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Summer mmmmm list:
Massive Attack late at night, wind through leaves, watermelon and green grapes, outdoor music festivals, sun on skin, mojitos, being by large bodies of water, electric storms at night, sliding back and forth on each other's sweaty bodies....

A favorite:
"Just as my fingers on these keys
Make music, so the selfsame sounds
On my spirit make a music, too.

Music is feeling, then, not sound;
And thus it is that what I feel,
Here in this room, desiring you,

Thinking of your blue-shadowed silk,
Is music."

Southern Culture On The Skids - see 'em!

Our planet is the insane asylum of the universe.

Quote of the week:
"Today there is a wide measure of agreement, which on the physical side of science approaches almost to unanimity, that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine."
Sir James Jeans

What a great day!

What is it - that something that's just beyond, elusively tangible, never fully evident but omnipresent?

So there was this country whose leaders got into power by rigging their election, created a phony "enemy" to justify expanding their military, co-opted most of the press, ignored international law, alienated their allies, created wars for their own enrichment, created laws to enrich those who support them, believed any means justified their ends, including the imprisonment or murder of unarmed civiilians of any age,...
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when you were my age...
you believed the history you were taught;
you were more concerned with yourself than anyone else, no matter what you said;
you saw only open road ahead of you;
you were obsessed by theories;
you were ignorant of realities;
you took games seriously;
you thought looking different meant you were different;
you had a lot to learn.

Film tip: go check out Spring Summer Fall Winter ... and Spring.