This boss's diatribe strikes a very familiar note with me as I'm sure with many present and ex-office workers. How these people reach their position god only knows. . . But that's ANOTHER song.
Frequently, the natural optimist in me surfaces when writing. Similarly to The Hours, Moment, posted here, is a treatise on living everyday like (yes, it can sound morbid) it's your last. Consequently, when opportunity arises, we must first, recognize it, and then take advantage of it.
". . . Historians long ago put aside the heroic story of the Alamo, which told of freedom-loving Americans fighting off a Mexican tyrant who was trying to crush a fledgling republic. In the past several decades, so many historians have rewritten this history that Brands noted the new retelling “sometimes appear[s] to be beating a horse that, if not dead, was put to pasture awhile back.” . . . Historians have explained how Mexican officials, eager to stabilize their northern borderlands after their own agreements with Apache tribes fell apart, permitted Americans to settle in what is now Texas. Americans moved to the area to grow cotton in the boom years of that era. When Mexico banned slavery in Texas in 1830, Americans rebelled. In October 1835, they joined with Mexican opponents of President Antonio López de Santa Anna’s government and went to war. . . Historians study how societies change. In order to do that, we examine sources created at the time – newspapers, teapots, speeches, tweets, photographs, landscapes, and so on – and judge what we think happened by comparing these primary sources to things other historians have said, on the basis of evidence they have found. We argue a lot. But if we cannot see an ever-widening story, we cannot give an accurate account of how societies change. . . An inaccurate picture of what creates change means that people cannot make good decisions about the future. They are at the mercy of those who are creating the stories. Knowledge is indeed power.". . . "
There are definitely more than one "OHO" on the international music scene today. I would venture to say, that Jay Graboski's OHO probably preceded them all, having its beginnings in the early 1970s. The band has undergone many changes in personnel and musical styles but is still going strong today. Although not from the very beginning, this video captures the group in one of its many, varied, but always wonderful incarnations.
