Comments on: Utah Philips. RIP http://polizeros.com/2008/05/25/utah-philips-rip/ Musings on politics: anti-war, global warming, peak oil and otherwise Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:28:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: utah philips http://polizeros.com/2008/05/25/utah-philips-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-152926 utah philips Sat, 31 May 2008 16:23:54 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=11720#comment-152926 [...] folk music who performed ... utah Phillips will remain one of my all-time favorite teachers. ...http://polizeros.com/2008/05/25/utah-philips-rip/Phillips, UtahFolk artist, singer/story teller, song collector, philosopher, and just about [...] [...] folk music who performed … utah Phillips will remain one of my all-time favorite teachers. …http://polizeros.com/2008/05/25/utah-philips-rip/Phillips, UtahFolk artist, singer/story teller, song collector, philosopher, and just about [...]

]]> By: Ron Miles http://polizeros.com/2008/05/25/utah-philips-rip/comment-page-1/#comment-152788 Ron Miles Mon, 26 May 2008 19:17:29 +0000 http://polizeros.com/?p=11720#comment-152788 Utah Phillips will remain one of my all-time favorite teachers. I can freely say he was the man I knew to be least in denial, to the end. Clear! Indelible! He's one of that cadre who taught me that Life, if I don't live like I consider it sacred, doesn't owe me a thing! "... if Death really held a knife, we'd all be beggars of life." Mortality is equal opportunity -- whether on the rods or the plush, all tickets are punched. Then there's that measure of immortality -- those true beauties seen, seized, and shared in this mutual eating society. Clear-eyed, Utah ate at the back of so many food lines, usually having first served the others' deep hungers for freedom, peace and justice. Soulman James Brown once said, "I want to live as long as I can, die when I can't help it, and make folks love me." Throw in a french harp, and it sounds like a new Utah Phillips song, with barnacles already on it! Utah Phillips will remain one of my all-time favorite teachers. I can freely say he was the man I knew to be least in denial, to the end. Clear! Indelible! He’s one of that cadre who taught me that Life, if I don’t live like I consider it sacred, doesn’t owe me a thing! “… if Death really held a knife, we’d all be beggars of life.” Mortality is equal opportunity — whether on the rods or the plush, all tickets are punched.

Then there’s that measure of immortality — those true beauties seen, seized, and shared in this mutual eating society. Clear-eyed, Utah ate at the back of so many food lines, usually having first served the others’ deep hungers for freedom, peace and justice.

Soulman James Brown once said, “I want to live as long as I can, die when I can’t help it, and make folks love me.” Throw in a french harp, and it sounds like a new Utah Phillips song, with barnacles already on it!

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