A Prayer in Spring
Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.
Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.
And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.
For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil.
Friday, March 25, 2016
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Things I want
Sometimes the things we want are defined by the things we do
not want. That’s true for me to some extent, but as I get older, I know pretty
much exactly what I want:
a) Peace and quiet = without these, I cannot relax. I do not
want to be around people the entire day, and that includes my work day. I want
to be able to close my office door and to be by myself. I need peace and quiet
at work and at home, in other words, some hours to myself where I am beholden
to no one. I want alone time that is responsibility-free and guilt-free, and
that is not invaded by pointless conversations or people wanting me to feel
guilty for not paying attention to them.
b) Real communication = without it, nothing works. If I
cannot have real honest communication, then I’d rather not waste my time and
other people’s time talking. I don’t want to fake conversations or interest in
things I have no interest in, nor do I want to compete with others for
listening time. If I am in conversation with you and all you want to do is to
talk about yourself and how lousy your life is or how important your life is compared
to others, then I don’t want to be your conversation partner. In other words,
don’t waste my valuable precious time complaining to me about how miserable
your life is or how important you are, because you have no idea what others
might be dealing with on a daily basis. And they don’t burden the world with
their problems or their inflated ego.
c) Simplicity = without it, life becomes a meaningless
drudgery. The trend these days is to complicate everything. Workplaces are
exercises in frustration and lack of effectiveness because administrative routines
and rules have become too complicated. We worship on the altar of triviality. At
home, the same can be true. I’d rather cook simple hearty meals from scratch,
with fresh vegetables and foodstuffs, than load us up with excess salt and
sugar from processed foods, pre-packaged foods, or foods that have been suffocated
in plastic to ‘protect’ them (plastic wrapped so tightly around vegetables that
it cannot be healthy for them). Why can’t vegetables and fruit be free and
uncovered? Why must we waste time, money and energy on packing each individual vegetable
into its own plastic housing? Why can’t we keep it simple? Grow some of our own
vegetables, or support local farmers who do. Buy unpackaged vegetables or those
that will be tossed away because they don’t ‘look’ appealing. Cut down on the
amount of food purchased. You don’t need pantries stocked full of food, unless
you believe the apocalypse is coming.
d) Farewell to competition and to expectations = I’ve
reached that point. I no longer want to compete. I don’t see the point of
competition anymore. I no longer want expectations of greatness placed upon my
shoulders by others who mean that I should aim high and have grandiose
ambitions. Those days are gone; they belong to a past time when I was much younger.
I’ve seen the light and accepted it, why can’t my leaders at work also see it?
My super-productive days are over. I want an ordinary life, with ordinary cares
and small worries each day. I want to putter, to garden, to hang out at home,
to pursue my hobbies, to not have to measure up to specific metrics imposed on
me at work, and to not have to worry about how I look or what I wear. If I want
to walk around in jogging pants and sneakers, so be it. I want to walk in the
sunshine, to be free to do so, to not have time constraints on me, to not have
to have homework anymore in the form of articles to write or articles to read
or review. I want to be free of grant applications and progress reports. I want
peace, quiet, real communication, simplicity, and an unencumbered life.
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Things I do not want
Sometimes there are dry spells when it comes to creativity,
energy, and motivation, and I’ve had some dry spells recently, when it seems
that writing, photography and all of the other creative things that nourish the
soul, are not worth pursuing. A spiritual malaise sets in, and sometimes spills
over into the physical realm. The darkness and grayness of winter can sap a
person for strength, ditto for soulless workplaces that do nothing to nourish
the soul. They rather destroy it slowly.
What I don’t want at this point in my life: I don’t want to
work anymore, at least not in the traditional sense. My soul derives nothing
from the daily 9 to 5 grind that I used to love so much. It gets zero
nourishment from a public sector workplace that is dominated by a bureaucracy
that kills all motivation, by numerous leaders who are completely ineffective
and who could care less about their employees, and by a level of inefficiency
that in and of itself could drive a normal person to drink. Albert Einstein
wrote that “Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work”. He wrote that line
during the early part of the 20th century and was completely spot on!
The saving grace of any workplace is of course your co-workers, many of whom
feel the same way as I do, so there is some amount of shared commiseration while
we all plod onward in the muck. But some of them are younger and haven’t
experienced soul-sucking environments for years on end, so they are not as
weary of the whole thing as I am. I still have several years to go before I can
retire, and I honestly wonder at times how I’m going to survive those years
without burning out.
I also do not want to work all day in an office the size of
a tiny kitchen that I share with another person, with windows that open a
crack, with fluorescent lighting that can never in a million years take the
place of sunlight, for the prescribed number of hours. I find all sorts of excuses
now to be out of my office, to be outdoors, or to leave early. Modern workplace
buildings, for all their so-called environmentally-friendly architecture and
technology, are completely divorced from nature, from wildness, from the
outdoors. There is nothing like fresh air, a gentle breeze, sunshine on your
skin, a walk along a river, or just being outdoors, to restore the soul. I want
to be outdoors any chance I get. My body makes those decisions for me, and I am
learning to just follow what it wants, because it wants healthy things for me.
I don’t want to listen to or to watch endless news stories
about all of the horrible things going on in the world for which there are no
solutions. All those stories do is create despair. Newspapers and television
have become like the Dementors in the Harry Potter books—soul-sucking creatures.
They bring up a problem again and again, propose few to no solutions, and suck the energy from those who try by bombarding them nonstop with stupid questions. If
you are going to have an opinion about the problem, then for God’s sake have an
opinion about the solution to that problem. I know the world is in deep
trouble; tell me something else. Tell me about the people working to change
things, trying to solve problems, trying to help, and tell me about all that in
an intelligent, respectful, and decent way. Stop being belligerent, aggressive,
nonstop pandering machines. Stop pandering to the lowest common denominator in
listeners--to the basest instincts in people, every chance you get. Don’t
encourage bigotry, hatred, and violence by talking about it ad nauseam. Stop
making the rest of the world think that America is filled with pro-Trump and
pro-Palin idiots. There are over 315 million people in the USA; the news media
in Europe would have us think that all Americans support Trump; the American
media are doing very little to dispel that notion. All of the Americans I know
that are family and close friends, do not support Trump or the other GOP
idiots. So there. My appeal to the media here and in the USA—please shut up
unless you have something positive to say or some solution for how to get rid
of Trump before November.
And while we’re at it—could we please end the reality TV
culture and celebrity worship? I don’t want to see another Kardashian (any of
them) on my TV screen or in any newspapers for as long as I live. I don’t watch
these shows, never have and never will, but it seems as if whatever so-called 'celebrities' do is news-worthy. Here's a quick tip--NOT. Is
this what money does to people’s brains? Can heads of the media no longer see what
quality is and what crap is?
I no longer read the newspaper at breakfast. I read the
comics page (since it is actually more intelligent than much of what passes for news--you need only to read Bloom County to know that)
and then put the paper aside until later in the day. I refuse to discuss the
grotesque goings-on in the world when I first get up. There are many things to
be thankful for--the life we have been given, the chance to live another day,
the chance to wake up to sunshine, the chance to love those in our lives
(humans and pets), to chance to choose healthy, and the chance to appreciate
the world we live in and to take care of it. That's how I want to start my day, and live my day.
Sunday, March 6, 2016
The Serenity Prayer
The best prayer of all---so much wisdom contained in one little prayer. If we followed its advice, we would save ourselves so much pain, complaining and irritation.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
The benefits of doing yoga exercises
I found this short article, Yoga Eases Symptoms of Chronic Low Back Pain, at http://www.ahealthblog.com/yoga-eases-symptoms-of-chronic-low-back-pain.html. It's quite interesting, as I just started doing yoga exercises in January. I am not practicing yoga, only doing the exercises, and I am only doing the simple exercises, but have already discovered that I feel more relaxed and have less lower back pain after doing them. I will keep on doing them to see if these effects are long-lasting. Many of the yoga exercises remind me of the types of stretching exercises I used to do for my modern dance classes years ago. The fact that I can still do many of these exercises makes me feel quite good, after many years of not doing them.
Image via: Yoga Eases Symptoms of Chronic Low Back Pain
Image via: Yoga Eases Symptoms of Chronic Low Back Pain
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Change the World by Eric Clapton
Every now and then I wish I really could change the world in a big way--make it less brutal, less bigoted, less cold, less money-oriented, just simpler and kinder....All those things at once. Not sure where we're headed anymore; it all seems so chaotic and out of control--climate change, the overwhelming refugee/migrant situation in Europe, the utter brutality of terrorism, and the looming possibility of a loud-mouth bigot as president of the USA. The latter bothers me immensely, that my fellow countrymen believe in this man, who is clearly a sham. If people think that he has even the faintest idea of what it's like to be poor or lower middle class, think again. He has NO idea what it's like. He's never been poor. Daddy gave him his cushy start in life, and that's ok, but he could have used it for the betterment of mankind, and he hasn't. He just says the things he thinks bigots, whiners and the failures in society want to hear. What surprises me is how many people I know who actually support this man. I find it sad. Listening to Eric Clapton sing 'Change the World' is what I want to do right now--because it reminds me to keep believing in the good. But also, that if we don't do something soon, it will be too late to change the world.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
When will reality TV shows disappear?
We’re now well into season 6 of The Walking Dead; episode 10, entitled The Next World, aired on Monday evening here in Norway. Fear the Walking Dead starts up again in
April, and tomorrow night the sixth (and final so far) episode of The X-Files airs. I’ve been watching
them all and loving them. The return of The
X-Files after so many years (it went off the air in 2002) made me very happy;
I looked forward to getting involved with Mulder and Scully’s cases and their
relationship all over again. And these episodes didn’t disappoint; despite
mixed reviews (as always), they managed to hold my attention and left me
wanting more. It’s not just that all these shows are sci-fi, horror, apocalyptic,
or fantasy shows that appeal to me because I find those genres interesting. It’s
that we get involved with the characters at the same time, characters that are
dealing with life and death situations, survival, family matters, sickness and
death. The zombies have to be dealt with and/or dispatched on The Walking Dead; likewise the mutants
and monsters on The X-Files. No matter
how fantastic it all becomes, no matter that the survival of the main
characters is sometimes very surprising or even unthinkable, I am rooting for
all of them to make it. This is television at its best—series that I enjoy
following, that give me something to think about and look forward to each week;
that entertain me, surprise me, shock me, and involve me. There are other good
series too; Sleepy Hollow, Game of Thrones, Wayward Pines, and
American Horror Story are just a few
that come to mind. I’ve watched them too, but The Walking Dead and The
X-Files remain my favorites. I’m just thankful that they exist at all,
because most of what is available to watch is reality TV. I wish
someone would take a hatchet to anything that even remotely smacks of reality
TV, and put all these shows out of their misery forever. They include The Kardashians, all the cooking competition
shows, all the lip-syncing competition shows, all the ‘how to survive on a
desert island or on a mountain-top’ shows, all the shows about bratty children
who fall in line when a nanny appears, all the shows about spoiled adults whose
credit cards are maxed-out and who suddenly need professional help to get them
out of debt, all the shows about presumably fashionable (not) women telling
other women how to dress, all the shows about pawn shop users or those who go
scrounging through other people’s garage possessions, and rich men’s wives. The
list goes on ad nauseum.
I don’t know what I’d do without the TCM channel that serves
up films from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, that even at their worst, are one
hundred times better than anything offered me by reality TV shows. Most of the
old films had real substance; a few were fluff, but the majority were not.
These were films made about characters you wanted to get to know, involved in
life dramas that mattered. Not so for reality TV shows. I wonder how our Western
culture became so obsessed with the latter, and with one family in particular;
that family’s every move is reported in the media. How did that happen, and
why? Or is it just a matter of watching them because there is nothing else on? Why
do I not care what happens to a single one of them? Why do I wish they would
all crash and burn? All I know is that I am glad I grew up when watching
television was an enjoyable experience, when shows like The Dick Van Dyke Show, Leave it to Beaver, The Donna Reed Show, The
Mary Tyler Moore Show, Maya, Bonanza, Kojak, Sanford and Son, Bewitched, The
Bionic Woman, The Bob Newhart Show, The Partridge Family, The Waltons, The
Brady Bunch, Hogan’s Heroes, Dallas, Knot’s Landing, All in the Family, MASH, The
Twilight Zone, Dark Shadows, Night Gallery, The Night Stalker, Columbo, Cheers, Miami Vice, Magnum PI, Married With
Children, Murder She Wrote, St. Elsewhere, Moonlighting, and Remington Steele, among many others, were
popular. I watched them all and followed them all. They made an impression on
me that has lasted. They were funny, sad, moving, provocative, entertaining,
scary, intelligent, but above all, memorable. That cannot be said for reality
TV programs. I feel sorry for this generation that has grown up with these
shows; they have no real idea of what good television is, except perhaps when
they sit down to watch the TV series that we grew up with. It is no wonder that
streaming has become so popular; I can watch the shows I’m interested in and ignore
the junk. That’s progress.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
The wisdom of Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver intrigues me with her simple wisdom that goes right to the heart of things. She writes about the things that matter in life. There is no way that you can read her words without being affected by them, without some part of you knowing that you've been touched by the truth. And having been touched by the truth, that you know that you must abide by it. Here are some of her words of wisdom in the form of quotes and poems........
·
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious
life?
·
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of
darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
·
Instructions for living a life.
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
·
Listen--are you breathing just a little, and
calling it a life?
• To pay attention, this is our endless and proper
work.
·
Keep some room in your heart for the
unimaginable.
·
The most regretful people on earth are those who
felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and
uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.
·
You can have the other words-chance, luck,
coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but
I'll take it.
·
Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled—
to cast aside the weight of
facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
·
to live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is mortal;
to hold it
against your bones knowing
your own life depends on it;
and, when the time comes to let
it go,
to let it go
·
When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to
amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking
the world into my arms.
When it is over, I don't want
to wonder
if I have made of my life
something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself
sighing and frightened,
or full of argument.
I don't want to end up simply
having visited this world.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
One of those poems that you just recognize intuitively as truth
The Journey
by Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice – - -
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
‘Mend my life!’
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations – - -
though their melancholy
was terrible.It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice,
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do – - – determined to save
the only life you could save.
by Mary Oliver
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice – - -
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
‘Mend my life!’
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations – - -
though their melancholy
was terrible.It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice,
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do – - – determined to save
the only life you could save.
Saturday, February 6, 2016
All My Friends by Snakehips (feat. Tinashe & Chance The Rapper)
This song is catchy and I have a feeling it's going to be a pretty big song...........
"All My Friends" by Snakehips
(feat. Tinashe & Chance The Rapper)
[Tinashe:]
We open with the vultures, kissing the cannibals
Sure I get lonely, when I'm the only
Only human in the heaving heat of the animals
Bitter brown salt, stinging on my tongue and I
I will not waiver, I will not wait its turn
It will beat, it will burn, burn, burn your love into the ground
With the lips of another
'Til you get lonely, sure I get lonely, sometimes
[All:]
All my friends are wasted
And I hate this club
Man I drink too much
Another Friday night I wasted
My eyes are black and red
I'm crawling back to you babe
[Chance The Rapper:]
I hate the bar
Pharmacy addict hit a Wall Street traffic, took the car
We reinvent the wheel just to fall asleep at it, skrrr
Crash on the floor, catch the zzz's
Popping the polar opposite to the NZT
Hip hop and the propaganda say they name brand
But I done seen how the xan did my main man
The nights we won't remember
Are the nights we won't remember
I'll be gone 'till November
All my city calls me Simba
Dreams are made for cages, nigga
Lions are for real, nigga
Dying is for real, niggas dying off of pills, nigga
Friday's are for chill and I escaped the treachery
I just had to rest in peace the recipe
The rest of us are praying that the sand will leave a tan
If you're up right now, hope you hear what I'm saying (Hope you hear what I'm...)
[All:]
All my friends are wasted
And I hate this club
Man I drink too much
Another Friday night I wasted
My eyes are black and red
I'm crawling back to you babe
[Tinashe:]
Do you get lonely?
Sure I get lonely some nights
When the angels on my shoulder
Slump my head
I'm stuck here with the vultures
Hissing and circling
You didn't call me, call me, call me, call me
I'm crawling, crawling, crawling back to you
[All x2:]
All my friends are wasted
And I hate this club
Man I drink too much
Another Friday night I wasted
My eyes are black and red
I'm crawling back to you babe
"All My Friends" by Snakehips
(feat. Tinashe & Chance The Rapper)
[Tinashe:]
We open with the vultures, kissing the cannibals
Sure I get lonely, when I'm the only
Only human in the heaving heat of the animals
Bitter brown salt, stinging on my tongue and I
I will not waiver, I will not wait its turn
It will beat, it will burn, burn, burn your love into the ground
With the lips of another
'Til you get lonely, sure I get lonely, sometimes
[All:]
All my friends are wasted
And I hate this club
Man I drink too much
Another Friday night I wasted
My eyes are black and red
I'm crawling back to you babe
[Chance The Rapper:]
I hate the bar
Pharmacy addict hit a Wall Street traffic, took the car
We reinvent the wheel just to fall asleep at it, skrrr
Crash on the floor, catch the zzz's
Popping the polar opposite to the NZT
Hip hop and the propaganda say they name brand
But I done seen how the xan did my main man
The nights we won't remember
Are the nights we won't remember
I'll be gone 'till November
All my city calls me Simba
Dreams are made for cages, nigga
Lions are for real, nigga
Dying is for real, niggas dying off of pills, nigga
Friday's are for chill and I escaped the treachery
I just had to rest in peace the recipe
The rest of us are praying that the sand will leave a tan
If you're up right now, hope you hear what I'm saying (Hope you hear what I'm...)
[All:]
All my friends are wasted
And I hate this club
Man I drink too much
Another Friday night I wasted
My eyes are black and red
I'm crawling back to you babe
[Tinashe:]
Do you get lonely?
Sure I get lonely some nights
When the angels on my shoulder
Slump my head
I'm stuck here with the vultures
Hissing and circling
You didn't call me, call me, call me, call me
I'm crawling, crawling, crawling back to you
[All x2:]
All my friends are wasted
And I hate this club
Man I drink too much
Another Friday night I wasted
My eyes are black and red
I'm crawling back to you babe
Monday, February 1, 2016
The poem Funeral Blues, by WH Auden
A good friend sent me this poem recently because he had been watching the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, and this is the poem that is recited during the funeral service in that film. He also knows that I like Auden's poetry, as did my father. There have been so many artists and musicians who have died recently, but today is also the one-year anniversary of my brother's death. I know there are others reading this who will understand the feelings expressed in this poem.
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message 'He is Dead'.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.
Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message 'He is Dead'.
Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
Friday, January 22, 2016
David Bowie--Thursday's Child
You'll have to forgive me, but I am not letting go of Bowie just yet. I haven't been able to shake whatever it is that has come over me since he died. I need to hear his music, and have been going down memory lane listening to some of his older songs. Like this one from 1999.......It made quite an impact on me when I first heard it and saw the video. The man was a master at making videos that reach in and grab your heart, or that wake up your mind, or both.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016
The Loneliest Guy by David Bowie
Another poignant beautiful song from Bowie's Reality album from 2003......
Loving the Alien by David Bowie
An unforgettable live version of this song.......
(I agree with him when he says that this is perhaps the way the song should always have been done. The original version is good, but this version is just perfect--moving, serious, and memorable).
"Loving The Alien"
Watching them come and go
The Templars and the Saracens
They're travelling the holy land
Opening telegrams
Torture comes and torture goes
Knights who'd give you anything
They bear the cross of Coeur de Leon
Salvation for the mirror blind
But if you pray
all your sins are hooked upon the sky
Pray and the heathen lie will disappear
Prayers they hide
the saddest view
(Believing the strangest things,
loving the alien)
And your prayers they break the sky in two
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
You pray til the break of dawn
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
And you'll believe you're loving the alien
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
Thinking of a different time
Palestine a modern problem
Bounty and your wealth in land
Terror in a best laid plan
Watching them come and go
Tomorrows and the yesterdays
Christians and the unbelievers
Hanging by the cross and nail
(I agree with him when he says that this is perhaps the way the song should always have been done. The original version is good, but this version is just perfect--moving, serious, and memorable).
"Loving The Alien"
Watching them come and go
The Templars and the Saracens
They're travelling the holy land
Opening telegrams
Torture comes and torture goes
Knights who'd give you anything
They bear the cross of Coeur de Leon
Salvation for the mirror blind
But if you pray
all your sins are hooked upon the sky
Pray and the heathen lie will disappear
Prayers they hide
the saddest view
(Believing the strangest things,
loving the alien)
And your prayers they break the sky in two
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
You pray til the break of dawn
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
And you'll believe you're loving the alien
(Believing the strangest things, loving the alien)
Thinking of a different time
Palestine a modern problem
Bounty and your wealth in land
Terror in a best laid plan
Watching them come and go
Tomorrows and the yesterdays
Christians and the unbelievers
Hanging by the cross and nail
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Nothing Remains: David Bowie's Vision of Love---an article by Simon Critchley
A very good article in the New York Times Opinion Pages about David Bowie and his music, written by Simon Critchley. Well worth reading.......
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/nothing-remains-david-bowies-vision-of-love/?WT.mc_id=2016-JANUARY-OTB-INTL_AUD_DEV-0101-0131&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&_r=0
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/11/nothing-remains-david-bowies-vision-of-love/?WT.mc_id=2016-JANUARY-OTB-INTL_AUD_DEV-0101-0131&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&_r=0
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