Smashing Pumpkins cover Fleetwood Mac's Landslide. It would be impossible to express what this song, that never resonated with me until I was in my 40s, means to me. "So, take my love and take it down..."
Meum cum sim pulvis et cinis
Blogito ergo sum! Actually, as N.T. Wright averred, "'Amor, ergo sum:' I am loved, therefore I am." Among other things, I am a Roman Catholic deacon. This is a public cyberspace in which I seek to foster Christian discipleship in the late modern milieu in the diakonia of koinonia and in the recognition that "the Eucharist is the only place of resistance to annihilation of the human subject."
Readings: Acts 28:11-16.30.31; Psalm 98:1-6; Matthew 14:22-33 The word “apostolic” has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it? For Christians, al...
Oh my... you have no idea what this song does to me. It always resonated with me at some level, from when I first heard it when I was in college and then in my 40's when a long term relationship I was in fell apart.
ReplyDeletePeace to you today my brother.
Peace to you, too, Fran
ReplyDeleteI told my wife last night that when I was 24 I never thought twice about this song, but at 44 it takes on a lot of meaning.
Awesome cover.
ReplyDeleteI played this song many times while in Baghdad last year. It seemed to capture the essence of the growing up I started to do there.
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