Brothers, love is a teacher, but a hard one to obtain: learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.
(Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov)
Sunday, July 13, 2008
"We'll go no more a-roving"
My husband found this wonderful video of a 1980 performance of the folk song "The Jolly Beggar" by the Irish neo-folk band Planxty. Enjoy!
I've tagged you for the Six Quirks game, commonly but to my mind annoyingly termed a "meme." See here for details, and apologies if you hate this kind of stuff.
I landed here after reading Maclin's meme thread. I love Planxty - one of my favourite groups. I can't play it right now because I shooed my colleague out of the office saying I had a headache (I do).
I've tagged you for the Six Quirks game, commonly but to my mind annoyingly termed a "meme." See here for details, and apologies if you hate this kind of stuff.
ReplyDeleteI landed here after reading Maclin's meme thread. I love Planxty - one of my favourite groups. I can't play it right now because I shooed my colleague out of the office saying I had a headache (I do).
ReplyDeleteFrancesca
This will be work for me, Mac. It's hard for me to separate my nonspectacular quirks in my mind from my grievous faults, but let me think about it.
ReplyDeleteI hope your headache is gone, Francesca. I love Planxty too - they seem to me, like the Beatles, to have been greater than the sum of their parts. . .