![]() ![]() ![]() Maybe it’s only when things get bad that we as a society can fully appreciate how much we value it and actually need it to function as a people. People pay it lip service, others moan about all the funding it gets. It’s been incredible to realize that in Ireland we have a reservoir of strength to draw from when things get hairy. Every culture handles adversity in its own unique way. We’re trying to cope with something that we don’t have a whole lot of experience in coping with. There’s little point in trying to whitewash things: the human race is in a difficult moment. Nor is it any accident that the oft-bruited notion that art is a panacea for pretty much anything that ails us should be raised by Donny Mahoney in the Irish pop culture podcast, The Rewind: It’s no accident, therefore, that Bob’s grandson, Skip Marley, would revisit the song during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Singin’, ‘Don’t worry about a thing, worry about a thing, oh!Ĭause every little thing gonna be all right.’ Sayin’, ‘This is my message to you-ou-ou’ It’s hard not to experience a sense of joy and possibility in the face of Bob Marley’s great 1977 song, Three Little Birds, with its upbeat refrain: Watching the day break and the clouds flying. There will be dying, there will be dying,Īnd the hidden source is the watchful heart Īnd the far cities are beautiful and bright. The clouds clearing beyond the dormer windowĪnd a high tide reflected on the ceiling? ![]()
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