Titanic

Remember all those throes upon the slanting deck. Place yourself where you are placed by destiny and behold the craven acts of others, the heroics of some and take your measure upon the stage about to sink beneath your feet. Strike out, survive and live to tell what life meant when life sank unsinkable below the inexhaustible waves. ♠

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Song To The Moon

Tell your people you love them. Once long ago I rode through the night and the radio brought me this message in a song. Dvorak’s Song to the Moon from the opera Rusalka. I cannot play it for you here, but when I heard it then the message came clear. Tell your people you love them. I called my sisters. I told them to do what I had heard. Soon thereafter our parents passed away. First one then the other. Tell your people you love them. Listen to the music and do not hesitate. Do not hesitate to lift your voice in song, for sooner or later the music will stop for you, for them, for us and the empty stage will give no further satisfaction to the audience when once the concert is over. Tell your people you love them. Perhaps they will listen. Perhaps they will reply. In […]

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