Election Eve

 Beautiful day in Northern California temps seem to be around 70. I hitchhiked into San Anselmo (8 1/2 miles) from the Valley after getting my almost routine cup of 'Valley Mud', good coffee from Cheyenne's Coffee Shop. Quickly got a ride as a van pulled over and I climbed into the back seat with two overly affectionate dogs (sweet! Arrgggh!) ... Had a sparking good conversation about the election with a couple of fairly likeminded people in the front, Tony and Josh ... talking about our world of constant war and always voting for the lesser of two evils. 

  Remembering one of the best books that should be mandatory reading for every teenager

before they graduate High School. 'Man's Search For Meaning', Victor Frankl, Beacon Press. The story of a College Professor who lived and taught in Austria and his subject was 'Lifes Meaning' and then Hitler's troops pulled into town to give Victor Frankl some context to his lifes work... rather than abandon his aging parents he decided to remain in Austria... anyways he soon got a lifetime of searching for meaning in the Concentration Camps. I think of his description of the Prison Camps. 'the promoted few and the degraded many' Maybe I am guilty of gross exaggeration to think we are in any way near a state of affairs like his experience. Years later in the 1950's and 1960's when he gave speeches throughout the USA, according to the afterwords in his book, would tell his audience that America needed another statue to balance the Statue of Liberty and that would be the Statue of Responsibility.

 I have a beautiful Silver Dollar from 1946 at home. The art is a picture of a woman striding across the landscape with the sun shining over her shoulder. 'Walking Liberty' I believe that it is known as.. you want Liberty? learn to Walk.

..... 'People Have the Power' yet still we slumber and live in blame and fear.

  Chelsea Manning, American Heroine, solitary confinement, suicide attempts lately.. her  crime fulfilling a High Calling revealing the depths of corruption that the Present administration wallowed in and some how got a free pass for 8 years. State sponsored, (State Department?) espionage against even our allies. So it goes when it is our Empire.

  My TV show... my future, my voice.. 'Peep. Peep.' Everything s more than OK . people and Guy. Talking to myself, 'I can't talk to you, without talking to me'. Navigating through life. What about working for an ugly Corporation that calls their new stores 'community' stores...? Quit talking Guy and get to work.