Category: Song of the Day

Long ago in a small Methodist church in rural Tennessee... A folk singer, one of those earnest young men they'd trot out on Sunday nights as an alternative to the typical 'Bringing in the Sheaves' turgidity, tried for a bit of Audience Participation: he wanted...

Now when the young Fisherman heard the words of his soul, he remembered that the little Mermaid had no feet and could not dance. And a great desire came over him, and he said to himself, 'It is but a day's journey, and I can return to my love,' and he laughed, and...

Everything is a lie, and to such a degree that the only way people try to counteract it is by being mutually aware of the fact that it is a lie. -- Søren Kierkegaard Jerry, just remember, it’s not a lie if you believe it. -- George Costanza Our society depends on lies...

...and he also recalled the lone buzz in his ears when, in the course of a protracted hide-and-seek routine, after an hour of uncomfortable concealment, he emerged from a dark and stuffy wardrobe in the maid’s chamber, only to find that all his playmates had already...

The concept of time is simply an illusion made up of human memories. Everything that has ever been and ever will be is happening right now. -- Sean Martin, reporting on the theories of Max Tegmark All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will...

I have always been fond of the West African proverb: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.'  -- New York Governor Theodore Roosevelt in a letter to Henry L. Sprague When it comes to presidents, fathers, and NFL owners, I prefer the strong silent type....

Grasp the hands of the giant clock and unwind time to an unhappier and more confusing era... Walking on a narrow road scratched into the coral substrate of an unnamed island. An automobile has been abandoned in a patch of viny vegetation. The salty air, the rain, the...

There's just something missing for me and I don't know what... It has nothing to do with the fact that you're short, and it has nothing to do with the fact that you're not bright enough, and it has nothing to do with the fact that your teeth are in bad shape... The...

No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to...

But when the buffalo went away the hearts of my people fell to the ground, and they could not lift them up again. After this nothing happened. -- Plenty Coups, Crow Chief, in Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation by Jonathan Lear It has been...