Song Lyric Sunday: You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.
Good Sunday Morning everyone it’s time for Jim Adam’s Song Lyric Sunday challenge. This week’s prompt is – Songs that have been preserved in the National Recording Registry.
The National Recording Registry is a list of sound recordings that “are culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant, and/or inform or reflect life in the United States.” The registry was established by the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, which created the National Recording Preservation Board, whose members are appointed by the Librarian of Congress. The recordings preserved in the United States National Recording Registry form a registry of recordings selected yearly by the National Recording Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. Read more here.
Hands up I have never heard of this before so I looked it up and I found it as described above. I am not from the US. which explains my ignorance of it. Personally I would say most of it if not all of it is relevant to to the whole world not just the USA.
Anyay that aside I have chosen a Recording by Carl Sagan made in 1990. I remember watching the programme on TV at that time, it was called The Pale Blue Dot. Please listen to all of this recording if you can it is not long and it’s so important. It was entered into the National Recording Registry last year 2023.
Pale Blue Dot is a photograph of Earth taken on February 14, 1990, by the Voyager 1space probe from an unprecedented distance of approximately 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day’s Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System.
Seen from about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles), Earth appears as a tiny dot within deep space: the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the rightmost band of light.
Female, wife, full time mother and Grandmother. I am not as happy go lucky as I used to be but I am still bubbling along on simmer! I have three handsome sons all grown and flown.The youngest married with a beautiful wife and two sons of his own. Back in 2010 I was working, running a home, driving and socializing then bang in a split second all that was gone. I had an accident at home. I broke my back, not for the first time, I had broken it 10 years previously as well. Unfortunately this time I had broken it really badly and it was truly messed up so I had to have two operations. I was told before each operation that the outcome could mean I spend the rest of my life in a wheelchair. Still as some guy once wrote "I am still standing " yes "better than I ever was " I no longer use the walking stick . I had lots of friends before the accident but when things like this happen, you loose most of them. Their lives move on and mine stood still and so they left me behind ...I know that is just the way life is but it hurt and always will. Then I looked around and saw those who were still there for me, these friends are the roses in my garden they need to be tended well. They are the diamonds in the dust. I will of been married 53yrs this comming year. I have found different ways to approach life, use my pain befriend it almost...yer right , well that is what they tell me at the pain clinic ROFLMAO ...... if only I could! I have found an outlet for my fears, frustrations and night terrors . I have started writing poetry if that name can be applied to my writing. I hope I do not come over as a moaning winger. I hope I am past all that. I also hope that you might see how the poetry is moving from very dark through the grey and hopefully in to light.
My back is no longer straight it is C shaped because of the injury and I have lost two and a half inches in height but my Pilates and Core teachers have helped me to stand up as straight and be as strong as possible. Pain and depression are still hanging on my arm but I have weapons to use against them and if I say so myself I cope well.
I have made lots of new friends, real diamonds. I am also very grateful for all the support and help I have encountered here on Wordpress. Hugs and welcome to everyone who visits.
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22 thoughts on “Song Lyric Sunday: You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.”
I love that video, Willow. Carl Sagan always had a message that needed to be heard, and he had an ability to explain anything. He had a TV show here that was wonderful. Also, I have been a fan the Voyager spacecrafts since they were launched. Those two spacecraft have been exceeding expectations forever.
We must have had the same programs over here probably after the US and I loved to watch them and listen to his voice. We have followed Voyager too …. I was born too soon I have always wanted to travel through space 💜
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Hmmm, never heard of this before, either, Sis!
It struck me deeply when I first heard it all those years ago it’s as true now as it was then…. 💜💜
Wow! Powerful words.
Aren’t they Darlene it a raw pity that not enough are listening 💜💜
Thank you for reading 💜💜💜
Thank you for sharing this absolutely beautiful video, and ‘WOW’ what a wonderfully narrated piece of soul searching for us to ponder!!
Yes indeed Carl Sagan was an amazing man, I saw the original programme.💜
Loved that video. And what a beautiful home planet we have. Now if we could just take care of it!
It would be wonderful wouldn’t it .. I wish we all cared about our children’s children’s future 💜💜
Thanks for sharing this video, Willow.
Thank you for such an interesting post Jim. I know it’s not a song Jim I hold that video close to my heart 💜💜
Brilliant choice, Willow! ✨ 💫
I know it’s not a song but it’s special to me 💜💜💜
With good reason! There are a lot of non-songs on that list. You picked a beauty!
Every world leader , every citizen of every nation needs to watch this video daily 💜💜
I know it’s not a song but it’s special to me 💜💜
I love that video, Willow. Carl Sagan always had a message that needed to be heard, and he had an ability to explain anything. He had a TV show here that was wonderful. Also, I have been a fan the Voyager spacecrafts since they were launched. Those two spacecraft have been exceeding expectations forever.
We must have had the same programs over here probably after the US and I loved to watch them and listen to his voice. We have followed Voyager too …. I was born too soon I have always wanted to travel through space 💜
Excellent! Sure makes us think, doesn’t it. 🙂
It truly does 💜
Wow! I have always loved Carl Sagan.
Me too Jennie 💜💜