Wow, yesterday was emotional, gang.

Not just that David Johansen died, but the way I found out —

I was with my 94-year-old Japanese client. I was kneeling next to his recliner and playing Louis Armstrong’s “What A Wonderful World” for him on my phone.

He wasn’t familiar with that song. And he had tears in his eyes as he was listening to it and watching the little video — and suddenly a text from Wayne popped up at the top of the screen, saying that David Johansen had died.

I swiped it away before my client could even process it. But I had definitely processed it. In a nanosecond. And so to be there like that, with my client practically in tears of joy, and that beautiful song playing, and then seeing the news and having to keep it to myself… wow.

My client had a lot of incredibly beautiful things to say to me yesterday. It was intense. So, all of it together — I left there not feeling at all like shooting a gun. So I just came straight home and skipped the open house at the shooting range.

And in the mail yesterday — there was a sympathy card from the staff at the agency where I work. Expressing sadness for my loss — for my cat being killed by a car. Is that, like, amazing, or what? They are the nicest company to work for, in so many ways.

Anyway, by the time I got home yesterday — walking in to a kitchen that had been turned sort of topsy-turvy by the foster cats — I was just worn out. On so many levels.

So today, I just want to have a really nice day.

The sun is out. It’s cold, but at least it’s March and Spring is right around the corner.

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Okay. I thought this was of interest. This is where the Government has uploaded (and will continue to upload) assassination files on JFK:

“The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection“

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If you are interested in Judeo-Christian antiquities, this is great stuff. We are studying it (again) in Tabor’s private Patreon Group. This video is taken from our recent zoom session.

James Tabor — The Didache: A Lost and Rediscovered Text of the Teaching of Jesus Pt 1 (1 hr):

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And this has begun today! And THANK YOU (!!!) to the folks who are already downloading my free eBooks! (Direct links to my eBooks that are included in the sale are HERE. Scroll down.) (ADULTS ONLY!!)

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Okay, I think that’s kind of it.

I want to finish up the laundry, do some yoga, and then get back to editing the files for the TV series promo package.

Enjoy your Sunday, gang, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I also played the song below for my client yesterday morning. He had never heard it before. It was popular here when he was living back in Tokyo.

My client was born in NYC in 1930, but when he was 3, his father moved the family back to Tokyo because the world situation was getting dicey — just before WWII.

When my client was 17 and done with high school and WWII was over, his father gave him enough money to go back to NYC. (His father had also arranged a job for him.)

As my client was leaving Tokyo at age 17, his dad said to him: “Don’t expect me to send you any more money. If you can’t make it in New York City, then you’ll never amount to anything.” My client went on to graduate from NYU by working days as a TV repairman and going to school at night. That degree from NYU eventually landed him several Executive positions in electrical engineering in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Fort Worth — and it took him all over the world. He became very, very successful.

My client certainly knew who Frank Sinatra was, but he was only familiar with the earlier songs. When I played this one for him — he was spellbound. And, yes, he had tears in his eyes. When the song was over, he whispered, “Thank you.” Enjoy, gang.