Hello friends far, wide, and vibrating close to invisibility...

Some new doings in HANDSOME FAMILY world--

PAINTINGS: I have four new paintings for sale on our website. Art lovers take a look:
http://www.handsomefamily.com/paintingpage.html
 
UPCOMING SHOWS (with JIM WHITE!):
February 9 or 10, Minneapolis (still to be confirmed, check our website in a few weeks)
February 11, The Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago

OTHER NEWS: The beautiful new Christy Moore CD entitled, “Burning Times” contains breathtaking versions of two of our songs.

Here’s an old, love poem from the point of view of a dead fish:

“Throw me on a Scale”
By Hafiz (1320-1389)

Today love has completely gutted me.
I am lying in the market like a filleted grouper
Speechless,
Every desire and sinew absolutely silent
But I am still so fresh.
Everything is now the same to me.
Listen:
The touch of a beautiful woman
As she lifts me near,
Drawing my scent into her body;
She thinks about taking me home

The touch of a wondrous fly
Drinking my vital fluids
Through a strange shaped flute
The sun laying its radiant gaze against my cheek
Human voices and the breeze from a passing horse’s tail,
All send miraculous currents into my world.

God’s beauty has split me wide open.
Throw Hafiz on a scale,
Wrap me in cloth,
Bring me home

That’s all for now. May the falling leaves smile as they pass your window, but not linger and frighten the children...

Xo Rennie