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| self portrait- 2013 |
a new year, and another birthday [63!]- another year that i've dodged the bullet. another year of dealing and coping with this business of living. the old phrase comes to mind, "if i knew i was going to live this long i would have taken better care of myself" but, nah- i would have, for the most part, lived my life exactly as i have, given the chance to do it over. i often think "if i only knew then what i know now"; mais, je ne regrette rien.
sometimes i think i live in the past too much; romanticizing it; remembering what was; regretting the loss of it; not thinking that NOW is particularly special, or that tomorrow will be. perhaps a certain weltschmerz has set in.
i've always written my life into my songs, but find the music is still steadily flowing but the subject matter for lyrics is harder. i sometimes feel i have already said everything
[C]2013 DOUG DUFFEY
