A pivotal account of a pivotal time in the grid of history, authored by the grandson of one president and great-grandson of another, who served as private secretary to his father, the ambassador to the Court of Saint James during the U.S.Civil War. Intimate friend of Mr. Abraham Lincoln's private secretary John Hay. Autobiographical third-person narrative.
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Preamble to the U.S. Constitution: More resources at PeterRodino.com
"Many of us felt we were seeing a Founding Father in action, living the hightest ideals of the Constitution. I'm sure my brother would have called him a profile in courage." Ted Kennedy speaking of Peter Rodino in Joy Rodino's book Fifty-Two Words My Husband Taught Me. Love, Inspiration and the Constitution.
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Chinese Zodiac is on a twelve year cycle so Chinese Zodiac cuspians bridge adjoining lunar years based on individual birthdate or, as here, when a relationship is born of individuals with signs consecutively adjoined within a twelve year cycle.
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Let's start by looking at the lyric "I'm dying, ain't I? Going to Carolina in my mind." This song describes a spiritual journey of going home evocative of Swing Low, Sweet Chariot. The title and most repeated phrase, Going to Carolina in my mind, reinforces that the journey is all in his mind. A metaphor for Eternity.
"With a holy (g)host of others right beside me" who may be the Father and Son completing the Holy Trinity. "Still I'm on the dark side of the moon ..." The perpetually dark side of the lifeless satellite orbiting Earth leaves nowhere to go but toward the light. The Apollo 8 Mission of 1968 was, in fact, the first manned flight to achieve lunar injection into the Moon's orbit. It went into forced radio silence as it traced it's figure-eight orbital turn around the dark side of the moon and then there was light followed by the Astronaut's reading of Genesis three days later on Christmas Eveas they emerged into the light of a December 1968 Earthrise. The end of a tumultuous time and a good metaphor for rebirth.
"And it seems like it goes on this way forever ... " to the Eternal. "You must forgive me, if I'm up and gone to Carolina in my mind." A state of Forgiveness at the final moment is important to peaceful repose. "Ain't it just like a friend of mind to hit me from behind?" sounds like the victim providing a police report. A death certificate might read "blunt force trauma".
If we walk ourselves back now to the beginning of the song, the lyric presents Karen and a silver sun. In fact, Karen is a silver sun. Could silver sun be the white light spoken of by those who have faced near-death experiences? Could Karen be an alliteration of Carolina? If so she would represent the home ground of final repose. You best walk her away and watch it shine. Watch her watch the morning come. This curious lyric could describe an out-of-body experience in which the body is reluctantly "giving up the ghost" and separating the soul from the mortal coil. Karen, the literal person, is left behind to watch the morning come, while the spirit freed from mortality, may come to terms with the fate of all living things and now has the perspective to "watch her watch the mourning come." The lines A silver tear appearing now I'm crying, ain't I? ... and The signs that might be omens say I'm going, going, gone to Carolina in my mind reflect self-realization of mortality, a human characteristic that fits the moment of ultimate convergence.
And hey babe the sky's on fire I'm dying, ain't I? Going to Carolina in my mind. Here, we have come full circle, and we know the answer to the question "Will the Circle be Unbroken, by and by Lord, by and by?" But that song's discussion of a better home awaiting in the sky is the subject of another song interpretation ...
Finally, where it is sung "I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone, say nice things about me, I'm gone ... " supports the adage to not speak ill of the dead.
I rest my case (in peace).
To be continued ....
Lonely Are the Brave - we would do well to remember
"It Makes No Difference" Rick Danko & Richard Manuel
Bli-Blip, Duke Ellington Orchestra
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