#7 Musings of the Moment (Saturday April 24)
Good morning and Happy Weekend!
POETRY
In our home growing up, we had these strange little busts in our living room of people with harsh visages, often with stern beards, whose names were mysterious to me. The names had very foreign provenance. I thought I would include quotes from some of them:
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true, or beautiful, or good, makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, could be accomplished alone; therefore, we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint; therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
Friend
Art thou abroad on this stormy night
on thy journey of love, my friend?
The sky groans like one in despair.
I have no sleep tonight.
Ever and again I open my door and look out on
the darkness, my friend!
I can see nothing before me.
I wonder where lies thy path!
By what dim shore of the ink-black river,
by what far edge of the frowning forest,
through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading
thy course to come to me, my friend?
--Rabindranath Tagore
MUSIC
From the under-appreciated, yet my favorite, Beatle:
George Harrison and Paul Simon, “Here Comes the Sun”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEgBMTMUanU
And while we’re talking about George Harrison, “The End of the Line” with the Traveling Wilburys, including Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Jeff Lynne: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVjToYOjbM
And George with Eric Clapton (with Ringo and Phil Collins on drums), “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8rVI7AMKiY. You also can get a brief glimpse of Elton John on piano.
Happy times,
Glenn