“You gotta get the hay out of the loft, down to where the horses can eat it”.
Editor’s note: I read Father Rohr’s daily reflections most mornings. As with any reader, some days he resonates, some not so much. On this day, I loved his reflection of my favorite Thomas Merton quote urging us to “cast our solemnity to the wind and join the dance”. As Merton says, the dance is already happening…we need simply to join in.
Editor’s note: Lee has been cited on the website before since for my money, he’s as good a poet songwriter as there is on the current music scene. I enjoy his voice, pacing, instrumentation and production values as well.
I’ve never knowingly had my IQ tested but I’m pretty sure they did it in grade school because my teachers constantly told me that my grades were far below what my intelligence tests predicted. I was apparently a slacker before the word was coined.
Editor’s Note: Thanks to Joe Hartman, my pal and co-worker at WorkPlace, for bringing this and a few other songs to my attention from the era of last month’s song. It’s a toe-tapper with a lot of meaning since she (Gladys Knight) is trying to figure out how to use her imagination to “keep on keeping on”. Oh, man, I love this.
Marshall McLuhan was a brilliant professor who coined the phrase “the medium is the message”.
Essence of the music/lyrics: We all share a home - planet earth. We should be accepting of others differences, because we are all "everyday people".
