Redtree Times

White in the Moon— At the Principle Gallery

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.

–André Malraux, La condition humaine [Man’s Fate] (1933)

I have things to do this morning but still wanted to share a small triad of image, word, and song. I think these chosen three work well together. I’ll leave it to you for your own judgment.

The song is one you might not know. It’s from Odyssey. Though there was also a better-known disco trio from NYC with the same name, this particular Odyssey was a short-lived California based band that recorded on Mo-West Records which was Motown‘s West Coast division in the 1970’s. This song from 1972 is titled Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love. Nice feel and sound.

To bring back a phrase from the era: Can you dig it?