I get a little insomnia sometimes, when something or somethings are stuck in my mind and letting them go doesn\u2019t seem possible. It\u2019s a combo of stress over business and the death of friends. His songs swim around my ears these last weeks while knowing his end was coming and afterward I would be in a place like this, observing the speed of life passing including this one. In our last conversation, I said I\u2019m respecting my reward to which he said that\u2019s my line, to which I said I know. I quoted a few of his lyrics and it made him laugh. I didn\u2019t always make him laugh but it was easy in our last talk. He had a song called Women Are The Only Hope. In Anne Hansen\u2019s excellent writing, she addressed that perfectly. She said he would mention it often, even if he already told you the day before. I remember it was one of the few times I was comfortable to disagree. Not that I could persuade him otherwise, and not that I didn\u2019t respect his conclusion that this might resolve all planetary problems. It\u2019s just that I\u2019ve also known women who are rotten to the core and some men who are saints. It doesn\u2019t hold up. Then again his next line sort of repositions the statement, Women Are The Only Hope, If There\u2019s Any Hope At All.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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