GOING UP, COMING DOWN

Kris Krisofferson has died.

I knew I would have to write those words eventually, and probably sooner rather than later.   Kris has not looked good the past few times I’ve seen him on the tube.   His health has not been good for some years.   Still, one can hope.   The world was so much richer with Kristofferson in it, and it is poorer now that he is gone.   But we still have his songs, and what songs they are.

I am no musician myself; that’s a gift I never had.  I cannot sing, I cannot dance, I ...