Tag: death
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Music: Welcome, cold December (2024)
Here’s a song that sort of fell out of my acoustic Yamaha last week. I picked it up and an odd voicing came out when my hands hit the strings. I looped it in GarageBand and added words that grew from the feel. The most innovative element was picking up my wife’s violin for the…
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Reflection: Joy, joy, despair (2024)
“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.” –MLK’s Nobel lecture, 1964 Notwithstanding Dr. King’s claim, here’s my attempt to describe it in words. The most pleasing of all human…
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Music: 4th Quarter song
No, it’s not about the epic failure at the end of yesterday’s Bears game, but about autumn, the end of things, death and transformation in relationships and status too. In other words, a sad song that came from me in as the green of Chicagoland summer turned slowly brown a couple weeks ago. Here is…
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