An 18 minute meditation on love.
Find a few minutes to settle in, get comfortable and have a good listen to this one. In this Valentine’s Day special, Toppie presents a mix of music, poetry, musings and ruminations on the subject of love.
The following are references and credits for the material in this podcast.
Guitar – theme from Titanic
Song – You Light Up My Life by Debbie Boone
What Love is – by Deepak Chopra
Sad Woman humming – from sound track to Amistad by John Williams
Poem – Ise Monogatari “Tale of Ise”, written in 951, a poem from a man separated from his friend:
“I cannot believe that you
Are far away
For I can
Never forget you
And thus your face
Is always before me.”
song – Greensleeves Instrumental harp glass harmonica
Rap – Young Love by Nature
Comedy – by Chris Rock
Song – The Rose by Bette Midler
Piano – I do by Rob Costlow
Poem – Annabelle Lee by Edgar Allen Poe, read by Basil Rathbone, put to music by Foxiekitten25
Song – Annabelle Lee by Fiddler’s Green
You can reach Toppie at smellcast@aol.com
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The Smellcast/Valentine’s Day Special
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