Origins . . .

. . . of ideas are inexplicably wonderful

https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/590/babbitt/#overview

I don’t ask much,

Living my life the way that I want.

I stay in touch with what goes on there.

I’ve seen trouble. I’ve seen heartache.

But my time here

Has been long enough to

Instill certain qualities. 

Seems the more that I witness,

All the more that I wish

I could hear what you’re saying.

We’re all better than this.

Let’s identify exactly what we miss.

Beyond perilous moors

The brave sea glitters.

Better lies ahead.da

Whether or not 

We realize the years flow upstream.

Things that we’ve got aren’t always what they seem.

Your and my faiths are so different.

Each is placed in 

Antipodal reference 

So painful to reconcile.

If we stop trying,

What can we do?

What’s in the future

For me and you?

There’s both right and wrong but only reality prevails.

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                         No Frills

Boss . . .

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3874544/

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.

I Think You Know What I Mean
- Lyle Lovett


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   Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak

Moment . . .

 

https://positivepsychology.com/present-moment/

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. 

   

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                          2014

Ego . . .

 

https://quotesgram.com/people-with-big-ego-quotes/

Sometimes I can get my point across,

And I do it rather well.

You can see

What I think

About me.

It's just my ego.

It gets the best of me.

It's just my ego

It just won't let me be,

It just won't let me be alone.

It's not one of my most redeeming qualities.

Still though it serves me rather well sometimes.

It won't be easy to just let it go,

It's just my ego.

I take such great pride in what I do.

Everyone should take some too.

Don't you think;

Pride in me,

Not in you?

There's a fine distinction between confidence and pride.

There's a fine distinction that I'll never know.

Cloaked with some discretion you emerge from the inside.

I emerge in all my glory. 

What is there to hide?

Mother said that I would never make

Any friends if I don't see

What I'm like,

If I don't lose some pride.

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        Black & White Then Back

One . . .

 . . . Of many inaccuracies in our history

https://xqsuperschool.org/rethinktogether/decolonizing-american-history-textbooks/

(from https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/heather-richardson/rewriting-history-matters-cannot-make-good-decisions-future-inaccurate-knowledge/)

". . . 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.". . . "

Rewrite
- Paul Simon



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            Ambience & Wine

Classic . . .

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/oho

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.

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Star . . .

 

https://www.space.com/21702-sirius-brightest-star.html

A star, by any other name,

May still shine very brightly.

We see them nearly everyday

Almost to points unsightly.

The joy in finding by yourself,

One such phenomenon,

Instead of simply from the shelf,

Is that it's real and not a con.

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