Gertrude Stein – The making of Americans: “Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. Disillusionment then in living that gives to very many then melancholy feeling, some despairing feeling, some resignation, some fairly cheerful beginning and some a forgetting and continuing and some a dreary trickling weeping some violent attacking and some a letting themselves do anything, disillusion then is really finding, really realising, really being certain that no one really can completely agree with you in anything, that, as is very certain, not, those fighting beside you or living completely with you or anybody, really, can really be believing anything completely that you are believing. Really realising this thing, completely realising this thing is the disillusionment in living is the beginning of being an old man or -an old woman is being no longer a young one no longer a young man or a young woman no longer a growing older young man or growing older young woman. ” https://archive.org/details/selectedwritings030280mbp
Dear Lorraine, so much I had yet to say to you, so much we shared. So much love for you now. Now. Now is all we have.
It is a song that Lorraine loved to sing and I loved to sing harmony with her. We will sing at her Ash Scattering in June.
The song is essentially about losing someone you love and the heartbreak that follows and the pain that the human heart endures in the process.
Gertrude Stein – The making of Americans: “Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything. Disillusionment then in living that gives to very many then melancholy feeling, some despairing feeling, some resignation, some fairly cheerful beginning and some a forgetting and continuing and some a dreary trickling weeping some violent attacking and some a letting themselves do anything, disillusion then is really finding, really realising, really being certain that no one really can completely agree with you in anything, that, as is very certain, not, those fighting beside you or living completely with you or anybody, really, can really be believing anything completely that you are believing. Really realising this thing, completely realising this thing is the disillusionment in living is the beginning of being an old man or -an old woman is being no longer a young one no longer a young man or a young woman no longer a growing older young man or growing older young woman. ” https://archive.org/details/selectedwritings030280mbp
Today is Lorraine’s birthday. I miss her and was remembering a song we used to sing years ago. I can’t remember when it was.
This song has been popular since 1963 when Nancy Ames sang it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDaaZ1zuLY
And a recent version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyDaaZ1zuLY
I wish I had a recording of Lorraine and I singing it! She played the guitar and I harmonized.