…and his beautiful song “Rainbow Race.” This video was made in 2008. We’ve hardly moved at all in the past six years. One blue sky above us One ocean lapping all our shore One earth so green and round Who could ask for more And because I love you I’ll give it one more try […]
As a role model at the intersection of music and social activism, Pete Seeger defined the space completely. But it was characteristic of the man that while he cast a long shadow both physically and historically, it was never the kind of shadow in which nothing grows. Pete’s greatest gift was his ability to make […]
I wrote this piece three years ago. Now the news of Pete’s passing fills my computer screen. While I will certainly write something later today about Pete and his influence, this is a good place to begin: with a song, and a protest, and a woman, and our future, and a child, and Pete. ===================================================================== […]