[Moving]

Thinking of you as you load your life into a van...My old man said 'Follow the van,And don't dilly-dally on the way...."Off went the van with my whole home in itI walked behind with my old Cock Linnet...HugsBruin

[The point]

Shakespeare said it well:To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.Macbeth Act 5, scene 5, 19?28

Yeah, but by this time in the play he's allowed initially his wife and then his ambition to turn him into a monster. It's not Shakespeare's view of life, it's Macbeth's. A sort of Shakespeare turned to the Dark Side. Life 'signifies nothing' for him because he has by now driven a coach and horses through the moral principles that he once upheld and which gave his life meaning. He's murdered for his own advancement and at his wife's instigation. The moral of the story is: never do anything your wife tells you to. It's served me very well for years....And the moral for emus is: Establish your own moral principles and then stand by them and you will be a force for good in this piebald world!HugsBruin

[The point]

More coffee. That's the answer to every imponderable question.When you get to feeling there's no point to life, you're depressed. Never make a major or irreversible decision when you're depressed.Camy, you're a creative dynamo and this puts you in a privileged position - when you begin to feel that life is pointless, you can just sit down and write another of your soaring masterpieces. And it will touch the lives of countless other people, and will exist in its own right forever. Not everyone can do that - think of the salesman whose life's work is wholly ephemeral, for instance. Willy Loman from Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. There's a lot of other 'points' to your life too - the love you share with your loved ones, the friendship you share with your friends, the happiness you bring to other peoples' lives. But your writing - prose, poetry, musical, is a gift that gives your life extra meaning that others can only dream of.This is getting so sugary I'm making myself sick so I'll shut up now. Just remember we love you okay???Bruin

[Ordinary Man]

Cowabunga!Wot great lyrics! Splendid job.I read the lyrics, loved them, thought Billy Joel.Then I listened to your audio draft and it wasn't Billy Joel at all it was Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan. Which is of course great, but not what I was expecting.To me the lyrics are celebratory, exuberant, singing about the relationship you have with your significant other, and I think that could be reflected more in the tune? Leonard Cohen is the master of gravelly pessimism and I'd rather read your beautiful lyrics as optimistic.Can I have a go?Bruin

[blogging for blogging's sake 2]

You get to look at that view? You sure you want to sell up? If I didn't have ties that bind, and if I had the half million or so I expect you're asking, I'd buy like a shot....Green Bruin

[Me, Myself, I pt XXVI]

That pic is just too cute for words.... Bruin, going 'aaah'.P.S. Incidentally, 'Me, Myself, I' is a great track and album by Joan Armatrading - you can't have it!