta dónde soy capaz de llegar,
ya que mi vida está en tus manos y en tu boca.

Me he convertido en lo que nunca imaginé,
has dividido en dos mi alma y mi ser,
porque una parte va contigo aunque a veces no lo sepas ver.

Por fin lo puedo sentir,
te conozco y te reconozco
que por fin sé lo que es vivir
con un suspiro en el pecho
y con cosquillas por dentro,
por fin sé porqué estoy así.

Tú me has hecho mejor,
mejor de lo que era,
y entregaría mi voz
a cambio de una vida entera.

Tú me has hecho entender
que aquí nada es eterno,
pero tu piel y mi piel
pueden detener el tiempo.

...Mejor de lo que era...
...Que aquí nada es eterno..."

[Greco]

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Chris Hedges Best Speech In 2018

Critical thinking...remember?

Greco...

Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, and visiting Princeton University lecturer. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009);Death of the Liberal Class (2010); Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, which was a The New York Times best-seller; and his most recent Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015). 'America, The Farewell Tour' (2018)
Hedges is a columnist for the progressive news and commentary website Truthdig.He is also a host for the television program On Contact on RT. Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, West Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005).
In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002.He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Toronto and Princeton University, where he is a visiting lecturer in African American studies.
Hedges has taught college credit courses for several years in New Jersey prisons. He teaches a course through Princeton University in which the class is composed of half prisoners and half Princeton undergraduates.He has described himself as a socialist and more specifically as a Christian anarchist,identifying with Catholic activist Dorothy Day in particular.

[charley]

Chris Hedges Best Speech In 2018

Critical thinking...remember?

Greco...

Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, and visiting Princeton University lecturer. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009);Death of the Liberal Class (2010); Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, which was a The New York Times best-seller; and his most recent Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015). 'America, The Farewell Tour' (2018)
Hedges is a columnist for the progressive news and commentary website Truthdig.He is also a host for the television program On Contact on RT. Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, West Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005).
In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002.He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Toronto and Princeton University, where he is a visiting lecturer in African American studies.
Hedges has taught college credit courses for several years in New Jersey prisons. He teaches a course through Princeton University in which the class is composed of half prisoners and half Princeton undergraduates.He has described himself as a socialist and more specifically as a Christian anarchist,identifying with Catholic activist Dorothy Day in particular.

I listened to his talk (up to 43 min. of it - had other things to do, so did not listen to the Q&A with interviewer), and I must say, while I have also seen many of the things that Hedges talked about, he leaves untouched the entire subject of "beliefs" per se, of which he himself is part of - being an ordained minister - and, insofar as I am concerned, also part of the problem, if not the entire part of the problem - beliefs in themselves belie "the present". Critical thinking of outward circumstances (for those of us that do have a mind) is relatively easy. The miracle happens when one questions one's own mindset.
There is also the problem that never in his talk, and I am saying this most respectfully, did he in any way talk about solutions. The buck always stops with the person holding the buck, right? His entire life is always, as most Americans would agree, supported by his belief system and the American system validates and encourages having beliefs, which in itself - in his case - validates his lifestyle and choices, being an ordained minister. Just my two little cents...
If one throws a pebble into a pond, there are always ripples. But, when one throws a pebble into one's own pond, it is only then that it has an effect on the entire pond. Until that is done, no amount of words - however truthful - will alter the movement and in the case of the American trend - stagnation of the pond. We have all seen this wilful blindness to this even from the beginnings of the understanding gleaned from Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" up to Al Gore's attempt to awaken some intelligence. I am saying this since I have seen that the human brain is connected to all other brains. I do feel and think that true change cannot come about outwardly, but must begin with oneself. Until that is done, I must state quite emphatically that the movement of the pond (of the course and meandering of the stream) of history will continue its abysmal downward spiral.
Always, I must say, thanks for putting up posts of intelligent talks, and always food for reflection. [One of the meanings of the word "meditation" derives from its origin - the Sanskrit word "ma", which literally means, thinking, pondering, considering, reflecting... - the reflection of oneself in that very pond being a key meaning - among its other meanings... something which btw is not mentioned to people who profess to be studying meditation.]
Best regards, Charley

[Greco]

Charley, your points in response to Chris Hedges's speech in Canada are well taken this morning.
And I appreciate your considered and insightful response. I would invite you to research his life
and experiences - as with anyone - to understand what may lie underneath what we see and hear
externally, if you care to go deeper in understanding this person.

All the Best, Greco

[charley]

Charley, your points in response to Chris Hedges's speech in Canada are well taken this morning.
And I appreciate your considered and insightful response. I would invite you to research his life
and experiences -as with anyone - to understand what may lie underneath what we see and hear
externally, if you care to go deeper in understanding this person.

All the Best, Greco

Thanks for your response, but no. He does not interest me. If it would be an interest, it would only add to my knowledge about x or y and constitute the pleasure of entertainment. - Not that I deny pleasure or entertainment, but such things have their place. - I do not in any way, shape or form accept that knowledge is the way to truth or wisdom. Knowledge only begets further knowledge, not understanding, nor wisdom. It is only useful in certain fields, such as medicine and other technological fields, and the incredible advances and cures therein. In the field of not knowing, there is only understanding. Knowledge is based on the past (all scientific knowledge builds on past discovery), while understanding is in the moment.
I think that it is impossible to get to the bottom of another person, but it is only possible to look at oneself and get to the bottom of oneself. In other words, I think it is impossible to "know" another completely. One can only "know" oneself. If it were impossible to get to the bottom of oneself, then meditation would in itself be a meaningless activity, and devolve into meaningless entertainment and navel-gazing - which for me is just not true. What meditation has made me understand is that all the answers to who were are, to what we are, can only be found within.
[As an aside, I have interacted with quite a few in real time who have believed that they were actually doing meditation - according to this or that technique - and then they come to the inevitable conclusion that life is meaningless and then they began to laugh, to which I could only frown, since I understood that what they thought was meditation was not meditation at all. All of which had made me understand that it is all too easy to get lost in illusions, and the mind can and does play tricks with itself.]
What I am saying is that all answers to human questions, to the history of humanity, are readily available within. I agree with Socrates who said that the unexplored life is not worth living. "The claim is that only in striving to come to know ourselves and to understand ourselves do our lives have any meaning or value." as per:

https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/apology/section7/

Hence, the phrase "Know Thyself". :)

[Greco]

Thank you also for your thoughts charley.

All the Best, Greco