Wow! Stumbled on you through happenstance. Incidentally, am an academic librarian in Colorado.
Saw this photo and it hit me as almost exactly the picture my mind conjures when I listen to the haunting song “Beyond the Iron Gate” by Richard Shindell.
This may explain a little of what this is all about:
On occasion, Shindell digs deep into eschatological terrain. Beyond the Iron Gate on his Reunion Hill album is ostensibly about an elderly man who leaves the grounds of his rest home and experiences an epiphany upon busting loose. But the song works on a deeper level. When I asked Shindell whether getting beyond the iron gate wasn’t about transcending the limits imposed by the ego, his reply was even terser than his writing: “The song is about death,” he responded with solemnity. But it’s also, I suspect, about Shindell’s own faith, presumably informed by some degree of metaphysical insight:
But it was easy slipping through
As easy as the morning dew . . .
I held on to all my might
Held on to a world made right
Wow! Stumbled on you through happenstance. Incidentally, am an academic librarian in Colorado.
Saw this photo and it hit me as almost exactly the picture my mind conjures when I listen to the haunting song “Beyond the Iron Gate” by Richard Shindell.
This may explain a little of what this is all about:
On occasion, Shindell digs deep into eschatological terrain. Beyond the Iron Gate on his Reunion Hill album is ostensibly about an elderly man who leaves the grounds of his rest home and experiences an epiphany upon busting loose. But the song works on a deeper level. When I asked Shindell whether getting beyond the iron gate wasn’t about transcending the limits imposed by the ego, his reply was even terser than his writing: “The song is about death,” he responded with solemnity. But it’s also, I suspect, about Shindell’s own faith, presumably informed by some degree of metaphysical insight:
But it was easy slipping through
As easy as the morning dew . . .
I held on to all my might
Held on to a world made right
05 Feb 2010 at 1:46 pm