Starting a blog because I'm not sure what else to do. I'll begin with the email I sent in to my closest colleagues and supervisor. It shouldn't be too difficult to figure out where I came up with the name for the blog. Sunday now, I'm still sorting through everything that has come up in the last few days -- perhaps some of it will be worth sharing. The email::
I'm sending this in advance with the hope it will help keep me from being hit by it too hard at work today... I'm having a hard time really explaining why I've been so caught up in grief about Levon Helm's death -- even to myself. The closest I can come is that it hit a sense of "home" on a number of levels... and much of it I haven't been conscious or aware of until now.
I found one paragraph in a Poughkeepsie newspaper that gives a flash of insight and it feels real to me, sometimes an "outside" observer can describe things better than those in the middle of something:
"As someone who is not from this area, it is particularly unbelievable the way this guy has touched the lives of Hudson Valley residents," said Will Baylies, afternoon host on WKZE (98.1 FM) in Red Hook and a Bard College graduate who is originally from California. "That's the thing that is really sticking with me now, how personal my co-workers and KZE listeners are taking this. It sort of seems like, that's the power of music, or the power of the soul."
So for the time being I feel very much like the folks he is describing, having grown up less than a 15 minute bicycle ride from Woodstock, and it does feel very personal. I actually never saw him live, at least that I remember... but I guess he was such a fixture there that I always thought I would.
Guess that's all for now, I should be in by about 10.
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