After Chief Larry posted this Lucille Clifton quote the other day, it made me want to learn more about the origins of it.

Thanks to some internetting, I learned that it is the opening line to Lucille’s poem titled ‘birth-day’.

I knew about Lucille and her poetry, because of her time spent at St. Mary’s College.

It was during her time at St. Mary’s College that Lucille wrote and compiled this book of poems titled Blessing the Boats.

Wiki had this to say about it:

Lucille passed in 2010. For a good New Yorker article on her, her life and her works (click here.)

The other day, I heard about some medical issues that a good friend of mine is battling. As I was driving down the road to Buzzy’s Country Store, I was thinking and worried about him, when this tune came on the radio. I thanked the music Gods for sending it my way at that exact time.

From Plant’s second solo album, it features Robbie Blunt on guitar and some dude named Phil Collins on drums. (For some reason Phil is not shown here in this video; but he was the drummer on the original recording session (click here.)

Saturday and some nice weather, so if you’re in the mood to do so, why not take a ride south and visit an authentic country store where you can sit on the front porch, watch the world go by and not worry about a damn thing?!