{"id":11392,"date":"2015-01-03T17:32:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-03T23:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=11392"},"modified":"2024-05-13T02:35:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T08:35:34","slug":"soul-spice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=11392","title":{"rendered":"Soul Spice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, how the world will try.<br \/>\nBut don&#8217;t cha dare let it tame you,<br \/>\nYou strange wild thing!<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve got all that soul spice<br \/>\nAnd hot liquid lightning<br \/>\nCoursing through your veins!<\/p>\n<p>A heart too unbound for the<br \/>\nTrappings of a common cage.<br \/>\nMistress of your own wild fate!<\/p>\n<p>Bright stars, dark velvet skies<br \/>\nAnd warm firelight.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s the life for you!<\/p>\n<p>Now you dance and whirl all through the night,<br \/>\nThrilling the Universe with your<br \/>\nSweet soul spice!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bXVvOpC1HZ0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I want to honor my youngest sons contribution. One afternoon over a year ago he was playing by himself. I was eavesdropping on his imaginary dialogue and overheard him say: \u201c&#8230;then he added one part soul spice\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I loved that phrase so much!<\/p>\n<p>It whispered to me a recipe, an ingredient of this free, wilderness woman who\u2019s always lived in my imagination. I tried to write this as a recipe for a while. But I could never make the words fit the images floating in my mind. So I just let her sit there in the back of my mind. Then some months ago I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/l6UHGjuo9vY\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">\u201cEscoutas\u201d on a Carolina Chocolate Drops recording.<\/span><\/a> (The vocals and rhythm are so rich and delicious in this version, I highly recommend a listen) \u00a0The spirit of the music spoke so strongly to me about this wild gypsy woman and all her soul spice, it came back to life again. As I wrote and thought on it I was very curious about the meaning of these lyrics I didn\u2019t understand. I wanted it to fit. To my joy I found this video performance explaining the lyrics. It was a song made just for her!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed a peek at the whirling dervish gypsy that has always lived in my heart and imagination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, how the world will try. But don&#8217;t cha dare let it tame you, You strange wild thing! You\u2019ve got all that soul spice And hot liquid lightning Coursing through your veins! A heart too unbound for the Trappings of a common cage. Mistress of your own wild fate! Bright stars, dark velvet skies And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11392"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13005,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions\/13005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}