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“The more, the merrier, I suppose.”

April 9, 2025 marilyn jaye lewis 1 Comment

Well, this post will mostly be about our new family members. And a little about Nick Cave.

I have to say, gang, the little playpen is fantastic — and much roomier than I thought it would be. Little Blackie seems to love it in there — it’s safe, and she can still see everything around her. And it’s a lot warmer than being outside right now.

It basically puts itself together — you pull off an elastic band and it SPROINGS! right into shape.

It was such a relief, gang. because it got so cold again last night and I did not have to worry about them at all. (They are set up right next to my bed.)

So it turns out there are 4 kittens — not 3. There was a little grey one that I couldn’t see inside the dark cat house filled with straw.

But this is a good thing! Because you never want to not have enough kittens to try to find homes for….

We’re thinkin’ we might wanna move that guitar…

Anyway. All things considered, I am really happy with how this turned out. I will just take it day by day.

And the neighbors, who brought over the cat houses in the first place, are really excited so maybe we will get these kittens adopted somewhere really close to home. (And — NO! –I am not going to secretly bring their daughters in to play with the kittens & fall in love… that just wouldn’t be right…)

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I will just say this quick thing about the pilot script, because I can’t really post the details on the blog, but Peitor and I got some FANTASTIC feedback yesterday from one of the producers he met at Series Mania in Lille, France.

As it becomes appropriate, I will fill you in!

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Nick Cave sent out another Red Hand File this morning, that was rather heartwarming!! There were apologies all around. If you read yesterday’s post — well, the woman who wrote to him and went off on his income, wrote and apologized. (I’m wondering if she will ever recover from having her bile spewed internationally?) Anyway you can read it in full here. (It takes about 3 seconds…)

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And I think that’s it!

Its chilly but really sunny today. If it warms up a bit, I will likely take my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client to Geller Park. I’ve taken him there before, but it was before all the dogwoods were in full bloom. He loves it there. But because of his wooden leg and his cane, we really can only just sit on a park bench close to the car and look at everything. But the park is built on ancient Indian burial mounds (2000 years old). I used to live a block from there and went there all the time. It is such a fantastic park.

Okay. Enjoy your Wednesday, wherever you are in the world!!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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On this very day, 44 years ago, Chong Foun Kee and I got married at City Hall in downtown Manhattan!! We still wish each other “Happy Anniversary” on this glorious day. Even though we both kinda go “WOW” as the years continue to keep on coming.

Anyway! During our first year of marriage, this song came on the radio one afternoon when we were in our apartment in the Camelot Building — where we lived, a block from Times Square — and he turned up the volume and dedicated it to me. (We both found this very amusing.)

So, Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond — “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”, 1978. Enjoy, gang!!

Oops! Not Today!

April 7, 2025 marilyn jaye lewis Leave a comment

The shooting range sent out an email yesterday, saying that the range is CLOSED today for cleaning. So. Darn.

Here’s hoping that I won’t have forgotten everything by next week, when I’ll have time to go to the range again. (You’re probably wondering why it is so difficult for me to remember how to load the darn bullets! But it is. Especially since each time I go in there, they give me a different gun. The simplest part is so hard for me!!!)

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Okay! Today’s mini feature:

What’s wrong with this picture??!!

That’s correct!! NEVER knit around people who are cleaning guns!!!

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Meanwhile, Peitor and I got great work done on revising the script yesterday and so we will just continue in that vein today.

I have a new policy around here — my work day doesn’t end until 6PM, seven days a week.

So this means that even when I come home at 3 or 4 PM and am completely emotionally wiped out, I still have a couple of hours to sit at the laptop and work on the script.

Because we really, really need to get this done. And now, of course, Peitor is back in the South of France and so there is once again a 6 hour difference in our time zones.

Not to mention, a difference in our views:

Peitor and a friend on the terrace, overlooking the Mediterranean

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And THIS is arriving tomorrow:

It’s a kitten maternity room for Little Blackie and her new kittens. Because they really need to come indoors and I can’t risk exposing the tiny kittens to all the many curious cats in here — all of whom Little Blackie has a history of attacking.

So Blackie and her tiny newborns will be kept in there — and you can see that the litter box house is attached! I’ll let her come out when I’m home, but she really just wants to stay close to her kittens right now, anyway.

I’ll probably end up putting it in my room, still farther away from all the other cats. We’ll see how it goes!!

BTW, you can also use this to take your pets camping with you! Here’s the link in case you’re interested.

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Well. Nick Cave sent out an AMAZING Red Hand File just now!! It was just great — and this time, he wasn’t too hard on himself! I really loved it. It was in response to a fan thinking that he (and other “celebrities”) are paid “shit tons of money” for what they do, when other people who provide services are paid less. (She sounds a wee bit Neo-Marxist…)

Anyway, he replied, in part:

“Your letter felt a little ungenerous and seemed to contain a corrupting resentment – that kind of indignant, moral posturing where we blame others for our feelings of powerlessness. Resentment – that bitter cup of gall is not good, Carol, not for your heart, not for your soul, not for your digestion, not for anything….”

You can read it (completely and totally for FREE) here.

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Okay. I guess that’s it for now.

I gotta finish the laundry and then get back to work on the pilot script.

Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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James Tabor begins the countdown to Good Friday!

Last Days of Jesus Pt 1 (4 mins):

One of those great mornings!

March 26, 2025 marilyn jaye lewis Leave a comment

A little chilly, but SUPER sunny! And my shift today is with my favorite 94-year-old Japanese man!!

I never, ever know what lays ahead when I first enter his kitchen each morning, but without fail, the journey he and I undertake together (mostly to the past) winds up, by the end of my shift, being astounding.

I always learn something new about him, of course, but also about myself, and usually about life, in general.

He was married twice — first, to a young Japanese woman, who was studying piano at Julliard when they met in NYC in the mid-1950s (she was friends with — an as yet unknown — Yoko Ono, and so the 3 of them would have lunch together in Greenwich Village!! You know, how cool is that?). They ended up having 4 children together — 2 in NYC, and then 2 more were born when they lived in Tokyo. One of the children, a son, very, very tragically died several years ago, but from that son came 4 grandchildren.

He was then married a second time, late in life — to a Latvian woman whose family came to the US as refugees during WWII. This second wife was the absolute love of his life. The house is still full of her essence, her world, her photos, her books, her music & movies. She seems like she was a really wonderful woman, full of life.

She passed away 6 years ago, but they were together for just over 20 years. I’m bringing all this up, because my client believes that this wife, her spirit, is what brought me into his life. And I tell you what, gang — I feel that way, too. I really do. I always smile and quietly say hello to her every time I let myself in through her kitchen door.

Anyway! Wow. I digress!

All I was really going to say is that it is a great morning over here in the Hinterlands.

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Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File yesterday morning that was very interesting. It was one of the few RHFs that I didn’t agree with — mostly because I thought he was being too hard on himself. But also because I think it is up to each individual to discover what the purpose of his or her life is.

But it was still really interesting. It dealt with dividing one’s focus between being an artist, and having a spouse and family. He said, in part:

“You wonder whether this is a mental illness. I believe it is. The artistic impulse is an exquisite derangement – like drugs, like love, like faith, like grief – a complete and full-force commandeering of the body and the heart. It is a kind of possession, a thrilling seduction, an enchantment, as the ink and paint flow and dance. So demonically exhilarating is this sensation that we think – “This must be the purpose of life!”

But, John, it is not….”

(You can read it in full here.)

Basically, I don’t agree with anything he said there. But it did give me a lot of interesting things to think about, in relation to my own life as a writer.

If you are a loyal reader of this lofty blog, then you no doubt recall that I really, really wanted to have children when I was younger. But I went through 2 marriages to men who either did not want children or couldn’t have children, and this was really, really hard for me to come to terms with.

I did come to terms with it over time, because, in hindsight, I know I would have been a terrible mom. My writing meant everything to me — whether it was my songwriting, or my fiction writing. And I would have ended up being really short-tempered and tightly wound most of the time because i would have wanted to give my all to ALL things. But more importantly, I would have wanted my privacy. Constantly. My own world to write in.

If you’ve ever read Virginia Woolf’s classic essay, A Room of One’s Own (1929)– about how “a woman must have money and a room of her own to write fiction.” I read that book in 1983 and it has continually rung true for me throughout my life — needing a room of my own (i.e. “Marilyn’s Room”). Throw the reality of caring for children into that mix, and my mind probably would have exploded. I would have wanted to give 100% to all things, and it can’t be done.

Anyway. I enjoyed reading that Red Hand File very much because it gave me a lot to think about!

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Okay! I gotta scoot!!! BUT– before I scoot!! Peitor is getting some very interested responses to our TV series pitch over there at Series Mania in France! So we will have a ton of work to do when he gets back early next week.

Meanwhile.

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

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I love this photo!

Sort of like “destiny awaiting me”! Times Square in 1960 — the year I was born!! (I lived a block from here for a couple of years in the early 80s, during my first marriage.)

A quick Saturday hello!

March 22, 2025 marilyn jaye lewis Leave a comment

Lots of little things have happened this week — and, oddly, almost ALL of them were good!

Tomorrow I will have time to do a longer post about all of it. But I’ve got to dash out here soon, to go spend the day with my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client! And then — two whole days off!!

Yay!

And — yes! — on my days off, I will be spring-cleaning the remaining rooms of this house with my beloved Bissell powerbrush-pet carpet shampooer!!! Double yay!!

AND — going here:

So.

Peitor will finally be at Series Mania in Lille, France, beginning this evening. He had a horrible time in Montreal, a horrible time in Iowa, a truly horrible time in Los Angeles, then a quick but horrible time in London… so here’s hoping, now that he’s back in his beloved France, he will stop having horrible times.

Here is a very, very brief synopsis of our TV streaming proposal, in case you’re interested (this is printed on the back of a sample photo collage, below):

“Fresh Paint is a one-hour screwball-dramedy streaming series about Dewitt Lawson’s search for the meaning of his own life, while the world as he knows it is caving in on him. Having had the great misfortune of reaching age 46 with everything having always worked out perfectly for him, Dewitt Lawson is suddenly faced with the fact that he possesses no skills whatsoever to navigate the snowballing problems of the art house film company he recently inherited from his father.

It also appears that from his love life to his spiritual life, everything that once worked for Dewitt now falls flat – has he lost his magic? Feeling stranded and abandoned, Dewitt must repeatedly learn how to remain one step ahead of catastrophe – and the Finnish Mob – while saddled with a bevy of culturally diverse, cross-generational characters, ages 22 to 85. By enrolling each of them, and their unique and often colorful survival skills, Dewitt just might get the company – and his life – to turn completely around.”

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Nick Cave sent out a really, really beautiful Red Hand File yesterday, specifically about his song “Skeleton Tree,” written just after his son Arthur’s death. He says, in part:

“…When I wrote ‘Skeleton Tree’, I could not perceive any hope in the song at all. It was a vacuum, all nihilism and void. Listening to it now, years later, I can hear its insistent beauty loud and clear. The echo is not empty, Russell, not in the slightest – we call out, and given time, the echo comes back bearing the entirety of the world.”

You can read it in full here.

And don’t forget!!

In just about 3 weeks, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ North American Wild God Tour begins!! Buy tickets here!

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That’s it for now, gang. But I will return tomorrow!!

Enjoy your Saturday, wherever you are in the world!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I leave you with this!

This popped up on my “frequent plays” while driving on the backroads into town yesterday. It was a really beautiful, sunny spring day! And it was sort of wonderful to revisit my wee bonny youth while driving in the Hinterlands at age 64 and a 1/2 (this song was a smash hit when I was 10) — and marveling at the thought that the Rolling Stones can no longer sing this song in public!! (Marxist woke-ism, gang).

Okay. Enjoy!! (oh, and play it LOUD!)

I’m Outta here!

March 13, 2025 marilyn jaye lewis Leave a comment

I have to say, these morning shifts make me a little nuts. but only because there are so many little things I do in the morning — including posting to the blog. And I hate it when I feel pressed for time.

Anyway.

Another gorgeous day here today, so I’m sure my angst-y mood will subside, once I’m driving those backroads to town, under a beautiful blue sky.

And the client I have today — even though it’s a long shift, he’s very, very easy to take care of.

And speaking of clients! Yes! I did take my favorite 94-year-old Japanese client back to the Peony Bistro yesterday for Japanese food (and we popped in at the Nature Preserve again after lunch), and yet again, our fortune cookies were sort of uncanny. Even though his was a little “in hindsight,” it summed up his former professional life perfectly. (He had 2 degrees — one in Christian Ministry, and one from NYU Engineering School and that one took him all over the world and made him a very wealthy man). And mine was , actually, sort of spot on, considering the things that are always on my mind right now.

His is at the top:

And what was also interesting is that I could hear the women in the booth behind us, talking about their fortune cookies, and one woman said: “It’s like this fortune was meant for me! This happened last time I was here.”

Too funny.

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Okay.

Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File that was very intriguing — ostensibly, it was about Flea, from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. He said, in part:

“I remember being genuinely moved by his words and thinking what a classy guy Flea was, and feeling on some subterranean level that I was unable to fully grasp at that point in my life, that Flea was a human being of an entirely different calibre, indeed, of a higher order.”

You can read it in full here.

What struck me most about this particular Red Hand File, is that I used to work for Gus Van Sant, Sr. in his home office, about 10 years ago. Filing and just helping out. I worked for him for a few years, until he retired and moved away.

At that point, he was the Business Manager of his son’s film production company and I learned a lot about the business end of the movie business.

Gus, Sr. was a really beautiful soul (he died a couple years ago). I just loved working for him. And one day, while I was filing, there was a handwritten letter in the stack of papers, and it was from Flea. And it was just a beautiful letter to Gus, Sr., thanking him for something that he had done for Flea.

I said, “Is this the Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers?”

And Gus , Sr. said, “Yes. Surprisingly, he’s really quite a great guy.”

I was impressed by that, because Gus ,Sr. had a habit of always speaking honestly to me about everything and everyone.

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Okay.

In the spirit of being incredibly pressed for time —

Peitor and I have finally started hearing back from people in LA who are reading our TV Pilot script to give us advice. It has taken forever to get people’s responses, but now we are getting them and it is clear that we need to revise the script — take out quite a few scenes and save them for other episodes. Not a huge deal.

HOWEVER — Peitor goes to Series Mania in Lille, France, in 9 days(!!) and for 8 of those days (!!) I have to work!!!

Arrrrrggghhh!

So I just feel really frustrated right now.

But I still gotta scoot.

So have a great Thursday, wherever you are n the world!!

Thanks for visting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Remember this great song??? My 94-year-old Japanese client and I were playing it yesterday!!

Wayne Newton, 1963. His HUGE hit — “Danke Schoen”. Enjoy, gang.

Good Day Underway Here!

March 5, 2025 marilyn jaye lewis Leave a comment

This will be brief because I have a morning client (I have morning shifts all week). But the good news is that it’s with my favorite 94-year-old Japanese man!

During my meditation this morning, it suddenly occurred to me that, client or no client, he is one of my most favorite people on Earth. And isn’t it interesting that I have such a spiritual rapport with him — a man in the early stages of dementia — and that we laugh so much and have so much in common and that we literally talk for 4 straight hours whenever we are together (3 days a week)?

If you were to overhear our conversations, you would not think that I was talking to someone with a memory problem. We just have the best times together — both in terms of just having fun but also sharing deeply spiritual conversations.

And if you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you may recall that in the autumn, I had this other wonderful client — a woman with several Degrees in Theology from Yale, where she studied just after WWII.

She has no memory issues whatsoever. And she and I had the best conversations, too. About Christian theology, about the Bible, about human nature, about her extraordinary life.

Anyway, she spends winters in Florida and will be coming back here soon. I am so hoping they re-assign me to her. When I visit with people like that — even though I do have to do some serious “caregiver” tasks — it is not like “work” at all. It is incredible.

So, here’s hoping. But we’ll see.

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Okay.

Things with Peitor’s family are improving immensely!!! And it was a really, really good thing that he showed up in Iowa when he did. The situation there has still sort of put him “on hold” as far as the TV pilot proposal package goes. But we are hanging in there.

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In other news!!

Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File yesterday morning that was really wonderful!! In essence, he told us what he eats for lunch everyday (and it’s quite similar to what I eat for breakfast everyday). But he also said some beautiful things about humanity. In part:

“And it reminds me that we all stand before the world with our faculties – our minds, bodies, mouths, and hands – each of us shaping the environment around us. What we think, do, and say is fundamental to the survival of this grand human project. Each of us is precious, and our actions are vital, everything we do and say matters. We can speak beauty into the world or poison it with our words; we can build things up or tear them down; we can dream of a world that is vast, alive, and interesting, or reason it to be small, hard, and empty.”

You can read it in full here.

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And now I gotta scoot!!!!

Have a wonder-filled Wednesday, wherever you are in the world!

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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On a Sinatra kick around here.

When I was 7 years old, I had a transistor radio that I just loved. And that particular year, the song below was a huge Top 40 hit and I just loved listening to it on my transistor!!

As fate would have it, my Japanese client designed one of the most popular pocket-sized transistor radios in the world, back in the late 1960s, while living/working in Hong Kong.

When I played this song for him, and told him how much I loved listening to it on my transistor when I was 7 (and he was 37), he laughed with delight and said, “Yes, I remember this song!!”

It’s still a great song. Enjoy, gang!!

What an unexpected day!

February 24, 2025 marilyn jaye lewis Leave a comment

Well, I drove out to my new client’s house this morning (I had already been there one other time) only to find that they were no longer with the agency and the agency hadn’t told me. (The grown children wanted the caregiver for their mom, but the mom did not want it.)

But they couldn’t have been friendlier, so I stayed for about half an hour and chatted with them. It was a really beautiful day and they live out in the country (only 18 minutes from me– not 40 miles…)

Anyway. It was a really nice day, and since I was near the shooting range, I stopped in!

It was my first time shooting since I took the introductory class back in December. The guy working on the range today helped me get my bearings and went over the handgun with me — I was using a Glock this time.

I did one box of ammunition and he said I did great!! Especially for my first time! (I was channeling both of my fathers while shooting and I truly think they were there, helping me. I really do.)

Here’s my target!!! And the bullet holes near the grey arrows are intentional — I was aiming for those sometimes. The instructor said that on the beginner’s target, anything in that white circle near the “x” is in the bullseye. So I’m kind of in shock.

Now I just need to work on my stance, and getting comfortable with the gun, and then I can focus on just my aim. But I was really just kind of happily stunned. I’m glad I went.

Later this afternoon, my neighbor will be burying Big Blackie, so I will be able to get closure on that. Get into a better place about the fact that he even came into my life at all, and not feel so sad. What a sweet cat he was.

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Okay. Here’s this!!!! I still can’t believe how incredible this is, gang. Cleaning up the FBI !!!

Dan Bongino — 52 mins:

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And guess what else happened?

The Sweet Relief Musician’s fund for David Johansen has over 5,100 donations!! Isn’t that great??? It makes me so happy to see that. (Yes, I check it every day. I just love to see those numbers go up.)

I know he is not likely to survive the cancer at this point, but at least he won’t die in poverty.

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Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File this morning — about the French horn!! And how it is used in the song “Joy” on the Bad Seeds album, Wild God.

“…The French horn embodies so many complex emotions – sorrow, of course, and yearning – but it also conveys more elevated sentiments – courage, steadfastness, fidelity, dignity and nobility. “

You can read it in full here.

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And I think that is it. My neighbors will be here in a minute so I need to go out and join them now.

I hope your Monday has been okay, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Just a fun song to underscore the day. Be sure to wait for the yodeling… it’s phenomenal!! Enjoy gang.

The nicest thing about today?!

February 17, 2025 marilyn jaye lewis Leave a comment

Yes — yesterday is OVER!

Wow. Intense. Especially that drive home — all those backroads in high winds and mostly unplowed snow! Yay! (And St. Christopher was hanging on in the passenger seat the whole way home.)

I am so glad it’s over.

And here we are, with today. Still snow everywhere, but it’s SUNNY. And I don’t have to be anywhere until Wednesday.

And I slept in this morning!! I did not get out of bed until 5:38AM!!

And I did not do yoga this morning, either.

And I have not yet begun to read the 13 emails of notes from Peitor yet. Even though he is sitting somewhere right now, patiently waiting (drumming his fingers maybe?) for me to call.

I just hung out in bed for a while this morning, drinking coffee laced with rhodiola rosea and lion’s mane. Chewing on a nicotine toothpick. Feeling like this god-awful world might still be worth hanging out in for a few more minutes…

[Me?]

Jesus, I am so tired of so many things. Just sort of waiting for JFK. Jr to put in his long-awaited appearance. That — and the release, finally, of the files on JFK and RFK — will bring a whole lot of this noisy madness to a grinding halt.

Oh, and —

Meanwhile…

Nick Cave sent out a very interesting Red Hand File this morning. (I personally believe that Kanye West is a psyop on the side of the White Hats now. The shit that guy has seen just in LA alone has got to be enough to make you want to shoot yourself — you know, to get the pictures to stop).

Anyway. What Nick had to say was very interesting. Especially this line: “…why it is unacceptable to coerce one’s girlfriend into standing naked on the red carpet at the Grammys.” Coming from a man whose naked wife has graced a certified gold-selling album cover; in homes worldwide since 2013…

Just, well. Just very interesting. I liked what he had to say. And I liked this part:

“To be human is to be flawed, yet it is also to possess the potential to achieve staggering things – beautiful, brilliant, inspiring, wild and audacious things; things to be cherished, despite our complex and compromised natures.”

You can read it in full here.

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I think that might be it for now, gang. I really do have to get busy with Peitor.

Enjoy your Monday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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I know you won’t believe this, but this is what I usually wake up singing these days. The cats love it! And so do I.

Enjoy, gang.

Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Joyful, joyful, we adore thee,
God of glory, Lord of love;
hearts unfold like flowers before thee,
opening to the sun above.
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness,
drive the gloom of doubt away;
giver of immortal gladness,
fill us with the light of day!

All thy works with joy surround thee,
earth and heaven reflect thy rays;
stars and angels sing around thee,
center of unbroken praise.
Field and forest, vale and mountain,
flowery meadow, flashing sea,
chanting bird and flowing fountain
call us to rejoice in thee.

Mortals, join the mighty chorus,
Which the morning stars began;
God’s own love is reigning o’er us,
Joining people hand in hand.
Ever singing, march we onward,
Victors in the midst of strife;
Joyful music leads us sunward
In the triumph song of life.

Lyrics c – Henry Van Dyke, 1852-1933 (Music, Beethoven)

More Rain! A little ice, a little snow…

February 6, 2025 marilyn jaye lewis Leave a comment

We got it all today. Weather-wise.

Last night — even though it’s February — we had an intense thunderstorm. Luckily, it didn’t last long, but it was so loud and the lightening so bright, it was frightening.

Anyway. Today seems great compared to last night.

Yesterday afternoon, after my shift, I stopped in at the hospital to visit my client and, even though she’s hooked up to a million machines, she actually looked really good. Better than she’s looked in weeks. It put my mind at ease in a lot of ways. And her husband was there, too, so it was nice to get to see both of them.

We had been planning to all watch the Super Bowl together at their house (I usually work there on Sunday evenings), and I had really been looking forward to that. Even though I never watch the Super Bowl when left to my own devices. But I might go ahead and watch it this year, even though I’ll be here at home, all by myself (plus 723 cats…). My client will likely be at the rehab by Sunday.

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Okay.

I can’t resist posting this link, if you want to read the Q-take on Gaza. (Mike King)

If you still have a hard time swallowing what Q was, then you might want to skip it and just let it play out for you in real-time. But Absolute 1776 posted this yesterday, which could be handy for you. (Includes video and Q drops):

“Q also told us ahead of time when John McCain would die – down to the minute.

Because he was a traitor and didn’t die of natural causes.

The first two videos are the McCain Q-Proof.

The 3rd video is the “Tippy Top” Q-Proof. In that video, an Anon on the boards asked Q to have President Trump confirm.

And he does – By dropping the phrase the Anon asked for during the White House Easter celebration.

Q is not AI. Q is not fake. Q is a high level Military Intel Operation confirmed dozens of times by President Trump himself.

Trump was also asked about Q 3 different times by the MSM and never denied it.”

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Also — Phil is supposed to do a livestream tonight at 8PM eastern time. Check here later to confirm.

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Okay and that’s it!! I’m not posting news to the blog anymore!!

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Meanwhile,,,

Life is good here. My entire focus (when I’m not with a client) is the TV project. Even though the script is technically “done” we still have a lot of tweaking to do because it’s too long. Then we have the one-page synopsis to write, which is probably the most important document Peitor needs to take with him to Series Mania in mid-March. And then we have the entire show bible (pitch bible) to get into shape. (Right now, that document is also way, way, WAY too long.)

But it’s interesting how God managed to give me a bunch of free time, right out of the blue. (See above about client in hospital & rehab.)

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In the Nick Cave world–

Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File yesterday, wherein he revealed that he has the flu!! And also, that he reads a lot while he has the flu.

You can read it here (it’s very short).

ALSO!!

Cave Things is having its annual Valentine’s Day sale!!

Here’s your chance to buy me that “Lovely Creature” necklace that you neglected to buy me for Christmas!!!

“Best necklace ever“!! Only $114 — plus a quadrillion in shipping fees!

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And I guess that’s it for now. Oh! Except that my friend had to postpone our lunch date for Saturday, because she needs 2 new tires on her car! So it’ll be the following Saturday, instead. (I was exceedingly crestfallen by this news, gang.)

Okay.

Enjoy your Thursday, wherever you are in the world.

Thanks for visiting.

I love you guys. See ya!

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Last night’s listening-in-the-dark-by-candlelight music!!

Andrea Bocelli, “Ave Maria”. Enjoy!

It Feels Like Spring!

January 30, 2025 marilyn jaye lewis 1 Comment

Even though it’s still cold in the early mornings, and even though it’s still January, it’s been getting up into the mid-40s Fahrenheit during the day, and it feels like Spring.

And what a great feeling to remember — Spring.

Also, I have been making great progress with getting my life back.

Three days now without needing herbal supplements for managing stress and anxiety. And I feel like my brain is clearer.

And I’m back to doing prayers and yoga first thing in the morning, instead of trying to fit it in “wherever”. (After I check in with all the Alt news channels, that is, and after about 15 mins of meditation. And then about 10 minutes of French lessons on the Mondly App.)

Minus the Alt news channels — this is the life I used to have, five years ago. It kept the day, and my mind, wide open for working on projects at the laptop. So this feels really great.

And I recently downloaded the free “Daily Prayer” App, from ReThinkMe. I especially love reading the Prayer Wall first thing in the morning and last thing at night — where people from around the world, post their prayers in real-time.

Talk about feeling connected to humanity in a nano-second. It is incredible, gang.

Oh, and so far: I’m really LOVING the Zippix toothpicks. It’s only been 3 days, though, so I’ll keep you posted.

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Well, I’m really glad I had to be with a client during the entire RFK, Jr. insanity yesterday. I kept on top of it on my phone, when I could. And it seemed just like a horrific spectacle. One of the truthers I follow on telegram posted that watching it (in real time) was like dragging his balls through broken glass…

I’m guessing I would have concurred had I been watching it. Even though, you know, I am virtually testicle-free.

Today, we have Kash Patel up at bat!!! I’m guessing it will be another nightmare to watch, so I’m glad I have another client.

But, I tell you, gang, I cannot wait to see him get confirmed. Between RFK Jr. and Kash Patel, life in these United States is going to become incredible.

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James Tabor – Understanding the Forbidden Fruit: Why There is NO FALL of Humankind in Genesis (18 mins):

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Nick Cave sent out a Red Hand File yesterday that was a little heartbreaking, but really beautiful. Essentially, it dealt with how to handle death and grief. In part, he said:

“We are broken things, amongst other broken things. We are imperfect and characterised by our capacity to fuck things up, yet still we can move incrementally towards the greater good. This serves as grounds for both self-forgiveness and hope, and reflects our inherent human loveliness….”

You can read it in full here.