A simple song about loneliness, written in the aftermath of Norah’s breakup with former bandmate Lee Alexander, Waiting is one of those songs that’s so beautifully recorded that audiophile nuts like me play it just to hear what all those thousands of bucks worth of stereo gear can do when fed fuel of the proper octane. I chose it today for its particular ambience of pensive, moody, uncertain anxiety, as seems fitting for the beginning of 2024, a year that might one day be regarded as a turning point in the history of western civilization.
So much now turns upon events over which most of us have no influence at all. There are billions of us out here with a stake in this who don’t even get a vote, which feels especially galling when you realize that almost a third of those who do won’t even bother to go to the polls, just as they never bother. We have to rely upon the rest, most of them utterly insensible to the gravity of the moment, to make the right choice.
All we can do now is wait, sitting here in the calm before the storm.
307 days to go.
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