The SPICE that is LOVE

The SPICE that is LOVE like the seasons that change so does the spice of love one day as sweet as honey perhaps another day as sour as old milk no gaurentee for loves warranty enjoy the sweetness when its alive soak it in and thrive tears soak the face an burn loves dance now over a page must turn i miss you so my love you know and now i must journey forward again alone

BLUESJAMMAMERICAFORPEACE ~ MobiusTripz

This is the latest cut by MobiusTripz at you tube....watch the vid at this link please and share it with friends...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VGkQ6nPGwA
Title: BLUESJAMMAMERICAFORPEACE
Music by~ MobiusTripz "rokkinroll", steve swygert
The video is self explnatory...here are the LYRICS as well:
Crusin' Thinkin' Contemplatin', what's happened to life in the U.S.A. ?
Revolution...get ready...get started, harmony and peace will be our new way.
Our voice, hear us, we are calling, for our rights to pursue the American Dream.
Things do change so quickly, yesterday a nation at inner peace, for Freedom started to ring.
Become a fan of MobiusTripz at Reverbnation.com at this link:
http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/control_room/614782#!/mobiustripz
There is an Android APP for free download there as well...Apple APP coming soon.
You can read the profile there and I will have some art work soon as well...peace, steve

CORRESPONDENCE TO PRECEDING BLOG ENTRY

PRECEDING BLOG'S INK ABOUT THIS DEFINITION

My letter to the feedback link from the freedictionary.com website

Here is their site form / email if that request is not successful:



That’s a link to my blog post...hope you can correct this definition as you have it now and offer the correct definition before language gets even further distorted...

If you read that, and I sent it in its entirety as well in a feedback too...it was large so I thought I would send this in addition incase the other did not make it through the server and to you...my apologies if this is a repeat of the other feedback...I just want you to read this in its entirety and let me know what you think and how you would best remedy the definition...Looking forward with anticipation to hearing back from you soon...language is exciting...thanks, John Stephen Swygert

http://mountainmaryland.blogspot.com/2011/09/honkytonk-real-life-example-of-babel.html

my suggested definition…

A business establishment offering live entertainment to its patrons at a reasonable and fair rate especially when compared to more expensive establishments with similar entertainment in a given area

Etymology – origin was from the depression on the late 1920’s and early 30’s depression, and the rest in on my blog at this link.
http://mountainmaryland.blogspot.com/2011/09/honkytonk-real-life-example-of-babel.html

HONKYTONK - A REAL LIFE EXAMPLE OF BABEL

HONKYTONK - A REAL LIFE EXAMPLE OF BABEL

Take a look at this INCORRECT definition online:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/honkytonk

Noun 1. honkytonk - a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall

Here is the actual definition, and what follows is an example of why language changes and gets twisted in meaning until rather completely distorted at times so that the original inferences contained therein are completely lost, if not at best diluted.

Actual definition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honky-tonk

A honky-tonk (also called a honkatonk, honkey-tonk, or tonk) is a type of bar that provides musical entertainment (usually country music) to its patrons. Bars of this kind are common in the Southern and Southwestern United States.

The term "honky-tonk" has also been applied to various styles of 20th-century American music.

First of all, as a musician, an educated man, and a common simple man, I have to articulate that this definition is an ignorant dis-service and explain exactly why in great detail.

Please bear with me momentarily...

A honkytonk is a place typically in a rural community, thence onward later to the city, where inexpensive entertainment performed by craftsman would be performed before the audience and offered at a reasonable and fair, and often below the exceedingly high and more common price of the present time the venue would be offered, as compared to other business establishments in the industry offering the same type or similar type of entertainment.

It may be true that some honkytonks were or became disreputable, however it is not in the least bit innate to the definition that all honkytonks are disreputable, and to see that offered as a definition in the free dictionary is shocking, disgusting, ignorant, and thankfully, correctable.

This blog entry will be sent to that site, which I typically like, but even more so with a "grain of salt" now, (cliche:defintion-to keep in mind with lesser regaurd then you would with a more concrete and definitive database).

I hope this letter will be eye opening or equally; enlightening to any that will read it and offer to do the same.

All, may in at least a possibility however slim, be recorded incorrectly and therefore may be interrelated incorrectly forever more until we together collectively decide to make what is inaccurate, accurate once again.

Voila!

Peace friends



I will not claim to be the largest fan of Wikipedia; however, it is accurate in definition and includes the words actual etymology, which is a rarity in this day and age.

Why did this happen you may ask?

Honkytonks originated to provide inexpensive (a word often replaced in spoken and written language with the word cheap) live entertainment for patrons just before and during the great depression of the late 1920's and 30's...not unlike our modern economic challenges that we collectively face during this year of 2011 in the United States, and much over the entire world.

Language is key to many facets in life, including but not limited too: peace, learning, advancement, knowledge, progress, ad infinitum.

Here is a story I crafted for a contest held by Pennsylvania wine (in short, links are at the article link), for and on the behalf of literacy.

http://mountainmaryland.blogspot.com/2011/08/toast-to-literacy.html


This is something I believe in and will strive to carry a torch for, as that torch was passed to me by so many fine teachers in this life, be they or proper education or shared mutual education amoung friends.

Literacy is the fundamental building block of thoughtfulness, as opposed to thoughtlessness, perhaps, harsh you may say, but seemingly true, as to know less truth leaves one less in the light, less enlightened, further from truth, means less meaning and less direction, and the key that unlocks that door of ignorance and lets one pass through the corridor of truth into the light of knowledge towards peace and humanity is literacy.

Language is perhaps the most creative art, and its thread are in the arts of all the arts combined as if woven into a tapestry of the arts combined themselves, much like we that are woven through the common fabric of space time we share now as you read but merely a thread on the internet…

I am listening to Neil Young – Le Noise _ The Film…on YouTube.com on the internet on My Dell Dude!!!...

It rocks!!!

I wrote a song and recorded it all earlier today start to finish…because Neil fires me up and inspires me to use gifts bestowed to celebrate life and it is literacy and a really great book, The Bible, that are strong in my life today, and ever more centering themselves towards me as I accept them in all my human stubbornness.

I only share this to offer a glimpse with words through a portal of a slice into my day past now that you can read and share if just for a moment and flow into the music I wrote…I am blown away when I hear that somewhere…Neil Young and I see something in a very similar way…and we did that independently…and came to some similar grooves in sound and topic musically…

Part of my own very soul lives in Neil’s music…I understand his tunes because I have lived them…I may not understand a lyric, but nonetheless the feel is the same through the music and the way he lets it just be such an expression of his way he feels as he uses the guitar, voice, and other devices to capture a moment of expression…cool stuff, and an art that includes, words, meaning, and definition…

I really am passionate about this…check out his tunes as mentioned above…a different side of Neil, and then,,,hmmmm…still the same old Neil…how did he do that ?...

Enjoy it…back on point and topic,


Language is always evolving, and often times the denotation and connotation can deviate between themselves, and they exist so that this may never happen to start with! And may even at worst; completely loose their original meaning - or - etymology.

Like the word Bad, for example. It may mean intolerable, or incredibly awe striking…depends on usage and setting.

Word etymology is of paramount importance because it lets us trace a word to its origin, and from that origin it is most often typically clear why the word exists, and what it actually means.

Thought, without a doubt preceded art and written word.

First thought was, and then drawing followed, and then guttural grunts, by nicer sounding noises, and eventually over years, words...slowly sounding smoother and more appealing to the ear, but not always.

The ancient hieroglyphs of Egypt are an amazing feat, as are other civilizations intricate systems of symbol language, many not even close to fully understood today, as the knowledge key of those languages, even as sophisticated as our so called modern technology is, still cannot unlock all of the symbols into their complete context, undoubtedly full of more, deeper, and enlightening knowledge.

Early, there was perhaps only one, or a few of a handful of languages that were spoken, and the common norm.

Then word was written into symbol letters that represented the sound we would make with our audible voice and the word was spoken, or at least uttered and grunted at first, and evolved into all the languages of the world we know today.

When we allow our language to become skewed in meaning, it forever changes the meaning and context of all it surrounds, and pollutes the sea of language, and we should all be vigilant to keep language easily decipherable at some level.

Doctors use Latin, because although not a spoken language in these ages, it is the most specific meaningful picture painting in your mind kind of language we are capable of collectively picturing in our minds eye, but perhaps not all of us, as we see how modern financial and educational times certainly are in favor of a profession such as a doctor or a lawyer that can utilize these skill sets of learning Latin, if he is so equipped to learn through studying this ancient incredible language so pure and seemingly incapable of being privately interpreted.

The point is made and I hope it is an eye opening one, however when Babel was told in its original Biblical form as it is carried in word today, it is often ignored or scoffed at...and why? It is exactly as it was and is again.

Many of today’s problems are from a lack of common ground when communicating, be it in language, spiritually, ethnically, culturally, ad infinitum.

Better understanding in life and increasing knowledge should lead to an enlightenment that is awe inspiring and positive and forthcoming quickly to even more knowledge, as an excitement shall overcome the soul to seek the answers that are His truth.

I cannot help to get anything but deep or spiritual, because it is what always happens in this life's journey, and I would like to share and offer the same, and my gift is words and music.

MobiusTripz is my music…recorded at home in a lil’ ole studio in the mountains of western Maryland…just an expression of art too…and word and time and meaning…or the journey towards enlightenment…all in good fun and only with the best of prayers for the entire well being of everything in mind when crafted, and crafted to share with others willing to listen if they so shall choose.

I hope this brings a gift to your thoughts as you read this and your thoughts form around these very words.

Musical expression is a wonderful extension of this very topic, but that is a story for another time…

Peace friends…

Etymology -

"Etymology is the study of the history of words, their origins, and how their form and meaning have changed over time." (1)

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymology

POINTS IN TIME - LYRICS / PROSE

POINTS IN TIME - LYRICS / PROSE

We are all each few removed,
so much together we can do,
I lend my hand to Thee,
the same as He reaches for you.

Chorus:

All reaching back offering the same,
A beautiful eternal destiny,
Utopian idealistic spiritual tranquil sea of perfection,
A gift for everyone, owe nothing,
For Free.

Join hands and let's together progress,
towards rainbows of reality,
Taking flight towards the heavens,
Soaring over majestic mountains,
blue largesse seas.

Life's spiritual flight,
soul in flesh travels,
missions embarque and return,
all our paths crossing,
in a cosmic tapestry.

FAITH BELIEF LOVE PEACE GOD

...all else is simply lies.

God's Grace

If your world shall turn asunder, so to will pass this storm and thunder, repent and prayer in patient Faith, Know The Coming is called God's Grace.

Grace resides in us each, each an image constructed in God's Almighty Eye.

Amen Lord, grant each of us your divine Grace which we embrace with open arms towards Your heaven.

Spare your Love no man of this earth, and forgive me my sin that I may be of better service to you Almighty.

John S. Swygert

A Toast to Literacy

THE ORIGINAL LINK BELOW WHERE THIS WAS POSTED IS UNFORTUNATELY NO LONGER ACTIVE. I HOPE THEY PA WINE SITE WILL RECONSIDER ALL THE BEAUTIFUL STORIES THEY HAVE UN-POSTED THAT WERE SO ELOQUENTLY WRITTEN FOR THE READERS TO SHARE AND SPEND THEIR COLLECTIVE TIME ON.

http://www.pennsylvaniawine.com/WineStories/ReadStory.aspx?id=23

...a few spell check typos included...this is as it was published...enjoy and the link above has wonderful information to read about PA vineyards and wineries.

A Toast to Literacy
john s
My fiance and I attended Briar Valley Vineyards & Winery in Bedford, Pennsylvania and had a grand time.

Currently we reside together in Cumberland, Maryland, a stone’s throw away from Bedford, Pennsylvania as well as a beautiful drive up Route 220.

This was our second visit to a vineyard and/or winery that we shared together, and it could not have been more fruitful, in any sense of the word.

We had been wanting to visit a vineyard together for quite some time. Briar Valley Vineyard and Winery was one we had previously read about and we each intuitively knew that our wonderful day trip was now set, after we read about the attempt to break the world record for most participants toasting at the same time!

Hopefully one day, we will all enjoy setting the world record together, but Europe is tough competition, especially when it comes to wine, cheese and toasting.

I for one will show up every year until we set the record, which I hope, as a wine lover, takes a very, very, long time.

Wine, cheese, and toasting combined together well this day, as they always do, as each is an integral and inseparable part from the other.

I was born in Pennsylvania and have always held in close to my heart. My fiance loves Pennsylvania as well. I own a home in Pittsburgh too and one of our favorite day or evening trips is into the Buchanan State Forest in Pennsylvania. It is a gorgeous protected State Forest that has stunning floral and fauna, as well as a past President’s tomb. The day we looked that information up together just happened to be James Buchanan’s birthday, April 23.

This is a great example of utilizing access to information in order to learn more, broaden horizons, and enhance life with even more meaning, all through literacy.

Reading and education are imperative to progress and are catalysts that release the power of knowledge that I pray will hopefully be well coddled with the peacefulness of wisdom before being utilized.

Everyday, I can conceivably become even more literate, however, to first achieve that gift, I was taught in fine public schools by fine teachers as well as raised by educated parents, each having been teachers themselves, who taught me well. Collectively, these personal influences have made me a life long poet, a some what published author (articles), a musician, and equally has enhanced my life as well as others lives in ways I cannot possibly pay back in full.

I felt compelled to write this story and hope that it may be printed, because the truth herein is that this email is so eerily wonderfully similar to the culmination of some of my very own life’s work and experiences.

The email I received provoked many wondrous feelings I feel I must share with others, as we each work through our countries difficult transition, hopefully back on the road to prosperity.

Prosperity is found in language.

Language, like each of us, has strong rooted permanent origins, that typically hold the exact and original denotation (specific dictionary meaning) of any particular word.

The best teaching and influence can come from home and be an essential developmental and impressionable tool utilized by all families. That is really what this contest of writing is about, sharing this gift and offering it to all, especially our future, our youth.

I hope to demonstrate that someone who thought they could and would never write at all, much less write poetry, would write a story compelling others to share in this art I so well love.

I can attribute a lot of that gift to my sixth grade teacher, Mr. Gray, of Alexandria, Virginia, as well as my folks and siblings.

When I wrote re-search papers, my Father would give them a look over, and always, and I mean always, find the mistakes, like the most proficient editor, but more importantly, he wanted me to understand how to convey a clear and concise thought in words so that it would be interpreted the way of it’s (the writing’s) original intent.

He is a retired West Point Colonel, and was stationed in Carlisle when I was born.

He worked at the Pentagon, and was very valuable with his verbal skills, especially when it came to law.

By profession, he is a soldier, a Mathematician, and an Engineer.

He has always stressed education and still to this day is very active in Virginia with MathCounts. My fiance and I have enjoyed sharing this event on a local and State level with my Father and our friends, and it is yet another example of literacy, as Math is a language as well. Perhaps, not a fluid spoken language, but a language, none the less, with many shared attributes.

As men and women create concepts in their minds, what had origin in thought first becomes words next.

To understand anything conceptually on an educated level one must delve into the books, study, and work hard.

If one does not have a fundamental level of literacy, how can we make progress and live more fruitful lives?

Literacy from the earliest level of education, all the way to the pinnacles of careers, is always of paramount importance, and the emphasis of this concept typically flourishes best when it starts at home, grounded in family and values.

Please visit this link below and learn more, each of us can make a difference as individuals.

The day we attended the world record setting toasting attempt is quite reminiscent and equally shocking to look back at!

We made a live toast with Mario Andretti ! Wow !...that was a BLAST...Mario Andretti...now I am a man of forty-three years and a racing fan, yet I had no clue, even after watching him all my life, that he was a life long resident of Pennsylvania.

That gave me warm fuzzies just to learn that about Mario Andretti on the day we all shared together.

There is just something about having commonalities that makes moments even more precious then they otherwise would have been, even although already precious in other ways.

We ate homemade cheese at the event that day, brought to us by the owners who hand crafted the cheeses at a cheese cellar owned and operated by them, who we personally met. The family owned cheese cellar is named, Clover Creek Cheese Cellar, L.L.C.

We spoke cheese together a bit that day while we sampled many cheeses in order to choose our personal selections to purchase and bring home. The cheeses were and are true Pennsylvania delicacies.

The folks (owners) could not have been more gracious and the taste bud tickling cheeses we ate that day with assorted rice crackers were the perfect palette cleansing compliment to, honestly, some of the finest wines I have ever tasted.

They were indeed so gracious that we were invited by the owners to come and visit them and make some cheese...another Wow...just sends feel good shivers all over. Cheese making starts early at the cheese cellar, about 4:30 - 5:00 a.m.



We have yet to take them up on that offer, but certainly will and have looked forward to it. As each day passes until then, we sharpen up on our cheese ”ology”, and are looking forward to a day with those wonderful folks living their dream as a family on a farm, perhaps that is a story I will write as well after we make our trip.

Our time together with you all was delightful thus far and we hope to see you again soon.

I look forward to meeting with them and they said typically at the days end, the cheese that did not make it to us (quality control baby!), gets placed on a bunch of homemade pizzas! I will work all day long for a homemade pizza!

Back at the event of the day, after speaking with the wonderful folks from Clover Creek Cheese Cellars, the organizers started giving away prizes by randomly drawing our filled out tickets from a jar. At that instance, the prize that my fiance said she liked earlier in the day, a small cork board, came to mind very strongly, and I told her she was going to win it for sure. She won exactly as I knew she would. I think we were equally shocked.

She wanted this beautiful gift to commemorate our experience together on that day, as well as the future trips we would certainly take to many Pennsylvania vineyards, like our previous trip to Gravity Hill in Pennsylvania, as well as a great stop at Helixville Winery.

This small cork board is to glue corks onto to collect and remember those times, not to different then the sculpture for literacy in many ways.

Wine tasting is a learned art as wine making is a learned craft.

Making or tasting wine share at least this huge commonality. The love for the wine itself along with all the many wines varied nuances.

Be it a robust bouquet, a bountiful blush color that glows in the warm sunlight, or a sweet yet dry taste the makes the mouth water, one thing for sure is that Pennsylvania wines are here to stay and enjoy together

I strongly suggest at least a day trip to bring home some blessed ”sweet mountain nectar” to share with your loved ones. The easiest way is to utilize the links herein please, that is why I suggested these great places, purely from experience...very good experiences...so the best thing is to plan a safe trip to and from a Pennsylvania winery or vineyard and make the best of a day, if not a weekend or family vacation.

Back at the toast, we heard an artist play live acoustic guitar that he accompanied with singing that was perfectly suited for this day of events. The artist was local and I made sure to speak to him for a moment too, as I too am a musician and musical enthusiast and wanted to say thanks for the great entertainment.

A glass of wine each in our hands, my fiance and I sat under a small tent at the end of the day and reflected back on our last few hours while we listened to the acoustic tunes, also hand crafted, while we soaked in a little sun, as it was setting softly over the hills and warmly gently bathing us.

There is really nothing quite like sharing love with the woman of my dreams, in Pennsylvania, with homemade cheese, along, with Mario Andretti toasting to boot (and this was a live web cast, very up to date technology) as well as we won a prize !...all after sampling some fantastic wines, of which I will describe to you, as they left an impression this long after.

We bought a bottle of Reiseling and a bottle of Gewurztraminer This was a difficult decision as well after we compared notes after the tasting and then decided which two we would most enjoy together. There were that many great wines being offered.

The favorites we chose to take home were The Briar Valley Vineyard and Winery Riesling (2007) and Gewurztraminer (2007).

The Riesling was light yet robust, sweet and a touch dry as one likes. The bouquet was full and pleasant, a true compliment to what was to come. The colour caught brilliant light and was equally stunning for me. The taste was impeccable. Then we had the Gewurztraminer which blew me away, quite literally.

This is the best wine I think I have ever tasted Now I am no professional well esteemed connoisseur, but I have a decent pallet, and you either develop that or you do not. I never knew I would until I did, that was just how that worked out, as I enjoyed wine tastings, visits, and festivals with my friends.

The Gewurztraminer, which was my first of this variety, was to me the essence of the perfect wine in my mind’s eye. Look for a bottle of this and I feel positive you will agree. The experience to share is yours and I feel words cannot describe just how classic a wine this treasure is. Watch out Napa Valley.

As a wine lover and aficionado through experience and visits in the mid Atlantic region, Pennsylvania is swiftly becoming, if not already, some of the finest agricultural real estate in which to grow some of the finest wines in the country and in the world! The state has wonderful labor available too, as well as in infrastructure that typically promotes agriculture and ”green era” industry.

The economy and the ecosystem are changing, and seemingly, especially to the benefit of Pennsylvanians. This is the time to move forward, with literacy at home as a major emphasis, into a new era, the ”green era”, as we re-build our country together.

This link is to an article I wrote that was posted up by The United States Department of Energy, proving that some of our government is reading what we average citizens write and taking note of it as well as sharing this vision together. Literacy has given me vision. The vision of better futures for us all.

Pennsylvania is proof positive of this fact of ”green prosperity”, and I believe perhaps a role model towards the vision I personally have and share with others concerning our future in the United States. We can grow and eat healthier foods, and do much more of that at home with our communities.

It is wonderful to realize that vineyards are prospering in our state’s agriculture and that a family can own and produce cheese and support themselves, while offering a beautiful food for so many to share.

The gift my fiance won was a cork board to glue corks on that we have collected. We are collecting slowly and responsibly now, and gluing later.

We would like to donate one of the corks from that very day to be a part of the sculpture, as we would like to be forever tied to the art, Pennsylvania, and the true spirit of this literacy mission.

I left my link above to make a point that literacy works. It has worked for me well, and is indeed a gift. This gift truly gives back, and quickly.

It is through literacy that we may learn and share vision so that we may blend our futures as artisans craft and blend the wines and cheeses we so enjoyed on that particular day.

I want to extend a special thanks to Mario Andretti, Briar Valley Vineyards and Winery, and the wonderful folks from Clover Creek Cheese Cellar.

Hope to be seeing you all soon.

John S. Swygert

WHEN POSTED, THE LINKS WERE NOT PUBLISHED, SO I INCLUDED THEM HERE IN A LIST FORM, THEY SHOULD BE FAIRLY OBVIOUS WHERE THEY GO AND WHAT EACH PERTAIN TO...ENJOY !!!:

http://www.briarvalleywinery.com/

http://www.pennsylvaniawine.com/OverviewToast.aspx

https://mathcounts.org/sslpage.aspx

http://www.famlit.org/

http://clovercreekcheese.com/

http://www.visitbedfordcounty.com/helixvillewinery/index.htm

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/wip/news_detail.html?news_id=16404