What is my news, well like the magpie I pick up shiny, glittering things along the way. A voice from Germany speaks here they are aligned with the 'Grans of Europe' in fighting the right wing bias which is, not only taking over America but also Europe. His seriousness is heartwarming. Suddenly it reminds me of Alistair Cooke's 'Letter From America' that I often listened to, a calm measured, reassuring voice.
What else? The Marsh family, English but slightly American in their way. They take the old songs and give them new words, naive but charming. How many idealised images of America have we had destroyed by the present situation. Here the Minnesota song is sung to that haunting tune of long ago 'San Francisco'
Yesterday I went onto the Gutenberg Project site to read Edward Thomas's 'South Country' and fell under the spell of its prose, an England that was still wedded to small farms and country yokels, just like his poem 'Lob'. Times were indeed different to today, Audible makes you pay, the Amazon behemoth cuts through our societies with a ruthless appetite but the Gutenberg Project is free.
I enjoyed Alistair Cooke's Letter from America too. Sorry you have had a dizzy spell. I was reminded of my mortality when I had that 6 week virus, and it depressed me too as I had a glimpse of how it would be when my health did take that inevitable turn for the worse . . .
ReplyDeleteTurning to Edward Thomas on a grey January day is a good notion. I love his prose as it is as eloquent as his wonderful poetry.
Letter from America was broadcast here on Sunday early evening, and I never missed it. How would Alistair describe what is happening now?
ReplyDeleteThe Marsh Family are brilliant, as was the German bloke.
You took a turn! Alarming. After losing my former blog, I back mine up monthly now. It isn't difficult.