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Any Town Will Do – John State – lyrics & link

Posted on January 29, 2017

Any Town Will Do If you’re rolling out west with your game face on, rolling out cigarettes, crying on the phone, it won’t take much to make you feel gone, for a night or two, any town will do. Phoenix to Santa Fe with the radio on, feels like living in a Neil Young song. But you won’t feel right ’til you get yourself wrong. For a night or two, any town will do. High desert passes, gas station sunglasses. Your heart like a sunset, wild and free, and there was always something you were meant to be, for a night or two, any town will do. And your life is just a movie in the bar back mirror, everyone’s a stranger, nothing is…

Live a life as beautiful . . .

Posted on January 25, 2017

I remember how one day, on my way home from a late afternoon hike, sunlight hit a cloud hovering on the far ridge. The sunlight turned the cloud pink, and the cloud turned the Douglas firs and madrones pink, and turned the long grasses in the meadow pink, turned the red-dirt logging road pink, turned my hands and arms and skin pink. The whole world glowed like breeze-brightened ember. I stopped and stood there a second, gob-smacked, gawking, wondering many scenes just as mighty I had already witnessed and forgotten, and pitying myself for being alone, for having nobody with whom to share such transcendence. Then I heard a voice—an inner voice, like the one I listen to when I’m writing—and it said that…

Adam Gopnik on euphemism and cliché:Christopher Michael-Martinez’s Father Gets It Right about Guns

Posted on May 27, 2014

The war against euphemism and cliché matters not because we can guarantee that eliminating them will help us speak nothing but the truth but, rather, because eliminating them from our language is an act of courage that helps us get just a little closer to the truth. Clear speech takes courage. via Christopher Michael-Martinez’s Father Gets It Right about Guns : The New Yorker.