#076 – 2022-OCT-20 | “Longing and Loss”
“When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart and you shall see that, in truth, you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
― Khalil Gibran
“Tears are words the heart can’t express”
― Gerard Way
author of The Umbrella Academy, lead singer of My Chemical Romance
“Even a painful longing is some form of presence.”
— Anna Kamienska
“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers
“It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C.S. Lewis
“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.” – Amy Bloom
“I wish for you the wisdom to realize that it’s okay to miss something, but not want it back.” – Steve Maraboli
“When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.” – Margaret Atwood
“Even a painful longing is some form of presence.”
— Anna Kamienska
“For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.”
— Laura Lippman
“Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.”
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.
Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).
TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb
BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger
FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar
Freewheelin' #076
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October 20, 2022 8:00 pm - 8:30 pm EDT(GMT-04:00)
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#076 – 2022-OCT-20 | “Longing and Loss”
“When you are sorrowful, look again in your heart and you shall see that, in truth, you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
― Khalil Gibran
“Tears are words the heart can’t express”
― Gerard Way
author of The Umbrella Academy, lead singer of My Chemical Romance
“Even a painful longing is some form of presence.”
— Anna Kamienska
“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”
― Carson McCullers
“It’s weird to feel like you miss someone you’re not even sure you know.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C.S. Lewis
“The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.” – Amy Bloom
“I wish for you the wisdom to realize that it’s okay to miss something, but not want it back.” – Steve Maraboli
“When we think of the past it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.” – Margaret Atwood
“Even a painful longing is some form of presence.”
— Anna Kamienska
“For the body at best Is a bundle of aches, Longing for rest; It cries when it wakes.”
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.”
— Laura Lippman
“Longing gives you the power to bless. Bless the entire creation. For, the longing in you is God.”
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Freewheelin’ w/J Oscar is a LIVE half-hour of songs, stories, aphorisms, pictures & video + blarney and what-not.
Join us any, or every, Thursday, on Facebook and echoed at JOscarBittinger.com Arrive early, stay after, to hear recordings from J Oscar’s song vault (including tracks from Pillar of Fire, Dublin Station, Oxter/Mahone, Folk Bros and more).
TIPS accepted (not expected): https://www.paypal.me/joscarb
BANDCAMP– get Like Kerouac by J Oscar Bittinger – Recorded with Chris Ranney & Mark Hugger
FREEWHEELIN’ ON FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Freewheelin.JOscar
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J Oscar Bittinger/Octoberday Productions
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