Blue egg

At the end of "Cow Hooking Blues," Mississippi John Hurt asks, 'was that good? It's so sweet and real, and so good of Alan Lomax to have left it in the recording.

I was saying to a friend last night that writing's all about voice and voice is all about attitude. My friend's a writer, a poet. He said he's going for image and not for idea. I get it, I said, when you get the image right the idea falls in line, it's like it's one with the image.

Last night I stayed up late watching TV. "An Unmarried Woman," a movie starring the late Jill Clayburgh. It starts out so promisingly--a woman traumatized by a sudden divorce--and I was hooked, but by the time Jill starts to look like Diane Keaton and is talking to her psychiatrist about her first menstrual cycle, it felt like whatever good there was in the story had already come to an end, and so I turned the channel.

John Lee Hooker had such talent for ending a song. He had great talent for beginning a song as well, but his endings were always superb. When a John Lee Hooker song ends it just ends like there will never be another song.

It's a beautiful day. I'm going to get out of bed now, get dressed and walk outside with my straw basket to gather all the blue eggs I can find.