Listening to Dean Martin which is gives me great pleasure when it is cold and snowy outside. We don't have much in the way of saloon singers anymore. The music got more amped up, wrapped in anger and pushed something called romance out the door. Lyrics like "be my whore"or "your my bitch" seem so distant from a thing called love. Oh well, more end of millennium signs.
Here are some great books to read this winter.
1. William Manchester's biographies of Winston Churchill. Nobody bounces back like Winston Churchill.
2. Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawerence. Coming out of the soot and grim of Northern England to make an argument for our humanity.
3. Tennessee Williams - Streetcar Named Desire, Night of the Iguana or Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Williams always sided with our angels and is our lyrical poet.
4. Thomas McGuane and the Longest Silence. I have been fishing and guiding for 30 years. McGuane lets me see my world in a different and often times better lens.
5. Anything by Ramond Chandler. Chandler is the white knight for my soul.
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