A Sure Cause of Writer's Block

Tom Rush--"Urge For Going" (mp3)
Leo Kottke--"In Christ There Is No East Or West" (mp3)

So I'd been on a couple of journeys up north in the last week, where the leave are turning and the air is colder and my thoughts were finally turning to fall, and I planned to write a post on that imminent season (you can't start autumn with an arbitrary calendar date--you start it with leaves and weather), but then I received the letter below and it took the wind out of my sails:



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"Urge for Going," written by Joni Mitchell, is from Tom Rush's The Circle Game; "In Christ There Is No East Or West" is from an out-of-print Leo Kottke album entitled Greenhouse.