EIGHTY CANDLES FOR THE VANDALS WHO STOLE THE HANDLES
This blog should have appeared yesterday.... yet..the time it takes to dribble out the words of this was otherwise preoccupied with contemplation of “the most famous nine questions in song lyric history”. If you don’t know what these are walk outside and lick one finger...reside it into. The air and you’ll discover it doesn’t take the weather man to know which way the wind blows. If this isn’t enough to clue you in on the nine questions well this is a tough quiz and all you can say to the theif is “there must be some way out of here.” Oh I can hear some of you thinking. “You’ve got a lot of nerve” to abuse these words for just this pile of thoughts. Yes. But when you’ve got nothin’ you’ve got nothin’ to lose. Oh and losers now may be llater to win? Anyway. The nine most powerful questions in lyric history? The answer my friend is...—well you take it from there...and if you aren’t of a certain age well don’t think twice..it’s alright.
Ok Bob Dylan is 80...quite possibly the most influential person in my music life—ok popular star wise—but John and Jackson are within an eyelash—
Bob taught me that you didn’t have to have the best voice if your words were powerful and a bunch of other people followed him in that way like Neil Young and Tom Petty... If you can write or deliver songs with power a few bent notes aren’t going to stop you.... oh and that’s where. Seeking Peace and Joy comes in.
Blowin
In the wind is like the soul song of seeking peace and joy or one of them....
It speaks of patience and justice and equality and listening and really observing and understanding the human experience.
For me I’ll just take the first three questions and illustrate the peace and joy impact for me.. you do what you want with the rest...
How many. Roads (or different paths) must I walk down before I discover my current purpose? (Or get called a man?
How many seas must the white dove sail....How many journeys must I take and restart and remain viable for before I reach my final port?
How many times must I fight for something until I know that victory will not come through battles but by doing something else.. when will battles. Be a second or third option and when can most of us lay down the bloody sword?
These are questions that cross my mind as I experience the world and make meaning of all the gifts I call experiences every day...
So... Happy Birthday Bob—you have made my search. More of an adventure than I could have imagined I will always pray that people will make it clear that the times are. A’ hanging and I will always hope that a certain number of us will rise up and in the jingle jangle morning come following you
Did you know that Bob Dylan was at the University of Minnesota at the same time as Garrison Keillor? They knew each other and hung out a few times together. Someday I'd like to visit his hometown of Hibbing, MN.
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