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"All you need is now...."
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by PAM

A diamond in the mind... now was the future.

"Return to now"....  

Sometimes we think too far ahead.  We feel overly anxious to see what lies ahead.  We try to imagine over and over again the many different possibilities.  Will it be good?  Bad?  Will it make us happy?  Will it make us cry?  Too many questions... paralyzing us from moving forward and taking the needed action. We spend too much time wondering, speculating, wishing the future wouldn't be as lamentable as the past... and we miss much of what goes on around us - now.  When the future finally comes, we are perplexed by it - happy or sad - simply because we didn't experience now and, therefore, cannot find the connection between the future right in front of us and "the now" just slipping behind us.  We didn't do enough to make sure that the future will be as how we wished it to be - "now".  It's too late when we finally realized that, indeed, to be all set for the future, all we need is now.

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Something old, something new... now

I made time to drop by the record store a couple of days back... and I finally got a copy of "All you need is now" - Duran Duran's 2011 album.  Yeah, I know, some fan I am!  Well, I was busy... and had no life!  Anyway, missing an important US Open match just to get the album was an atonement for missing their "Diamond in the Mind Tour" last summer in the US and their Pre-Olympic performance at the Hyde Park in London.  As for the album... no, they haven't lost their touch as far as I'm concerned.  John Taylor's bass playing is still as awesome as ever, and it is beautifully complemented (and vice versa) by Roger Taylor on the drums to make a clean, "just right" rhythm.  The subtlety of Nick Rhodes's signature electronic inputs were tastefully done, not a misplaced "shriek" anywhere... and Simon Le Bon sounds fantastic - better than ever before.  Yeah, the "Wild Boys" of the old "Second British Invasion" days transformed Duran Duran's older sound a few notches toward laid-back... but not lazy - a welcome transformation for the now transformed old fans... like myself.  Did I just say "old"?  Oh, well....    

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