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At breakfast, Eileen looked at my GuruGanesha tee shirt with a disapproving expression. After 45 years of “getting to know you”…I immediately knew her mind’s eye…”You’re going to wear that to this evening’s ART SHARE event at the Valley Stream Baha’i Cultural Center ?” "Trashbata" - Flamenco performance artist Barbara Martinez's "moving" appeal for clean water. Check out the short videos on her site. Here's the story about "Trashbata"... After she and I chatted, two songs came to mind and I decided to share some songs, humor and my “dirty” laundry with my readers…AND, I’ll affix a QR code to my t-shirt, so tonight I can “mingle with an explanation.” 😂 BUT, not before I share it in a few minutes FIRST, a word from our sponsor... 1950's Tide Laundry Soap Commercial (01:00) Leon Rebone- ALL Brand Laundry Detergent Commercial (00:14) AND THIS FIND IS WHY I BLOG: The Laundromat - SNL (03:34) RIP: John and Gilda enjoy your relationship in the Big Laundromat in the Sky…😘 Music while your clothes are “goin’ round in circles”… From the time vaults... Grateful Dead - Not Fade Away--Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad (4-5-71) (09:14) Touch of Grey "Every silver lining's got a touch of grey..." Echoes the wisdom of the 60's prophet UNCLE JOHN when he reminded us that" "When life looks like Easy Street, there's danger at your door..." First up, let's hear a woman's perspective. Two gals from Alaska: Not Fade Away - Grateful Dead / Buddy Holly cover - Elle & Toni (02:59) NEXT, a one-woman cover band... Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead - Casey Deeter (05:46) Too many nights on the road... Grateful Dead - Touch Of Grey (Official Music Video) [HD] (04:52) Extra Loads... Dancin' Machine Billy Preston "Will It Go Round In Circles" April 13,1973 (03:23) #music #humor #laundry #Bahai #GratefulDead #CaseyDeeter #BillyPreston #ElleAndToni #Trashbata #BarbaraMartinez

Midweek Blessings I offer this post as a thank you to Jeanette for her weekly Sunday reminders about our blessings... Here's my midweek version: TODAY'S STORY... Last week, I had a delightful encounter with two middle-aged Black sisters over the wording of the rear NY license plate frame on their late model BMW…in front of Witches Brew Coffee House here in West Hempstead. Here’s the bottom of the frame. The top contained 3 Greek letters… I approached them and told them their message  immediately reminded me of delight-FULL texts we get each week from a fellow member of our local Baha’i fellowship. Her messages always include reminders of our blessings. I asked if I could take a picture of the plate and frame. The driver said only if my intended audience were members of a sorority or fraternity. So…here’s the bottom… BLESSED! Wednesday's Child Wednesday's Child - Jody Miller (02:44) From the person who brought the Kundalini yoga I practice to the States. And from the Book of the Dead...not the Tibetan one...the Bay Area tome (Robert was the band's main lyricist): Wednesday Addams I loved the original Addams Family TV sitcom (1964-1966) . This made it easy to become a fan of LI's horror Maven Keith Crocker . See "below" for Keith. If you're a fan of animation (sounds classier than "cartoons"), here's a link to the trailer based on the original series. THE ADDAMS FAMILY | Official Trailer | MGM (02:44) Wednesday’s Darker Side (“woes”) NEXT, some images of a new incarnation of Wednesday from the 2022 series. Click here to view trailer and more on iMDb. John Zacherley - the Cool Ghoul He was another major player in my misspent youth. I followed him from TV to radio. Last week, when the NYU-Langone neurology team attached electrodes to my head (see upcoming post), I was reminded of a regular routine Zacherley would do in his laboratory: Affix electrodes to cauliflower "brains" and put them through their paces. Add electrodes to the following image and you get the picture. Oh, this picture adds some "FINGER FOOD." Here's a good 9-minute video tribute to John's career . Monster Mash -- Bobby "Boris" Pickett and Zacherley! (05:22) Keith Crocker - Long Island Horror Maven and Presenter With Dr. Faustus, MD (a.k.a, Keith Crocker)...It's not what we see...it's what we don't see... If I've whet your appetite for more of Keith (his offerings cover way more than horror), send him an email asking to be added to his mailing list...and DON'T FEAR...He doesn't overwhelm his fans. EMAIL: drfaustusmd92@gmail.com FACEBOOK LOVE will make a way... Concluding our conversation with a positive message…OR, how to be a blessing wherever we roam… #music #humor #blessings #Jeanette #Bahai #WitchesBrewCoffeeHouse #WestHempstead #JodyMiller #AddamsFamily #Wednesday #JohnZacherley #NYULangone #neurology #KeithCrocker #love #GratefulDead #RobertHunter #YinYang #KundaliniYoga

I started these reflections after a topic that was presented at our July Men2Men's monthly men's circle in Brentwood. It was entitled "I THIRST. " This morning's August council speaker continued this theme...So, I took it as an opportunity to keep reflecting... Dr. King's quote is from the following Smithsonian article: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - Smithsonian Water Quality In our circle this morning, several men shared their personal experiences of being in remote arid places in this country and feeling thirsty, accompanied by concerns that their water needs might not be met. For many on our shared planet, this fear is a daily occurrence. Looking further, we find people all over our shared planet are also victims of water pollution. Thirst For Justice trailer (03:23) - Cinematters: NY Social Justice Film Festival Pete Seeger's Activism Pollution of the Hudson River Main article: Pollution of the Hudson River The Clearwater and the Clearwater Festival  have worked to draw attention to the problem of pollution of the Hudson River . Pollution in the river has included mercury contamination and sewage dumping, but the most discussed issue has been General Electric's contamination of the river with Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) between 1947 and 1977. This pollution caused a range of harmful effects to wildlife and people who eat fish from the river or drink the water.The activism of folk singer Pete Seeger  and the Clearwater led to the area being designated as one of the Superfund sites. In the next video, we see "Teach Your Children" being practiced during a field trip on the Clearwater: "No child left inside" Naturally, music and singing were important parts of the day's curriculum: "We need the river...the animals need the river..." - -"and little children will lead us..." Pete Seeger's environmental legacy: Hudson River Sloop Clearwater - FOX 4 New York (03:14) The Clearwater - Pete Seeger (05:02) In the beginning... Pete Seeger: 'Til The River Runs Clear — Full Film (26:33) - Life Stories Boston's Charles River The Standells - Dirty Water (Boston Montage) (03:01) Water for Life Mexico City's Underwater Mural Painter muralist Rina la Sol Rina worked together with the famous Mexican painter Diego Rivera for the creation of an underwater mural. Water for Life, International Art Exhibition at Niagara Falls History Museum - Antoine Gaber (15:49) The Beach Boys- Don't Go Near The Water (02:37) "Mercy Mercy Me" (The Ecology) Marvin Gaye 1971 (03:15) Don’t Drink The Water: How The Environmental Movement Shaped Music Songs about Water Conservation and Clean Water - Songs for Teaching Found this guy in the above list of water songs: Water on the Earth Goes Round | Science Is A Snap | Jack Hartmann (02:56) #music #Men2Men #thirst #water #pollution #SocialJustice #DrMartinLutherKingJr #PeteSeeger #Clearwater #HunsonRiver #CharlesRiver #TheStandells #RinaLaSolRina #DiegoRivera #TheBeachBoys #MarvinGaye #JackHartmann

PEACE Yes! And it begins within each of us. Hopefully, when we have enough "us's"...we the people - the US - will never do again what we did to the Japanese people... Musicians React GODS OF WAR - DEF LEPPARD We're fightin' for the gods of war but what the hell we fightin' for? We're fightin' with the gods of war but I'm a rebel And I ain't gonna fight no more no way On a countdown to zero Take a ride on the nightmare machine There ain't gonna be heroes Whoa, there ain't gonna be anything No Source Thanks, Pedro, for helping me appreciate this new genre! Someone's husband, Dad, brother, neighbor... Def Leppard - Gods of War (Unofficial Music Video) (06:35) Viewer: Megadeth's video delivers a mixed message - with violence being used to deal with other violence... Megadeth - Symphony Of Destruction (04:18) Filmmakers Respond Expo$ing the Military-Indu$trial Complex Southland Tales - official trailer (02:29) Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a 1964 political satire black comedy film cowritten, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Peter Sellers in three roles, including the title character. "Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!" Dr. Strangelove - End Of The Movie (07:27) The nuclear proliferation race for MEGA-tonnage... The Arms Race | Cold War | History Bombs (03:42) M u s h r o o m s for P e a c e Grateful Dead Going Down the Road feelin bad (08:00) Mushrooms...not Mushroom Clouds Post-Apocalyptic Post World Peace Day Aug. 6, 2023 - All we are saying is give peace a chance... #music #humor #peace #war #Hiroshima #Nagasaki #AtomicBomb #HydrogenBomb #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #DefLeppard #Megadeth #GratefulDead #DrStrangelove #SouthlandTales #mushrooms

These caffeinated-induced epiphanies have been percolating since my friend Pedro told his tale from his youth in Guatemala. Now, enjoying my first cold brew from Witches Brew Coffee House in West Hempstead, I'm at the keys to tell his story...Of course, it'll be accompanied by humor and music... Muse, lead on! Dedicated to the crew at Witches Brew Coffee House where I enjoy my daily cup o' Joe, to Mary C M Phillips for her inspired wordplay at cafeinnatedepiphanies.com , and my longtime friend DoryAnne - who brews a great cup and my neighbor Mike who first introduced me to Witches Brew. Go Up to the Mountain... Pedro grew up on a farm in Guatemala . One morning, his father took him on a long bus ride into the mountains to help him pick coffee beans - to supplement the family's income. He was about 10 years old. Their destination was a coffee bean field on the side of an active volcano... As you watch this video, I'm sure you'll have a deeper appreciation for Mother Earth and all her helpers who work together to bring this sacred bean to your local coffee dispensary (Rx). May they be fairly compensated for their labors... Timoteo had a dream... Timoteo Minas grows coffee in the shadow of an active volcano in Guatemala . Volcán de Fuego has been erupting more frequently in recent years, but Timoteo is not stressed at all. In fact, there’s no place he’d rather be. Both the high altitude—his farm sits 6,300 feet above sea level—and the nutrient-rich volcanic soil are good for his plants and give his coffee a special taste. Harvesting Volcanic Coffee (04:04) Volcán de Fuego   Drawing from memories of his homeland... My friend Pedro is also an artist... On canvases and in Nature's gardens... Several years ago, Eileen and I and a friend Caroline met him at the Uniondale Public Library's artist's reception for some of his work. Here's one of his paintings - of the Tikal Monument in Guatemala - A place he once climbed. It will be part of his upcoming October 20th reception (1 to 3 PM) at this same library. Save the date! Uniondale Public Library 400 Uniondale Ave, Uniondale, NY 11553, United States He once climbed it to the top...He told me that "It also is known as the Temple of the Great Jaguar  because of a lintel that represents a king sitting upon a jaguar throne." ( Wikipedia ) Pedro's digs band's like the following and is expanding my musical appreciation for this energetic genre. As you climb with the band, note how the steps morph from stone to metal...heavy metal. Also, note how the pyrotechnics at the end simulate Tikal's fiery underbelly... Van Halen - Top Of The World (Live) (06:40) Below these two images is a video showing some of the excavation at Tikal... Guatemala: The Mayan City of Tikal (01:25) Música de Gutemala If you've stopped by for some of my tales, you know what a BIG FAN I am of the Playing for Change Movement . They are musical humanitarians: providing artists with a worldwide stage and building schools in under-served parts of our shared world, so children can have access to the arts... Instagram Link Música Para la Justicia Social Playing for Change partners with humanitarian agencies as a musical force for change! #music #humor #coffee #Pedro #Guatemala #volcano #Mayans #Tikal #pyramid #SocialJustice #PlayingForChange #RedCross #InternationalDayOfTheDisappeared #WitchesBrewCoffeeHouse #MaryCMPhillips #DoryAnne

Like my earlier coffee-themed post today - Dedicated to the crew at Witches Brew Coffee House  in West Hempstead where I enjoy my daily cup o' Joe, to Mary C M Phillips  for her inspired wordplay at cafeinnatedepiphanies.com , my longtime friend DoryAnne  - who brews a great cup and my neighbor Mike who first introduced me to Witches Brew. Revealing the truth about why Moses went up the Mountain The Ten Commandments (10/10) Movie CLIP - The Burning Bush (1956) HD The Search for the Holy Grail - a.k.a., the Perfect "Chalice" of the Sacred Bean Monty Python The Holy Grail - Tim the enchanter - Vostfr (03:41) Mortar and Pestle Several old recipes call for using a mortar and pestle to grind the beans into a paste before brewing. The moment of truth... Danny Kaye - "The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle" - The Court Jester (1955) (02:39) Staying with the UK vibe... COFFEE HACKS -- Grinding coffee using a mortar and pestle. Is it possible? - Alleyway Coffee (04:32) When in Rome... When in New York... I'm A Little Verklempt (Coffee Talk - Saturday Night Live)  (00:27) When in Space... SPACEBALLS Clip - "Mr. Coffee" (1987) Rick Moranis (06:26) Coffee Tunes The karmic reward for his rudeness to the musician at the front door...Let's watch to see how his tale turns out... Coffee Shop Love (Official Music Video) (05:05) Make mine BLACK... Mississippi John Hurt - Coffee Blues (03:46) Fire from Southern Rockers... The Marshall Tucker Band - "Fire on the Mountain" (Lyrics Music Video) (03:56) Music for picking Coffee: Fire on the Mountain Notice throughout this video how the people keep morphing into indigenous figures with native headgear and serapes... Grateful Dead Fire on the Mountain Cornell (14:36) Grateful Dead• Fire On The Mountain (Full) Oakland Auditorium -1981 (12:39) #music #humor #coffee #Moses #HolyGrail #MontyPython #TenCommandments #mortar #pestle #DannyKaye #TheCourtJester #Rome #NewYork #space #MelBrooks #Spaceballs #MississippiJohnHurt #MarshallTuckerBand #GratefulDead #WitchesBrew #MaryCMPhillips #DoryAnne

A few months back, I had a conversation with someone about how members of Native American  peoples find vehicle nameplates that use various tribal names and references as offensive. -->>>If you agree with their perspective, please share this post on your social media channels. Examples (from the second article below): "The most obvious cars named after Native American tribes are Jeep’s Cherokee and Comanche. But don’t forget Chevrolet’s Apache, Pontiac’s Aztek, and the entire Winnebago brand. In addition, over a dozen more automakers use place names that were tribe names first." "Pontiac certainly didn’t shy away from the native origins of its name. This automaker released the Pontiac Aztek, Pontiac Chieftan, Pontiac Star Chief, and Pontiac Super Chief. I mean, its logo is even an arrowhead." I began to learn more...went online and found a lot about this...from Native nations throughout our shared country. Here are two articles. SOURCE: Car and Driver (full article) There Are a Shocking Number of Cars Named After Tribes - Motor Biscuit CONTACT MANUFACTURERS TO LET THEM KNOW TO STOP THIS APPROPRIATION Here's the contact info for Jeep: Website contact page Scroll until you see the "Chat Now" icon. Click the underlined words. Next, click the Blue "Chat" box in the lower RH corner of the screen. Fill in the requested information and then click "Start Chat". VEHICLE NAMEPLATES-PROPOSED RECLAMATION PROJECT: Remove OEM one & Replace with your favorite band The Reclamation/replacement process is simple: Step 1: Remove the OEM nameplate Here’s a way to remove the offensive originals. AND Replace them with more appropriate names. With a Hair Dryer & Dental Floss (no heat gun needed) Step 2: Install Your Replacement Here's a source for several styles of Grateful Dead-themed vehicle nameplates. Available in chrome and matte black...and there may be other sellers... SOURCE: GratefulFred ANOTHER POSSIBILITY... The lower section of this next image was what I was hoping to offer for this reclamation project. I saw it online but found out it's no longer available. Subsequently, I contacted a fabricator who sent me a quote for producing them. To date, Jeep has manufactured 3.3 million Cherokees. Let me know if you're interested in working on this with me. To Colonizers Everywhere.... Listeners: Some rough language from an angry person... Oscar Jerome - Give Back What U Stole From Me (OFFICIAL VIDEO) (03:50) Grateful Dead's Relationships with Native Americans Notes On The Grateful Dead and Native Americans - Dead.net One more…"SUNRISE" - a song written and sung by a female member of the band about a sunrise service led by Medicine Man Rolling Thunder.  Some background: "Sunrise" was written and sung by the only female member of the Grateful Dead, Donna Jean Godchaux , who was with the band from 1972-1979. The song is about a Native American medicine man named Rolling Thunder , who spent a lot of time with the Dead. "'Sunrise' is about sunrise services we attended and what Rolling Thunder would do," Godchaux said on the Songfacts Podcast . "It's very literal actually. Rolling Thunder would conduct a sunrise service, so that's how that came about." Donna Jean Godchaux wrote this song on piano after Jerry Garcia asked her to write a song for the Terrapin Station  album. She said it just flowed out of her - music and lyrics - and was one of the easiest songs she ever wrote. The drumming at the end of the song was played by a real medicine man. "We cut it in Los Angeles, and he came and brought the medicine drum, so what you hear on the end is the real deal," Godchaux told Songfacts. "It was like a sanctuary in that studio when he was playing that. It was very heavy." There is a nod to this song on the back cover of the Terrapin Station  album, which merges Native American imagery (an eagle feather) with the Grateful Dead bones. SOURCE: Songfacts Rolling Thunder... Some take issue that Rolling Thunder was never a member of an actual Native American tribe... As I see it, the message he spread is more important that the credentials of the messenger. Cherokee Medicine Man Rolling Thunder says Every Thought, every Word and every deed is a prayer 7/24 (04:16) SUNRISE Song: A meditation in art and music... Sunrise-Grateful Dead Piano Cover (02:31) --filled with wonderFULL images... Grateful Dead - Sunrise (04:05) ALCATRAZ-On this Rock...We will take our stand... The Crazy True Story Of The Protesters Who Took Over Alcatraz - Aug. 2023 - Grunge [from the article] For many people, Native and non-Native, this was the first time such issues were being discussed out in the open. And for many non-Natives, this was the first time they were exposed to the true history of their country. It's no wonder that the FBI's dossier on Trudell would run over 1,000 pages. It was because of Radio Free Alcatraz that Trudell was able to garner so much support from celebrities such as Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda . Musical groups like the Grateful Dead and Creedence Clearwater Revival donated money and food and even held a concert off the coast of Alcatraz on a boat, donating the boat afterward. Radio Free Alcatraz persevered through bad weather and spotty electricity, but the broadcasts came to an end when the federal government shut off all electricity and radio services on the island. The occupation of Alcatraz: Don’t give us apologies. Give us what we really want. - Oct 20, 2021 - TheNativePress.com Closing this post with a song about a young boy's search of the nation's major prisons looking for his Daddy... Grateful Dead - "Let Me In 83968" (Electric Theater, 7/4/69) (04:00) #music #humor #NativeAmericans #RollingThunder #GratefulDead #colonizers #nameplates #OscarJerome #Alcatraz #

Jeannette & Glenn, I went out back to the garage to find this alternative version of the original hit. Kinzie Jones -love Potion #9- Bluesy version of the Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller classic. LOVE is Revolutionary! "[John] Lennon said he was trying to paint a picture of a revolution using sound." [ Source ] With an imaginative video...from a favorite YouTuber. Actual gunfire is heard beginning at 6:00. The Beatles - Revolution 9 (Music Video) (08:08) With a White Album video...use our own imaginations... Revolution 9 (Remastered 2009) (08:22) "Neo-Classical": Pete Seeger Pete Seeger ◄► Build a road of peace (Ode to Joy) (04:16) While "Martial"  and "Marital"  contain the exact same letters, the difference in meaning "depends on who goes first" ... a true marriage metaphor... Your parents grew up with cartoons providing our introduction to classical music. And you, our offspring, had these Jim Henson characters for your classical music 101: Advice: The repeating refrain "ME" will create a MARTIAL relationship... Ode To Joy | Muppet Music Video | The Muppets (01:40) These kids need a better education...Definitely, less MARTIAL... Classical Love Theme... In this monumental orchestration of voices and instruments, Beethoven's work puts us front and center in the midst of the battle. Before participating, please allot time for the full performance... Beethoven 9th Symphony - Movement IV - "Ode to Joy" (23:09) #music #humor #Jeannette #Glenn #wedding #anniversary #PeteSeeger #Beethoven #DennisTheMenace #peace #joy #Muppets

Grateful Dead - U.S. Blues (Empire State Building Light Show) (04:40) MOTHER OF EXILES (Lyrics - Statue of Liberty Poem) (03:23) Here's Ferlinghetti again making an altered appearance... (see post link at the end) Greatest Stories Ever Told - "U.S. Blues" - David Dodd on Dead.net Given Hunter’s explanatory note about the circumstances of writing the lyric, it could be seen as a pretty straightforward commentary on the bravery or foolishness of making music while a fire is coming at you. But, of course, Hunter re-contextualizes everything on the fly, and wham! — the song becomes something directed, uncannily, at each of us, or at us collectively: how come we’re doing the same old same old when  disaster  is at hand? Lookin' for the Promised Land in America... ...and on my 25th & 29th BIRTHDAYS... Promised Land (Live at Stanley Theater, September 27, 1972) (03:04) A modern covered wagon... Grateful Dead - The Promised Land - 9-27-76 (04:34) STILL LOOKIN'... ...WON'T YOU COME WITH ME? #music #humor #liberty #GratefulDead #StatueOfLiberty #EmmaLazarus #MartinLutherKingJr #LawrenceFerlinghetti #immigrants

Liberty - Grateful Dead (06:00) It's time to heal our divisions ... Love will show U.S. the way... LIBERTY - GRATEFUL DEAD Saw a bird with a tear in his eye Walking to New Orleans, my oh my Hey, now, bird, wouldn't you rather die than Walk this world when you're born to fly? If I was the sun, I'd look for shade If I was a bed, I would stay unmade If I was a river I'd run uphill If you call me you know I will And if you call me you know I will Ooh, freedom Ooh, liberty Oh, leave me alone To find my own way home To find my own way home Say what I mean and I don't give a damn I do believe and I am who I am Hey now mama come take my hand Whole lotta shakin' all over this land If I was an eagle, I'd dress like a duck Crawl like a lizard and honk like a truck If I get a notion I'll climb this tree Or chop it down and you can't stop me Oh, chop it down and you can't stop me Ooh, freedom Ooh, liberty Oh, leave me alone To find my own way home To find my own way home Went to the well but the water was dry Dipped my bucket in the clear blue sky Looked in the bottom and what did I see? The whole damned world looking back at me If I was a bottle, I'd spill for love Sake of mercy I would kill for love If I was a liar I'd lie for love Sake of my baby I'd die for love Sake of my baby I'd die for love Ooh, freedom Ooh, liberty Oh, leave me alone To find my own way home To find my own way home Ooh, freedom Ooh, liberty Oh, leave me alone To find my own way home I'm gonna find my own way home I'm gonna find my own way home   SOURCE Grateful Dead - Help On The Way / Slipknot! / Franklin's Tower (Washington, DC 6/14/91) (24:45) "Help On The Way" Paradise waits, on the crest of a wave, her angels in flames She has no pain, like a child she is pure, she is not to blame Poised for flight, wings spread bright, spring from night into the sun Don't stop to run, she can fly like a lie, she can't be outdone Tell me the cost; I can pay, let me go, tell me love is not lost Sell everything; without love day to day insanity's king I will pay day by day, anyway, lock, bolt and key Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see Help on the way, well, I know only this, I've got you today Don't fly away, 'cause I love what I love and I want it that way I will stay one more day, like I say, honey it's you Making it too, without love in a dream it will never come true SOURCE

Hello, on this eve of Independence Day...hereafter to be known as INTERDEPENDENCE DAY These holiday musings began a few weeks ago as I experienced this spoken-word artist present the hopes, dreams and challenges in a 1958 poem by Lawrence Ferlinghetti entitled: "I Am Waiting for a Rebirth of Wonder." If it stirs something in your heart, please check out related musings added today to my blog. I am waiting... Madison Niermeyer reads 'I am Waiting' by lawrence Ferlinghetti (03:46) I Am Waiting By Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1958) I am waiting for my case to come up    and I am waiting for a rebirth of wonder and I am waiting for someone to really discover America and wail and I am waiting    for the discovery of a new symbolic western frontier    and I am waiting    for the American Eagle to really spread its wings and straighten up and fly right and I am waiting for the Age of Anxiety to drop dead and I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy and I am waiting for the final withering away of all governments and I am perpetually awaiting a rebirth of wonder I am waiting for the Second Coming    and I am waiting for a religious revival to sweep thru the state of Arizona    and I am waiting for the Grapes of Wrath to be stored    and I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American and I am waiting to see God on television piped onto church altars if only they can find    the right channel    to tune in on and I am waiting for the Last Supper to be served again with a strange new appetizer and I am perpetually awaiting a rebirth of wonder I am waiting for my number to be called and I am waiting for the Salvation Army to take over and I am waiting for the meek to be blessed and inherit the earth    without taxes and I am waiting for forests and animals to reclaim the earth as theirs and I am waiting for a way to be devised to destroy all nationalisms without killing anybody and I am waiting for linnets and planets to fall like rain and I am waiting for lovers and weepers to lie down together again in a new rebirth of wonder I am waiting for the Great Divide to be crossed    and I am anxiously waiting for the secret of eternal life to be discovered    by an obscure general practitioner and I am waiting for the storms of life to be over and I am waiting to set sail for happiness and I am waiting for a reconstructed Mayflower to reach America with its picture story and tv rights sold in advance to the natives and I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in the Lost Continent in a new rebirth of wonder I am waiting for the day that maketh all things clear and I am awaiting retribution for what America did    to Tom Sawyer    and I am waiting for Alice in Wonderland to retransmit to me her total dream of innocence and I am waiting for Childe Roland to come to the final darkest tower and I am waiting    for Aphrodite to grow live arms at a final disarmament conference in a new rebirth of wonder I am waiting to get some intimations of immortality by recollecting my early childhood and I am waiting for the green mornings to come again    youth’s dumb green fields come back again and I am waiting for some strains of unpremeditated art to shake my typewriter and I am waiting to write the great indelible poem and I am waiting for the last long careless rapture and I am perpetually waiting for the fleeing lovers on the Grecian Urn    to catch each other up at last and embrace and I am awaiting    perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “I Am Waiting” from A Coney Island of the Mind . Copyright © 1958 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Reprinted with the permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. SOURCE: PoetryFoundation.org Eileen and I watched this film a few nights ago... About [from the trailer below] This definitive documentary is an incisive portrait of literary polymath Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In one-on-one interviews, he reflects on events that began to unfold in postwar America -- including the publication of Ginsberg's Howl, Burroughs' Naked Lunch, and Kerouac's On the Road -- as well as the Vietnam War, the sexual revolution, and the founding of City Lights. Ferlinghetti reads his poems, discusses his activism, and offers unguarded insight into nine decades of his life. Features appearances by Allen Ginsberg, Dennis Hopper, Dave Eggers, Bob Dylan and more. FERLINGHETTI: A REBIRTH OF WONDER - Theatrical Trailer (02:12) MATERIAL WHILE WE'RE IN THE WAITING ROOM A likely reason for my attraction to the poem is the use of its "WONDER." See, a song "Inarticulate Speech of the Heart" with the same word "wonder" in its lyrics became the inspiration for the name of my website. He begins by sharing his own inspiration for it... Soul in Wonder: Deva Premal & Miten with Manose and guest guitarist Ron Franklin (07:26) #music #wonder #LawrenceFerlinghetti #MadisonNiermeyer #AllenGinsberg #BobDylan #America #poetry #film #DevaPremal #Miten #Manose #RonFranklin #Rumi #bewilderment

The imagery of this post's title was given to me as I was waking up today (7/3) asking “What’s mine to offer to this conversation about true freedom…true independence…? Pink Floyd - Us And Them (Screen Film Official From PULSE) - [1987] (07:12) "Us And Them" Wasn't the right Absolutely in the right Why does anyone do anything? Just tell me I don't know, I was really drunk at the time! Us (Us, us, us, us, us) and them (Them, them, them, them) And after all, we're only ordinary men Me (Me, me, me, me, me) and you (You, you, you, you, you) God only knows it's not what we would choose to do (To do, to do, to do) "Forward!" he cried from the rear And the front rank died The general sat and the lines on the map Moved from side to side Black (Black, black, black, black) and blue (Blue, blue, blue, blue) And who knows which is which and who is who (Is who, is who, is who, is who) Up (Up, up, up, up, up) and down (Down, down, down, down) And in the end it's only round and round (round, round, round), and round (round, round, round, round) "Haven't you heard it's a battle of words?" The poster bearer cried "Listen, son," said the man with the gun "There's room for you inside" I mean, they're not gonna kill ya So like, if you give 'em a quick short, sharp, shock They won't do it again Dig it? I mean, he got off lightly 'Cause I would've given him a thrashing I only hit him once! It was only a difference of right and wrong, innit? But really, I mean good manners don't cost nothing, do they, eh? Down (Down, down, down, down) and out (Out, out, out, out) It can't be helped, but there's a lot of it about With (With, with, with, with), without And who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about? (About, about, about, about?) Out of the way, it's a busy day I've got things on my mind For want of the price of tea and a slice The old man died SOURCE SOURCE SECOND SET Meanwhile, in a city that never sleeps... "Abyss Road"... The faces above reminded me of this logo from Coney Island's Steeplechase Park - a place my maternal grandmother to us. One of Ferlinghetti's works in entitled "A Coney Island of the Mind." "Welcome to the Apocalypse" "Is it safe to come up from the underground shelter?" "When I'm watchin' my TV And a man comes on and tells me How white my SHROUDS can be But he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke The same cigarettes as me" "Satisfaction" - Rolling Stones Pink Floyd - Us And Them (Animated Video 50th Anniversary) (07:50) ENCORE/DISMISSAL #music #peace #PinkFloyd #MartinLutherKingJr #BenHewitt #SteeplechasePary #ConeyIsland #Apocalypse