"...they are leaning out for love..."

Because I reach a state of overwhelm so quickly, I avoided news coverage of the Boston bombings, seeing if I could find my way to grief and be led by that.  I did not look much at Facebook, unless there was an image of beauty, for loveliness is balm to my tattered spirit.

I did stop by the blog, Premium T, for I had not visited there in too long.  It was an experience of being recalled to one's senses, one's better angels.  Please go and read what Therese found her way to in an uncertain week on an uncertain planet.  If we are even half-way present, the answer is always love.  The question is irrelevant.

...the baffled king composing hallelujah

Yes, I know you've heard dozens of versions.  k. d. lang is my favorite.  This is the song and hers is the voice I want to hear over the headphones in the middle of the night when I've misplace my center, as I seemed to do yesterday.


In this week's "You Rock" Hall of Fame, Leonard Cohen joins Lynda Barry.  Simply assume they are there every week.   I wish (among so many other things) that I'd written, "...the baffled king composing hallelujah."

Uploaded by ljw2909 on Jan 10, 2009

kd lang's performance of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" at the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame induction of Leonard Cohen in 2006. Be sure to watch the entire performance. Leonard is in the audience. I hope you will watch Leonard's induction as well, which I also posted.