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Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Still . . .

. . . growing . . .

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I may be getting on in years
I'd be fooling myself if I didn't admit
But there's still lots of time to do that which in past
Many commitments simply would not permit

From within and without
I find music's still flowing
And the truth of the matter
Is that I am still growing

Still Growing
©2017 Raymond M. Jozwiak
(from the unreleased 'Phatso' collection of improvisations on Moog Phatty analog synthesizer)

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Monday, October 7, 2019

40 Years . . .

https://www.saycampuslife.com/2010/01/20/college-tax-deductions-do-you-qualify/

. . . ago

1935 Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
1935 Market Street Railway, San Francisco, starts using trackless trolley coaches
1936 NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
1938 Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
1939 Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britainy
1939 Adolf Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
1939 Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
1940 Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in San Francisco
1941 German army occupies Briansk, USSR
1941 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series
1942 Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
1943 Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
1943 Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"
1944 Allied aircraft accidentally bomb Fishing, Overijssel
1944 Canadians free Austria
1944 Royal Dutch Navy submarine Zwaardvis (Swordfish) sinks German submarine U168 in the Java Sea
1944 Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia
1945 US General Eisenhower welcomed in The Hague (on Hitler's train)
1945 Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge
1945 Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of Baseball World Series, is escorted out and casts goat curse on Chicago Cubs
1946 90°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct
1946 US President Harry Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
1947 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series
1948 "Polonaise" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
1948 KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1948 The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya
1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
1949 US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb
1952 Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)
1953 WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Dmitri Shostakovich's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad
1956 Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
1957 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1958 US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains a record 60 days under the north pole
1959 Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1959 Chicago White Sox beat LA Dodgers, 1-0 in Game 5 of Baseball World Series at LA Memorial
1960 "Spartacus", directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, premieres in NYC
1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1961 USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 16th NHL All-Star Game, Maple Leaf Garden, Toronto, ON: Toronto Maple Leafs beat All-Stars, 4-1; MVP: Eddie Shack, Toronto, LW
1962 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show"
1963 LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series
1964 "Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1965 Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
1965 William Goodhart's "Generation" premieres in NYC
1966 Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
1966 Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor
1966 LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow.
1967 Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) hippies throw a funeral for "Hippie" to mark end of "the summer of love".
1967 USSR performs nuclear test
1969 WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 MLB National League Championship: New York Mets sweep Atlanta Braves, 3 games to 0
1969 MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 3 games to 0
1971 MLB National League Championship: Pittsburgh Pirates beat San Francisco Giants, 3 games to
1972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
1972 Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Jack Lynch closes the Sinn Féin office in Dublin
1973 Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel
1974 "Mack & Mabel" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances
1974 Brazilian McLaren driver Emerson Fittipaldi finishes 4th in the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen to win his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 3 points from Clay Ragazzoni
1976 "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing
1976 John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent
1976 US President Gerald Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1976 Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, explode onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados, killing all 73 people on board
1977 DL Coburns "Gin Game" premieres in NYC
1977 Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game
1977 In Alicante, Spain, fascists attack a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers, and one MCPV sympathizer is killed.
1978 Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of a US university (Chicago)
1978 Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
1978 Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"
1978 Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5
1978 "Midnight Express" film premieres directed by Alan Parker starring Brad Davis, Randy Quaid and John Hurt
1978 Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven" film premieres starring Richard Gere
1979 Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9"
1979 Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House in Washington, D.C.
1979 MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat California Angels, 3 games to 1
1979 Pamela Ann Statter weds Raymond Michael Jozwiak in Baltimore MD

Pam's Song
©2002 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Friday, August 2, 2019

More Dancing . . .

Dancing's done so many times
Throughout our dearth of years
Enhancing celebrations
And distracting us from tears

A dance initiates our being
We dance from womb to world
We dance through trials and tribulations
Til a final breath is heard

To dance and to enjoy ourselves
Requires no specific reason
We do it without thinking much
It's always dancing season

Dancing Season
©2019 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Saturday, March 2, 2019

Advancing . . .

With advancement of time
And preferably some wisdom
I have learned to relax; feel less stress
Play the system

There are no extra people
To fawn or to please
I've become my own man
Life I now cope with considerable ease

But good things come, they say,
Each with price all their own
And the progress of years
Bringing things of seeds sown

I prefer though, to remain
On the bright and offensive
Taking tacks realistic
Yet inconveniently extensive

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Thursday, December 27, 2018

More Hours . . .

On and on flow the hours
Like rolling waves upon the sea
And like so many and so varied flowers
Each one some nectar for the bee

We're keeping tabs and writing numbers
Logging each minute in the book
We have a choice to
Either dread the counting
Or see the forest if we look

Store the knowledge
Hoard the wisdom
Take the years
And just run like crazy
Party’s only
What you make it
Make it into the
Best you can

There’s no protection from the power
Generated everyday
The blazing lights shine
From each lofty tower
To illuminate the way

Things that never occur to you
In the spring
Become clear with each
Passing season

All options must be on the table
All points of view be understood
And if you don’t do ev’ry thing you’re able
Make sure you do those which are good

Store the knowledge
Hoard the wisdom
Take the years
And just run like crazy
Party’s only
What you make it
Make it into the
Best you can

The Hours

rough demo of new OHO tune in progress

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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Not So Much. . .

. . . a regret, but simply an observation . . .

Things imagined
Things desired
Youth's imagination
From so countless
Directions fired

But life is truly
Not one taken lightly
So gravity inevitably
Exercises its option
Sometimes not so slighly

And dreams
Although good
Must be relegated
Back further in the queue
Relinquishing where it formerly stood

As the end fast approaching
Wants to now get acquainted
and the years have provided
Many lessons to mull
Seems that life is quite good
When you're proud of your choices
But the brain can't help ponder
Each leap and each lull

Heart Purge Two
©2017 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Saturday, January 20, 2018

Is This. . .

. . . something you REALLY want to brag about, Mitch?

(https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-insists-he-very-stable-genius-amid-questions-over-mental-n835191)
. . . "From a right-of-center point of view, 2017 was the most consequential in the many years that I've been here in Congress," McConnell said. . .

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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

2,492 . . .

2,492

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_League_Baseball_consecutive_games_played_streaks)
". . . The record of playing in 2,632 consecutive games over more than 16 years is held by Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles. Ripken surpassed Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees, whose record of 2,130 consecutive games had stood for 56 years. Before Gehrig, the record was held by Everett Scott (1,307 consecutive games), a shortstop with the Red Sox and Yankees whose streak ended in 1925, less than a month before Gehrig's began. Scott broke the previous record which was established by George Pinkney (577 consecutive games) from 1885–1890. . . "

. . . so, give or take, I have logged 2,492 blog posts since I began this, yes many of them were frivolous; some of them were silly; a number of them had absolutely no point at all; several of them contained typos and other errors of which I am NOT proud; some of them were a bit clever. But I did it! And believe me, I well know, expect and deserve NO AWARD. I have posted a blog containing a thought, a fantasy, a musing, a digression, a song, a photo, an otherwise 'unconsidered' (hopefully to someone) issue - but they were there, each and everyday since February 9, 2011. . . and here is the first one . . . (for any and all that may, or may not, give a fig). . .

". . . I've always been curious about blogging and wary of tweeting. I mean, who really wants to know every fleeting thought that crosses my warped little mind? And I base this curiosity and wariness on my own tastes. In all honesty, I have little to no interest in the fleeting thoughts of too many people. If I think about it hard enough, I may be able to conjure up two or three names. But pop 'icons', actors/actresses (or other 'entertainers'), media 'celebrities', 'news' commentators, talk show hosts and politicians for the most part, have difficulty enough formulating a coherent sentence let alone expressing any thought, sentiment or observation about a topic that would be of even the most remote interest to ME. . . So having said THAT, I begin my first blog. Yes, the thoughts, sentiments, observations, incoherent (and hopefully a few coherent) sentences and fleeting thoughts of MINE for all to see! . . What the $*&#k was I thinking???? . . . "

Working
©1998 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Monday, November 13, 2017

Season . . .

The air betrays a chill
That while not unfamiliar
Is new to my summery soul
And the dark overpowers the sun
With a frequency not forgotten
Nor always welcome

Experience teaches me that such times
Must surely follow heat and light
And the seasons like life
Will turn turn turn
Like all the rest my years
As well will run their course

. . . in time

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Thursday, July 27, 2017

Complexity . . .

Childhood is so gloriously simple, for those fortunate enough to have caring, loving and providing parent(s). I was fortunate. I can still recapture, or should I say remember, that carefree feeling that was my life for, what now in reality was, a few short years. There is no deep-seated desire to return to those times. They were wonderful for what they were. . . a beginning. An introduction. A primer. I recall a time when I perceived all adults to be 'wise' (for lack of a better word) simply by virtue of their years. And rightly, thanks to Mom and Dad, accorded them the proper respect that adults were due as a result. I'm not certain when, but at one point, most probably shortly after entering school, I realized that things would not remain as easy going as in the past. The status quo was about to be shaken. There would soon be additional responsibilities, or complications, in my simple, carefree life. Again, rightly so. Now, in addition to having to decide in which direction I would ride my bike, whether I wanted grape or cherry-flavored bubblegum and what television program I would watch upon my arrival home, I had to integrate several hours of school, some homework, new friends and a social component to which I was quite simply not accustomed.

It's Complicated
©2017 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Sunday, May 14, 2017

Some Days . . .

Some days I feel like I'm twenty-one and I just can't wait to get on with exploring all the wild and wonderful things life has to offer. Other days I wonder if I have ten, maybe twenty years left to do the things that I enjoy and the things that I think I should be doing. At best, that's only about one-third of what I've already had. Don't get me wrong. I'm not regretting anything. It's only that, in spite of all the trying times I've had over the years, I've been having a blast.

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
-Dr. Seuss

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Tuesday, January 3, 2017

On and On . . .

. . . flow the hours
Like rolling waves upon the sea
And like so many and so varied flowers
Each one some nectar for the bee

We're keeping tabs and writing numbers
Logging each minute in the book
We have a choice to
Either dread the counting
Or see the bricks if we just look

Store the knowledge
Hoard the wisdom
Take the years
And just run like crazy
Party’s only
What you make it
Make it into the
Best you can

There’s no protection from the power
We’re generating everyday
The blazing lights shine
From each lofty tower
Just to illuminate the way

Things that never occur to you
In the spring
Become clearer with each moving
Season passing

All options must be on the table
All points of view be kept in sight
And if you don’t do ev’ry thing you’re able
Make sure you do those which are right

Store the knowledge
Hoard the wisdom
Take the years
And just run like crazy
Party’s only
What you make it
Make it into the

Best you can

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Sunday, December 11, 2016

Wanna . . .

. . . hear? . . .

December 9, 2016 @12:11PM
Ray, David & Jay off to The Bratt Studio this evening to work on David's "All There Is," an ambitious romp in 5/4 (chorus in 4/4). Years in the making, we inch closer to the finish line.

December 9, 2016 @ 10:57PM
The fruits of tonight's labor...

All There Is
by OHO by David Reeve, Jay Graboski & Ray Jozwiak(All Rights Reserved)

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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Years . . .

. . . ago . . .

. . . my friend Bob, also a musician, alerted me to the fact that some jazz players, mainly pianists such as McCoy Tyner and Chick Corea, voiced chords in unique and interesting ways, a fact with which I was quite unfamiliar. At the time mind you, I was entering the twilight of my years of accordion lessons and listening to art/prog-rock bands like Jethro Tull and Gentle Giant. The lessons providing invaluable theory experience and an unrivaled discipline in practice and dedication; the art/prog providing tremendous inspiration and motivation to create; although at the time, I was quite unable to create the kinds of things I would very much have like to created. Nevertheless, this unique voicing of chords, one tactic of which Bob was very explicit, was the use of fourths - resulting in a slightly non-conventional, yet pleasing and ever-adaptable sound as opposed to a major triad or some inversion of same. In any case, although I didn't fully grasp the enormity of this discovery at the time, I did attempt to employ it and have incorporated it into my musical thoughts and deeds ever since. One such composition that utilizes the concept is, as of yet tentatively titled, posted here in all its undecided and raw, new-born glory . . .

Step It Up(in progress)
©2016 Raymond M. Jozwiak

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Thursday, March 24, 2016

Never . . .

. . . too soon. . .

. . . to hear this again. . .

Heard somebody say
They overheard you
Just the other day
A simple word
About the way we get along
If only I were sure
Of the semantics
Having doubts 'cause I'm
One hopeless romantic
Could it be
You're slipping away from me

What will I do
If what I'm thinking is true
And you want to be
Really free of me
I won't last very long
Very far from your heart
And this third-hand intelligence
Might be the way that it starts.

Heard somebody say
They thought they saw you
Walking in their way
You were not alone
They said he didn't look like
Thinking to myself
Must be mistaken
Try not to believe
but still badly shaken
Why would you
Deceive me in things you do

So many years
Sharing our laughter and tears
Lasted very long
Maybe I was wrong
Not to ask you
Why you feel
We've drifted apart
And this third-hand intelligence
Might be the way that it starts

Are my sources reliable
Wait and see
Wait and see
Is my psyche too pliable
It could be
It could be

If somebody said
The sky was falling
Would you believe it's true
And change your direction
From spinning round
When it hits the ground

That's just not true
Any believers are few
When you've seen it all
It could never fall
Any more than
I think you could
Tear us apart
And this third-hand intelligence
Might be the way that it starts

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