Held Together . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2GZ53rRfno

There was a time
When I was so unsure 
Of how I would find
My way through tears and trouble.
This big world can
Look so scary 
To a little boy
On his own.

It's held together by your love.
So secure sometimes it's frightening.
The thread connecting
All the right things
That help me to survive.
It's held together by your love.
It's so sure it strikes like lightning
A breeze refreshing
Me when I 
Find that life is cruel.
It's held together by your love

I'm not one to run away
From each little storm.
Only fools refuse assistance
As they're carried downstream in the 
Rushing foam

I look around,
Concerned for much 
I see now.
I may have found
The rare elusive why and how
That everyone keeps searching
For, to bind or mend
All life's loose ends.

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Dates . . .

https://www.deccanherald.com/specials/recipe-here-s-why-

you-should-consume-superfood-dates-736665.html

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Watching . . .

 

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/windows-to-the-self

There’s a boy in a room.
It’s a cavernous room,
With the walls all festooned
With the likenesses of
Sincere and humble, pious faces.

The eyes were watching,
Intently so.
Suspiciously watching,
But they weren’t the eyes
Of some omniscient, single, potent being.
They were the eyes of my fellow man,
And oh the things they did see.

By design or by fate,
From the boy grew the man,
And believing in magic,
Drew his comfort from what 
They called his deep faith
And perseverance.

All those around him
And the vast majority believed
In it too,
So much resembling dependent infancy 
I shudder. Shudder!

As a product of his time,
And of nurture through the years,
He pushed on where his intellect
Showed him how to proceed
Without any invasive deities.
 

Eyes
- from the forthcoming album "Grains" by Ray Jozwiak - Gonzo Piano
 

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Faces . . .

https://www.dreamstime.com/illustration/two-face.html

(from Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham)

". . . To John Adams, Jefferson wrote: "The truth is that the greatest enemies of the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away [with] all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors.". . . " 

Heavenly Bank Account
- Frank Zappa



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Optimism . . .

https://www.verywellmind.com/optimism-month-how-and-why-to-celebrate-3144447 

(from Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham)

". . . Jefferson hoped that subjecting religious sensibilities to free inquiry would transform faith from a source of contention into a force for good, for he knew that religion in one form or another was a perpetual factor in the world. The wisest course, then, was not to rail against it but to encourage the application of reason to questions of faith. The more rational that men became about religion, Jefferson believed, the better lives they would lead; in turn the life of the nation would become more stable and virtuous. . ."

Be Optimistic
- Shirley Temple (from Little Miss Broadway)
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The Meaning . . .

. . . of life??

http://psychology.iresearchnet.com/social-psychology/

prosocial-behavior/search-for-meaning-in-life/

Eat that pork.

Eat that ham.

Laugh til you choke on Billy Graham.

Moses, Aaron and Abraham,

They're all a waste of time. 

It's your ass that's on the line.

Do what you want to.

Do what you will. 

Just don't mess up your neighbor's thrill.

And when you pay the bill

Kindly leave a little tip, 

And help the next poor sucker 

On his one-way trip.

                       -Frank Zappa

The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing
- Frank Zappa



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                          2014

Big . . .

 

. . . shot

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/cartoon-illustration-

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Everybody thinks he's a big, big shot

In the world of the buy and the sell.

Respect of the human is one thing,

But for lack of respect, you'll pay hell.

It's not unlike Hollywood

Where they're all very pretty

Dressed oh, so stylishly

Treating all others shitty,

While raking in millions

For pretending to be 

Other people on screen

For the public to see. 

For the former, it seems, adulation is there.

Although not on a scale with the latter.

The importance is inflated; 

The esteem is immense,

Deep inside his own head, is the matter.

Big Shot
- Billy Joel



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