Dear Bono
A letter I wrote back on May 10th. Sorry, Bono – a belated birthday message to you. Dear Bono, Happy Birthday! I know you don’t remember my birthday or know who I am. We’ve met a handful of times but...
View ArticleThere Was Something in the Air That Night – The Power of ABBA
Image credit: last.fm Part 1: Can you hear the drums? – It’s ABBA in the Jungle I grew up in a time warp. I grew up in a small town in East Java. We had views of volcanoes and rice fields. We had no...
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Have you ever had writer’s block? I’ve had a terrible case of it in the last weeks. It’s not because my head is congested with a terrible lurgi. It’s something else. I think it may be stage fright....
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Bad – U2 (video link) If you twist and turn away If you tear yourself in two again If I could, you know I would If I could I would Let it go Surrender Dislocate Bono speaks to me. In song. He has for...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Grief
I’ve been working on this post all week. Grief is proving so tricky to articulate. I’ve been so exhausted by it that I thought there was no way I could rise up to join with Edenland’s Fresh Horses link...
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