Congratulations to Yusuf / Cat Stevens
for your induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! I still
remember listening to your haunting "Moon Shadow" on a summer evening
long ago--a dreary, haunting song for sure, but what teenager couldn't
relate? We all felt your presence Cat, that you were one of us. I
remember just where I was, the feel of the cool, still, desert night,
bright stars and a crescent moon with
bright city lights away on the horizon. I won't say exactly where we
were on that lonely night, sitting in a circle on a lawn of cool grass,
because we might be blamed for that big hole in the chain linked fence
just behind us. So I'll simply say we were visiting "Gary Dexter" which
was code for our inner circle of adolescents in the City of Sin so many
years ago ;) Today we can see how we've all changed, Yusuf. Some of
those who listened to your songs didn't make it to the new millennia.
Two of my dearest high school friends were lost to the HIV/AIDS epidemic
halfway between then and now. For those of us still here, today is a
time of reflection about those years at the "edge of darkness" as we
ponder what we may leave behind, "dreaming about the world as one" and
how we can help make our planet and our species whole. So Yusuf, I pray
moving forward you and I are (praise be to Allah) more inclined to sing
of hope than loss as we ask our brothers and sisters to "jump upon the
Peace Train."
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Yusuf Inducted to R&R Hall of Fame
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