This is the first time I have been back after my suspension. I have 11 notifications over there. I'm not going to look at them.
I have Scrapper Blackwell playing in the background.
Nobody wants you when you're down and out
That's not a statement about where I am. It's just happened to be what was next on the list. Somehow I guess it fits the thread.
We've been struggling with the blues in every generation. We had various means of dealing with it, but they have been ever present since the dawn of time. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is sometimes found in the strings and strains of music
Now here's Doc Watson and Earl Scruggs and his boys at Doc's place. All sitting around picking for the camera and unrehearsed. Earl is in a suit and tie. Doc put on a coat, because I am sure she made him. It's the early seventies or late 60s and the gray has only begun to caress their temples
One of his sons will die at his own hand. Tears and heartache await. Though they know it not. This is the way it is.
If I hadn't gotten notifications from this pit of sin that things were happening in this thread I might not have returned now. I felt compelled to say to those lurking and to those commenting and to any that may stumble into this collection of misfit souls.
Stay the course. Do the next right thing you know to do. And if not that, wait, be patient and persist.
Lao Tzu was riding off on his mighty steed, the jackass that carried his old ass where he wanted to go into the wilderness because it was time.
The soldier stopped him. Before you go and depart. You must tell us what you know. Write it down.
Well, that's so far back in the mists of time it's hardly worth mentioning it's a legend. But, we have these strips of bamboo. This record left by some old as the hills person.
I'm not saying anything new. I'm telling you the same stuff someone else said God knows how many years ago.
It still applies. So I keep saying it.
Y'all have fun. Take care of each other.