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Wilko Johnson Confronts The End, And Learns How To Live
Confronted with his imminent death, guitarist Wilko Johnson found a new perspective on existence — one from which we can all learn.
8 min readNov 29, 2019
‘The present life of man upon earth, O king, seems to me, like to the swift flight of a sparrow through the house wherein you sit at supper in winter, with your ealdormen and thegns, while the fire blazes in the midst, and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest; but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter into winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.’
— from Bede’s…
