As I wait for Three Word Wednesday, here is a musical offering that will touch you somehow no matter who you are. The discipline in this is utterly amazing and the performance given by several people who not only love each other but are remarkably tolerant.
A good friend of mine shared this on FaceBook and I picked it up from her. I think it deserves wide distribution. The U-Tube already has half a million hits in its present form and there is at least one other performance of the same song, a U-Tube of the performance they gave on Ellen Degeneres' show.
Some years ago my poetry took on a mythic flavor and I became a character in my own poems, a mage, "the man of the Northern Wall". This apellation is not completely fictional. My middle name is Noordwal, a Dutch term for north wall, though in current Dutch it mainly means north bank as in riverbank. I was told that an ancestor, a Portugese Jew escaping the Inquisition, settled in a small Dutch town and took this name from where he settled, near the north wall of the town. I have thought for a long time that -wal meant wall, think my mother told me that. A linguist might say that my usage is no longer common, is an older usage, but then the Inquisition happened in Portugal a few centuries ago, right around the time the Moors lost control of the Iberian Peninsula and the Jews lost the modest protection given them by Islam. Now I write as this mage, my poetry persona.
Mechanical designer for industry, now retired, once a Bay Area Hippie, went undercover in 1972, I've been writing poetry for years.
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That is F-ing brilliant! I edit my self because this is not my blog...but I dont want to That was a moving performance!
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