THE SIGNAL from David Katznelson
"Blood flows one way in life and another way in song, and one never knows which flow is the right one.”― Ismail Kadare
I walked my dog in the rain this morning. It feels so good to feel the water as it comes on down, to see the mountains get drenched, especially after this past fire season. And I realize that we are in for trouble again in a mere six months (or less)…but I will take these showers now as the grassy landscape gets greener and and the plants all around the house are glistening and happy.
It is raining in the Bay Area…it is sunny in DC. And it feels so nice.
One of the big bonuses of searching for articles for this newsletter is finding sources that are surprisingly good on a regular basis. The Irish Times: they deserve some sort of journalistic reward, always offering not only compelling pieces that they alone are talking about, but great deep dives on topics that are trending: like this Bacon piece. I love Francis Bacon, what a giant. And the new biography is making waves…and the Irish Times nails it.
NASA’s Perseverance Rover 21 Days From Mars Landing
The more I learn about the Perseverance the more excited I am getting. You need to check out the video embedded in the article, simulating it’s landing on Mars. We are living in the future.
Joe Biden's Love of Irish Poet Seamus Heaney Dates Back to His Teenage Years
File this under: poetry keeps winning. It is incredible to see the President quoting Heaney and Yeats. Forget your politics: poetry needs to be on the national stage all of the time.
Leave it to the Flaming Lips to pull off the first safe (hopefully) live show of the Pandemic. Damn I wish I was there. The need for live music runs strong in my veins. And the idea of seeing a LIPS SHOW TOO!!!
UNTITLED
by Mizuta Masahide
“My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.”
(thank you Uncle Si for turning me on to such a great poem)
