Toys

I've been giving strong consideration to selling my splurge toy - my Pioneer SX-1010 and paradigm tower speakers…. Similiar to the corvette, happy I got to experience both while I was still young enough to enjoy them.

And tonight I came home to an empty house and I played John Williams Summon the Heroes cd. Mesmerized and completely captivated by the details revealed in the performance and the recording. Being able to hear every instrument and the virtuosity of the players gives me the feels. Such a delight to sit back and be awed by the performance.

Although tempting to convert toys to cash, I'm not quite ready to give up the magic.

Life truth

Work is a four letter word. Most profound statement ever told. Does it have to be this way? Or am I perpetually unhappy doing menial tasks with minimal compensation?

I've been employed for 40 years minus a short stint leaving career. Obligations between family and employer are often in conflict with one another.

Do we work to live or live to work? As of late it feels like I live to work. I find it difficult to embrace company objectives as my own.

Misplaced or misguided? Alignment? What are you talking about?!?

Banana man

Jesse Cole managed to turn the most boring game next to golf into an overstimulating nonstop mashup of music, baseball and line dancing.

Every once in a while

I hear a piece of music that's been around forever and it amazes me that I've never heard it before. Maybe a popular movement, but not the entire work. Just dumbfounded as to how this has been in existence and bam! I hear it for the first time and completely enchanted by the rhythms, colors, textures and tonality. The variety of textures and moods.

A rare treat at this age to discover something that captivates my attention to enjoy and delight in the wonder of something so wonderfully lush. Interesting. Emotional. Passionate.

Smetana's Ma Vlast "My Life"

Where have you been all my life?!?! The universe saved this for me at just the right time when I was primed to take a bite and savor the flavors with my ears.

Now to find full brass being exploited in the most bold and beautiful way possible.

Fetterman

Who would have ever thought that the laughing stock of 2020, John Fetterman, would become a voice of reason and integrity in the corrosive political landscape in America?

How did that happen? Will the same thing happen to zooran in 5 years?

Founding fathers

Just imagine if the founding fathers of America saw what America has turned into. What would they have done differently if they could see what's become of their grand experiment?

Consitition

If the founding fathers saw America today, what would they think if their plans.