Giving . . .

 . . . time of year

https://foodanddrink.scotsman.com/christmas/under-the-tree/

most-popular-christmas-presents-year-you-were-born/

(from https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/money-texts-fuel-wave-jan-accountability-note/story?id=81753532)

". . . Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., quoted but didn't name Republican members of Congress who were texting Meadows things including, "The president needs to stop this ASAP," and "Fix this now.". . . The quoted members presumably know who they are, and the public will learn that at some point, too. Beyond that, the lawyer for one of the lead organizers behind the Jan. 6 rally said Tuesday that, with his client cooperating with the committee, lawmakers and "very senior" people in former President Donald Trump's orbit "have good reason to be quivering in their boots.". . . Between prosecutions, lawsuits, committee-acquired data and the cooperation of more than 300 witnesses, it's becoming clear how much is already known and how much is still to be revealed. . . "

The Marvelous Toy
- Peter Paul & Mary



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                          2014

Single. . .

. . . you may not have heard . . . 

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.

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        Black & White Then Back

Two . . .

 

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/why-do-so-many-primates-live-in-pairs

(from Alexander Hamilton, by Ron Chernow)

". . . John Adams, among others, seemed disillusioned with Madison as a legislator. "Mr. Madison is a studious scholar," the vice president told a friend in April, "but his reputation as a man of abilities is a creature of French puffs. Some of the worst measures, some of the most stupid motions, stand on record to his infamy. . .  for Hamilton, Madison's apostasy was a painful personal betrayal. One of Hamilton's supporters . . . told a friend that Hamilton regarded Madison's opposition to his plan as "perfidious desertion of the principles which [Madison] was solemnly pledged to defend" This falling-out was to be more than personal, for the rift between Hamilton and Madison precipitated the start of the two-party system in America . . . "

One
- Three Dog Night



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            Ambience & Wine

Score . . .

Transcription of the song Money now completed in Logic Pro X. It's a helluvathing. 

So I said,

I've got a roof o'er my head.

Some people can't even say the same thing.

But it's still not a fact

I can take any comfort in.

I want more to make up my legacy.

I'm not poor but everybody's telling me

Money can't buy everything.

You've heard it time again.

No money can't buy happiness.

When will you learn this fact of life my friend?

So I said,

I've got my very own bed.

I don't give it much thought

When I lay down my head.

But it's cold and it's lonely

In December on the street.

Why do you tell me these kinds of things.

I want more of luxuries that wealth can bring.

I want to be a squire a king a country gentleman

If I can if I can.

I want to get respect for what I have 

And not for what I am, 

Just a man, just a man.

So I said,

It's more than daily bread

That I'm talking about.

Can't you hear what I said?

You see, everything changes 

But we have to admit,

What exists needs to be recognized,

Not merely out of our fear of being chastised.

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Aces . . .

http://clipart-library.com/pictures-of-playing-cards.html

When I see that look upon your face

I know that I’ve been dealt an ace of hearts.

Something starts.

Pulse is pounding like a conga drum.

The blood goes rushing to and from my head,

Turns my face to red.

So ante-up and hit me once then hit me twice.

The stakes are high. 

You know I’ve got to keep as cool as ice.

This game we’re in together

Could end as quickly as it starts.

But I’ll just take my chances.

I’ll just take my chances

Cause I know that I have you

And you’re my . . . 

Ace of hearts.

I know that I have you and you’re my 

Ace of hearts.

Deal me in I’m staying for the course

And if I lose don’t feel remorse for me.

You will always be

In my every breath and in my soul.

When chips are down you take control and then

Bring me back again.

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For The Ride

Think . . .

 

https://www.facebook.com/ThinkingHumanity/

Sailing on an emerald sea.
Advertisements and color photographs
Don’t mean that much to me.
Poolside cocktails; 
Love in the sand. 
It’s like a dream that just came true.
I just don’t know how much that I can stand.
Many temptations are swimming round my head. 
So many places that you’d think I’d like to be instead but . . . 

I’m always thinking of you.
I hope you think of me too.
I only want to be where you are.

Riding to the Wellington Club.
I’d have a driver and he’d take me there.
I’d just sit back and put my two feet up.
Money doesn’t measure the man.
All you can do is spend it; spend again.
It only goes so far. You can’t pretend. 
Many times over I’ve seen it slip away.
I’d like to live that life sometime
But baby not today. Cause . . . 

I get a feeling when I’m with you
That nothing else captures the same way.
You know it’s true.

If you see the pyramids rise
Above the desert sand into the sky,
A greater sight you just won’t realize. 
River fights its way to the sea.
Worthy opponents just can’t hinder it.
It always gets to where it wants to be.
Just like the river, I see my destiny.
It’s right there in your very eyes
Each time you look at me and . . .  

Thinking
- ©2021 Raymond M. Jozwiak

from the forthcoming release "Grains"

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                               Put A Finger On It

Perfection . . .

 

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/perfect+score

(from Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow)
". . . "Is it not time to awake from the deceitful dream of a golden age and to adopt as a practical maxim for the direction of our political conduct that we, as well as the other inhabitants of the globe, are yet remote from the happy empire of perfect wisdom and perfect virtue?". . . "


Perfect World
- Huey Lewis and the News

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