“We are stardust, we are golden,
We are billion year old carbon,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden.”-Crosby, Stills, Nash &Young
As billion year old carbon our connections go way, way, back in the universe. I look for something to sustain me during this long epidemic in inspirational books. I just finished one by Jack Kornfield. In it he mentions that we are breathing in molecules from Julius Caesar’s last breath because the molecules were dispersed throughout the earth’s air. Better than breathing in a virus. So far away from ‘the garden,’ were we ever really meant to live in Eden? What can sustain us now? In Nazi concentration camps, people wrote poetry, and hid it in the walls. Just like ancient molecules, written words passed down connect us. We are part of all who have come before, links in a long chain. ‘We are stardust, we are golden.’
Stream of Consciousness Saturday, #SOCS, is hosted by Linda G Hill. The prompt word for today is ‘link.’
Featured image ‘We Are But Specks of Stardust’ by Jason Jacobs on Flickr.com
Notes Tied On The Sagebrush 
Very nice post I love the way you linked it to The song which brings back memories. We are all linked to the past present and future….I hope we will not be sending virus particles into the future.
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Thank you, Willow. We’ve got to figure out how to protect ourselves a bit better if possible. I want to look up the video you posted. It was blocked on my page.
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It’s Desired Constalions by Bjork , does this one work
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I looked it up on You Tube. Interesting, playing dice with the stars and trying to get the right outcome.
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Almost stardust 💜
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That tune used to go through my head but I never did know what the lyrics were. That era sure had a variety of music.
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It can be hard to make out the lyrics of some songs. I did not know the whole song’s lyrics until I looked it up myself. They are pretty good.
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These are difficult times in which to chart a course forward. Not so unlike the time in which CSNY wrote that song. Perhaps we have to keep trying until we get it right. Until we find our way back.
Very nice use of the prompt, Deborah.
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I really liked the idealism of that time. I think we did make progress then. We will continue to evolve, I hope. Thank you, Dan.
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This is a beautiful association to the word link.
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Thank you, Kristine.
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Joni Mitchell wrote that… I was surprised when I heard she had…
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I did not know that either. She is not credited on the sites I looked at. I had to hunt for it after you mentioned it.
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It was on her “Ladies of the Canyon” album and was the B side to her “Big Yellow Taxi.”
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I read a little blurb that she said she wrote it for CSN&Y before they went to Woodstock.
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Interesting. I never heard that…
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Lovely post Deborah, and a reminder of from whence we came 🙂
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Thank you, Susan. ❤ Thinking of you. I hope you are doing ok where you are. I have read in the news South Africa is having a surge too.
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Yes we’re still to reach the peak – keeping isolated as much as possible, wearing masks if outside in public when eg merely walking – keep safe Deborah ❤️
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You keep safe too, Susan.
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I’ve always loved that song and must have listened to it a hundred times. But I never really heard the line about the carbon. I do still believing in the garden though. Great post!
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Thank you, JoAnna. 🙂
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Lovely post…
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Thank you, Damyanti.
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