Life is hard. It’s also beautiful. It’s made of love and work and more love and, even though you know it’s going to end, you also know a part of it will somehow go on.
I didn’t get this from a wise teacher or an ancient book. I got it from a 1968 pop-country song that has been called “the greatest song ever written.”
Jimmy Webb wrote “Wichita Lineman” for Glen Campbell following Campbell’s hit cover of Webb’s “By the Time I Get to Phoenix.” Campbell wanted “another city song.” Little did he know he would get a masterpiece….