Mary Chapin Carpenter - Songs From Home Episode 53: Farther Along And Further In
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Welcome back to Songs From Home episode 53...
This week has shaken and shattered me, with the horrific assault on the Capitol this past Wednesday, the destruction and violence resulting in lives lost, and the absurd posturing that has followed by various bootlickers, seeking to claim moral authority - sickening, all of it.
I found myself walking in circles, dizzy with the bingeing of news and with varying degrees of fear and rage surging and then receding only to surge again… so I breathed, sang, got outside, walked for miles, hugged the dog, kissed the cat, cooked, read, did laundry, slept, avoided screens, called friends, listened to music, cleaned, did whatever it took to help me unscramble thoughts and calm myself, if only for a little while.
Sometimes efforts like those above help enormously, and sometimes nothing helps. That’s the truth of it, but then the sun comes up the next day, Angus brings me a stick to throw, White Kitty wakes up and for a few minutes, my little world is okay. It’s not about giving up and retreating from the things that we all, as a society, need to address and fix, but rather keeping our tanks full so that we have the energy and clear heads to be useful.
"Farther Along And Further In" from “The Dirt And The Stars” is about rediscovering something in one’s self, where “time, memory, love and grace/ in the kindred eyes of a strangers face/lead down to the deeper place”…it’s that stranger’s face that brings me closer to who I want to be, for as long as I am here. As I am reminded daily, we are all connected.
Until the next time, stay well, stay strong, wear your mask absolutely everywhere, and always #staymighty !
#fartheralongandfurtherin #thedirtandthestars #blueridgemountains #virginia #home #farm #songsfromhome #patienceismysuperpower #january #staythefuckhome #weareallconnected #souldog #angus
Joy came home from the nursing home. We're back together ❤. If no one remembers she was in there with coronavirus. In a wheelchair but you can't keep us apart. Thanks for your prayers.
Beautiful, poignant song. I can't wait to see your show in Ithaca again.
You led with this last time I saw your show. Perfect.
Our Sunday morning gatherings with folks from all over the planet are such a healing balm, dear Mary. To know that goodness and love and unity are still alive and well. May peace surround and fill us in that knowing. So grateful. Love to you, Angus, White Kitty and all who gather here. Maureen
Very true words. It’s easy to get lost among all the division and hate that bombards us on the news and forget all the people just getting by, doing the best they can for others, not just themselves. Struck me when you mentioned a Sunday morning gathering, how in a way it’s like going to church. I’m not particularly religious, but I do believe music can be that kind of religious or spiritual experience. It certainly unites people in a way that few other mediums do. I’m certainly happy to listen to Mary as my spiritual guide. Her songs are full of wisdom. Love to you too from the UK.
@@andrewmoorhouse687 thank you, dear Andrew. It’s truly such a Light in my week to be with Mary and all of you. Many blessings and ‘see’ you next Sunday!
For this 53rd song from home in this unique setting with Angus, my heartfelt thanks to you. Greetings from Germany.🍀❤👍
Many thanks, Mary... your songs and tender voice help heal my heavy heart and saddened soul.
Love it! Gentle but strong too in song and spirit for these challenging times to lift our souls. Namaste, Jenny
PLEASE issue a DVD of the Songs from Home!!!!
This is one of my favorite songs of yours Mary!:) God bless all of you!:)
The lyrics to this song are far and away my favorite of all MCC’s songs. “Farther along and further in...we’re atoms and stardust circlin’...catching the Light then we’re gone again....farther along and further in... aah....”. The entire song seeps Wisdom...Opening up...Opening in...Enlightenment. Thanks so, so much, Mary. Namaste ( I honor the Light within You, always) 🙏🏻😌
I always feel like you're seeing into my soul. I don't know how you do it, but I'm grateful for the peace, joy, love, and perseverance that you instill. I could not have gotten this far without you. Your talent is humbling! 💘 💘
So agree! MCC has been seeing to, reading my soul for years! Don't know how. But am grateful!
Very good song MCC! "Farther Along" is where we must go and carry others along with us, no pushing or shoving. Loving one another.
This type of presentation permits the essence of the singer/songwriter to permeate. This often is scrubbed away in studio recordings. What a surprising positive from the pandemic.
Thank you again, Mary, for being a bright spot in these challenging times. Loved the song! I'm grateful for your generosity. Blessings to you.
Thank you for another Sunday morning of inspiration! Love this song! You are amazing! 💚🌻
Honestly, how could any one person write so many wonderful tunes! Thanks
Its raining and cold outside but your music filled the room and brought in the sun...
So nice to hear new songs with no finger snaps or drum machines. Just good music .
Another cold Sunday, warmed by your music. Very beautifull!
Hi Mary so beautifully played and sung as always. So many people find a refuge of calm and peace here. In troubled times music unites us more than ever. Music has always been my religion in that sense and yours glows with wisdom and insight. Like you say, it’s easy to watch the hate and division on the news and get sad and angry. We mustn’t forget all the good people there are out there, getting along and helping others as best they can. We all need a little distraction from time to time and thank you for making these videos that take our mind to a better place, at least for a few minutes. Until the next time, stay mighty everyone.
Thank you. I love that song and I'm happy to see that the shoulder seems to be mending. Lots of love and strength to you, Angus and White Kitty! 💪
Mary, I love you dearly, for your music, your poetry and your courage! Stay well, stay Safe and stay mighty. Always! Lots of love from Germany!
LOVE the album Dirt And Stars🙌🏼
Mary Chapin Carpenter, thank you for your songs, your thoughts, for sharing your talents, and your world with us. God Bless you and God Bless America.
Mary's photography is amazing. What a beautiful shot! And Angus is the perfect model. 😀
Ditto !!!
It really is! The true tell is that Angus is never a blur in any of his photos. Having tried to take pictures of toddlers and of dogs I recognize that skill (which I have yet to acquire).
@@acornacupuncture1998 Thanks for the reply! "Happy New Year" & Kind regards!!!
A calm and wonderful afternoon to you from the mitten state Mary.
Much thanks to you for continuing your fine and wonderful songs from home acoustical performances.
This is music in it’s purest form, you are awesome 👏.
Thanks for both, your song and your encouraging comment, lots of love🙏
I can't wait. MCC you're great for sharing all these songs from home. Thank God for you and God bless you
Thanks again! Never get tired of hearing your voice or seeing your face. Thank you for everything you do Mary!
Thank you for something beautiful and positive after the ugliness of the week. God bless you, Angus and White Kitty!
There is a beautiful, hopeful, and truthful poignancy and poetry to this new song, as well as to so much of your music. Who could not feel loved just listening?
Thanks MCC,another sunny Sunday made sunnier with you. Stay safe,stay mighty,keep the faith!!
Looking forward to listening!
Awesome again! Not sure you read these comments, but if you do... thank you!
Amen Mary ⚘
Thank you for your words, your gentle voice, your gift of song in the midst of such turmoil. So true that we need to do the self care, to "keep our tanks full" in order "to be helpful." I'm missing dear ones who have died -- can you please play Between Here and Gone
Thank you again for welcoming us into you home & heart. 💗
🌵🌞 Mary, thank you for this moment of escape from the week turmoil. SSSM
❤❤Handsome Angus❤❤
HAPPY NEW YEAR Mary Chapin Carpenter! That song is a lovely way to start the new year. We should all remain positive, happy, hopeful and MIGHTY!
All your songs mean so much at this terrible time ; giving us hope and faith and comfort; thank you Mary from Ireland ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for your soothing voice and for words that bring me peace and understanding...
Dear Ms Mary Chapin, every part of the day, every day, every week of mine thank you and gratitude to you, always. Hoping we can send back in thousands little bits the great support we are blessed from you. Every word of Farther Along And Further In is way deep in my soul. Please can you take great care? Sending so many million thanks, hugs to Angus&White Kitty🌺
Hello from the Midwest Audrey, Snow and cold is on the way. My New Years activity is to watch Ms. Mary’s concert. It’ll be the icing on my Seasons cake. I quit watching or listening to any politics from either side. I’m tired of all the finger pointing and hate swirling around. I have been listening to music of all kinds, watching movies, mostly the older Holiday ones. This year will be better and I choose to look towards the future with passing blessings and peace to all I interact and an extra portion to you and Ms. Mary. HNY 2022 .
As always, you provide a calming pool of reflection 😌🙏
Oh Mary how beautiful is this ! I love this song ! And you sound even better live ! It is such a treat to hear you live from Home, you made my day, as always :) Much Love from France, stay safe, always 😍🙏💗PS I hope your shoulder is ok now 😘
This woman is in a class of her own. She's a role model to me and many others who write songs. I try, but she's "a hundred floors above me in the tower of song."
She’s so calming. ♥️
Comfort in song, in word and in community. Thank you, MCC❤
Bless you and thank you. Your voice gives so much peace each week. Stay strong and mighty! 💗
Just perfect!!!
Hard week for the United States. Mary Chapin's friend and esteemed national treasure, Joan Baez, is having her 80th birthday. I listened to a song she wrote and played in 2017 that suited this week with prescience: "Nasty Man."
Maybe we will all join in, singing 'Happy Birthday' to Ms Baez?
@@ursulamulder110 Awww!
@@ursulamulder110 Read her description below the video. Easier to find the descriptions on a laptop than on a cell phone app, but she is processing.
Thanx MARY 🙏☮💚
Thank you!
Thank you once again Mary. This song speaks to me on so many levels. There is something about one voice and one instrument that really does strike a chord in my heart and you do it so well. Stay safe I dont believe this is over and I dont believe it will get better.
It has been a hard year but don’t give up on “better”. Remember each journey we take starts with a small step. Peace grows when you stand up for it. Blessings come back tenfold if you give them away to all you meet. We can’t control others only ourselves, so if we do good our actions will speak louder than their words of hate. Bless you and Ms. Mary and Peace to all you meet and keep some in your heart for yourself.
This has been a warm and Sunny January for me so far. Its cold out but my heart feels the warmth, I met my sunshine after 42 years of searching.
Loved it, so good
We have made it through this crazy 11 months because songs from home give us a voice of reason, reflection and most of all hope and peace. TY MCC
What a beautiful setting mr angus has a lovely place to run hi mary big thanks for the songs great help in these awful times hi white kitty 😀😀😀😻😻🐕
January 6....You open up in your writings, leading by honesty and experience. I was so dumbfounded, numb, angry, confused and alone I could only think of you and hug my fur babies, Mo and Bailey. What would you do to make sense of it? I could not open my emotional toolbox .... thank you for sharing hard won tools to reframe my “house’. I do want to be able to live and lead by example. Down here, not exactly the TEXAS way. But, I never have been cut from that cloth. Thank you for your inspiration and SFH. Have a great week, know you & fur babies are loved.💜😢😀😷
Keep the faith going into this new year, 2022. Remember a journey begins with one small step, good deeds reap great rewards, being kind to others costs little and returns so much more. These little acts can grow to overcome the hate in the world. Share all the good you have with all you meet on your journey through this year, you’ll lift them up and you will feel better because of it.HNY Peace & blessings to you.
Double like! On a trivial note, do you use funny tunings on the guitar? On a serious note, solidarity with you all over there. If there be a silver lining, only the most evil or tragic can be in any doubt now, and that may be a cleansing moment. At least that rock bottom wasn't worse. There's a very eloquent and powerful video from Schwarzenegger on Twitter that's worth catching - really sane and impressive, drawing on his youth in Austria. Much love from London.
I saw that talk too. (Before that I had thought of 1923 too.) Yes, "silver lining" of which you speak, also think this makes things abundantly clear to stop making excuses because this is rock bottom. Hope this country enters "a recovery program." Cautious about ptsd going viral on top of everything. So, MCC explanation today is to help process.
I thank you for another uplifting, inspiring installment of sanity. Bless you, White Kitty, and of course Mr. Angus for the constant feed of positive thoughts and weekly encouragement. Staying mighty is getting a little tough these days. Buoyed by thoughts of a positive, bright future tainted by current reality. 💪🏻😷
Thank you for another song filled with insight and peace! Just beautiful!
Wonderful, such a meaningful song!
Sunshine for a cloudy day. Thank you!
Bonjour Mary, merci de nous donner du plaisir. Tu es toujours aussi fantastique.
Thanks. Beautiful and moving, as always. Enjoyed hearing you play the Martin- very different from from the Greven. Not better or worse, just a very different sound...
The Martin is a big bodied dreadnaught? It seems to resonate longer?
BEAUTIFUL!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
Have a great week! Wonderful song...thank you!
Once again your simple songs and deep lyrics have helped buoy me up through rough times. I am so grateful for your music!
Thank you again for love and hope!! #StayMighty
Oh my goodness, missed you. Thank you, thank you Mary Chapin Carpenter, hoping and more hope for a better year, all the positivity piling up. Be well. ❤️
Wonderful to hear your music and words of encouragement ! You are a blessing!
My moment of peace and calm with your #songsfromhome ❤️
Just love your voice Mary, no matter what you sing ❤👍 Thankyou xx
Love this song. You must have filmed this before the horrendous event Wednesday at the U.S. Capitol building. I know you would have some soothing words for us in the States. I and a lot of my friends were looking to 2021 to be better, less hectic, less stressful, more hopeful than 2020. I guess we have to wait a little longer. But, I believe that if we all work together to enact significant change, good will overcome evil. Blessings!
See if you can read what Mary Chapin Carpenter wrote below the video. You might have to press "See More" tab or an arrow drop down symbol. She wrote a few paragraphs.
Thanks so much for pointing Me toward Mary’s words. They express everything I have felt this week. I’m still reeling from the shock and anger. But, I trust we will get through this, even stronger than ever.
@@arlenef3934 See you on the next Songs From Home visit! I have a music playlist helping me, but I find MCC's written preambles and preceding comments helpful also.
Really late but listening to this before bed! How funny. But never a bad time for MCC. Beautiful!
I am once again amazed how good this sounds with the lo-fi equipment on each end. I guess it’s that great musicianship and songwriting shine through no matter what the medium, which is something I have always thought some audiophiles lose sight of.
This song blew me away when I first heard it on the album. Thank you so much for this version. It's so fit some things in my life right now. Great chord structure too.
Thanks again Mary! I like the really steady chords, to me it's like battle thru, battle thru.
Thank you
Thank you, Mary! This is a great birthday present and so appropriate today!❤️🙏
Thank you, Mary for sharing another great song with us. I just finished listening to American Stooge and I love that song. It paints a perfect picture of the ugliness of some of our law makers.
P.S. For Christmas I got a Pork Pie Hat in honor of Louis. It's my new favorite possession!
Hi Rosanne, I wish your comments weren’t still pertinent a year later, sad. My New Years entertainment is to watch Ms. Mary’s concert at Wolf Trap. Don’t go out on amateur night, plus we’re to get potentially heavy snowfall. Anywhere from 5”-12”+ on Jan1. It’s a holiday, I retired, so let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. I’ve outsourced the removal to someone younger. Happy New Year 2022. Keep good thoughts and share the Joy. Bless you this Season and the coming year.
@@wjcorrinne4052
Good morning. Thank you for your message. I find myself in a span of time which is uncertain but I know who has me in His care. I head out across our snowy mountain passes this weekend for my radiation therapy. My faith is keeping me strong, still, I wish it could be different. Mary's music is such a comfort. Stay warm and dry there! Happy New Year!
Good luck and safe driving I wish for you on your way to & from your treatment. I had several weeks of radiation back in 2016 and this past June was my 5th yr cancer free. I didn’t have to drive snowy mountain passes only about 3-4 miles locally. My cancer team were fantastic and I still keep intouch with them and every June I try to do something special for them. Usually a catered lunch or some other treats. They are so good in all measures of helping patients, very compassionate, a couple are like family to us. I pray your team is equally good for you. Bless you and give you peace.
@@wjcorrinne4052
I am going to try to find a support group for helping each other through this. Do you belong to a group?
Hi, Rosanne, Well it’s sunny and bright out, snow is on everything except the trees. That’s the wind effect from the storm but even though the Sun is out it’s only 4 deg F above 0 & it feels like -11. Though we have sun our temps won’t get much above ten degrees if that? Yes, I do have a counselor, psychologist, I meet, virtually during the pandemic, every 3 weeks. I’ve been with her for a few years now, can’t recall how long and how I met her is a bit involved that I won’t go into now. While friends are somewhat handy they aren’t impartial. I do belong to a few groups, one I haven’t been able to attend due to the virus and they don’t do virtually meetings. It’s UsToo, a prostate cancer support group but I get regular emails from the head offices. The past year or so, another I’ve been attending is the FSHD Society webinars, held virtually also. This is a support group for my type of muscular dystrophy. They have 30+ chapters across the U.S. plus chapters in some other countries. At their Wellness Webinars I’ve interacted with individuals in S. Africa, Australia, Spain, SE Asia, etc. They’ve been a Godsend as even though the combined metro area here has over 250 thousand, l felt like I was the only one around here. I’ve been told what use to be considered one of the more rare types, it’s gotten larger or efforts to identify it has improved. 1 in 8,000 roughly persons have this type, doing the math you’d think there should be about 30+ individuals that share FSHD? So finding others, not around here yet, is comforting in a weird sort of way. This type won’t kill me and my neurologist said if a person had to have One this is the type to have. Our church congregation, which we haven’t been to in a couple years I miss but I get the monthly newsletter and the pastor posts his sermons online. I, also, use to meet the first Thurs of the month with a small group of retirees for breakfast, but sadly those are also on hold. Don’t know your age but each city here has its own senior group activities and there is CASI and the Plus 60s Group open to all, the others are open to all also. I hope these give you some helpful thoughts on where to look? Didn’t mean to get this long in reply to you but I’m big fan of counseling and reaching out. A couple sayings that I try to guide my life with are; If you don’t ask, the answer is always NO; the other is by Vince Lombardi a former American football coach- It’s not how often you get knocked down, it’s how often you get up. I hope this helps, Bill C
Thank you beautiful lady !
Thank you for your calming joy!
Thank you! Doing my best to stay mighty.
Good Morning from Adelaide, Australia 🇦🇺 🙋♀️
Thank you Mary, for keeping on! Lovely to see you and to get to know Angus and White Kitty so well. The songs are wonderful, of course.
Love that song. Best wishes to you for a happy and healthy 2021. ❤️
Thank Miss Mary for let me listen to your beautiful song from home.l aways like to listen to harmony song especially when is playing with guitar.
My old dog Roisin would have loved the pond!!!
Love this whole CD
I like the thumbnails for this one Angus is like look ma beautiful sky.
You took the time to do this someone wrote 53 times? No other artists has come close to your sacrifices Mary. From the bottom of my heart, thank you ❤️
I would say this is my favorite song from the new album but they are also good.
Hi from Helena MT! Thanks Mary for using that Martin D-28. Sounds great with your voice & you sound great as well. Rough time...would have been 12th wedding anniversary, but she departed last year. This tune kind of touches it. Thanks for singing.
Happy New Year 🎸🎶😌
You sure are good at that.
Read her description. Please read the whole thing! This is reprinting only the turn at the end: ". . . It’s not about giving up and retreating from the things that we all, as a society, need to address and fix, but rather keeping our tanks full so that we have the energy and strength to do our part.
"Farther Along And Further In" from “The Dirt And The Stars” is about discovering something previously unknown in one’s self, where “time, memory, love and grace/ in the kindred eyes of a strangers face/lead down to the deeper place”…it’s that stranger’s face that brings me closer to who I want to be, for as long as I am here. As I am reminded daily, we are all connected.
Until the next time, stay well, stay strong, wear your mask absolutely everywhere, and always #staymighty !. . . " a partial quote from Mary Chapin Carpenter.
Please read her description of her process below each Songs from Home episode.
Providing hope...
I love this song Mary. I did a cover a few months back and wondered if you were thinking of Aslan from Narnia's words at the end of The Last Battle when you wrote it?
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