Sublime

I’m angry with the angel Who pinched me on the thigh And made me fall in love With every woman passing by

Leonard Cohen • Book of Longing

my 1975 album, Mellow Madness,

Quincy Jones • 12 Notes: On Life and Creativity

The old man looks out at the smears of rain vibrating on the window glass. His smile fades. “But Arthur, there is hope.” The great author quietly says:

Andrew Sean Greer • Less Is Lost (The Arthur Less Books Book 2)

I trust the unfolding and I will meet it well.

Rabbi Levy • Journey Through the Wilderness: A Mindfulness Approach to the Ancient Jewish Practice of Counting the Omer

Niall Kelly & Friends at Sat Blues Bar

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This moment is evanescent, mere breath, for the gray hair and its attendant infirmities will soon come.

Robert Alter • The Hebrew Bible

let ’em go

Charles Bukowski • You Get So Alone at Times

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Plato • Apology

but now old age, The common lot of mortals, weighs thee down;