95 North. . . The Newspaper

"This is what it means to be human “in the image of God.” It means being free to make choices instead of doing whatever our instincts would tell us to do. It means knowing that some choices are good, and others are bad, and it is our job to know the difference.” “We totally misunderstand what it means to be alive when we think of our lives as time we can use in search of rewards and pleasure. Frantically and in growing frustration, we search through our days, our years, looking for the reward, for the success that will make our lives worthwhile, like the security guard looking through the trash in the wheelbarrow for something of value and all the while missing the obvious answer. When you have learned how to live, life itself is the reward.” -Rabbi Harold Kushner

God Knows , o ne of Bob Dylan's best songs in the modern era, is featured on 2008's "Tell Tale Signs", a collection of unreleased songs and alternative versions cut by Bob from 1989 to the (basically) present (the song is also on 1990's Under a Red Sky , but the T ell Tale Signs version is much better).  I made the decision to include this song on my list of the best of Bob Dylan songs in the modern era. If you'd like, you can review that list  here  and  here. In my initial "blurb", I wrote that God Knows  " details the variances of feelings on earth from the perspective of  an eternal and unchanging sun". True enough, maybe, but I began thinking more about the phrase "God Knows".  FIRST: Oftentimes, the phrase "God Knows" is meant as a verbal prelude to a statement regarding desperate need. "God Knows" I need a job. "God Knows" I need a change of scenery. And so on. In f...