Since my last post there has been a swirl of change in my life both personally and professionally. Not just with me, but for a fair amount of my friends as well. The air around us seems charged- there is a tension. Perhaps this because change, no matter if it is good or bad can be threatening. Interestingly enough just before all of this stuff started to shake down I kept having this persistent thought: I need to get a copy of Paul Simon's album Graceland. When I was 18 or 19 the album was a favorite of mine. Maybe because that was about the time I fell in love with Africa and much of the album was recorded in South Africa and featured many African musicians and groups. It is an amazing album, but I had not listened to it in ten years or more. I initially dismissed it as just an errant thought.
But it just kept coming up. I would walk into a store, and hear the ending strains of one of the songs from the album. In hindsight, it was rather like someone telling me I needed to buy a crutch before I had even broken a leg. I couldn't figure the urgency, but the nagging thought finally wore me down. I found a copy at the used CD place for $3.00. Actually the place was going out of business so it was 25% off of that. It really is amazing how small a price we sometimes pay for some clarity and comfort.
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