Carlswerk Victoria, Cologne, Germany 1st March 2026Sleep Theory - “The Afterglow Tour 2026” - Special guests: The Pretty WildWith a modern Rock sound and i

 [Painting--'Cows Over Vitebsk' by Marc Chagall]“Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand”“The Stolen Child” by W.B. Yeats “… now the head filled with light…”          “Blow Away” by George HarrisonAlight[by Carrie Danaher Hoyt, Poet]Children come (like sunshine does) from some place high aboveand (if they deign) remain down herequite light the first few years,so much so that grownups hold them closeuntil they learn to stand, then they hold their handsand load them up (best they can) with weightso in this dim and windy place kids don’t blow away. At the park the other day,  I heard a mother tell a child (hard at play),“Time to go, it’s late.” But the child remainedthoroughly engaged in climbing up the slide.I watched as she (repeatedly) defiedgravity by gripping slippery sides,bracing feet and using knees to glidelike skis, uphilling till she’d reach the topthen promptly slideright back to the bottom where she’d liefor a moment, looking at the sky,then sit and flip, again, begin to climb. Then I heard the mother lie:“Fine, stay and play alone, I’m going home, goodbye,”and rise as if to leave. I saw the child freeze (halfway up the slide)and look into her mother’s eyes, like out across the seato find the line of a horizon beyond which she could seethe place from which she came. I saw the child turn herself (aiming at that place), let goand blow away.*from Mr. Slinger's BlogBook of Days..