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Susan Weber: A father’s optimism
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June 16, 2012. A father’s optimism. I just spent a week with elders down near Asheville, North Carolina. Here on my own back porch again, the tree house that folds out into green leaves and bird song, I’m impressed by how this place restores my artist heart. Travel is healthy no matter the destination (now there’s. A bold assertion) and this trip woke me up. The drive down was only the beginning, listening to Ric Elias describe in his TED Talk. On the Hudson River in New York 2009. Look at mine - no suds!
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Susan Weber: October 2011
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October 28, 2011. Why, subconscious self, do you want to perform Bob Dylan songs? What do you plan to accomplish? What will satisfy you? When will you fold up shop? Answer. You, dear writer, are an intellectual. I am a romantic. You seek facts, and assurances. I just want to make love. You count the beans while I am hanging out the billowed sheets of our sacred tryst on a stone capped hillock swept by the wind. I’m here, with constancy. I’m here, with hungry contentment. I’m her...The blogs of others.
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Susan Weber: Bob Dylan - beloved monarch
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August 9, 2011. Bob Dylan - beloved monarch. 8216;In recent memory the round table had seated such royalty as Bob Dylan, Bob Neuwirth, Nico, Tim Buckley, Janis Joplin, Viva, and the Velvet underground.'. Patti Smith, Just Kids. This is not the has-no-clothes nobility of folktale legend. Our poet monarch is resplendent in fertile wings; each word spilled through electric air undergirds the faithful in glories of their past, stories of their future. Photo of Bob Dylan Bologna Nov 05 concert by.
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Susan Weber: July 2012
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July 29, 2012. Bob Dylan’s) uncanny relevance comes from reaching as deep into empathy as he can. From the Dylan poster on my nephew’s wall to the devoted Dylan fans at Muscle and Bone. Shows to the calliope of artists who perform and transform Dylan songs, it’s obvious that Dylan’s relevance metric remains high. Gegenhuber. Says this relevance hinges on empathy. It’s not too farfetched to see empathy as the touchstone of a civilized world. On a Dylan playlist. I may as well have googled. And understudie...
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Susan Weber: February 2011
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February 25, 2011. Julie’s mother Glenna, my mom Jane,. Tucked into folds of heaven, released from pain,. The paradise we dream for them. Both weightless and respectful of their souls,. Those independent motherly conditions. Of perpetual forgiveness in the face of kids. Who disappoint but never disapprove. Of how their mothers stubbornly refuse. Impressions of perfection in the fabric of the heart,. Where only art, the gentle creature, intervenes. To stitch the seams. And stir the soup. You, and me.
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Susan Weber: July 2011
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July 20, 2011. Whisky echo bravo echo romeo. That’s me. My name, spelled out by the reservations clerk over the phone last week. It could also be the Julie Roberts character line in Larry Crowne. Campus lush to Juliette luscious in two easy hours of movie magic. Or, make it a writing challenge: use whisky-echo-bravo-echo-romeo in a song set in Dodge City 1848, sans cliché. Good luck. But consider 60 year old Diana Nyad. From pain. From caution. From softly shrinking sidelines? Is a font of youth in a pon...
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Susan Weber: June 2011
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June 30, 2011. Dylan’s songs let us in. They are his butler, impeccably dressed, astute, well versed in the bard’s wishes. Oddly, this butler lets anyone enter who rings the bell. No, there is no television. The newspaper is just there, under the bird’s droppings. You would like to sketch the bird? Most assuredly, it is among the bard's favorites. True again, the valley below is both deep and wide. I’m afraid I can’t tell you why the table stands empty by the edge of the sea. Go ahead. You deal. Announci...
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Susan Weber: February 2012
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February 26, 2012. What you say to your audience between songs is an art in itself. Walter and I don’t want to break the spell of Dylan’s lyrics with stray patter in our Muscle and Bone. Shows So this story, though umbilically melded to Queen Jane Approximately for me, is better essay than segue. I don’t think my heart had ever broken quite that way before. Do you feel their joy, their memories, their dreams? Photo of Janie Weber. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Susan Weber's CD: MONET'S ORBIT.
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Susan Weber: Stone capped hillock
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October 28, 2011. Why, subconscious self, do you want to perform Bob Dylan songs? What do you plan to accomplish? What will satisfy you? When will you fold up shop? Answer. You, dear writer, are an intellectual. I am a romantic. You seek facts, and assurances. I just want to make love. You count the beans while I am hanging out the billowed sheets of our sacred tryst on a stone capped hillock swept by the wind. I’m here, with constancy. I’m here, with hungry contentment. I’m her...The blogs of others.
