@melinda010100, you seduced me! On a regular basis I see posts in my feed provided for the #three-tune-tuesday challenge run by @ablaze, and sluggishly think: "I should participate too!" - and pass by every time, put it off for "later, someday." Reading your Cohen selection, I got hooked up. Ok, probably this day came today, all of a sudden. I dont know -- the stars occupied some special position in the sky? or today's random soundtrack that slipped me into my iPhone's shuffle mode... anyway, today I was returning from the office at ten o'clock in the evening, and in the subway wagon I was starring at random strangers to the accompaniment of Marie Laforet, Bob Dylan and Joan Baez songs ... and easily could be Leonard Cohen as well.

What an intro and so glad to have you joining us and I have just clicked play and will listen for the next ten minutes or so to see what you have brought to our #ttt table for our ears to feast on!!

Great opener with Joan Baez and 'Gracias A La Vida', a song that was new to me and I enjoyed learning the history you shared too about here being Dylan's girlfriend and why she wrote the song/album. I see where you are coming from in saying "Today... I don't even know, what folks can dream of? to raise more money? to enjoy more delicious sorts of food, beer and cool travel trips, to escape from themselves and their damn life? where?.. there is no place left you can run off to. Only this brief moment of freedom and hope in the past.. but it is imaginary."

I do not fully agree though, I believe that the fact that you can write this means you are aware and can therefore find joy and meaning in music, in nature, in people and understand that it is not found in materialism, which almost always corrupts.. Good point though..

I really enjoyed hearing the songs from Marie Laforêt, but even more so hearing about your passion for her and her way and her music, very interesting.