Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.– Leonard Cohen
Listening to a conversation between Dr. Cornel West and INET Executive Director Robert Johnson, I heard the most beautiful quote from a song by Leonard Cohen which really strikes at what so many of us are trying to day in today’s increasingly silent world (on things that should count more). Songs have been the carriers of wisdom since we first learned to create them, and sometimes, the lyrics are so powerful that they will stand on their own outside of the context of its shell. These lines definitely fall into that category.
This isn’t going to be a long dissertation as I’m wont to do with powerful words. Just felt like contemplating how we could spread them even more than they already have. We need to.
