Loved and Lost
Although I didn’t intend to make a habit of choosing songs of the day in pairs, I liked the way the songs yesterday played with the contrast between permanence and its shadow, impermanence. Well, the juxtaposition was intentional … Yin-Yang. Duh. What I mean is, I liked it as a way of actually picking songs of the day. The idea that “seemingly contrary forces are interconnected and interdependent … [and] give rise to each other in turn” is an important one, I think, and one that I’ve become a tad fixated on lately. Maybe it’s because I’ve never been very good at the both/and thing, favoring instead the either/or approach. But, apparently, the difference is pretty crucial for experiencing the fullness of life, or so I’m told.
So, this is experimental—partly personal growth project, partly collaborative project. I’m going to try to offer songs of the day in pairs that represent the duality of … I dunno, something, whatever speaks to me that day. Maybe it will be explicit. Maybe it will be cryptic. I’d love to get suggestions from those of you who are music mavens or dialectical-worldview mavens or, you know, don’t have anything better to do with your free time. Drop me a line at ilovecheesefordinner [at] the good old Google e-mail domain. I will of course give cred to those who play.
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