“I do not try to dance better than anyone else.
I only try to to dance better than myself.”
Poets
Carrie Fisher
“I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote things to get them out of feeling them, and onto paper. So writing in a way saved me, kept me company. I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn’t know.”
— Carrie Fisher (b. 1956 – d. 2016)
Such a big personality. I am at a loss for words.
Merry Christmas
Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday season
and the very best for 2017!
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
(Born 1934 – Died 2016)
Another legend gone.
Remembrance Day – November 11th
On Remembrance Day 1999, Terry Kelly was in a grocery store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
At 10:55 a.m. an announcement came over the store’s PA asking customers who would be on the premises at 11:00 a.m. to observe two minutes of silence in respect to the veterans who sacrificed so much for us. All customers and staff observed the two minutes except for one man. This song came out of that experience.
My grandfather lied about his age to enlist. At seventeen years old, he fought in World War I. The experience haunted him until his death at 96 years old.
I will be observing the two minutes of silence.
Edgar Allan Poe
“I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.”
— Edgar Allan Poe (b. 1809 – d. 1849)
Bob Dylan, Living Legend
Great news for poets and songwriters!
Bob Dylan wins the Nobel for Literature.
“It is the first line that gives the inspiration and then it’s like riding a bull. Either you just stick with it, or you don’t.”
— Bob Dylan
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