Saturday, October 10, 2009

the hats, the stripes, the glasses, the denim, the flowers, the suits

Happy Birthday John Lennon and thank you for all the inspiration

the hats:
http://rgcred.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/john-lennon-watching-the-wheels.jpghttp://www.paulaltobelli.com/uploaded_images/lennon-altobelli-780237.jpg
http://www.aishamusic.com/images/john_lennon_yoko_jono.jpghttp://dummidumbwit.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/john-lennon-imagine.jpg
the stripes:

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/John_Lennon_3.jpg
the glasses:
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/7/3/1246632803488/John-Lennon-and-Yoko-Ono--001.jpghttp://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/music/John_Lennon_5.jpghttp://host.jwcinc.net/3942996/albumart/John_Lennon_-_Walls_And_Bridges.jpghttp://www.todo-music.com/fotos/john-lennon-1.jpg
the denim:
http://thecatfiles.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/john-lennon.jpghttp://joe-ferraro.com/images/lennon_piano.jpghttp://dailypiglet.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/lennon-nycity.jpghttp://www.cardozo.yu.edu/life/spring1998/john.lennon/John_Lennon3.jpg
the flowers:

1 comment:

Tom Degan said...

Nothing to do to save his life; call his wife in.

All he was saying was, "Give peace a chance".

When a celebrated person passes on, we may pause and reflect for a moment on his or her life and career, but then we move on. We may watch with appreciation the brilliant performance of a long dead James Dean in the film Giant and think not a thing about his absence from our lives. That's not the case in this instance.
`
I sure do miss John Lennon.
`
Before you cross the street
Take my hand
Life is what happens to you
While you're busy making other plans
`
Anyone who was living in Goshen, NY in December 1980 will remember this:

Six days after he died, on Saturday the fourteenth, a worldwide vigil in John's memory was held at 2 PM EST. For ten minutes there was silence - peace - all across the planet earth. I had a couple friends over to observe the event on television. In the village of Goshen, although it had been a clear and sunny day, the moment the vigil began at two o'clock, it began to snow - and not just flurries - for ten solid minutes there was a blinding blizzard. At exactly 2:10, the moment the vigil ended, the snow stopped and the sun came out. His child-like, 1971 anthem, Imagine, drifted through the ether:

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

It was only at that moment that I felt happy for John Lennon.

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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY