Not Saturday but Sunday 30th March

 

This is an extract from an article in  'Seen&Unseen', a free online magazine I signed up for. I read it over breakfast today; 

..."When I look at the world, I feel like we’re in a football match with no referee. I keep shouting foul and looking for someone to blow the whistle. It feels like the Tower of Babel. Even the technologies we thought would unify us have made us incomprehensible to one another. 

... We don’t need any more opinions. We certainly don’t need any more people with misplaced certainty they have the answer... 

...To be honest, I’ve just run out of ideas. I’m confused, baffled, clueless. But what embarrasses me most is not my helplessness, it’s my hope. For some reason, in jarring contrast to the circumstances, I can’t shake off the sense that ultimately all this will make sense, that breakdowns lead to breakthroughs. 

We’re in the unbearable part of the story where everything goes wrong, but if we put the book down now, we’ll think that was the end of it, when it was really just the set up..."

He goes on, using the story of the jazz pianist Keith Garrett at the now legendary1 Köln Concert 50 years ago, and the Bible story of Job, to explain why he has this hope, and how it sustains him in this scary and uncertain world we find ourselves in.

I do commend this article to you; it's a longish read, but worth the time. 

Music

A random extract from the Köln Concert recording, obviously!