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On ‎5‎/‎28‎/‎2014 at 11:45 AM, blessingx said:

Maya Angelou RIP.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/29/arts/maya-angelou-lyrical-witness-of-the-jim-crow-south-dies-at-86.html?_r=0

 

"But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed."

 

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2279/the-art-of-fiction-no-119-maya-angelou

 

On ‎5‎/‎28‎/‎2014 at 0:33 PM, Voltron said:

Rest In Poet Laureate Peace, Ms. Angelou.

Al, you're probably seeing some anniversary tributes floating around, but yeah, that was a loss that meant a lot to a lot of people.

**BRENT**

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Wally...High school friend of mine that I used to drive home in my '72 Impala Sport...He was terrified of his old man & I wasn't the person I am now to have figured something out...

Troubled guy...Kindest man...Introduced me to the Misfits...

I hadn't heard he had married & was a father...I'm unsure what to think...I guess he went out on his own terms Sunday morning...

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So I got a message from Wally's widow (receiving a message from a deceased friend's Facebook account is a touch unsettling)...Apparently, it was his pill-popping mentally ill mother that had haunted him most in the years since we last spoke...

I remember him having to address his militant dad as sir...Having to assure Wally he'd be home on time...

I can't imagine how much shit was on his plate back then...& it feels now like everybody failed him...

 

 

Anyways...Drinks & hugs all around...

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He was the man who turned heavyweight boxing into a thing of beauty.  RIP Ali.

I have a life size photo of one of his fists (without gloves) in a sports book.  If you put your fist next to it - well it almost looks like a child's fist next to an adult.

Also RIP Dave Swarbrick, one of the best traditional folk violinists ever http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36443117 .  Saw him with Martin Carthy in a tiny venue in Nettlebed Oxfordshire last Autumn, and had a CD signed by him.  He did not look well at all.

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