Edition 10
A beautiful Christmas song brings me back to December the 8th, 1980.I was listening to music while at work and suddenly the radios started interrupting their current programs to let us be aware of a tragedy.
I was in shock. Could not believe such a thing to be true.
Friends started calling me on the phone updating me with sequences of bullletins and just like me, itching to hear some clarifying note prouving it was untrue.
But unfortunately, it was true...
John Lennon was murdered on the street outside his New York building.
Days before there had been some speculation that the Beattles might reunite .
Someone had put an end to the speculation.
How could someone kill such an artist. It was incredible.
There must be someone insane. Someone that could not understand the meaning of his songs.
Someone who never heard “imagine”, “give peace a chance “, “ war is over“.
I was among the ones that felt brokenhearted.
Later I learned that at the time the killer was arrested, he carried a handgun, a complete collection of Beatles tapes, and a copy of The Catcher in the Rye . He also declared that had killed John Lennon because “I understood his words but didn’t understand his meaning“.
This schisofrenic could not understand that he had killed, as said so by a New York Time reporter “someone who had made us laugh, who had taught young people how to feel, who had helped change and shape an entire generation, from inside out.
This time someone had murdered a song.”
I still feel regretful.
Dear readers
Besides remembering John Lennon’s Christmas song, we kindly thank you all for being with us along our first year.
We believe we have been improving thanks to your gentle acceptance and incentives .
Please keep cheering us up in 2009.
Send us your essays, opinion, articles, suggestions so we can produce the Curitiba in English style, promote our city’s way of living and offer you good news and opportunities.
“ May God bless you all with love, health and quality of life “
“Merry Christmas and a Happy new year “
Cheers,
Nelson G. Santos