Song of the Week: The Wisdom of Time



"The Wisdom Of Time"
(W. Robinson, P. Moffett, C. Burston)

Baby crawls before he walks
He coos and mumbles before he talks
As the world turns we live and learn with the wisdom of time
As the world turns we live and learn with the wisdom of time

Growing up through years of wonder
While some grow older and some go under
Life seems a strain
But it stands to gain with the wisdom of the time

Yesterday we've been separated
Today our thoughts should be integrated
Divided we'll fall or together stand tall with the wisdom of time
Yeah, Divided we'll fall or together stand tall with the wisdom of time

Time the healer of wounds
The sealer of fate
With the greatest power to educate
Through your wisdom teach us not into hate
Before it's not too late

Narrow minds keep us locked up tight, but
Broader minds are the key to what's right
So let's keep hopin'
For minds to get open with the wisdom of time

Baby crawls before he walks
He coos and mumbles before he talks

As the world turns we live and learn with the wisdom of time
As the world turns we live and learn with the wisdom of time

Once again these pages are graced with the Supremes' (Jean, Cindy and Mary) "The Wisdom of Time." It seems appropriate for many reasons. This time it is accompanied by wisdom articulated about three decades ago by someone named Peter Marin.

"... all men, not only the great, have in some measure the capacity to experience in themselves what is happening in the culture around them. I am talking here about what is really shared among the members of a particular culture is a condition, a kind of internal landscape, the psychic shape that a particular time and place assumes within a man as the extent and limit of his perceptions, dreams, and pleasure and pain.

... it means that adolescents are not in their untutored state cut off from culture nor outside it. It means instead that each adolescent is an arena in which the contradiction and currents sweeping through the culture must somehow be resolved, must be resolved by the person himself, and that those individual resolutions are, ideally, the means by which the culture advances itself."

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