Meridiana: December 2011

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Steve Forbert, another Favorite Son

Steve has had a long and successful career as a singer/song writer.

He is best known for his song "Romeo's Tune", which reached #11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1980.

An autobiographical song (below) about his New York City experiences upon moving there in 1976 at the age of 21.

An excellent Bio

Steve Forbert's website

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"Age is about mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter" - Satchel Paige

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -Albert Einstein

An older woman will never wake you in the middle of the night and ask, "What are you thinking?" She doesn't care what you think.

"Always be reading something good so if you die in the middle of it..."

- P.J.O'Rourke

"I have never read Freud. Neither did Shakespeare."

- William Faulkner

"When a person dies, it's as if a library burns down - all singular experiences, anchored in unique cells, are extinguished."

- George Kohler

"Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly

called away before you can find out how it ends."

- Joseph Campbell

"Better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for who you're not."

-Andre Gide

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."

- Emily Dickinson

That girl became the

Spring wind.

She flew somewhere, far

Away.

Undoing her hair, lying

Down, in her sleep

She becomes the wind.

MapQuest really needs to start their directions on #5. I'm pretty sure I know how to get out of my own damn neighborhood.

Favorite Quotations:

"They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm." - Dorothy Parker

"Those who wander are not necessarily lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do." - Anne Lamott

"A maid laughing is half taken." - anonymous Elizabethan poet

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

*You don't really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry-go-round will wave at his parents every time around and why his parents will always wave back." - William D. Tammeus

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Steve Forbert, another Favorite Son

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