Monday, March 16, 2020

Be afraid, be very afraid. But do it anyway, do it anyway.



















That is the joyous chorus from the new single, Be Afraid, from Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. It has a similar sentiment to the empowering title of a 1987 book by the late Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear … and Do It Anyway.

The first verse of that song begins:

“We’ve been testing you, and you failed

 To see how long that you could sit with the truth, but you bailed”

The third verse begins:

“We don’t take requests, we won’t shut up and sing

 Tell the truth enough, you’ll find it rhymes with everything”

An image of a tightrope walker at Taft Point in Yosemite National Park came from Wikimedia Commons.

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