Javisst gör det ont - Karin Boye
Yes It Hurts (English translation)
Of course it hurts when buds burst.
Otherwise why would spring hesitate?
Why would all our fervent longing
be bound in the frozen bitter haze?
The bud was the casing all winter.
What is this new thing, which consumes and bursts?
Of course it hurts when buds burst,
pain for that which grows
and for that which envelops.
Of course it is hard when drops fall.
Trembling with fear they hang heavy,
clammer on the branch, swell and slide -
the weight pulls them down, how they cling.
Hard to be uncertain, afraid and divided,
hard to feel the deep pulling and calling,
yet sit there and just quiver -
hard to want to stay
and to want to fall.
Then, at the point of agony and when all is beyond help,
the tree's buds burst as if in jubilation,
then, when fear no longer exists,
the branch's drops tumble in a shimmer,
forgetting that they were afraid of the new,
forgetting that they were fearful of the journey -
feeling for a second their greatest security,
resting in the trust
that creates the world.
@Torunn
My friend George Winston gave me an advance copy of a documentary of the great Vince Garibali and it is a GREAT documentary. He told me not to post it anywhere but hope it finds a greater audience.
George is in this documentary and in honor of both George and Vince, I have a youtube of George playing Cast your fate to the wind. His own version which is really creative.
Hope you like it as well as I have, I have heard this since our days together in Venice Beach California.
@Torunn
We exchange emails and I asked him if he played on stage with Vince, he said he did one gig with him, as an intermission player on the same stage, in 1971. That was before we met because I was working up country in Thailand ATT.
I remember George doing intermission playing at the San Diego Folk festival a few years later before he became famous. What happened was he had recorded an album on John Fahey's Takoma records label around that time, 70 or 71 and it sold a few thousand copies, good for the times with Fahey's label but the rights to that album was bought out by Windom Hill records around 1980 and it went platinum. ATT my family and I had moved from Venice Beach California to Bethlehem Pennsylvania and I had no idea of how well his record had done.
So one fine day my wife and I were in an elevator in Pa and heard his music coming out of the musak box loudspeaker. I'm going 'what in the hell is George's music coming out of this elevator😉 So it was a bit later when we contacted George again and found out about his new found success and he had a great run, playing all the big houses like Kennedy center and the like.
We were given tickets to that performance and it was amusing to hear the ushers getting indignant because he came on stage in stocking feet, he explained he gets better control of the pedals without shoes but the ushers were going 'Well, I NEVER' and the like. Funny as hell.