Good Evening, Playtime Folks! I’ve been a bit over-busy these past many days and out of town on the days I wasn’t busy. Makes for a difficult time writing. But, I’d like to share some thoughts with you, if you don’t mind. See, I try to have a positive outlook, but I also try to be a realist, and sometimes I just feel like ‘what’s the damn point’. I just try to keep it to myself for a bit, go one with the day, and so I’m often slow with a response to a news item. Other times I realize, despite my unwillingness to open myself to the wrongness of the event, I have to speak on it if for no more reason than to keep myself sane – ish.
I love music. There have been times in my life where all I had was the comfort that a favorite song could bring me. I’ve never been much for making music. I can’t sing, and you truly don’t want me to prove that, but when no one can hear me I try to let out the hurt, the loneliness, to feel the sunshine and the aural hug. To hear the sorrow, the joy, the heart-bared vulnerability and intimacy that music can share and can bring out of us occasionally overwhelms me.
When dummkopf drumpf made himself chair of the Kennedy Center, when he turned an organization dedicated to performances of art and poetry, of creation and majesty, he did more than tarnish, he cheapened it. The Kennedy Honors are meant to magnify great devotion to craft, to exemplify great performances, to be about the best things of us as a species – and now it is cheapened. That has made me sadder than I know how to express.
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Hi. Randy I know you work really long hours and it is hard to find time and energy to post but we appreciate it. You and Ali are part of what makes the Play Time the force for good it is. Your sentence, “Other times I realize, despite my unwillingness to open myself to the wrongness of the event, I have to speak on it if for no more reason than to keep myself sane – ish.” is one I can really understand as I feel the same way. I read or listen to something and just feel it is something I need to make sure gets wider coverage and that the Play Time readers will need to know. Hugs
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Hi Scottie. I must admit, I simply find myself at a loss on how to act with the things we have seen over these past years. There was a line, a point where people did not cross, a morality – an ethos – that was sacrosanct. I don’t know where that line is anymore. I feel benumbed by the atrocity of not only this administration but the horror show that has been unleashed upon the culture that once was America. It was once said that Presidents come and go, but We are always here. But, the We – the We The People – WE are damaged by a worm of contention and abuse of all that was once decent. It is a sadness.
hugs.
randy
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