You're innocent when you dream
It's the Moon's day . . . a foggy day in TulseyTown. Northerlies return while I catch up with the mail...
Things that exist are imperfect. Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there in that imperfection is perfect reality....the true nature of all things cannot be grasped by the intellect or understood by words. It can only be experienced directly, in the present moment. – Dogen
Joyce Vance's The Week Ahead.
The future of Syria is entirely unclear...The fall of Syria – a Russian- and Iranian-backed regime – offers, suddenly, the possibility of change. The future might be different. And that possibility will inspire hope all around the world. – Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
You may want to prepare yourself for the coming Trump administration by rereading George Orwell’s “1984” if it’s been a while. – Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse.
Will we permit the destruction of American democracy on our watch? - Heather Cox Richardson, in Letters From An American.
Tom Waits turned 75 back on Saturday. The singer-songwriter and actor was born in 1949 Pomona California. In spite of the fact that Waits' music is uncategorisable, Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Check out Neil Young's introduction and Waits acceptance at that event.
A taste of Tom Waits: Suggest you do these in order.
Your goal is not to find love, but to remove all barriers which are preventing you from receiving it. – Rumi