New Year's Song

[Balder]

Here's a new song I wrote yesterday and today -- in memory of an extraordinary year.

[Balder]

Thanks, Thomas.  It's a song partly about loss -- but mostly about birth pangs, I feel.

[Edward theurj Berge]

It elicits mostly melancholy for me. I'd like to hope that the destruction of dictatorships in other countries will lead to a more equitable democracy, for example, but if the US is any guide then what hope I have is quashed. Even with OWS and the likely backlash in coming elections, the powers that be are so in control that it seems the only solution is a violent revolt, which would bring such destruction in an extended Dark Ages the likes we've never seen. I'm not feeling optimistic about the state of the world today and this song and imagery brought that out more keenly for me.

[Balder]

Here's a new song:  Dreaming on the Shores of Tanah Lot.