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Dust in the Wind
Everything passes, and that's okay 🍂
Who it's for
Kansas reflect on how everything we are and do eventually passes.
Anxious about impermanence→Accepting and calm
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Dust in the Wind" was written by Kerry Livgren for Kansas's 1977 album Point of Know Return and released as a single in 1978. It is a meditation on mortality and impermanence whose title paraphrases Ecclesiastes. It began as a fingerpicking exercise that Livgren's wife encouraged him to turn into a song, and it is a soft acoustic departure from the band's usual progressive rock sound.
Where to find it
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Before you start
Age: All ages
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 56
