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"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato.
Elvis Costello - Welcome To The Working Week
Rest in Power, Roberta.
"Delirious and noisy, its itchy acoustic lick and busy backbeat feels like The Who decided to go rockabilly." - David Cantwell
Let's fine dine the demons and give peace a chance
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Western Union Man - Jerry Butler | The Midnight Special
Jerry Butler, a premier soul singer whose rich, steady baritone graced such hits as "For Your Precious Love," "Only the Strong Survive" and
Remembering Jerry "Ice Man" Butler 1939-2025
Soul singer and politician Jerry Butler has died at 85. From 1958 to 1960 he was a part of The Impressions, the legendary soul group. I mainly knew The Impressions because of founding member Curtis Mayfield (1942-1999) who was in the group before his successful solo career. The Impressions were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. Butler's passing is only a few years after his bandmate Sam Gooden died in 2022.
After he left The Impressions, he had quite a solo career. His own songs were covered by several other artists too. His 1969 song "Only the Strong Survive" was covered by Bruce Springsteen on his 2022 covers album of the same name (read my review here).
The link above is the obit from AP News.
The 70s British soul-funk group is back with their second reunion album. This is a beautiful song of forgiveness and redemption.
Pressure!
Everyone has their own way of reacting to stress, I suppose. I have several.
I’ve had a few times when I’ve had all-out panic attacks. I can’t settle down, my heart is racing, I’m agitated … it’s almost too much to bear. It’s been awhile since I’ve had one of those. I don’t even know how I got out of them, now that I think about it.
More often, it’s a slow broil. I appear calm on the outside … but there’s a constant sense of foreboding on the inside.
More than that, I turn inward. I don’t go out as much, keep to myself more. I let unanswered emails, messages and phone calls pile up.
If you don’t know me well, it’s hard to figure out if I’m in one of those periods because, as an introvert, I’m a little like that anyway. It’s just that when I’m under stress, I’m that way but even more.
Sometimes there’s no trigger that I’m aware of, this time I can pinpoint it to the day.
November 5, 2024.
That’s when it started anyway. Although, to be honest, I didn’t have the same sense of foreboding I do now. I thought maybe he’d be happy to stay out of jail. He’d start rebuilding his big wall again and claim victory on the good economy he inherited… It wouldn’t be great, but it wouldn’t be terrible.
But in the last month is when my stress started escalating to a whole new level. He’s not going to be satisfied with a victory level, he’s determined to mindlessly tear everything down with his unelected co-president. And I don’t have a lot of confidence that either of them know what they’re doing.
So yes, absolutely - I have this sense of foreboding. What is going to go wrong and when is it going to happen? Are we going to get ourselves mired in another war? Are terrorists going to exploit a weakness to launch a deadly attack? Could another pandemic strike, deadlier than the last? How many deadly plane crashes will there be in the next four years?
It’s a much more chaotic world than one we’ve ever experienced in our lifetime, that’s for sure. How much more deadly is it going to be? I can only wait and see. I hope I’m wrong.
To deal with this mental pressure, I find myself following the news a lot more. Keeping watch. Assessing the dangers. Looking for any glimmers of hope I can find. Looking for alternatives. Determining who might be responsible.
It’s hard to focus on much else. I have a difficult time concentrating. I listen to a lot less music than I used to. Sometimes an old favorite song will move and delight me as much as before, but I have much less patience for new stuff. I’ll think, Why am I doing this? I could be assessing the newest danger …
I know it’s pointless. I know I have no power to influence events or protect myself from a world far out of my control. The only thing I know how to do is watch …
The only way out is through.