Today’s Lunch Break is from Cas Balicki, who said:
Here’s my suggestion for a lunch break. The news these days seems bleak, with Fort Hood commanding headlines and Obama seemingly at his silliest, so I am forwarding this YouTube link of Stan Rogers singing the Mary Ellen Carter.
Rogers was a Canadian singer/songwriter who died in 1983 on his way back from a music festival in Texas on board a plane that landed safely after catching fire. He died of smoke inhalation at age thirty-four.
The lyric that sticks in my mind:
“…And to you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smilin’ bastards lyin’ to you everywhere you go
Turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter rise Again.â€
The song is both uplifting and an apt metaphor.
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