2012 conventions 2012 election 2013 session 2013 special election arts arts and culture author ballot measures basketball bomb books boy scouts budget bullying business charlie hales children clackamas climate change coal college courts crime culture culture club democrats drugs economy education environment family film fluoride food gay rights guns handguns health health care health insurance high school history housing immigration international internet kitzhaber law legislature lgbt literary arts living marijuana marriage media medicine mental health military minor parties mohamed mohamud movies music native americans news newspaper obama olympics oregon our town parenting pers photography police politcs politics port portland portland business journal president prevention public safety religion republicans rnc romney rural salem sam adams sandy hook schools science shooting sports suicide supreme court taxes television terrorism theater third parties transportation union university of oregon washington wildfire women

When my father died, I'd just gotten Yoko Ono's cd "Rising" and Lou Reed's "Magic & Loss." (mid-'90s) I love Ono and Reed, and grew pretty obsesssed with this music. None of it is directly about my feelings for my Dad or his death. But somehow it is all about the depth and width of great feeling such as mourning & grief and the contemplation of mortality and then life too. I still stop what I'm doing when I hear this music, but it is with depth of feeling, not sadness. I'm deeply grateful to Ono & Reed.
Barbara

posted 4 years, 4 months ago
view in context