Well, it ain’t necessarily so Well, it ain’t necessarily so Dey tells all you chillun De debble’s a villun, But it ain’t necessarily so! So sang the character Sportin’ Life in George Gershwin’s award-winning 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. Sportin’ Life was, of course, in his own playful and opportunistic way seeking to disrupt the […]
“I hadn’t had my daily dose of lurking frogs and chirruping goldfinch flocks for so long now. I hadn’t sat on a bank of moss and grounded my energy into the earth. Instead of wildflower meadows, my dreams were often preoccupied with train timetables and unsaved Word documents. Where had all the wildlife gone from my life?” So writes Jennifer Lane very early in her new book “The Wheel.”