Episode 130: A Better Place
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Gordon Lightfoot's Song About the Edmund Fitzgerald
November 10th, 1975 was the night that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sang in Lake Superior. It had just been in the Duluth Superior Harbor just a day and a half before. Gordon Lightfoot decided to write the song about the Edmund Fitzgerald because he read a Newsweek article about it which they misspelled the word Edmund. He believed to those 29 lives that were lost that night in their families. And I hope that this song can be understood and appreciated really in two ways. One is, as we talked about loneliness and we talked about the challenges of our lives, there is nothing that means more than to have someone beautiful in our lives.
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