Time is an enormous long river

[deutsey]

#t=31

"I always thought that anybody who told me I couldn't live in the past was trying to get me to forget something that if I remembered it it would get them serious trouble. No, that '50s, '60s, '70s, '90s stuff, that whole idea of decade packaging, things don't happen that way. The Vietnam War heated up in 1965 and ended in 1975-- what's that got to do with decades? No, that packaging of time is a journalistic convenience that they use to trivialize and to dismiss important events and important ideas. I defy that.

"Time is an enormous long river and I'm standing in it just as you're standing in it. My elders were the tributaries and everything they thought, and every struggle they went through and everything they gave their lives to, and every song they created and every poem that they laid down, flows down to me. And if I take the time to ask, and if I take the time to seek, and if I take time to reach out, I can build that bridge between my world and theirs. I can reach down into that river and take out what I need to get through this world.”

[Xipe Totec]

1. Ol' Man River - William Warfield and MGM chorus

[cspanlovr]

2. That was beautiful, always gives me goosebumps.

Thanks.