by Charles Norman | Apr 25, 2019 | Off the Wall
And you may find yourself in a beautiful houseWith a beautiful wifeAnd you may ask yourselfWell, how did I get here?– Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime My father’s father, a lineman for the county who bought the farm years before I was recorded and...
by Charles Norman | Apr 24, 2019 | Song of the Day
‘Real isn’t how you are made,’ said the Skin Horse. ‘It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.’ — from The Velveteen...
by Charles Norman | Apr 23, 2019 | Song of the Day
All of a sudden he thought: If people are reunited in Heaven (I don’t believe it, but suppose), then how shall I stop it from creeping upon me, that shriveled, helpless, lame thing, her soul? But this is the earth, and I am, curiously enough, alive, and there is...
by Charles Norman | Apr 21, 2019 | Song of the Day
Today is Easter Sunday, the day on which Christians celebrate the Resurrection of their Lord and Savior. Non-Christians, and most Christians, too, for that matter, celebrate the arrival of a large rabbit that scatters eggs around the house in a perverse re-enactment...
by Charles Norman | Apr 19, 2019 | Song of the Day
Who lost none of them because he could not remember his sister but only the loss of her… — William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury Benjamin, our lastborn, sold into Egypt, remembered none of the glad times, only the hollowness of the absence of Candace,...
