Everything passes, everything changes~

Today is the perfect day for me to receive this. Thank you MAMMA MYSTIC!

I needed this x this website is healing for me

Exactly.

Thank you very much.First time I took the opportunity to really listen to Dylan.

This morning reading this ballad and these words, especially the lines “The flowers of the city/though breathlike/Get deathlike at times” and seeing the image you posted of a girl touching the water bring a new context of meaning in light of all that is happening environmentally with our water and land due to fracking. I feel so powerless and long for a more harmonious way of living because this place, this earth has so much beauty that needs protecting. “Your magnetic movements/ still capture the minutes I’m in” is a line that exists because we are made up of the same matter as the Universe and our bodies do respond to the “magnetic movements.” Dylan’s song is about having an awareness of one’s path and not conforming to what society says we are “supposed to be,” but I see how the lines “it grieves my heart, love/To see you tryin’ to be a part of/A world that just don’t exist” can also be read as someone seeing the other as naive about the world and being manipulated, “your head has been twisted and feed.” Even though speaker is troubled by this, he still has some faith in the person he is talking to and believes that world can be something beautiful despite its greed and destruction and lies, if we turn within because the speaker in the ballad later says, “Just do what you think you should do.” The speaker begins the song with with the understanding and acceptance that there are some things we can’t change, “there’s no use in trying’/T’ deal with the dyin’,”and he moves from the outer circumstances of sadness to the inner world with lines like “Yet there’s no one to beat you/No one t’ defeat you/’Cept the thoughts of yourself feeling bad.” Ultimately we have to decide how we are going to deal with our sadness. Then he ends on a positive note, remembering that despite whatever ails us, despite our resistance or fears, there is a cycle to life “Everything passes/Everything changes” and that maybe if we live our best “Just do what you think you should do” then maybe we will be make a difference, maybe we will be strong enough to offer support and be a shoulder for someone else when they are weak and in need of a friend, “And someday maybe/Who knows, baby/I’ll come and be cryin’ to you.” So even if we can’t change outer circumstances, we can always change the inner ones. <3

Oh be still my pounding heart…. I resonate on so many levels with the song, the context, the comments, the whole thing. I am a water and land care advocate in various capacities for the northern Rio Grande in New Mexico. I live in a community of incredible diversity, adversity, economic polarity in the extreme, landscape beauty in the unbelievable category. The history is rich, raw and recent! I grew up in the southern (more white) part of the state and have learned a lesson or two since moving the the wild frontier of northern NM. I am a single mother. Today I feel the deep sadness of a dying mother crying for her children….the Earth Mother is crying for her children right now. We have lost our way and we MUST find our way back… I feel the strength of the ancestors and the cords of connection to inner earth and the another cord that connects me to Ra, Sun, Source and yet another cord that connects me to the central sun of our galaxy. May we clear our minds, open our hearts, and seek to cut open the infection that is now at a bulging capacity on Earth (which is also within each of us)…open the infection and purify the wound. Earth’s children are ready for a reckoning and a cleansing. Let it come in a good way.