Musings

Bill Drummond: Live From The Dead Sea—Caught by the River

2015/05/16 — Leave a comment

I thought this article by Bill Drummond was worth sharing:

Live From The Dead Sea – Caught by the River.

I particularly appreciate these two statements:

[M]ostly I’m for politics that are about ideas. Ideas that are fluid and evolving. What I’m against is politics based on tribalism, be that class, religion or nationalism. And I’m obviously against politics based on dynasty or personalities.

and

I don’t want politics based on a notion of what we think our country once was and may be again.

Not that any of our politicians will be listening…

(16 May 2015)

A mid-May morning (a poem)

2015/05/13 — Leave a comment

I had not particularly intended to follow today’s prompt in The Daily Poet, by Kelli Russell Agodon and Martha Silano, which is to listen to jazz or classical music, make notes of what comes to mind while you listen, then write a poem about something you thought of while listening. As it turned out, I started this poem while listening to one of Thelonious Monk’s solo recordings on Pandora…

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