Tag: La Traviata

May You Live In Interesting Times

The irony of the contemporary anonymous bromide, May you live in interesting times,  a curse masquerading as a blessing, has never been truer during my lifetime than now, November of 2016.   America’s former poet laureate Robert Haas has the eloquence and grace to offer a deeper context with Faint Music, especially this excerpt: “…When everything broken is broken, and everything dead is… Read more →