There is so much beauty with the sadness in your pictures. I see courage in the faces that look out and show their despair. In the mother and child and the couple on the subway there is the comfort people can offer to each other. Yes humans are a strange species and it is frightening time in our country.
Thank you. Like you, some people found this post hopeful, and I am so glad there was room for that interpretation, but for me the pics and song were dark and despairing, which is how I feel these days. Ah we humans are a strange species.
A wonderful song and fabulous photos. I couldn't bring myself to listen to it today, but it is embedded in my memory. I have sung it many times. It causes me to think about the American experience and the issues about Stephen Foster. None of us is truly blameless, I guess. We live in our times and, if we are wise, try to look back and interrogate the past to try to understand the present and move forward (as we must). Thank you, Terry!
Such heart wrenching faces. Thank you for dignifying them here.
thanks for commenting. i had forgotten tis post, and the faces are good.
There is so much beauty with the sadness in your pictures. I see courage in the faces that look out and show their despair. In the mother and child and the couple on the subway there is the comfort people can offer to each other. Yes humans are a strange species and it is frightening time in our country.
Thanks Georgia, that is such a kind smart comment, just like you old friend.
Forwarded to a bunch of people. Outstanding.
Thank you. But please, which Carol?
Oh my, Terry, you nailed this. What a very moving post. We're all going to need some time to process what has happened.
We talking years? Decades?
Hopeful. Not so sure, but glad you found it so.
Almost unbearably moving photos and music at this moment.
Yes hard to see hear and live.
So glorious and hopeful and wrenching. Thank you for yeti another boost to the soul.
Thank you. Like you, some people found this post hopeful, and I am so glad there was room for that interpretation, but for me the pics and song were dark and despairing, which is how I feel these days. Ah we humans are a strange species.
A wonderful song and fabulous photos. I couldn't bring myself to listen to it today, but it is embedded in my memory. I have sung it many times. It causes me to think about the American experience and the issues about Stephen Foster. None of us is truly blameless, I guess. We live in our times and, if we are wise, try to look back and interrogate the past to try to understand the present and move forward (as we must). Thank you, Terry!
Thanks Janet. Well put. Yes, I thought about how racist some of Foster's songs are, but this one is not. And if it is good enough for Mavis ...
And your pictures are heartwrenching.
She's perfect for that song!Thank you!
Wonder what's going to come up next.
Terry,
Your pictures , this time with music, really say it all. Thanks ,Celina
Isnt that rendition just heart breakingly gorgeous.