a poem is a sermon
I don’t know what you know, I only know what I’ve been told; I don’t know just when this thing started, I only know it’s getting old. I don’t know where we’re going (barely remember where we’ve been), but I can tell which way the wind is blowing. Look to your valuables, my friend. They […]
The human voice was made to sing; and to the dull roar of life, bring a force that grounds us in all things. From the soprano, giving wing to angel’s tones gone traveling, to basso, low and rumbling: the song connects us, soul and skin, to what within us keeps living. 05 MAY 2011 © […]
To fill life with song, sing out all day long both right notes, and wrong; do not be shy. Don’t worry the notes. Just listen, and quote; and do keep your throat from getting dry. The subject, the text? The world, more or less; what small things impress you, just sing about. Don’t keep it […]
From eyesight, there are half a dozen words that represent a myriad of lies. The surface, then, is never proof enough; relying on appearance is absurd. It puts us in a world of slick disguise, transmitting second-hand its show and bluff. There are no such illusions from the ear: with sound, we gather in, and […]
I wonder how the world would be if thirty years ago, instead of playing thankless gigs, a soundbyte of a show I’d done when merely seventeen (and better then, than now) would have been made, and hit the ‘net (God knows exactly how), gone viral, and been seen worldwide. Would I have been star? I […]
“As any fool could plainly see, and you can see it plainly,” were words my father spoke to me in jest, sometimes, but mainly to illustrate a simple point: that often, a solution is right in front of us, and needs from us no contribution. Perhaps he oversimplified, attempting to be witty; but nonetheless, some […]
Who can say what form the end takes? The path each of us chooses makes no two lives the same. The snuff of one flame? A wind came – a mistake; while yet another’s candle’s spark may grow immense, and light the dark. No one can say why one lives and one dies. We just […]