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		<title>They will lean that way forever&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night I couldn&#8217;t sleep. I lay in bed, thoughts tumbling through my mind&#8230;and then the song, &#8220;Suzanne&#8221; by Leonard Cohen, started up in my head. I began to sing the words and before I could think properly, I crawled out of bed and fetched my guitar, blew the dust off it and began [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The other night I couldn&#8217;t sleep. I lay in bed, thoughts tumbling through my mind&#8230;and then the song, &#8220;Suzanne&#8221; by Leonard Cohen, started up in my head. I began to sing the words and before I could think properly, I crawled out of bed and fetched my guitar, blew the dust off it and began to play. Or tried to. A friend taught me how to play it, so I can play it but not very well. That night it didn&#8217;t really matter, it was just good to be singing and switching off my work head.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.alexifrancisillustrations.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/they-are-leaning-w.jpg" alt="Leaning birds" title="Leaning birds" width="350" height="640" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-444" /></p>
<p>Today I&#8217;ve had the day off and decided to make something related to a phrase in the Suzanne song. The phrase I particularly like is: </p>
<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;there are heroes in the seaweed,<br />
there are children in the morning,<br />
they are leaning out for love and they will lean that way forever,<br />
while Suzanne holds the mirror&#8230;&#8221;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>I found a piece of sanded scaffolding board that I had since my &#8220;Blue Goddess&#8221; painted board and got to work. The result is far removed from children and seaweed, instead I&#8217;ve painted birds! I&#8217;d like to have painted heroes in seaweed but couldn&#8217;t quite manage it. The result isn&#8217;t great but it&#8217;s a start to getting back into creating after months of learning and working (which has been enjoyable but different.) </p>
<p>I shall talk about birds soon, perhaps next time, I can see a theme there&#8230;.</p>
<p>The Leonard Cohen lyrics are great and can be found <a href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/leonard+cohen/suzanne_20082890.html">here</a>.</p>
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