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One of the translations of the title phrase is “Keep death always before you so that you remember to live.” It brings to mind my favorite William Wallace line, “All men die, not all men really live.” In fact, many, many writers have encouraged being mindful of the brevity of life in some way, which by definition must include the finality of it. The recent Ash Wednesday is a Catholic observation of the reality of death, “Remember man that you are dust, and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) I remember that as a young Mom the scariest thing...

Last time I wrote,  Lil Nas X and I talked about the crowd’s seemingly perpetual need to weigh the world according to its particular view. The point was that different is not necessarily synonymous with wrong or bad. He hears, “I like this, I don’t like that, do this here, don’t do that” in relation to his music production.   My life path includes discovering that I soaked up the crowd’s words so deeply that it has been an effort to even have any clarity for what I like and don’t like.  Strangely, from this, I developed an ability to fit...

Who remembers “Signs” from 1971, Five Man Electrical Band?  I think it’s been covered quite a few times in the last 50 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeT5otk2R1g Last month a popular youngling, Lil Nas X, dropped something so similar in “One of Me,” it brought that last one to my mind.  Not musically similar, some will love one and hate the other and vice versa, but thematically similar.  I linked to the “clean” version because learning to value the idea that it’s not only ok for everyone to have different tastes, it is vital to our ability to live authentic lives. It is...