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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Lou Reed: Things Even Out - Issa's Sunday Service



There's a bit of magic
In everything 
And a bit of loss
To even things out
~ Lou Reed



The Last Interview



Lou Reed - In Memory - 9 Songs 
Nine Songs by Lou Reed


"To our neighbors:

What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.

Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.

Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!

Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.

Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us."

— Laurie Anderson
his loving wife and eternal friend

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to saintly eyes
they are bodhisattvas...
cherry blossoms
Issa
translated by David G. Lanoue







best,
Don

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