Life . . .

. . . and death . . .


Walter Ray Briggs
LEXINGTON — Walter Ray Briggs, 73, of Lake Shore Avenue died Saturday, August 9, 2014

Cora Hilton
HIGH POINT — Mrs. Cora Elizabeth Cecil Hilton, 95

Bobbie Waller Blalock
DURHAM — Bobbie Waller Blalock, 64, passed away Friday, August 8, 2014 at Duke Regional Hospital

Aldridge, John
Aug. 9, 2014 John Aldridge, June 16, 1926 – August 9, 2014, age 88 passed away Saturday

Maedine Foletti Turner
August 3, 2014 passed away  at her home in Oakland, Calif. on Sunday, Aug. 3, 2014. She was 93 years old

Robin Williams
August 11, 2014, Marin County, dies at 63 of an apparent suicide, the Marin County Sheriff's Office says

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The Narrow . . .

 - minded idealogue-as-victim ruse . . .

. . . developed by short-sighted narrow-minded conservatives and adapted by, among others, Marco Rubio . . . 


(from http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/marco-rubio-gay-marriage-debate-109300.html)
" . . . Marco Rubio jumped head first into the culture wars on Wednesday to blast what he sees as “growing intolerance” against those who oppose same-sex marriage.  In a speech on family values at the Catholic University of America in Washington, Rubio lamented the backlash that companies like Chick fil A and Mozilla often face when their executives express public support for keeping marriage between a man and woman. He said that supporting that definition doesn’t make someone “anti-gay” but rather “pro-traditional marriage.”

“There is a growing intolerance on this issue, intolerance of those who continue to support traditional marriage,” the Florida Republican senator and potential 2016 presidential contender told a standing-room only crowd. “Even before this speech is over, I’ll be attacked as a hater or bigot. Or someone who’s anti-gay. This intolerance in the name of tolerance is hypocrisy. Supporting the definition of marriage as one man and one woman, is not anti-gay. It is pro-traditional marriage.” . . ."


Monkey See
©1995 Raymond M. Jozwiak




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Facebook . . .

 . . . politics

 

Thecla . . . When I worked for a Lobbyist in DC, I saw how the system really works. At the time, I thought...if people really knew how the political machine works, they would be sick.
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Ray Jozwiak . . . Tell me more, Thecla.  Tell ALL OF US MORE!  We need to be sick. . . sick and tired enough to ACT.  Vote appropriately.  Don't be buffalo-ed into thinking you 'wasted' your vote.  You MUST vote your heart and your conscience or nothing will ever change!  It won't happen in this election.  Or the next.  Or for a LONG time.  BUT it has to start SOMEWHERE!!  Let it start with us.
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OHO . . .

 . . . pizza and the ocean . . .

 What MORE to you need????

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The Moon . . .

. . . in June and sweet perfume
Have been used in a million love songs
But it doesn't belong in a song about you
Many is the time I want to tell you that I love you
I tried so hard to write it down in oh so many different ways
But feeling is the easy part
The telling is hard
Words don't mean anything until you try to
Speak from inside of your heart

We'll be together
We'll be together
We'll be together for a very long time


I can't remember the rest of the lyrics and was too lazy to consult the archives, but the music is here for you to hear.  I purposely began this song with a corny cliche when I started writing and marketing pop songs and was told by all the 'songwriting experts' to avoid corny cliches.  


A Very Long Time
©1998 Raymond M. Jozwiak




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The Letter . . .

. . . no, it'd not Sesame Street . . .





That "A" word, atheist, always scared me as a child.  I always felt sorry for people who did not believe in my 'God'.  But I guess I have to accept that if you don't believe in a 'theistic' invasive god, you MUST be an "A-THEIST".  So be it.  Maybe that's what I am. So where do these type-"A" people find hope? . . . many places . . .


(from http://ragingrev.com/2010/03/regarding-hope-the-atheists-view/)
". . . People give me hope daily. Sometimes people take some of my hope away, but when we make progress toward a brighter future it is renewed. When we do good things to one another or fight for causes we deem just, I am overwhelmed by hope. When one of us spends his or her life’s work on developing cures for diseases and cancers it gives me hope that we care about one another, and that if we keep doing so eventually we’ll get to our next step toward a society that can be considered appropriate.

I have a hope that one day our species will find a way to cope with the problems of life without a need for religion and that also one day there will be social justice for all people. I have hope that at some point in the near future that technology will be developed that can provide nutritious food for all people and that we will use that technology to actually feed people. In the idea that our prejudices and our failures will one day be forgotten. . . "

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Duos . . .

du·o
[doo-oh, dyoo-oh] Show IPA
noun, plural du·os.
1.
Music. duet.
2.
two persons commonly associated with each other; couple.
3.
two animals or objects of the same sort; two things ordinarily placed or found together; a pair: a duo of lovebirds.
Origin:
1580–90;  < Italian  < Latin: two

Dictionary.com Unabridged
duo-
a combining form meaning “two,” used in the formation of compound words: duologue.
Origin:
 combining form of Greek dýo, Latin duo two


. . . and the famous (at least half) cello/piano duo of . . .

Pachem-Up(Pachelbel's Canon)
performed by YoYo Ma and Ray Jozwiak
(via the magic of digital technology and the competition created by
indabamusic.com several years ago)



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