Opus Vida – An Individual Life
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The world goes on about its daily thing; it really doesn't give a whit about what's on its surface, nor beneath; it's been here five and a half billion years. It is humanity that creates all the drama on the globe, weather notwithstanding - all other life abides. So don't say you're doing this or that because you are "saving the planet." The planet does not need saving and does not care. I know that sounds harsh, but it's physics. The planet actually has no choice. You can't fight Mother Nature; it just is. One species goes away, another rises to take its place. One day that species will be us. Why would we think we are so special? Do you honestly think that after five and a half billion years this planet can be brought to its knees after 250 years of man's industrial revolution and burning fossil fuels?
Welcome to My Life – 72 Years and Counting
An individual is born, lives a life accumulating things, ideas, experiences, and then dies. Where go the artefacts generated through that life? Family is first on the scene, going through the remains, but family have only so much space so the pickings are small. The individual's life is forgotten except for photos kept and reminiscences among themselves. How many generations of photos are kept? How many stories remain? The experiences and ideas. Who gets my stuff when I'm gone? Who really cares? My guitars, songs, writings, stories, essays, drawings – the stuff of my life – furniture I've made, wood that I've worked, things fabricated.
We chronicle the lives of "important" figures throughout history. Very few of us warrant a gander: the hopes, loves, dreams, ideas of the rest of us. What's your story? What's your song? What have you done? We can be Tom Hanks when he made fire in "Castaway" - "look what I have done!" Lest we forget ourselves, let us say "look what we have done!
– Thom and Willy