Marianne and Leonard

[davideo]

After briefly hearing her voice, I read most of the Marianne interview: touched throughout to hear words that belong to that song's inspiration. Whoever she was, all these ,those, years- "Marianne"- she really produced, through Leonard, a reach of emotion that 'hawled me in like a kite', decades past. So, feeling in touch with reality, part of it, ( because of this interview, and the grace of Marianne ) I went to the refrigerator and got some cheese. Cutting it I was thinking, with God, how I love my wife. Marianne symbolized my lost Barbara, but now that she speaks, and she has hurt, too, I observe that my blessed wife is a giant of a soul, and once more suggests that God has been good to me, very good to me, "despite it all".
There is some truth in these perceptions. I had fallen in love with the blissfully morosity of Leonard's music. I had blamed him for 'his part' in my "loss"- totally conjured by me. But, somehow, Marianne's beauteous sanity and apparent loveliness simply reminds me that whatever love I thought I had lost, decades ago, I have recoverred in my wife, my once-penpal, who tonight, is sleeping like an angel as I write this.
I just wanted to try to say that I don't understand Cohen's influence, but I feel redeemed of some of my own dilema, thanks to Marianne. C'est ca.
Dave