Rain, Tuesday, Autumn, Hinterlands!

Simon Parkes had a great update yesterday. It was balanced and insightful about both Israel and the RV.

If you aren’t a member of Connecting Consciousness, you won’t be able to watch the video. But joining is free and you can join HERE. (It can take a while to be approved, though.) (Briefly, regarding Israel: he says that there is indeed “a war” of sorts going on there, but it is not what it seems, and that the images you are being shown on MSM and even in Alt media are purposely misleading and intended to upset you.)

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Unfortunately, since I don’t speak German, I didn’t understand that Dr. Reiner Fuellmich was actually arrested the other day and is now in jail.

This just sickens me, gang. Even this late in the game, they are still going to arrest Truthers? I have no clue if this is optics, or what it is. But you can send postcards to him here:

JVA Rosdorf
Dr. Reiner Füllmich
Am Großen Sieke 8
37124 Rosdorf

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Yesterday, I had to write up a brief note “from Sandra” that will go in the show’s program at Soulpepper when our play opens there next week. In going over my files from 2014 (!!), I found this photo that I just love — the women in Sandra’s family. They were all very supportive of her throughout her life, including during her transition:

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Today at noon in Nashville, TN! Nick Cave will be doing an in-store signing of his book, Faith, Hope & Carnage, at Parnassus Books.

And tonight, he’ll be live at the Ryman!!!! Tickets are still available.

A fan took this photo of Nick Cave outside the theater in Detroit Sunday night. I think it’s so funny! Probably the worst photo of him that I have ever seen. (It was really windy and he was in a hurry to get into the theater…):

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That’s kind of it.

I’ll close with this today: Over the weekend, I happened upon an old Randy Travis CD, Storms of Life, from 1986. I used to love Randy Travis, but at some point, he just slipped out of my consciousness.

I immediately remembered that the song “Storms Of Life” was a song that was sort of my anthem to my birth father, but I didn’t remember why. So I put the CD into the CD player in my kitchen and took quite a trip down Memory Lane!! Even though my birth dad has been dead now since 1999, that song still reminds me of the (really complicated) man I knew so briefly.

And then I remembered that there was some other song of Randy Travis’s that I really loved but I couldn’t remember what it was, so I started hunting for other Randy Travis CDs, and I found the song. A huge hit from 1987, “Forever and Ever, Amen.”

I took that out, too, and played it and suddenly recalled how that was the song that played right after Wayne & I said “I do” at our wedding and then turned to go up the aisle as married people!! (Yes, I am incredibly romantic.) (We walked down the aisle to “The Hawaiian Wedding Song,” from Elvis’ movie Blue Hawaii, and then up the aisle to “Forever and Ever, Amen.”)

So I’ll leave you with both of those great Randy Travis songs below!

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Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting. I love you guys. See ya!

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“Storms of Life”

“The Storms Of Life”

There’s a dirty piece of cardboard
That reads Montgomery Ward
Taped across the window of my old Ford.
A six-pack on the front seat and a box of chicken wings,
I’m dialin’ ‘cross the radio for a song that I can sing

I’d better change my wandrin ways,
I know I’ve seen my better days,
Always gettin’ high when I get low.
Well, I left my soul out in the rain,
Lord, what a price I’ve had to pay.
The storms of life are washin’ me away.

An old mail pouch, tobacco sign
Fadin’ on the barn,
Bringin’ back sweet memories of Mama’s farm
When love was just a country girl that lived on down the road.
[Spoken:] you know, she almost had me turned around,
But that was years ago.

C 1986 – Max Barnes, Troy Seals

“Forever and Ever, Amen”

“Forever and Ever, Amen”

You may think that I’m talkin’ foolish
You’ve heard that I’m wild and I’m free
You may wonder how I can promise you now
This love that I feel for you always will be

But you’re not just time that I’m killin’
I’m no longer one of those guys
As sure as I live, this love that I give
Is gonna be yours until the day that I die

Oh, baby, I’m gonna love you forever
Forever and ever amen
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather
As long as old women sit and talk about old men
If you wonder how long I’ll be faithful
I’ll be happy to tell you again
I’m gonna love you forever and ever
Forever and ever, amen

They say time takes its toll on a body
Makes the young girls brown hair turn gray
But honey, I don’t care, I ain’t in love with your hair
And if it all fell out, well, I’d love you anyway

They say time can play tricks on a memory
Make people forget things they knew
Well, it’s easy to see, it’s happenin’ to me
I’ve already forgotten every woman but you

Oh, darlin’, I’m gonna love you forever
Forever and ever amen
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather
As long as old women sit and talk about old men
If you wonder how long I’ll be faithful
Well, just listen to how this song ends
I’m gonna love you forever and ever
Forever and ever, amen

I’m gonna love you forever and ever
Forever and ever, forever and ever
Forever and ever, amen

c 1987 – Paul Overstreet / Don Schlitz