I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion
Walden or Life in the Woods - Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862)
i saw my favourite band of all time perform tonight at the venerable corner hotel in richmond. when last they toured, i saw them play this venue on consecutive nights. i was younger than i am now
i was so much older then, i'm younger than that now
my back pages - robert zimmerman aka bob dylan (1941 - )
2 comments:
it is unusual that you don't critique the gig as you usually do.. but as i was typing that i thought, no, maybe it's not. i caught planes so i could see my favourite band of all time play 3 times in a fortnight recently, and yet i declined to post a review. i deemed it too personal an experience, a blog too pedestrian a medium to convey the levels on which i was touched by the experience. besides, how could i explain if you couldn't see my eyes light up and my hands wave before you?
Well said.
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