Sunday, September 22, 2024
Friday, September 20, 2024
An Essay That Takes Me Back To Pateley Bridge -- September 20, 2024
Friday nights I save for "top stories," but that's such drudgery.
I think this must be the most relaxed, happy, calm I've been in a long time, perhaps in my life, save for those evenings in Yorkshire, England, in the early 2000s.
The past two weeks .... everything, everywhere happening all at once .... with regard to family, blogging, physical pain (I think the worst I've ever experienced), but no emotional pain (thank goodness), needing to be in three places at one time ...
But now, all of a sudden two hours, maybe three hours of early evening perfectness. Is that even a word?
So, what does one do when in such a state? Start with the best.
I opened the current issue of The Atlantic. This issue is all about Trump. We'll come back to that later.
But there are a couple of exceptions. One of the exceptions: a five-pay essay on Leonard Cohen, or more accurately, an essay on a new biography of Leonard Cohen being released this month, September, 2024. The 500-page book: Christophe Lebold's: The Man Who Saw the Angels Fall.
I read excerpts of the book at Amazon; the first song mentioned: "I Can't Forget" from I'm Your Man (1988).
I'm
surrounded by magazines and books that I've started but only (just
started). I can pick up any one of those magazines and/or books and find
the spot where I left off and begin reading again. The three books I'm
most actively engaged with right now: The Plausible Man; Horse; and, Geniuses At War.