12.11.16 Dylan and Patti and Leaning in

This was profound. She sang his song beautifully for him.Telling us a Hard Rain Is Gonna Fall. She made a mistake because she said she was so nervous and apologized and started again. What grace. What authenticity. Then she sang and sang and we listened and leaned into each other and cried and nodded and all the analytics of the election and our gravest great concerns transformed into potent emotion and visceral comprehension and the Hard Rain brought Dylan and celebration of him and Patti and so much more on home to us all and we,all over this land,watched and listened and cried and leaned in and knew.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-transcendent-patti-smith-accepts-bob-dylans-nobel-prize