I was raised as a Roman Catholic. I don’t consider myself overly religious but I do believe in angels and a higher power. In 2006, I was reunited with an old flame from 1974. It wasn’t chance or luck or by design. It was divine intervention. I now live a life that I could have only imagined. Thank you to all my guardian angels. Thank you for this article.
Sunday morning notification calls for time to brew my first cup of coffee and read “Sunday Pages” — Boy, oh boy, I wasn’t expecting to feel tears on my chicks, though! I’m a firm believer and found this really profound. It helped me to transition my anger to sadness finally. Easier to deal with though. Haha - thanks, Greg! Enjoy your Sunday.
“Stochastic”!! My God, word choice. Beautiful. I agree with Sharon Dymond and Paulina: tears. Lincoln’s “better angels” may have referenced both Dickens (“Barnaby Rudge”) and Shakespeare (“Othello” and Sonnet 114). I hope so. Well, of course, Dickens might have referenced Shakespeare, too. Think of the way the rhetorical appeal of the phrase expands in meaning and impact by such references: Rudge set in a period of violent riots, and then poor innocent Desdemona slaughtered by inflamed passion. I am convinced Lincoln intended to suggest a correlation between Desdemona and democracy, but was wise enough rhetorically to merely suggest it. Nothing, of course, could be more true. Democracy is fragile and good and easily destroyed. Thank you for this mind-expanding message this morning.
Maybe only the people capable of caring about others and not just themselves get Better Angels❤️🔥. Funny bc I finally have Covid after all this time as an essential worker. The bf is sicker than me & keeps testing negative 🙃 Apparently testing is a little tricky now w/vaccines & variants. Brave new world lol.
Well done!! Our better angels have been getting most of us through the growing pains that we must take deadly seriously now but which will be as nothing in our next orbits around the sun. Our music can fill us with a bonus portion of humanity & empathy, keys to connection with all.
This post is some of what we need right now! The deification of materialism has completely severed our relationship with the benefic occult (hidden) forces that our ancestors knew about. I think that's why we're seeing so many people attempt to connect with this in a perverted way, as in Q-anon and other cuckoo conspiracy theories. Think about the cult of Trump, the patriot cosplay, the ritual instruments (assault weopons), etc. Music is one form of ritual that we can use to reconnect, but we need more of that right now and I don't know what it looks like yet. Great post!
Nice, Greg! For what it's worth, here's a turn in mh thinking sd my ninetieth bithday looms around time's next corner. The older I find mnyself gettig, the easier it is to think transcendentally, and the richer life seems.
Oh Grego. You got me bawling like a baby. Too much truth. Too much wisdom. Release of searing pain. Bless you. Happy holidays.
I was raised as a Roman Catholic. I don’t consider myself overly religious but I do believe in angels and a higher power. In 2006, I was reunited with an old flame from 1974. It wasn’t chance or luck or by design. It was divine intervention. I now live a life that I could have only imagined. Thank you to all my guardian angels. Thank you for this article.
The Litany of the Saints seems appropriate these days, even for a lapsed Catholic.
St. Michael, pray for us.
St. Gabriel, pray for us.
St. Raphael, pray for us.
All you Holy Angels and Archangels pray for us.
St. John the Baptist, pray for us.
St. Joseph, pray for us.
All you Holy Patriarchs and Prophets, pray for us.
St. Peter, pray for us.
St. Paul, pray for us.
St. Andrew, pray for us...
Lovely.
Sunday morning notification calls for time to brew my first cup of coffee and read “Sunday Pages” — Boy, oh boy, I wasn’t expecting to feel tears on my chicks, though! I’m a firm believer and found this really profound. It helped me to transition my anger to sadness finally. Easier to deal with though. Haha - thanks, Greg! Enjoy your Sunday.
“Stochastic”!! My God, word choice. Beautiful. I agree with Sharon Dymond and Paulina: tears. Lincoln’s “better angels” may have referenced both Dickens (“Barnaby Rudge”) and Shakespeare (“Othello” and Sonnet 114). I hope so. Well, of course, Dickens might have referenced Shakespeare, too. Think of the way the rhetorical appeal of the phrase expands in meaning and impact by such references: Rudge set in a period of violent riots, and then poor innocent Desdemona slaughtered by inflamed passion. I am convinced Lincoln intended to suggest a correlation between Desdemona and democracy, but was wise enough rhetorically to merely suggest it. Nothing, of course, could be more true. Democracy is fragile and good and easily destroyed. Thank you for this mind-expanding message this morning.
Love those lyrics 🥹
Maybe only the people capable of caring about others and not just themselves get Better Angels❤️🔥. Funny bc I finally have Covid after all this time as an essential worker. The bf is sicker than me & keeps testing negative 🙃 Apparently testing is a little tricky now w/vaccines & variants. Brave new world lol.
Happy Sunday Greg!!!!
Well done!! Our better angels have been getting most of us through the growing pains that we must take deadly seriously now but which will be as nothing in our next orbits around the sun. Our music can fill us with a bonus portion of humanity & empathy, keys to connection with all.
Digging the cool little vip emojis 🤗
Omg I was just thinking -I just showed my ass saying how into emojis I am 🤣🤣🤣🤣. It’s the little things. People should cut us some slack rn 😂
This column and comments are sorta out of range for my brain. I know nada about music and have to look up big words
At 14 i decided gods were deluded inventions out of fear.
Kinda reminds me of politicians pushing the fear angle.
So if "god" did exist i murdered it in 54.
But i can picture a dude in 14000 bc standing on the Serengeti plain in a lighting store conjuring up a supreme being.
Cal at 82 in the Great Sonoran Desert.
This post is some of what we need right now! The deification of materialism has completely severed our relationship with the benefic occult (hidden) forces that our ancestors knew about. I think that's why we're seeing so many people attempt to connect with this in a perverted way, as in Q-anon and other cuckoo conspiracy theories. Think about the cult of Trump, the patriot cosplay, the ritual instruments (assault weopons), etc. Music is one form of ritual that we can use to reconnect, but we need more of that right now and I don't know what it looks like yet. Great post!
Nice, Greg! For what it's worth, here's a turn in mh thinking sd my ninetieth bithday looms around time's next corner. The older I find mnyself gettig, the easier it is to think transcendentally, and the richer life seems.
Wow, beautiful piece Greg!