Hello Jerry !!! Good to hear your voice calling. I do believe you're talking about me a few years ago. BUT that's not exactly what I said---or what I meant to say. I did say that someone I knew hadn't written many songs at all since Prozac became a lifeline for her. The songs she had written before were great ones, three of which I had recorded. They were about hard times in deep mines in a harsh sparsely populated northern climate and how those things could devastate the folks living through that stuff.

That said, my own feeling was that TRAGEDY was where the great literature and serious songs came from. Then I went on to say that if this tragedy was the basis of serious literature and art, then COMEDY, which is often called "comic relief, must be RELIEF FROM something. And that something is the tragedy that is the basis of life. Buddhists philosophy (not religion) allows them to see nthis, accept it, and move on knowing the truth of it and also that it just "IS" and only matters if you let it depress you.