Susan Herndon

a friend sent me a Wall Street Journal article about Bob Dylan~ questioning his ability to perform-- whether he still 'had it' or not or whether he should just give it up, for being too old.  Does this seem offensive only to me?  here is our great Poet Laureate who gave us "Like a Rolling Stone"  "Blowing in the Wind"  "Masters of War" "Tangled Up in Blue" "Forever Young" and on and on and on and on... and a few critics don't like his show?  Is our culture so hung up on youth and beauty that age and experience now have no relevance?  (Of course, in my mind, Stevie Nicks, having written "Landslide", has done a piece of work for a lifetime and given the world this beautiful song, so she can just call it quits; but she continues working, as does Dylan, and Bless Them Both!)   ".... can i sail through the changes, of my life? ... i don't know...."  sometimes i feel like Steve McQueen in the final scene of Papillon... .... escaping from prison, floating on a bag of coconuts out here in the wide open sea.... a wide open sea of cyberspace.... "i'm still here, you bastards!"