return to a garden of love

Where music creates a soundtrack for our lives, it seems one song came along for me during a time of true wonder. Each time it plays, the melody takes me to a “Garden of Love”.

The lyrics, in French.

Jardin d’amour, que tu es grand!
Ou je vais promener ma mie
dans un jardin couvert de fleurs,
ou je vais promener mon cœur.

Ma mie me fit un bouquet.
Je ne sais ce qu’il signifie,
si c’est d’amour ou de regret
ou bien pour me donner mon congé.

Tous les oiseaux qui sont dans le ciel
ne sont pas de la même mère,
ne sont pas tous pour un seul chasseur
et ma mie pour un seul serviteur.

Elle me fit un bouquet
et je ne sais ce qu’il signifie,
si c’est d’amour ou de regret
ou bien pour me donner mon congé.

Ma mie me fit un bouquet.
Je ne sais ce qu’il signifie,
si c’est d’amour ou de regret
ou bien pour me donner mon congé.

And translated.

Garden of Love, you’re great!
Or I’ll walk my love
in a garden of flowers,
or I’ll walk my heart.

My love gave me a bouquet.
I do not know what it means,
if it is love or regret
or to give me my leave.

All birds that are in heaven
are not the same mother,
not all for one hunter
and my love for one servant.

She gave me a bouquet
and I know what it means,
if it is love or regret
or to give me my leave.

My love gave me a bouquet.
I do not know what it means,
if it is love or regret
or give me my leave.

 

I first discovered Pierre Bensusan (official website) by looking behind the tune “Bensusan” by Michael Hedges, on Aerial Boundaries (“one of the finest acoustic guitar albums ever made”—Daniel Gioffre at AllMusic) .

Web 2.0 viral video

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then is a moving picture moving thousands? Or…maybe a picture of words worth thousands of pictures?
YouTube – The Machine is Us/ing Us (Final Version) In this short video (“a slightly revised and cleaned up version of the video that was featured on YouTube in February 2007″), Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, demonstrates the power of the web as a communication tool.