#Music on #Yellow-Electric-Sun
#GwennoSaunders 5/23/1981 #Birth #Welsh dancer and #singer ( #ThePipettes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYMhh6u3nks
#Celtic #Legend “Ysolt Ynn Gweinten” feat #Gwenno #Saunders
#saunders
"Many years ago, during a visit to Washington DC, my wife’s cousin pointed out to us a crypt on a hill and mentioned that, in 1862, while Abraham Lincoln was president, his beloved son, Willie, died, and was temporarily interred in that crypt, and that the grief-stricken Lincoln had, according to the newspapers of the day, entered the crypt “on several occasions” to hold the boy’s body. An image spontaneously leapt into my mind – a melding of the Lincoln Memorial and the Pietà. I carried that image around for the next 20-odd years, too scared to try something that seemed so profound, and then finally, in 2012, noticing that I wasn’t getting any younger, not wanting to be the guy whose own gravestone would read “Afraid to Embark on Scary Artistic Project He Desperately Longed to Attempt”, decided to take a run at it, in exploratory fashion, no commitments. My novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, is the result of that attempt, and now I find myself in the familiar writerly fix of trying to talk about that process as if I were in control of it."
What writers really do...
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/04/what-writers-really-do-when-they-write
