Click photo to listen to Brian Eno’s stirring rendition of “Becalmed” Merriam-Webster defines “becalmed” as being rendered motionless by lack of wind or “to stop progress.” Of course, if you’re a sailor you don’t like finding yourself becalmed, but if you’re a busy, overworked and somewhat exhausted average American you long for this sometimes allusive phenomenon. […]
Posts Tagged: 2012
The Big Dig
In their hit song “Built to Last,” the Grateful Dead croon that some things are “built to last while years roll past like cloudscapes in the sky, show me something built to last or someone built to try.” I wonder if any of “The Dead” (as loyal “Deadheads” refer to them) ever visited Nantucket and […]