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| Gould's Grammy |
Saturday April 01, 2023
The writer in him
rejoices that the only
Grammy that Glenn Gould
garnered during his lifetime
was for writing liner notes.
Sunday April 02, 2023
He waited beside
the empty sea, wishing that
they could simply be,
kneeling in the sinking sand,
with his head within his hands.
Monday April 03, 2023
An old Rick Deckard
says to a young KD6
that there are times when
love demands that you become
a cichy nieznajomy.
Tuesday April 04, 2023
“Don’t it always seem
to go, that you don’t know what
you've got 'til it’s gone.”
For the first time in his life,
his heart understands these words.
Wednesday April 05, 2023
“Ultimate concern”
concerns him, ever since he
embraced Paul Tillich’s
Protestant Principle as
his penultimate concern.
Thursday April 06, 2023
His muse inspires
every single poetic
word he has written.
She is his without-which-not,
his secret sine qua non.
Friday April 07, 2023
His state of wonder
and serenity began
forty years ago
when he heard the very first
note of the first Aria.
Saturday April 08, 2023
Smiling, laughing,
thinking, mourning, and crying
while contemplating
his own joyful gratitude
for where the streets have no name.
Sunday April 09, 2023
When they met four years
ago today, he broke down
and cried tears of joy.
He will never uncover.
Will he ever recover?
Monday April 10, 2023
Old Blood's old remark
“Not empiricism and
yet realism
in philosophy, that is
the hardest thing” resonates.
Tuesday April 11, 2023
He needed to deal
with some unnecessary
trivialities
in order to set his life
in order before it ends.
Wednesday April 12, 2023
One way to say it:
“Being is the principle
without principle”
(gesticulating with words
is his peculiar habit).
Thursday April 13, 2023
The only reason
why he writes his poetry
in the third person
singular is obvious:
he is no Henry Miller.
Friday April 14, 2023
The new luminous
mysteries are as old as
the gospel itself.
Yet the Sedevacantist
in him passes them over.
Saturday April 15, 2023
Apophatism
is the great leveler when
it comes to dogma.
Even Aquinas stopped his
Summa after his vision.
Sunday April 16, 2023
On April sixteenth,
two thousand and nineteen, he
wrote Nagle (his own
romantic recognition):
“Rachel, her name was Rachel...”
Monday April 17, 2023
“Oh, my Lord your love
completely envelopes me”
(so sings Fred Again
at the end of Tiny Desk
on NPR radio).
Tuesday April 18, 2023
Cry to Him and He
will hear thee, and He will shew
thee great things, and sure
things which thou knowest not nor
ever will without His will.
Wednesday April 19, 2023
66 appeared
to him yesterday morning
while he was waking
up for his 333.
Tempus fugit for him now.
Thursday April 20, 2023
And then suddenly
it is nagle once again
after a very
long period of silence.
This never goes unnoticed.
Friday April 21, 2023
Paying attention:
Herbert von Karajan’s E
major was noticed.
Detecting details like this
is what seals the deal for him.
Saturday April 22, 2023
To say of God that
His center is everywhere
and His circumference
is nowhere is to say that
God is speechlessly simple.
Sunday April 23, 2023
Two birds were singing
just outside of his lakeside
loft as he woke up.
Their early morning love song
tenderly reminded him.
tenderly reminded him.
Monday April 24, 2023
Systematizing
every aspect of his life
has been the basis
for the spontaneity
he so easily enjoys.
Tuesday April 25, 2023
The precious little
that is left, after his vast
collection of words
is given away, will still
be present for the taking.
Wednesday April 26, 2023
When his health is poor,
people, places, and things that
once were his concern
start to fade from consciousness.
This happens more often now.
Thursday April 27, 2023
“Visiting orphans
and widows in their distress”
has always been the
best answer to the question:
What makes your life worth living?
Friday April 28, 2023
His father had a
sign in his office that read:
Aged Experience
Will Always Win Out Over
Youthful Enthusiasm.
Saturday April 29, 2023
April is their month.
It shall continue to be
his own Baltic see:
fall in love with your eyes wide
shut and always stay that way.
Sunday April 30, 2023
He knows what he is
here for, and he remains true
to what he must do
until his beautiful friend
(the end) closes all the doors.
