How

I watched a documentary recently about the building of the Golden Gate Bridge. About the tortured genius who made it all happen, from square one. He died, to quote my 6.75 year-old son.

But it was so awesome, so majestic, just how so many human beings came together and BUILT that thing (and how many died and how many were saved because the architect had the thought to put nets into the mix just in case men fell).

But what prompted this post was, as usual, music. To be specific, Yes.

I was just listening to Close To The Edge and thinking, just like I did when I was a teenager and heard it, how did human beings do this? It is just such a monumental work, on a par with Brahm’s Symphony # 3, that I liken it to other human miracles, like the pyramids or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

How can we be so amazing? Yet not amazing? How can we be so dumb at the same time?

I guess that is a question that will never be answered. But if they, those nameless people, could do it, do what I do not know, but had the will to do it and carried it through, so can I.