Category Archives: Mary Chapin-Carpenter

Feb 19 2 comments
fortune, Luck, Mary Chapin-Carpenter

>Sometimes You're The Windshield

>As luck would have it, one of my favorite songs is about luck!

It’s also about the ebb and flow of life, of fortune. You aren’t always on top, you aren’t always at the bottom. Knowing how to live within that ebb and flow, when to row, when to sail, when to seek harbor, when to ask for help, when to see others need help, all those are just as much a part of being successful in life as is money or other, more obvious things.

Check out the lyrics to the song ‘The Bug’ by Mary Chapin Carpenter. Listen to a piece and then download the song from iTunes. It’s on her ‘Come On, Come On’ album, 1992. It’s a great song to run to, by the way.

Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Sep 12 0 comments
failure, Henry Link, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, mistakes, running, self

>While One Person Hesitates

>It is frustrating to hear a person talk about their low self-esteem, their feelings of inferiority all the while knowing that the only way to move past it is the one way they are not willing to take.

They have to step out, they need to attempt, to try, to pursue, to leap, to jump, to dive, to fly, to run, to love, to create, to build, to play, to meet, to greet, to talk, to write, to kiss, to touch, to bless, to work, to go, to swim, to do.

They do not need to figure out why they have low self-esteem first, before they act. They need to act, and act again and again and again.

My favorite song is ‘Jubilee’ by Mary Chapin-Carpenter. My favorite part in the song goes like this:

And I can tell by the way you’re talking
That the past isn’t letting you go
But there’s only so long you can take it all on
And then the wrong’s gotta be on its own

And when you’re ready to leave it behind you
You’ll look back, and all that you’ll see
Is the wreckage and rust that you left in the dust
On your way to the jubilee

You leave it behind you by moving, by acting, by doing. Go.

Drawing by Marty Coleman, The Napkin Dad
http://napkindad.blogspot.com
http://www.martycoleman.com

quote by Henry C. Link, dates unknown, American author, wrote ‘Return To Religion’, 1937


Mar 03 0 comments
Art, Fame, love, Mary Chapin-Carpenter, wealth

>Sometimes You're Blinded By

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Sometimes You're Blinded By

I love this line from the song ‘The Last Word’ by Mary Chapin-Carpenter.
What it really seems to say is that you see what you want to see;
infatuated love, the possibility of wealth, the dreams of fame, and
seeing those things blind you to seeing the emotional desperation,
the selfish greed, or the empty loneliness that might come along with
those things.

Desire often begets blindness. Where are your blind spots?


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