The ease.

 

Dear Friends,

A woman writer friend of mine, one that I stay in contact with through the flattening affect pasta machines of the digital devices, says something that sounds pretty much like "we don't have a technology problem, we have a Capitalism problem."*  It fit, for me, into a story of how we got to this field strewn with the broken rubble of culture and society that I keep stumbling over in my haste to try to Understand Things as They Are.

Obviously, I could probably find more clarity if I stopped trying to Understand Things; and I am working on that, too, in a multi-pronged approach to coping.  Anyway, it isn't always about me (ha- that's a bald faced lie, isn't it?); it's about my friend and her suggestion to read this interesting article.

May reading it help you in your daily sorting of murky facts & ever more terrible news!  And if not that, well, may it make you feel less lonely while you scamper around that field of broken stuff.

* Forgive me if I have misquoted you!

effet de neige

 

The Magpie, Claude Monet.

Dear Listeners,

I do feel more optimistic on the first of a month- it isn't rational, but the feeling persists.  January can be such a December hangover, and this January might go down in the great stone carved annuls of the universe as One of the Worst; but February is such a lightening up month!  First blossoms are spotted, the days can be felt as lengthening, and the first of a month is always for Fools, and I want to be with you everywhere, so please accept this humble offering as your first song of the second month of the year.  Play it loud, won't you?