Bryan Dondero has announced that he is leaving Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. Certainly a shock from where I sit. 

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T.S. Eliot - <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html">The Love Song Of J Alfred Prufrock</a>

I had not recalled this poem in quite sometime until a friend mentioned the title. A powerful story about life's choices, indecision, the potential for regret and the fear of pursuing dreams and so much more. 

<blockquote>And would it have been worth it, after all,	
After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,	
Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,	
Would it have been worth while,	   
To have bitten off the matter with a smile,	
To have squeezed the universe into a ball	
To roll it toward some overwhelming question,	
To say: “I am Lazarus, come from the dead,	
Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all”—	
If one, settling a pillow by her head,	
  Should say: “That is not what I meant at all.	
  That is not it, at all.”</blockquote>

Gathering thoughts on something like this is quite difficult isn't it? Still.
- I thought the Theramin was cheesy, until I heard it. Then I thought it added a very interesting texture to the guitar/keyboard mix.
- I will forever remember the yodelling pickle.
- Arranging for Bryan to meet Brendan Canty, Fugazi drummer and one of Bryan's formative bands - was great. Better to give than receive.
- I've been struck recently by what a great writer Bryan is. I don't know why I'm surprised.
- Over a year and a half of "knowing" Bryan - virtually in the beginning and then in the real world I was always struck by how decent he was. A decent person. That word isn't used so often any more and has somewhat lost it's meaning but I think that Bryan epitomizes what the word decent was supposed to mean.

<em>"Funny how some things that start spontaneously end that way. Eat a peach"</em>
- Neil Young to Stephen Stills on dropping out on the 1976 tour
