#255 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Saturday January 22)
Happy weekend,
MUSIC
“My Back Pages,” arguably one of the greatest rock songs of all time, by Bob Dylan, originally performed by the Byrds. One of the greatest lyrics of any song ever: “I was so much older then; I’m younger than that now…” Here is an all-star lineup that includes Dylan, Clapton, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Neil Young, and others clearly having a good time. It’ll make you smile and hum (or even sing!) along:
Rodney Freeman shares: “Thought I would share this fatherhood song from Springsteen called ‘Independence Day.” It is the story of Bruce leaving the family household and the feeling and pain with his father the night before he moved out. It is a moving song with some sadness due to their troubled relationship yet still powerful.” Live version from the Meadowlands:
POETRY
Dust of Snow
By Robert Frost
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet 116)
By William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.
Have a great weekend,
Glenn
From the archives: