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On Oct 24th at 6p I was choppered to Riverside Hospital and at 1:30a had 'open heart' surgery. Not on my heart but on the aorta. A major operation on a condition with only an 8% percent chance of survival within the first 12 hours from onset. I had what is called an aortic dissection. Anyway, HI! ...
I was in hospital for a week and spent my first night at home on Oct 31st, and Galenda and Dorothy (and Toto, too!) are definitely right...
Thank you to all who have sent their best wishes, prayers and encouragements! I will not be functioning well, at least physically, for several months but see fractional progress and improvement every day. I am feeling better every day but have several weeks yet of recovery to just get above 50% of my former strength, etc.
Yesterday I got the bill for the LifeFlight chopper ride and calculate that I need to sell about 30,000 downloads of my music just to pay for it. I'm really looking forward to the bill for the actual operation, etc. I'm sure it will motivate me to sell about a half a million downloads in order to pay for it! As I've been more or less self-employed or UN-employed, depending on how you look at it, for about a year and a half and have not had health care coverage, as soon as I have a bit more energy I will need to develop a plan to pay for the "continuance of my life", so to speak...
Now that I have pretty much nothing but time on my mind I am formulating, planning, strategizing, scheming, cogitating and otherwise trying to figure out my path. I have some ideas and we'll see what happens.
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Ni Hao!
CHANGGAN XING
This is a song I've been working on that will be sung in Mandarin
once I find a singer to collaborate with on it. Based on a poem written by Li Bai during the T'ang Dynasty of 8th century AD
China, it is a 1200 year-old blues titled A SONG OF CHANGGAN. I've included it as a "bonus track" on the album
"Elemental Asylum" !
Song Of Changgan by Li Bai
When first my hair began
to cover my forehead,
I picked and played with flowers before the gate.
You came riding on a bamboo horse,
and circled the walkway, playing with green plums.
We lived together, here in Changgan county,
two children, without the least suspicion.
When I was fourteen, I became your wife.
So shy that still my face remained unopened.
I bowed my head towards the shadowed wall,
and though you called to me one thousand times, I turned not once.
At 15 I began to lift my brows,
and wished to be with you as dust with ashes.
You always kept your massive pillar of faith,
I had no need to climb the lookout hill.
When I was sixteen, you went far away. To Yanyudui, within the Qutang gorge.
You should not risk the dangerous floods of May.
Now from the sky, the monkeys cry in mourning.
Before the gate, my pacing's left a mark.
Little by little, the green moss has grown.
The moss is now too deep to sweep away,
and leaves fall in the autumn's early winds.
This August, all the butterflies are yellow.
A pair fly over the western garden's grass.
I feel that they are damaging my heart.
Through worrying, my rosy face grows old.
Before you come down the river from Sanba
send a letter to your home.
We'll go to meet each other, however far,
I'll come up to Changfengsha
This is a translation by Ezra Pound
THE RIVER-MERCHANT’S WIFE: A LETTER*
Li Bo, trans. Ezra Pound
While my hair was still cut
straight across my forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
And we went on living in the village of Chokan:
Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.
At fourteen I married My Lord you.
I never laughed, being bashful.
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
Called to, a thousand times,
I never looked back.
At fifteen I stopped scowling,
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?
At sixteen you departed,
You went into far Ku-to-en,
by the river of swirling eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.
You dragged your feet when you went out.
By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,
Too deep to clear them away!
The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,
Please let me know beforehand,
And I will come out to meet you
As far as Cho-fu-Sa.
*Original title: Changgan xing
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