Mickey Z

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Patti Smith: A matter of Life and Death

The other day, Michele and I saw the new Patti Smith documentary, Dream of Life. While I’m a longtime admirer of Patti Smith’s work, the film was not nearly as good as I expected. However, I wanted to share these two lines from Patti:

“Life is an adventure of our own design, intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.”

When her beloved younger brother died, she said: “My heart went from feeling like a cold black ember to a warm really joyful flame. All his finest qualities somehow entered me as a human being.”