Categories: philosophy
Tags: music
Date: 10 December 2008 20:03:14
I was returning from New College, Edinburgh to my normal place of work. Normally, my route would take me up one of the closes (the 's' is soft) which abound in old Edinburgh, but this time I walked up the main street. Which meant that I passed a shop which specialises in CDs of folk music. And I bought an EP called "The Pulling Through EP 2005" by Karine Polwart, which meant that I listened to a song called "Waterlily", and so learned the story of Colin Mackay, which is a sad story. But by the music and the story I have been enriched, which seems unfair, somehow ...