Of course it's not September Girls, it's Thirteen, as you say, and it's from The Number 1 Record, and Chris Bell and Alex Chilton co-wrote it. Sorry I jumped my research gun.
I'm skipping about the posts, and can't soak this is fast enough to make a coherent comment. Have you seen Delridge on the way to White Center? the re-building and painting up of the neighborhood, with Abercrombie type condo/apartments? it's beyond thought. My youngest daughter who is now inpatient in a psych ward, held the front page of several papers in this area, and all I can say is keep on taking your kids to those meetings, etc. You are moving them in the direction they need to go.
“Being is becoming,” and if we’re not “becoming,” we’re probably not doing much “being” either. This blog was started in a half-assed attempt at self-excavation. I have at least two unusual personality traits. The first is that I’m abnormally comfortable with ambiguity. I can happily muck about in the gray areas for years on end. This is probably why I love Seattle. The other is that I have a completely unrealistic belief in my own agency, which I tend to act upon. This blog has changed my life in more ways than I ever imagined. As my job as ED of a activist newspaper sold by homeless people, my vision for organizing, my thinking as a teacher, my history as a working-poor loser turned middle-class “advocate,” and my life as a parent swirled about me, this blog has been a path toward the center. We live in dangerous times, and the seductions to an easy, half-lived life of anesthetized materialism are all around. I have come to understand that my work is to be a revolutionary, both out in the world and within myself, turning over what is old, rotten, stale, and repressive, and building for a future where we can all find happiness and have the things we truly need.
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That's a lovely version of Alex Chilton's "SEPTEMBER GURLS" from Big Star's second record. One of my favorites.
Of course it's not September Girls, it's Thirteen, as you say, and it's from The Number 1 Record, and Chris Bell and Alex Chilton co-wrote it. Sorry I jumped my research gun.
I'm skipping about the posts, and can't soak this is fast enough to make a coherent comment. Have you seen Delridge on the way to White Center? the re-building and painting up of the neighborhood, with Abercrombie type condo/apartments? it's beyond thought. My youngest daughter who is now inpatient in a psych ward, held the front page of several papers in this area, and all I can say is keep on taking your kids to those meetings, etc. You are moving them in the direction they need to go.
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