Music with Content

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Laurie Anderson was featured on NPR with an interview about her new album and her work in general.  She is a tongue in cheek world observer and still an entertaining musician.  She shows courage to try ideas for the "fun of it."  One example was her concert for dogs at Coney Island.  Go to the link and have a renewal with an old friend or a wonderful new experience.  Buddha believed Nirvana was within each of us.  Laurie Anderson lets me approach my Nirvana without separating from the world just the way the Buddha wanted us to do it.  Enjoy!

A Good Friend Has Passed Away

Perhaps there is an age that sees the passing from life more often than other parts of life, but such losses should never seem unimportant. I do not know how the death of a good person impacts the cosmos, but it must. My friend Bob passed today. Like another friend just two months ago, he had been fighting for his life for a while. He was a person who deserved more life. He was a person who could have filled more life. He was not given more life and his family and friends will have no more of him physically in their lives. This must be felt somewhere besides in our personal feelings and emotions. If it is not, is a life nothing?

Life Does Not Stop

Life Does Not Stop

Life does not stop when a friend gets ill. It does not stop because friends are not seen. The lives of others go on with or without us. Good intentions to call, to write to visit does not stop time for them. Death does not stop for them just because we have not called. Who a friend is becomes was in ways that the mind does not want to grasp. Instead the death is put on the shelf with the other memories - to be managed when life stops?