pafret Loc: Northeast

"Common Sense..."




"We Are All Students..."


"Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the
right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself;
we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn."
- Mike Norton

https://youtu.be/0ouMaLRth-s
Walter Murphy, "A Fifth of Beethoven"



The Poet: Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"

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"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"

"Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

- Dylan Thomas

"Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange."
- Jack London



"How It Really Is"



"A Bunch Of Psychopaths..."



“If God does things for a reason,
he sure has a bunch of psychopaths carrying out his job orders.”
- "Fox Mulder"


Musical Interlude: 2002, "Return to Freedom"


2002, "Return to Freedom"
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYVHVHniU80