"The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
~ Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms



"Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey sequence of bumping into's and tumblings apart."
~ Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet



Saturday, October 30, 2010

Divine Milieu...Kris Kristofferson - Darby's Castle...

Not sure exactly why, but I woke up this morning with the lyrics to this Kris Kristofferson song in my head...once again so much truth and authentic life is manifested in a song. There is something deep and profoundly beautiful, albeit sad and melancholy in the words that Kristofferson has penned in many of his songs. The connection to the shared life and experiences of being human is what I believe is captured in his songs and for me in this particular one this morning.



There is something or perhaps in the course of a lifetime many somethings that cause us to break, to loose, to feign our strength when there is no strength...these words from a U2 song also were rattling in my soul this morning,

"Who's to say where the wind will take you,
Who's to know what it is will break you,
I don't know which way the wind will blow..."
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