#435 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Saturday August 20)
Good morning,
MUSIC
For today’s music, I thought I’d go with a couple of great collaborations:
My Back Pages, a “super group” rendition:
The Weight 50th anniversary, a Robbie Robinson/Ringo Starr collaboration with worldwide musicians, produced during the COVID lockdown:
The Highwaymen, the country music “supergroup” of Kristofferson, Nelson, Cash and Rogers:
POETRY
Excerpt from Preface to Leaves of Grass
By Walt Whitman
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
Have a great weekend,
Glenn
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