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Subject: [OM] Speaking of Canadians
From: Mike Gordon via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:26:59 -0500
Cc: usher99@xxxxxxx
Hallelujah Moose wrote:

<<The heck with all this political hand wringing.


<<<Leonard Cohen, Transplant from the Great North, went to meet "the Lord of 
Song" yesterday.      
<http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leonard-cohen-dead-at-82-w449792> 
<<<<There's news about how the world is different than the day before.


<<<I've never found him too dark, nor depressive at all. A clear vision and 
truth telling about the relationship <<<between light and dark seem to me 
something we all could use. Thank goodness for recording, so I can <<<still 
hear not just the words, but that voice delivering them. 
<<<His son said "He was writing up until his last moments with his unique brand 
of 
<<<humor."


<<<He said his youthful ambition was to be a successful minor poet - because he 
couldn't understand the <<<major ones. I'm guessing he won't get a Nobel for 
his lyrics, but he's right up there for me. 


Thanks for that.

I certainly noticed this event.  Here is another obit.

http://tinyurl.com/jujqljl

Marnie and I had been thinking of him as his tune "Who by fire" was performed 
at our synagogue this year.  It is a poetic interpretation of the ancient Yom 
Kippur liturgy Unetanneh Tokef.
Judging from its style probably composed  in Israel during the Byzantine period 
(namely 330–638).  All I know, though am on the atheist fringe of the agnostic 
wing of our congregation  (am told that is almost 1/2) it was moving and
left  me with goose bumps.  

And who shall I say is Calling? Mike
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