Wow, it is like a true fall morning around here, gang.

The heat was actually blowing the lace curtains around when I went downstairs this morning.

It was 41 degrees Fahrenheit (and still dark out) when I went outside to feed KonTiki of the Great Outdoors this morning — and she still hasn’t gotten into her cathouse yet. She still prefers to be on top of it. But anyway, it was so beautiful out there — the moon was still sort of full and shining down from a perfectly clear black sky full of stars.

And, YES! I awoke at 3:45AM to a text from the Agency, alerting me that they had added yet another shift to my schedule at the end of the month(!!!). This time, I emailed my supervisor and asked them to give that shift to someone else, please. Etc., etc. (I am now up to approximately 29-32 hours a week again, with only one day off each week again. And that is just too much.)

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Okay!!

Well, the local handyman is coming today at 6PM, instead of coming yesterday, since he couldn’t get here yesterday until 7:30PM — apparently he was unaware of the fact that I am usually already upstairs in bed by 7:30PM… (studying French and stuff, but still. I’m up there in bed and I don’t want to change that just yet. I’ve gotten super SUPER selfish about my “me” time, even though he’s going to be doing a job that I really want done!) (See yesterday’s post about keeping any and all CATS out of the storage closets!!)

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Speaking of yesterday…

I had a truly beautiful day with my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man. We did go get our sushi, sashimi, and sake (he drinks the sake, not me). And here were our fortunes from the fortune cookies. Both of them could sort of apply to each of us, but the top one was his, and mine was the bottom one!! Yay!!

Oh, and oddly enough — yesterday was the first time he noticed me slipping the fortunes into my purse.

HE: “Are you taking those home?”

ME (startled by just how many of them I’ve already taken home and posted to the blog that he doesn’t know about): “Oh, well, yeah.”

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Today is the heavenly birthday of my very first girlhood hero. He was my world when I was 11. And he opened the door to everything, music-wise, for me. Including, but not limited to: (a different take on) Elvis, Delta Blues, Bob Dylan, and Brian Jones, Keith Richards and The Rolling Stones!! Yay!

Happy Heavenly Birthday, John Lennon. (He would have been 85 today — had the CIA not murdered him, that is.)

[And just FYI — always use Yandex when you want to actually search for something that doesn’t leap to “Conspiracy Theory!!”]

[And check out the Fundamentals of Trauma Based Mind Control, if you haven’t already… just a primer.] [I only bring this up, because, at age 20, I had only lived in NYC for 3 weeks when they murdered my girlhood hero. Talk about effective trauma…]

Anyway.

And here’s this! (Remember how, just after 9-11, DJs weren’t allowed to play this song on the radio???!!!) (Hmmmm….)

“Imagine”

Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today… Aha-ah…

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace… You…

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world… You…

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

c- 1971 John Lennon

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Well, on a happier note… as of right now, silver is at $50.09 per ounce! And gold is at $4,037. And the best is STILL yet to come!!

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Okay, well, I guess that is gonna be it for now, gang.

I really want to get back to reading over The Curse of Our Profound Disorder, so that I can get it off to the publisher already!!

Enjoy your Thursday, wherever you are in the world!!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this!!

(Why wouldn’t I, on this beautiful fall morning in the Hinterlands??)

From my wee bonny girlhood in Cleveland, in the “Make America Beautiful” USA!! Buffalo Springfield, 1966, “For What It’s Worth.”

Enjoy, gang.

“For What It’s Worth”

There’s something happening here
But what it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it’s time we stop
Children, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?

There’s battle lines being drawn
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong
Young people speaking’ their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

It’s time we stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?

What a field day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly saying, “hooray for our side”

It’s time we stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you’re always afraid
Step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?

We better stop
Hey, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?

We better stop
Now, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?

We better stop
Children, what’s that sound?
Everybody look – what’s going down?

c – 1966 Stephen Stills