This is really a huge issue perhaps the biggest issue to be dealt with n the next 20 years except for the economy in general and both of these major social/political issues need to be dealt with in a very transparent and bold way. Neither of these issues are being addressed this way presently.
Both of these issues demand a foresight that precludes, that makes a higher value to protecting the rights and values of he coming generations than the simple satisfaction of the economic and comfort desires of those of us right now. A foresight that precludes immediate rewards based on a responsibility to not have the needs of this current generation take away the opportunity
of the next generation.
There are a great more votes to be counted right now if we make sure the people right now haves what they deem necessary if we describe what we are facing now to be a 'disaster' that can only be addressed by mortgaging the future of children yet unborn than we forfeit our future in our fear and avoidance of personal responsibility.
The basics of Obama Care is an approach that closes our eyes and hold our nose and says this shit is acceptable. Obama Care guarantees that more wealth will be extracted from the poor and middle class, call it the 99% if you want. The Insurance companies must pick up the tab and we guarantee the Insurance companies. The insurance companies will of course have to raise rates continually they will be stuck in a battle with the government as t how those who cannot actually afford American HeathCare receive American Health Care. The insurance companies know that the game is on... they will now be doing a bigger business than ever ca-ching but how to keep the whole thing afloat. When thousands of humans want $10,000 month care for Psoriasis, Blood Pressure, Cancer, heart Disease they must pay for that care. What is the problem with American health Care that isn't there with European Health Care or Canadian Health Care. What i see is a culture of profiteering, there is no sector of business in the US that get's away with such exorbitant profit margins. There is no more perfect product to sell someone than one that if they can't obtain they will suffer and possibly die. So you want to buy this or do you like illness and death. CaChing! Allright good career move. If you are in medicine you supply something into the medicine circulatory system you are going to make more money than any other comparative business ..this being America. The whole concept is called Insurance, you see everyone must buy insurance and when everyone must buy insurance than naturally as it is done everywhere you look. Everything becomes inflated. So Walgreen's will charge me $166.00 for two prescription medicines Tamsulosin and Ondansetron two innocuous medicines that help you pee more and tell me when I question there pricing that's why people have insurance. If I go to an independent Pharmacy in San Anselmo I am told the same prescriptions written by the same doctor costs $35. When I need an Xray in Marin County of my Kidney Stone I am given the standard price with your insurance card. $500 something all right you don't have insurance then you get a %40 discount. Thank you for that but this world of Insurance is a pass the buck shell game that is not sustainable.
My friend a Doctor at a prestigious hospital in the Bay Area who specializes in Sports Medicine. Here have this tube of high quality 'topical pain relief creme' why thanks Bob the box says $320 for the 4 fluid oz supply. that's pretty generous of you giving me this don't I owe you something.'No don't worry about that that's just billed to someone's insurance...' Ah that's how it goes.
It's called Obama Care and many people think it's a necessary first step. At least we will have care for everyone. Republicans famously according to many sources think you should just die. The problem is that compromise with such a distorted system, with such built inequities and the skills of wealth transference from your pockets to the medical industry is creating a system that will corrupt us all in the name of health. The popular wisdom is that the Democrats lead by President Obama were forced into this system by obstinate Republicans. The truth is that the Democrats lead by President Obama never had a clear vision of what was needed nor the courage to fight and to explain to all Americans the common sense need for an effective social safety net. My friends find endless entertainment in vilifying Republicans and there is no doubt that there is much of humanity in the Republican ranks that will give many a person reason to laugh out loud or to think Jeeze n hope this person never is in charge of anything. The problem is humanity will drive you crazy and I can find the nuts on the Left that I will gladly pass on their prescription for what they deem to be progress too. We are all human, the absurd Polarization of the Left Right masses, 'our gang' its all just one giant obstacle of making our way through and having something in place that allows us to have some slim reason whether you you might lean Left or Right or would like to feel Centered to have some faith that our children can have a better world.
Just a few days before the arrival of my Kidney Stone tried to outline my idea of an American Health Care System that was bare bones of the People, by the People, for the People. That was going to require humans to commit themselves to a much larger degree than my generation and generations in the past have of taking care of their own health. It will be a low-input low technology high health system with a lot of participation and no millionaires. It should be seen as an American Accomplishment not a Right. It would not preclude any other health care providers systems and plans that could be far more extensive and in-depth should be readily available for all those who choose. For ordinary Americans we would have something in our American Community and that can see us from our youth to our final days with dignity and pride. We could create a generation of health workers Doctors and Nurses who are an esteemed part of our community and do not need to live the life of a Millionaire.
We are a society that invests in illness to create wealth, we destroy our lands, our water, we ignore the warning signs of disease in our youth. The one lesson that we must learn and as we fight for economic survival and environmental health and Health Care is that Life is connected and when we do the right thing on any level in society it helps everything. We are all connected.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Meditate on that...
I stepped into the Aroma coffee shop it's 9:30 PM. I have forced myself out of bed. What was I doing in bed? Well at about 7:30 PM I was tired and the with the help of a little more 'Percoset'AKA 'Oxycodone' in my system (legal medicine for kidney stone) and my brain was fogging and I ended up horizontal, then an hour later in disgust and dissatisfaction I decide to get up and out. Get some coffee. Get to work. And am blue, yes plenty blue, and as someone recently noted it's not just that the inner dialogue that goes on inside this brain is a one sided blah blah' Why can't you figure it out?' It seems to me that it's a monologue and just that voice of frustration, well it gets the upper hand, particularly when it's night time and you are alone. So you have to move on get out of yourself a bit.
So when I walked into Cafe Aroma there is the lovely ____ ___ I'll leave her name out of this a woman with grey hair, who I have known for years and it's sad to see her homeless. Which is an assumption on my part. Sometimes I am a little defensive with all the homeless in California. I don't have much money and am not one to invite someone to my small studio apartment very easily it has happened once in two years and I guess I survived that OK but don't expect much from me.
So she greets me and maybe she reads my mind instantly and knows what my story is about and she says to me. 'You need to go and get a good meditation on what you are missing.' That's a guess.. I had to get her to repeat it a few times trying to understand her. Well i thanked her and new that even if she was only wildly guessing and just threw something at me to catch me off guard.. so i wouldn't make any inquiries about her lifestyle - because I know she doesn't like to acknowledge her own difficult situation. I thank her and ponder as I stand there thinking about Coffee at 10PM and what am I missing? I know that like the youthful kid kid I am ; ) ... I can do that. I can fire up some clear high powered meditation and reconnect my heart to AllLife again. Anyways a part of me believes that I can and I decide to get a Carrot Juice and a Chocolate Cake. I notice that Buddy Owen the legendary blues bulldog of Fairfax is playing next door at the Broken Drum.
I stop to check in with Buddy Owen and even fantasize about him inviting me up to play a tune. Elvis Johnson was their tonight and the bass man whose name I am fretting but the band was packing up. They want us out early he said, not much of a crowd,
t make matters worse Buddy pinched his finger in a mic stand. Just not a good night. So I come back up to write and I can not penetrate one molecule of HTML in my LIFESIGNSPHOTO website. I ponder all the attempts at figuring out how I am going to reconnect with my community as far as making a living. Remembering the brief conversation last night in the alley at the 4th Street Tavern where Honey Dust was playing and I had smoked some weed and had a beer, despite the continual Oxycodone intake, and my brief sharing with a kindred spirit old guy but still young, talking about how hard it becomes to just start the next business. Something about hauling all one's past failures around with you. Well we both recognized in each other that we knew to much of what that backstage crap from the past ( some of it maybe just the voice of wisdom.) Just don't stick your neck out again because it's not fun for anyone when you can't follow through. Yet somehow I just had to say Lord have mercy we sure no how to make it impossible for ourselves with constant doubting. That don't work. Life only takes place in the present. Life never stopped when you fell off the horse the last time. We are only going to be up on that wave again and again in continual rising and riding let the falls and failures go. Don't drag them around, it's an illusion. if you've got debt still to be paid off do your best. We are alive, life is moving fast, generations like waves move forward and time is limited. You can't worry you can't fear you have to fire it up. This Life this one Life is still on nothing is over, don't worry about the figuring it out.
Don't worry about the 'success' there is only one way to respect the Truth of Life. That is to accept it. Life is a Ripple of Present
a nonstop eternal movement it is Simple as can be and yet seems to demand incredible courage though a Child can live in it day after day.
We remain poised at the turning point of a great civilization that needs to find it's place with nature. It's not impossible, cynicism pessimism maybe we can use that as a tool. If we were sure that there was absolutely no hope. Then we wouldn't worry
about failing after all It won't make any difference, and if we tried to fire up the next nutty idea or a simple one. Maybe the time is right to get some traction. I still envision a Red White and Blue solution for our Country. All the polarity of Wall building sort of makes me ill. I respect the 'conservative' position to lives issues. I respect the 'liberal' perspectives to lives issues. There are lots of ways we can find disagreement in this world some topics are hard to decide.
Like the development of LucasFilms Grady Ranch up in Lucas Valley. Could a compromise have been achieved? Will the development due to come in be far worse than George's plans. Will we be facing this again again across the US. How can this community be against this project when it means so many jobs? There is a mind set and there are those who want to pack cranky 'environmentalists' in a box and point fingers at you. You are a NIMBY you are a selfish misguided human how dare you rethink that protecting your neighborhood is more important than jobs. I don't know all the back story to the Lucas development. I will stand behind any neighborhood anywhere that feels the need to stand up and defend he integrity of their community against development projects'. Just like the misguided Keystone TarSands Pipeline project that set off the unions in this country. The bottom line for me is the thousands of farms and properties running from the canadian border to New Orleans. Where eminent domain would take effect because a foreign corporation ( it doesn't make any difference if it was a USA corporation or a non-profit or a Federal Government project, no citizen should be forced off his land no matter what the greater cause. ) This should be a bedrock right of all American citizens. I think of it as a Keystone to what will be the significance of the Second American Revolution as I/we dream it into manifesting before our eyes.
Great works and patience are needed. I urge humans to try to find work outside of the corporate realm take a chance. Small medium sized what the heck even big independent businesses, we need to keep our money flowing through that channel.
Allright, back to the blues..
GoodNight
So when I walked into Cafe Aroma there is the lovely ____ ___ I'll leave her name out of this a woman with grey hair, who I have known for years and it's sad to see her homeless. Which is an assumption on my part. Sometimes I am a little defensive with all the homeless in California. I don't have much money and am not one to invite someone to my small studio apartment very easily it has happened once in two years and I guess I survived that OK but don't expect much from me.
So she greets me and maybe she reads my mind instantly and knows what my story is about and she says to me. 'You need to go and get a good meditation on what you are missing.' That's a guess.. I had to get her to repeat it a few times trying to understand her. Well i thanked her and new that even if she was only wildly guessing and just threw something at me to catch me off guard.. so i wouldn't make any inquiries about her lifestyle - because I know she doesn't like to acknowledge her own difficult situation. I thank her and ponder as I stand there thinking about Coffee at 10PM and what am I missing? I know that like the youthful kid kid I am ; ) ... I can do that. I can fire up some clear high powered meditation and reconnect my heart to AllLife again. Anyways a part of me believes that I can and I decide to get a Carrot Juice and a Chocolate Cake. I notice that Buddy Owen the legendary blues bulldog of Fairfax is playing next door at the Broken Drum.
I stop to check in with Buddy Owen and even fantasize about him inviting me up to play a tune. Elvis Johnson was their tonight and the bass man whose name I am fretting but the band was packing up. They want us out early he said, not much of a crowd,
t make matters worse Buddy pinched his finger in a mic stand. Just not a good night. So I come back up to write and I can not penetrate one molecule of HTML in my LIFESIGNSPHOTO website. I ponder all the attempts at figuring out how I am going to reconnect with my community as far as making a living. Remembering the brief conversation last night in the alley at the 4th Street Tavern where Honey Dust was playing and I had smoked some weed and had a beer, despite the continual Oxycodone intake, and my brief sharing with a kindred spirit old guy but still young, talking about how hard it becomes to just start the next business. Something about hauling all one's past failures around with you. Well we both recognized in each other that we knew to much of what that backstage crap from the past ( some of it maybe just the voice of wisdom.) Just don't stick your neck out again because it's not fun for anyone when you can't follow through. Yet somehow I just had to say Lord have mercy we sure no how to make it impossible for ourselves with constant doubting. That don't work. Life only takes place in the present. Life never stopped when you fell off the horse the last time. We are only going to be up on that wave again and again in continual rising and riding let the falls and failures go. Don't drag them around, it's an illusion. if you've got debt still to be paid off do your best. We are alive, life is moving fast, generations like waves move forward and time is limited. You can't worry you can't fear you have to fire it up. This Life this one Life is still on nothing is over, don't worry about the figuring it out.
Don't worry about the 'success' there is only one way to respect the Truth of Life. That is to accept it. Life is a Ripple of Present
a nonstop eternal movement it is Simple as can be and yet seems to demand incredible courage though a Child can live in it day after day.
We remain poised at the turning point of a great civilization that needs to find it's place with nature. It's not impossible, cynicism pessimism maybe we can use that as a tool. If we were sure that there was absolutely no hope. Then we wouldn't worry
about failing after all It won't make any difference, and if we tried to fire up the next nutty idea or a simple one. Maybe the time is right to get some traction. I still envision a Red White and Blue solution for our Country. All the polarity of Wall building sort of makes me ill. I respect the 'conservative' position to lives issues. I respect the 'liberal' perspectives to lives issues. There are lots of ways we can find disagreement in this world some topics are hard to decide.
Like the development of LucasFilms Grady Ranch up in Lucas Valley. Could a compromise have been achieved? Will the development due to come in be far worse than George's plans. Will we be facing this again again across the US. How can this community be against this project when it means so many jobs? There is a mind set and there are those who want to pack cranky 'environmentalists' in a box and point fingers at you. You are a NIMBY you are a selfish misguided human how dare you rethink that protecting your neighborhood is more important than jobs. I don't know all the back story to the Lucas development. I will stand behind any neighborhood anywhere that feels the need to stand up and defend he integrity of their community against development projects'. Just like the misguided Keystone TarSands Pipeline project that set off the unions in this country. The bottom line for me is the thousands of farms and properties running from the canadian border to New Orleans. Where eminent domain would take effect because a foreign corporation ( it doesn't make any difference if it was a USA corporation or a non-profit or a Federal Government project, no citizen should be forced off his land no matter what the greater cause. ) This should be a bedrock right of all American citizens. I think of it as a Keystone to what will be the significance of the Second American Revolution as I/we dream it into manifesting before our eyes.
Great works and patience are needed. I urge humans to try to find work outside of the corporate realm take a chance. Small medium sized what the heck even big independent businesses, we need to keep our money flowing through that channel.
Allright, back to the blues..
GoodNight
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Be Strong
Wooooahhh!
JUst looking for a word.
My dear friend Mali who runs the Bongkot Thai Restaurant on 4th Street said.. 'Be Strong' to me in her parting words wednesday night when I needed some good food and soul sustenance. I had told her about the Kidney Stone. It really had been in a state of overall calm since Sunday Afternoon's ER visit.
I have been taking Vicodin and now Percoset. I thought earlier today maybe at one moment that it had passed I felt pretty good for a few minutes. Now I am dealing with what I can hope and pray is the final passing into the bladder. I don't know. It might not do what I wish it to do... be over tonight.
I thank her for those words again. Be Strong. Sometimes we have to be reminded, it's good to hear that challenge. It's not a given -- for some of us we hope, we aspire. To pass the courage challenge. So that's what I am working on. Try to do some mind over matter. Maybe it is lightening up.
I heard Emmy Lou Harris's story only a few weeks ago about needing some suffering to season up. I don't know where I heard it somewhere on the web no doubt. She wrote a letter when she was quite young introducing herself to Pete Seeger and asking for his suggestions as to how best a young woman could get some life experiences that would help her be able to be more authentic when singing real deep bluesy material. Pete wrote back and said 'Please Emmy Lou do not run out and hop on a freight train .. suffering catches up with all of us'
On a positive note here and that is most important in this very positive if we allow it year 2012. Some of you know Gabe the friendly carpenter who hangs out a lot in San Anselmo who may seem homeless, but a good guy, who somehow gets by. Not Gabe the blues guitarist) We talked in front of the town hall on some beautiful day. Probably I brought up the subject but somehow he went on at length about the Human Brain and how it is divided in half a Left and Right and most of you know that there are some generalizations made about artist vs. engineer in the Left Brain Right Brain division though I suspect that our brains are being used to the best of our abilities. Losing my thread the Percoset in my bloodstream is gained a bit of a higher profile... Maybe I am under the influence but in General I think our country is getting the short end of the stick because every one is so So deep into castigation instead of synthesis. You are all dumb because look at that dumb idiot. HawHaw Haw!
Can I make myself clearer? ( ) The cliff to the Left looks as dangerous as the one to the Right. Free the Center and hold tight. Red White and Blue unite. DeCentralized slowed down USA where we got plenty of music everyone gets some kind of home, slow down the immigration tide (I know it's slowing already. Good!)
'Unlimited growth is the philosophy of Cancer' ... American farmer
Cancer is where we are at. It's not good . remission is good. Tyranny isn't good and it comes from Left and Right. Wrapped in insecurity. Just being good at passing laws is not necessarily mean you are doing the people of California any favors. Congressional Candidate Jared Huffman is proud of the 60 bills he sponsored or co-sponsored during his 6 years as an assemblyman. I mean if we democratically keep passing laws that alter your 'Freedom' that's not creating a tyranny is it?
I was a T Party sympathizer and even declared myself to be a T Party dude at that moment . I still believe that a Conservative approach is needed right now as opposed to let the Government put another million people on the payroll. Don't be over simplistic Guy! Sorry you are right don't be over simplistic but that gives you an idea where I am coming from. For some historical perspective for you young folks I twice voted for Ross Perot the 3rd party candidate who was at about 33% in the polls in June before what was it 1992?... That means that fear was rampant in the Democrats and Republicans, he could could have been our President. Ross was a businessman who was against the Globalization of the American Economy pretty much against the stuff that Mitt Romney made his millions on. Buying out companies looting their resources, shipping jobs overseas. Ross warned of 'the Giant Sucking Sound' as he described it as we loosened up all the barriers for shipping factories overseas and Bill Clinton loosened up the Banking Industries so all kinds of money was being made on speculation on anything,
That's enough for tonight if you made it here thanks for your patience. The Percoset has kicked in enough or the pain has relented enough that I can probably lay down and not have to make you listen to my Under the INfluence ramble any longer.
Feel free to tell me off in any way.
JUst looking for a word.
My dear friend Mali who runs the Bongkot Thai Restaurant on 4th Street said.. 'Be Strong' to me in her parting words wednesday night when I needed some good food and soul sustenance. I had told her about the Kidney Stone. It really had been in a state of overall calm since Sunday Afternoon's ER visit.
I have been taking Vicodin and now Percoset. I thought earlier today maybe at one moment that it had passed I felt pretty good for a few minutes. Now I am dealing with what I can hope and pray is the final passing into the bladder. I don't know. It might not do what I wish it to do... be over tonight.
I thank her for those words again. Be Strong. Sometimes we have to be reminded, it's good to hear that challenge. It's not a given -- for some of us we hope, we aspire. To pass the courage challenge. So that's what I am working on. Try to do some mind over matter. Maybe it is lightening up.
I heard Emmy Lou Harris's story only a few weeks ago about needing some suffering to season up. I don't know where I heard it somewhere on the web no doubt. She wrote a letter when she was quite young introducing herself to Pete Seeger and asking for his suggestions as to how best a young woman could get some life experiences that would help her be able to be more authentic when singing real deep bluesy material. Pete wrote back and said 'Please Emmy Lou do not run out and hop on a freight train .. suffering catches up with all of us'
On a positive note here and that is most important in this very positive if we allow it year 2012. Some of you know Gabe the friendly carpenter who hangs out a lot in San Anselmo who may seem homeless, but a good guy, who somehow gets by. Not Gabe the blues guitarist) We talked in front of the town hall on some beautiful day. Probably I brought up the subject but somehow he went on at length about the Human Brain and how it is divided in half a Left and Right and most of you know that there are some generalizations made about artist vs. engineer in the Left Brain Right Brain division though I suspect that our brains are being used to the best of our abilities. Losing my thread the Percoset in my bloodstream is gained a bit of a higher profile... Maybe I am under the influence but in General I think our country is getting the short end of the stick because every one is so So deep into castigation instead of synthesis. You are all dumb because look at that dumb idiot. HawHaw Haw!
Can I make myself clearer? ( ) The cliff to the Left looks as dangerous as the one to the Right. Free the Center and hold tight. Red White and Blue unite. DeCentralized slowed down USA where we got plenty of music everyone gets some kind of home, slow down the immigration tide (I know it's slowing already. Good!)
'Unlimited growth is the philosophy of Cancer' ... American farmer
Cancer is where we are at. It's not good . remission is good. Tyranny isn't good and it comes from Left and Right. Wrapped in insecurity. Just being good at passing laws is not necessarily mean you are doing the people of California any favors. Congressional Candidate Jared Huffman is proud of the 60 bills he sponsored or co-sponsored during his 6 years as an assemblyman. I mean if we democratically keep passing laws that alter your 'Freedom' that's not creating a tyranny is it?
I was a T Party sympathizer and even declared myself to be a T Party dude at that moment . I still believe that a Conservative approach is needed right now as opposed to let the Government put another million people on the payroll. Don't be over simplistic Guy! Sorry you are right don't be over simplistic but that gives you an idea where I am coming from. For some historical perspective for you young folks I twice voted for Ross Perot the 3rd party candidate who was at about 33% in the polls in June before what was it 1992?... That means that fear was rampant in the Democrats and Republicans, he could could have been our President. Ross was a businessman who was against the Globalization of the American Economy pretty much against the stuff that Mitt Romney made his millions on. Buying out companies looting their resources, shipping jobs overseas. Ross warned of 'the Giant Sucking Sound' as he described it as we loosened up all the barriers for shipping factories overseas and Bill Clinton loosened up the Banking Industries so all kinds of money was being made on speculation on anything,
That's enough for tonight if you made it here thanks for your patience. The Percoset has kicked in enough or the pain has relented enough that I can probably lay down and not have to make you listen to my Under the INfluence ramble any longer.
Feel free to tell me off in any way.
Monday, April 2, 2012
Simple Humans in a Complex World
Maybe I'm not simple..maybe I am complex. Overall I just want simple things, food shelter, good health, human connections dare I say love. OK I said it. More music Guy, admit you want more music and outdoor rock festivals of a small and friendly type. Yes I admit that, where people all can share some happiness and no one wants to talk politics.. That's right. I just need to establish the bottom line, my bottom line. There are always a few more wants.
So we simple humans have created this system of money exchange and it kind of works it has some self-regulating qualities, some aspects that give a human some freedom even particularly when we have our life's work set up in some practical manner
that gives decent service to your customers and we in return get a good flow of currency back. The problem is ..yes Guy? The problem as I see it (through the fog) is we are all too often willing to sacrifice
nature/The Earth for our sources of Money.
It is just way too obvious that we undermine or put it more bluntly trash our environment for a few dollars more.
Now all of us consume lots of life to stay alive. That's the way it is. 600 Billion of us exfoliating the Planet as I've noticed
and heard some of you comment with observations to that effect. The thing is we all don't really want to destroy our good thing.
Yet we all are caught up in it. I was thinking yesterday in the waiting room at MGH's ER. As I was trying to figure it out as to how we could have a really great Health Plan for all of us in this Country as I was pretty much in a world of pain and using up another of my allotted ER visits. (See the previous post coincidentally) My thoughts were that Health Care should be something of great pride in our nation. Our Health Care system currently in my opinion with or without Obamacare is on an unsustainable track. The whole process of excessive profit taking from all those who have their hands in the cookie jar, Insurance Companies, Medical Supply houses, Pharmaceuticals... plus us Humans and all our unhealthy lifestyles.
We have to turn towards health. It's like all the best solutions, we have to make an effort in our own lives. What about the cigarettes and alcohol? What about the cheap gas station food fast food crap.? If the people particularly the people who really think Health Care without limits is our right can't begin to step up and make some changes clearly in your own best interest
then it just adds to the Unsustainability of the whole proposition.
We all have to turn towards Health. I believe even my Rock and Roll Community here in California. We all need to be challenged, every kid in America do you really have to join your buddies all the time. No you can say not tonight. I don't think so. There's cracks of perhaps unfounded optimism breaking through all the time. It's only when we really begin to believe ..that we can have the world we want. That we just might have the power, if we use our own lives as the force, as in our Health Care as in our Environment, that we have the power if we can find it inside.
I went 8 hours without a Vicodin today and was sort of hoping and still am that maybe this alleged Kidney Stone has dissolved. The pain came back but the Vicodin seems to have helped. I probably could have spent the past two hours focusing on Stormy Monday Blues and trying to be able to play a coherent guitar lead, which is not a skill I have, yet. Instead of writing this ramble.
I sat with Joe LoCoco in my apartment getting a great guitar lesson from the man mid week and then out of the blue the Sunday MGH ER visit. The only once a month Peri's Blues Jam slipped away. Even tonight I might have considered getting out to the open Mic, in Fairfax despite my problems but now that the Vicodin is back in my system. No. Last week at the open Mic my erudite, friend Bowie says to me. '..well Guy you going to embarrass yourself again tonight' That's sort of a Fairfax way of saying 'break-a-leg'. I told him 'maybe.' At the end of the night the great Billy D host of the open Mic says to me. 'You see Guy, Peri's is your stadium.' I made some noise on my guitar. Tonight here i sit . It's OK.
So much to talk about in this world.
So we simple humans have created this system of money exchange and it kind of works it has some self-regulating qualities, some aspects that give a human some freedom even particularly when we have our life's work set up in some practical manner
that gives decent service to your customers and we in return get a good flow of currency back. The problem is ..yes Guy? The problem as I see it (through the fog) is we are all too often willing to sacrifice
nature/The Earth for our sources of Money.
It is just way too obvious that we undermine or put it more bluntly trash our environment for a few dollars more.
Now all of us consume lots of life to stay alive. That's the way it is. 600 Billion of us exfoliating the Planet as I've noticed
and heard some of you comment with observations to that effect. The thing is we all don't really want to destroy our good thing.
Yet we all are caught up in it. I was thinking yesterday in the waiting room at MGH's ER. As I was trying to figure it out as to how we could have a really great Health Plan for all of us in this Country as I was pretty much in a world of pain and using up another of my allotted ER visits. (See the previous post coincidentally) My thoughts were that Health Care should be something of great pride in our nation. Our Health Care system currently in my opinion with or without Obamacare is on an unsustainable track. The whole process of excessive profit taking from all those who have their hands in the cookie jar, Insurance Companies, Medical Supply houses, Pharmaceuticals... plus us Humans and all our unhealthy lifestyles.
We have to turn towards health. It's like all the best solutions, we have to make an effort in our own lives. What about the cigarettes and alcohol? What about the cheap gas station food fast food crap.? If the people particularly the people who really think Health Care without limits is our right can't begin to step up and make some changes clearly in your own best interest
then it just adds to the Unsustainability of the whole proposition.
We all have to turn towards Health. I believe even my Rock and Roll Community here in California. We all need to be challenged, every kid in America do you really have to join your buddies all the time. No you can say not tonight. I don't think so. There's cracks of perhaps unfounded optimism breaking through all the time. It's only when we really begin to believe ..that we can have the world we want. That we just might have the power, if we use our own lives as the force, as in our Health Care as in our Environment, that we have the power if we can find it inside.
I went 8 hours without a Vicodin today and was sort of hoping and still am that maybe this alleged Kidney Stone has dissolved. The pain came back but the Vicodin seems to have helped. I probably could have spent the past two hours focusing on Stormy Monday Blues and trying to be able to play a coherent guitar lead, which is not a skill I have, yet. Instead of writing this ramble.
I sat with Joe LoCoco in my apartment getting a great guitar lesson from the man mid week and then out of the blue the Sunday MGH ER visit. The only once a month Peri's Blues Jam slipped away. Even tonight I might have considered getting out to the open Mic, in Fairfax despite my problems but now that the Vicodin is back in my system. No. Last week at the open Mic my erudite, friend Bowie says to me. '..well Guy you going to embarrass yourself again tonight' That's sort of a Fairfax way of saying 'break-a-leg'. I told him 'maybe.' At the end of the night the great Billy D host of the open Mic says to me. 'You see Guy, Peri's is your stadium.' I made some noise on my guitar. Tonight here i sit . It's OK.
So much to talk about in this world.
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