Friday 11th Novemeber 2016

For the first and maybe only time two blogs today.

Leonard Cohen has died.  We all knew it wouldn’t be long after Marianne herself slipped away.  But death is not the end.  Leonard Cohen will live on; in poems, in his two novels, in his beautiful albums – and most of all in our memory.

I had the wonderful experience of seeing him live three times.  And for me he comes alive again every time I play his records.  That deep warm and expressive voice that sung, sometimes mournfully, sometimes ecstatically, always beautifully.  And the immaculate words, like those of all great poets will live on and on….

“I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm,                      Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm                                Many loved before us, I know we are not new                                                In cities and in forests they smiled like me and you                                And now it’s come to distances and both of us must try

Your eyes are soft with sorrow  – hey that’s no way to say goodbye…

Goodbye Leonard, Thankyou for a  lifetime devoted to Beauty.