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Thank you Bill and those others who have posted as well.  I am honoured my writen meanderings  have been read and are of some interest to someone..  Chordians have been an important part of my quest to procure the baskets of knowledge on things that interest and mater to me in this world.  I am pleased to be part of this community  called Chordie with it's way of never undervaluing  any person. I would be thankful to have whatever title you give me.

Badeye Bring It On Home To Me it is a top version you put up. Thank you. Weather today here in the bottom of the South Pacific Wellington New Zealand,  Sunny Day 17 early Sunday morning  going up to  around 20 later on today

Bill that is MAGIC  I love the sound those two make.  Chris Rodrigues and Abby Roach work well together. Abby The Spoon lady life story would make a great film or book.
Abby first started street performing and busking as a means to make money traveling across the United States, primarily hopping freight trains. She taught herself to play the spoons and traveled all over the United States by hitchhiking and railroad. Today she hosts storytelling events where she discusses the lifestyle of the American hobo. She spent a good amount of her time traveling recording the stories, interviews and songs of other American travelers.
Abby is an advocate for street performance and free speech. In 2014 she was instrumental in developing a group called the Asheville Buskers Collective which advocates for street performance within the city of Asheville, North Carolina. Today she records buskers through a project called Busker Broadcast, and records interviews and songs of travelers passing through Asheville.
It is very early Sunday morning here and those  two have started my Sunday good with the  words of that song they sing.

I know, I know I've been changed
I, I know I've been changed lord and I know
I know I've been changed
the angels in heaven done signed my name
the angels in heaven done signed my name

Thank you Bill
Love to you and Dondra

Badeye that is a brilliant way to describe what is happening to Mother Earth, Keep writing poems you have the gift,  Your poem is a great way to make people think.  Those forms of story telling are very important in my family circles.
I am part Fijian and even though most of my people are Christian today we still tell keep alive our old stories and myths from nature, involving indigenous plants and animals.
One popular Fijian creation myth that explains the existence of human life on the islands is of the ancestral snake god, Degei. In the beginning, Degei lived a lonely life with only Turukawa, the hawk, as a friend. One day, Turukawa disappeared, and Degei went in search of her. He came across Turukawa’s bird’s nest, in which he found two abandoned eggs that he promptly took to his own house to nurture. After several weeks of nesting, the eggs hatched to reveal two tiny human bodies. Degei raised the humans, grew vegetation in order to feed them and told them stories that revealed the nature of all things.
After a good deal of time, Degei traveled through the ocean with the humans and their progeny and landed in Lautoka where he established the village of Viseisei, which is believed to be the first Fijian settlement. According to legend, Degei created Viti Levu and the smaller surrounding islands and now lives in a cave in the Nakavadra mountain range in Viti Levu. Newly dead souls pass through Degei’s cave and he determines whether they will be sent to paradise or flung into a lake to await punishment.
Degei is the most powerful god in the pantheon (or “Kalou”) of deities that make up the old Fijian religion. Other gods in Kalou include Degei’s son, Rokolo, the patron of carpenters and canoe-builders, Ratumaibulu, who ensured and health and abundance of crops, and Ravuyalo, who was known for obstructing the newly dead from their journey into the afterlife. Most of the gods who were widely recognized and venerated throughout the islands were not viewed as gentle or caring but rather as indifferent to the affairs and troubles of humans. Part of our mindset is a respect of land and sea a living entity, .plus the creatures that inhabit this world.
In our tradition the land is the physical or geographical entity of the people, upon which their survival...as a group depends. Land is thus an extension of the self. Likewise the people are an extension of the land. Land becomes lifeless and useless without the people, and likewise the people are helpless and insecure without land to thrive upon.

Cheers Jim,  I am glad the brush strokes painted with words worked. Thank you.

Thank you TF  I enjoyed Don and Calum playing.

Cheers EB  thank you for your kind comments. It seems to me most news  we see and hear is negative, and replete with disasters, terrorism, crime, scandals and corruption. Does the media create that negative news bias or is it responding to a human  preference for bad news over good news? ???? I am sure it isimportant we know about what is wrong. but do we get hear about the positive things out there.

Thank you TIG.  I hope you get over your cold soon. I admire people who coach and help sport people all the best to you and the players.. I am sure someone will turn out a real good version of Jesus Is My Hero.
Pete

Phill thank you. and all the other moderators also. for clearing chordie of all the rubbish and making it a great site to visit. You do an excellent job

Neo and Tig your guitars look great. I admire those who are good at woodwork even though I am no good at it.

You have a good pop voice. I think your strength are more those  songs that provoke thought.