Category: Listening

16 Apr

That don’t make it junk …

BBC reviews Leonard Cohen’s Ten New Songs … but it’s this lyric I like best: Took my diamond to the pawnshop: but that don’t make it junk …
05 Apr

A wonderful “invasion of privacy”

NPR features essays submitted fifty years ago to This I Believe. For five minutes each day, listeners heard from statesmen and secretaries, teachers and cab drivers, all of whom spoke about their most deeply held beliefs. This reporter’s beliefs are in a state of flux. It would be easier to enumerate the items I do [...]
09 Feb

Exploring Tibet’s Lost Civilization

Exploring Tibet’s Lost Civilization