Tag: Paul Simon
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Driving and singing: Paul Simon, “Peace Like a River”
Every Friday for a while I’ll be sharing songs I love to sing and telling stories about their place in my life. Singing is cathartic for me. I can’t imagine not singing. I do most of my singing while driving, listening to my favorite songs on my car stereo. When I was a boy, even a teen,…
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Life’s the pits (but the cherries sure are sweet)
Is life a bowl of cherries? It depends on what you think the bowl of cherries represents. I think most people assume it represents pleasure and fun and ease, bringing a life that, as Paul Simon wrote in a song, “rolls easy as a breeze, drifting through a summer night, heading for a sunny day.” But Simon’s song makes the…