Just Like the One-Winged Dove

Just like the white winged dove
Sings a song, sounds like she's singin'
"Ooh, baby, ooh, said, ooh"

And the days go by like a strand in the wind
In the web that is my own, I begin again

That song - The Edge of Seventeen - came out in 1981, when I was on the edge of seventeen myself. For years - like, until last year - I thought the lyric went, "Just like the one-winged dove...." I imagined the one-winged dove struggling mightily to do what seemed easy for everyone else, and felt seen. I was wrong, of course, but that's the lyric I still hear. I sang it today, while firing my bisque.

Wait, what? What, you may ask, does all this have to do with firing?...[read more]