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oh sweet Lord. after gareth showed mark and i glenn beck’s deeply disturbed and reprehensible, “Obama, douse us in petrol and set us on fire” broadcast on Fox “News” from last night, which i refuse to link to on sheer principle, *this* was the antidote i needed.

i damn near broke a rib. it would have been worth it for the laugh. bravo girls. bravo. love it.

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secret love

i have an online news alert set for the South West USA and was shocked to see the reports of fires in Oklahoma and Texas. yet another sobering reminder of the power of nature and the fragility of human life in its path…

my eye was caught by several place names – Wichita, Amarillo, Choctaw…

the Choctaw Ridge in this song is, as far as i know, in the Mississippi delta, but no matter – the report got me to remembering a car journey, possibly through France, when i was about 9, in which i got into country music thanks to a mixtape my dad had playing on the car stereo. it was this song that did it.

it’s been a couple of years now since i (port fueled) sang this at our (much missed) sessions in the kitchen (sometimes at the cottage or at Pádraig’s)… it remains for me one of the most haunting songs ever penned. and i think it always will.

LB