lament for

It linked to a short film: a 20-minute polemic against the emptiness of modern life, a lament for a vanished world of hierarchies and heroism.

The song is a painful lament for how she used feel about her body and relationships, and it was an instant smash there.

“Less a lament for the deaths of endangered languages than an account of how, like their speakers, they have built new lives in a place where half the residents speak a language other than English at home.”

Known as “Lament for Confederation,” it was a landmark moment in First Nations history, calling out the meaning of the confederacy and the impact of colonization on Indigenous peoples.

Today, I’m lost in Jonathan Rosen’s “The Best Minds” — a moving account of a brilliant young man’s schizophrenia and his childhood friendship with the author that’s also a lament for the struggle toward mental health reform.