Gang, I’m so tired. I can’t really post today, either. I want to try to get a little more sleep before heading out. I have back to back shifts today.
But the good thing is, I really adore the patients I’m taking care of today!!
One of whom is the 94 year-old Japanese man. And guess what gang, yesterday, for the first time, he remembered my name!! And went on to remember it 5 times yesterday.
This is huge, gang. It was so exciting. I’ve been working with him for nearly 2 months now so it could be that I’m moving from his short term memory into his long term memory. But whatever the reason, it was a big day. So we’ll see what today brings.
Okay, gang. Enjoy your Sunday, wherever you are in the world. Thanks for visiting.
Research for my memoir continues for the 6th straight day. I wish I could post here publicly some of the stuff I am re-discovering, but I don’t want to invade anyone’s privacy.
However, it is blowing my mind. I will at least show you this much — just so you can see how much my mind keeps getting blown!!
This photo below is of one of the musicians who was in the band The New Riders of the Purple Sage, in 1972. I did not know this guy at all, however, he looked uncannily similar to the guy I “lost” my virginity to in February 1974. That guy was a musician, also. He was 5 years older than me, so it was a huge scandal, because I was 13 (he thought I was 17). But I was seriously grateful to him and I am to this day, in fact!!
Anyway. The photo of the musician from the New Riders of the Purple Sage is the only “memento” I have of the guy I knew, because I only knew that guy for a few hours , one afternoon, 50 years ago…
Well, long story short. The guy that I lost my virginity to, who was also a musician, is, oddly enough, STILL a musician and….. he fucking LIVES thirty miles from me, out here in the Hinterlands.
He is apparently a very highly regarded bluegrass musician in these parts and he plays a lot of gigs. He’s almost 70 now. He still has the beard and mustache, but his hair is white and cut very short.
I even found his street address, but he appears to be married so I’m just going to leave that all alone. But wow. How fucking weird is that?? (Oh, and he’s a Republican so he likely voted for Trump.)
(Oh, and Valerie is keeping pace with me — a sketch, drawing or painting every day so far this week!!)
Here’s something that is similar to my post from the other day.
I found this photo of the bedroom I had from 1971 to early 1974. From the time I was 11 to 13 years old. This is how the room looks now:
You can’t really see my bedroom in these two shots below, but here is a little of how it looked in 1972 and 1973:
And in the above photo, if you look at the very top right, there was a poster of the Rolling Stones on my wall that I adored and I found the photo online today that the poster was made from — a press conference for their Hyde Park concert 1969:
This is all just stuff that is ‘around the edges” of the memoir, but it is so weird, how I’ll suddenly get an idea to google something and then my entire past is sort of “alive” again. It is the weirdest feeling, gang.
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The news continues to be full of optics and psyops, but if you follow Q you are probably feeling extremely excited right about now.
[…]More good news to report — or rather, more good news being promised / telegraphed to us. We now learn that NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) — the corrupt agency which stores dubious data supporting the Climate Change Hoax — is, along with the Fed, the Department of Education, the CIA etc, on the chopping block of Commander Trump and the Q Team. […]
So much winning, and on so many fronts. It calls to mind a hard-to-believe (at the time) prediction shouted out by then Candidate Trump at a 2016 rally:
“If I become president, we’re going to win so much, we’re going to win economically, we’re going to win the military. We’re going to win with health care. We’re going to win with every single facet. We’re going to win so much, you may even get tired of winning. And you’ll say please, please, it’s too much winning. We can’t take it anymore. Mr. President, it’s too much winning. And I’ll say, no it isn’t. We have to keep winning. We’re going to win more.” […]
“🇨🇳🇷🇺 China says all parties must remain calm and exercise restraint following Ukraine’s use of US and UK supplied missiles to strike Russian territory.
“China’s stance of encouraging all parties to de-escalate the situation and commit to a political resolution of the Ukraine crisis remains unchanged.
China will continue to play a constructive role in this regard.”
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If you need help making ends meet or providing your kids with a great Christmas this year, Phil & Keri are doing another $100,000 free cash Christmas giveaway!
Click here and scroll for the rules and application.
Also, I think Phil is planning to do another livestream tonight at 8PM, but check here later to confirm.
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Plus, there are still PLENTY of Q deltas being met, daily. It’s off the charts now, in fact. They are anticipating more Q -related drops to come from Elon. If you want to keep up on all that, follow NewsTreasonChannel17 and keep scrolling.
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From a day ago, in London…
Andy the Gabby Cabby (UK) – What REALLY Happened At The Farmers Rally Yesterday (4 mins):
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This is worth listening to, if you want the background on all the Leftist shenanigans still going on with the courts in the US.
Audio only podcast (14 mins):
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This happened yesterday on Instagram!!
Bob Dylan posted to Threads about seeing Nick Cave in Paris!
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And our Daily Feature!
What Would Keith Richards Do?
From Chapter Five: Daily Affirmations. The topic is Strength & Suffering.
Keith advises us:
“At the end of the day you don’t mess with me. There’s no point in doing it.”
Methinks he probably means that! And I’m guessing it’s something we should each adopt for ourselves, as well! If a certain situation comes up in your world, without hesitation, just say: Don’t mess with me. There’s no point in doing it. And see what happens!!
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Yes!
We have snow here today!! I don’t think it will amount to much, but I guess winter is arriving, as we speak (type). And many of my neighbors have already been doing that thing they do so well: Putting up all their Christmas Decorations even before Thanksgiving…. CRIMONY!!! Who has time for this???
I’m actually a little (a lot) (hugely, in fact) apprehensive about putting up the tree and all the decorations this year because I now have SO MANY frisky cats around here!! And 5 of them have never seen a decorated Christmas tree before!!! (Heavy, heavy sigh….Methinks I can already see fragile Christmas ornaments flying all over the place.)
Anyway.
In addition to beginning firearms training, and my ongoing courses in various Christian Antiquities with James Tabor, the Mondly App just updated it’s French courses in Business Conversation and grammar, so I am back to studying French again everyday!! (Yeah, well, I’m not really sure how I’m managing all this, but you know, life sort of takes over and I simply go with the flow. It feels so incredible to have my life back.)
Sandra and I are scheduled to chat early tomorrow afternoon — now that the run of the other play is over, it will now be all about preparing for the staged reading of “The Guide to Being Fabulous” Off-Broadway. I will tell you more details when I can, gang. But it is sufficient to say, that my life is just hugely changing right now. And I’m very excited about it.
And this new daily “Creativity Routine” between Valerie and me is proving to be very productive so far. The goal is to produce something/anything each day, even if it’s just for a few minutes a day.
So far, I’ve been able to work on my new memoir a little bit each day, for 4 days in a row. And also over the past 4 days, Valerie has done sketches, drawings, and begun a new painting(!!) . So this really is working, gang. And it feels incredible.
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Okay. I gotta scoot! I have an afternoon shift today, followed by one of those Required Skills/Training Incentives at the agency’s offices this evening. Yay.
[AND! The entire meeting is in French, and for Biblical Scholars only, and firearms are REQUIRED! So I gotta get moving here.]
[I am, of course, just kidding.]
Enjoy your Wednesday, wherever you are in the world!!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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Remember this one, gang??? Such a HUGE hit from my wee bonny girlhood in Cleveland!! Okay, gang. Enjoy!!!!
“A Man Without Love” ❤️ Engelbert Humperdinck 🎤 1968
Well, thank goodness I don’t have to work another double shift today, but I do have to head out early. So this is a quick one.
I think Phil’s livestream from last night tells us what we really need to know right now. And, personally, I was especially excited to hear that “Putin is on deck”!
I gotta scoot here, gang, because I have a long double shift today.
But I wanted to at least post that Phil is allegedly going live tonight with GREAT news. It is supposed to start at 8PM Eastern time, but check here later to confirm.
So with that “great news” in mind, I will once again refrain from re-posting all the WWIII scenarios that are all over the place this morning.
Meanwhile….
Yes, now that I am super excited to be flying to NYC more often, Spirit Airlines declares bankruptcy today! However, they intend to remain in business as long as they can. So we will see how it all plays out. [And oddly enough, I applied for a Spirit Airlines credit card last week, but was turned down because of my recent bankruptcy….}
Sanity4Sweden – Swedish Socialist Shift. Biden Ending with a Bang. Sad Trudeau in Brazil (4 mins):
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Andy the Gabby Cabby (UK) – Andy The Gabby Cabby is live In London (11 mins):
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Keith Richards rare Interview Paris, 1980 (15 mins):
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And that is it for now! The rest of the “news” you can find everywhere else because it is basically all the same: Trump won, the world is already getting better while simultaneously heading into WWIII… go figure!
Have a terrific Tuesday, wherever you are in the world!!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with last night’s listening-by-candlelight-music while lying in bed, smiling!! I had it on repeat for quite a while.
I got SO MUCH work done on the memoir notes yesterday, gang. it was amazing.
Sting’s massive hit from 1993, “Fields of Gold”. Off his Ten Summoner’s Tales album. Enjoy.
Yes, and by that I mean: bullshittery is incoming.
Everyone — including Charlie Ward’s news update today, and even Simon Parks’ update (!!), which is never on the same page with anyone else’s intel, are jumping on the same “WWIII” bandwagon this morning.
I’m guessing that maybe this is why they still won’t let Phil do a livestream yet? To try to get this idea that we are on the “brink of war because of Biden” to stick? And that any input from Phil is going to send us all looking in another direction?
Obviously, I just don’t know.
But what I do know, is that Biden is dead (and has been dead since March 2019), so that is not “Biden” essentially declaring war on Putin by way of Ukraine; it’s just some guy doing it.
And Putin and Xi are Trump’s allies, so I’m not buying any of this sudden brink of war narrative, gang.
“BREAKING: Donald Trump confirms he is prepared to declare a national emergency and use the military assets to reverse the Biden invasion.”
I’m guessing that you cannot invade another country from the afterlife — although, I am not 100% certain of this since I have no recollection of the afterlife, even though I’m guessing I’ve been a resident there many, many times. (This is based solely on how exhausted I usually feel.)
Anyway. No actual Biden = no actual missiles going anywhere, in my book. So the narrative must really be that Trump is going to save the world. (Which is actually fine with me.)
One really nice thing about today is that I have the whole day off, which means I am not at the mercy of anyone else’s TV today, so I will not be forced to watch Fox News regurgitate this same “missiles at Russia” narrative all day long…
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Well, it is over! No, not the election!! (Well, yes, that is over.)
But so is Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ Wild God Tour of Europe & the UK.
And, as I had suspected, the sold out show in Paris last night looked massively amazing. (The only thing that disappoints me a little bit is that it seems Nick got a haircut — maybe in London? Just when it was finally getting to that length that I absolutely love! Gone, baby, gone.)
Anyway. Here are 2 photos from Paris last night. (The 2nd one is missing the credit, sorry. It got cut off, unintentionally.)
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And, for now, the Daily Feature continues!
What Would Keith Richards Do?
And our random selection came from — you guessed it — Chapter Five: Daily Affirmations. And the topic today is MUSIC.
One of the many, many, many, things Keith has to say about music:
“There is something about music. When you like it, you want to find out where it came from.”
And this statement, coming from a man who was so instrumental (no pun intended) in creating my brain and, in essence, giving birth to my whole life, beginning when I was 12 — well, it looks like a simple statement, but to me, it says everything. [Hence, my new memoir-in-progress. ]
Similarly, you may recall that I posted this a few months ago, and it resonates for me in the same way as the quote above:
And that segues into that new thing Valerie and I are doing — texting each other every day about what we got done on a given project and how long we spent doing it.
This is in order to help each of us get back on a daily routine of doing our creative stuff. Me — writing; Val — painting.
And it was incredibly successful for me yesterday, gang!
I only spent 45 minutes on my memoir yesterday, before having to get ready for work, but so much stuff came out of my brain!! Including the title of the memoir:
Joy — The Shortest Season: A Memoir 1971-1980
The memoir is about the various fathers and father figures I had in my early life and how they shaped me into becoming who I am.
This is the second in a trio of memoirs. The first being In the Shadow of Narcissa — a memoir of my childhood, covering my adoption in 1960 up to early 1971, when I was 10 years old. (Still in progress.)
The third memoir will be about my early life in NYC — Manhattan, Mon Amour. (1980-1989). Basically, the sex, drugs, and rock & roll memoir.
Anyway, I was just thrilled with the amount of work I got done in 45 minutes yesterday. It’s all notes, but the notes took me down roads that I was not expecting. Including, but not limited to(!!):
This amazing house we lived in where so many cool things happened to my brain — we lived here from July 1971 to early 1974, up until my dad left us:
And, this might seem creepy, but it is not intended to be.
These are the 2 bedrooms I had — one in 1975 and one in 1979 — where I attempted suicide. (And no, I did not attempt suicide because the rooms are so god-awful ugly!!) Followed by a photo of the basement where I was raped by 2 guys from the high school during Christmas vacation in 1974.
What fascinates me is that I found these photos online yesterday, on zillow.com — a site that lists houses that are or have recently been for sale. And so these rooms are simply out there in the world now and have nothing physically to do with me and my life anymore. But when I found the photos, I was like, holy shit.
My bedroom from 1975, but as it looks now
My bedroom from 1979, but as it looks now
The basement from 1974, but as it looks now — which is basically, exactly the same.
I have no idea what inspired me to look for these photos of the old houses yesterday (there are a total of 8 that I lived in from 1971-1980).
And I was certainly not expecting the photos to be a veritable touchstone, opening up the whole memoir, to the point where a title even came out. So it was a really fruitful 45 minutes yesterday.
Today, I have all day to work on the memoir, so I am really excited about all this, gang.
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Okay.
Enjoy your Monday wherever you are in the world!!!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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I posted this song recently, but I leave you with this again, because I was not expecting that title to come out of me yesterday — and I think I played this song 723 times yesterday after that.
(By the way– if you aren’t aware of it, my middle name is Joy, and that is connected to all of this stuff, too.)
A huge Top 40 radio hit from when I was 11: “Joy” By Apollo 100. (Based on Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring”.) Enjoy, gang.
Well, yesterday, my worn and tattered, 4-year-old Trump flag got all tangled up in my autumnal front door decorations, and so rather than have it completely disintegrate by Inauguration Day, I officially took it down last evening when I got home from my shift.
Here is what it looked like when it was brand new and not so tattered:
And now it is at least clean, and folded, and stored away for posterity. I loved that flag. I wonder if my neighbors will be astounded to discover that it is now gone?!
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Okay!!
On a similar note — I love these guys!!! I am so grateful for them. I guess when heroes are in the process of flying around on their private jet and saving the free world, they dine on fare from McDonalds:
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Okay. Phil is supposed to do a livestream TONIGHT at 8PM Eastern. I guess we shall see!!! Check here later to confirm.
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And tonight is the final show of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ Wild God Tour. It is sold out — in Paris. I cannot even imagine how spectacular the show is going to be, gang.
Here is George Vjestica (Bad Seeds guitar player) in Paris just now:
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And here is Keith from a few years ago, but I love this photo! I found it yesterday on Instagram.
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And speaking of Keith….
Since everything else is changing, I’m not sure how much longer I’m going to do the Daily Feature, but for now, here it is!
Our random selection today came from Chapter Three: The Philosophy of Keith!! And the topic is BOREDOM.
Keith says:
“Boredom? To me that’s an illness.”
And I don’t know about you, gang, but I can seriously relate. I have never been the type of person who easily gets bored. It just doesn’t happen. My mind is always going and going and going.
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Okay!
Another new thing in my life!!
In two weeks, I begin firearms training!
The one and only time in my life when I tried to learn how to shoot a gun (a rifle), I was 17 years old and absolutely terrible at it. But we’ll see how it goes this time. And this time it will be primarily a pistol.
I’m taking the classes HERE: Buckeye Shooting Center:
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And on that note —
Today is the first day that Valerie and I are doing our new creativity/accountability schedule plan — whatever the heck you’d call it!
But we’re both excited to get started. (See yesterday’s post.) And that means I gotta scoot, because I also have to work another (shorter) double today.
So enjoy your Sunday, wherever you are in the world!
Thanks for visiting.
I love you guys. See ya!
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I leave you with this! Continuing that “Americans with Guns” theme!
From Johnny Horton — his huge hit from 1959, “The Battle of New Orleans”. Enjoy, gang!!
Mostly, I mean that I start back to work today, after having had 5 days off.
But also — there is just less and less and LESS news to post here, gang. I mean, besides all the news that you can easily get everywhere else now. Which is a great thing.
I still check all the channels and videos, but there is nothing that requires re-posting here. If I find something, I will, of course, post it.
Phil should be live tonight at 8PM Eastern time. Check here later to confirm. His livestreams are going to remain informative until at least the inauguration.
So it seems that I’m sort of getting my life back. I’m going to keep my Trump flag flying until Inauguration Day. It is a bit tattered, since it’s been out there for 4 solid years, in all sorts of insane weather– including tornadoes. But I guess, once I take it down and fold it up and put it away in late January… I will officially have my life back.
Meanwhile, Valerie in Brooklyn and I are embarking on a plan to get our creativity onto a daily schedule again. She’s a painter and I am, of course, a writer. So each day/night, we’re going to text each other a quick summary of what we each worked on and for how long we worked on it that day.
A type of “accountability” schedule. To get ourselves back into the old, pre-war headspace of painting and writing every day. Yay.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds played Birmingham last night. and tomorrow they play a SOLD OUT show in Paris and then the Wild God European/UK Tour is over.
It seems like it was an unbelievably successful, beautiful, emotional tour, gang.
Here’s a photo from Birmingham last night:
And beginning in April 2025:
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Here’s the Daily Feature.
What Would Keith Richards Do?
This is our random selection — yet again, from Chapter Five: Daily Affirmations, and the topic is SURVIVAL & BOUNCING BACK. I found today’s selection oddly timely and personal [see my post from yesterday]!
Speaking to a NYC audience at a 9/11 tribute concert, 23 years ago, Keith said:
“You know, I gotta feeling this town’s gonna make it.”
As usual, he was right.
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And that is it for now, gang.
Enjoy your Saturday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting!
I love you guys. See ya!
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This morning’s breakfast- listening music!!
Nat King Cole’s, “Straighten Up & Fly Right”. 1943. Enjoy, gang.
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