End of May

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. —Doris Lessing

I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. —Kurt Vonnegut

I am your Countrywoman
I am your fellow Missourian
You don't deserve me.
You don't see me.
I see all of you.
I could make you blossom,
see all the beauty
I could make you grow,
crowd out the pain
I could give your mind a break,
ease your journey
Instead you sit on spikes and 
vibrate the fury
Come with me, follow me,
listen to me
Let's share this 

This morning-
Two flashes of a dream I can't remember
Blasted by Ruthie's Knocking
I'm your Faith Healer
I'm just looking for one Divine Hammer
Sundays..I've been wondering lately, who's going to save me?
A bird hit my car..I think it flew off, I hope..might've been a starling.

This morning

I'm branching out from the 50's on satellite radio and listening to 60's, 70's and 80's.  Today on  my way to work I put on the 70's and a song called, The Year of the Cat came on.  It was vaguely familiar and I was really enjoying it.  I saw that it came out the year I was born and for some reason the lyrics were making me think that this is what my mom must've felt like with a newborn me.  American Pie came on right after that and I switched it immediately to the 60's and The Walker Brothers were on!!!!!!  I laughed like a wild woman.  It was all right, kind of standard sounding whatever that means.  The DJ came on after it was over and said that the Walker Brothers weren't related and that none of them had the last name Walker.  He also said that one of them died recently so that's why I'm having these Walker Brother coincidences.  Later at work, I looked up the lyrics to The Year of the Cat....the lyrics have nothing that to do with what a mother would feel about her first year journey with her baby child!!  I laughed like a demented fool.  I texted my mom inquiring of her memories of that song and she replied, "How about that I hated that song".  I laughed like I spit my drink out.  Then I asked her if she ever heard of the Walker Brothers.  She loved them!

Al Stewart sort of doesn't care pose
It kinda sums up the album title

Also, yesterday I jammed out to Monkey by George Michael.  I totally forgot about that song!

This morning Yes it is

I have the Beatles channel in my car for a month and this morning they played This Boy again, which is fine, I love it, but of course it was making me yearn for my more favorite, Yes it is.  And guess what?  Yes it is played next!  Yes it is.  I remember John's memory of meeting Yoko. He went to an art installation and there was a ladder that he had to climb up to the ceiling and there was a piece of paper with the word Yes.  Yes it is.  He had to meet her.  Yes it is. My daughter woke up next to me this morning...ahem, every morning...and said I had a wonderful dream about you and then demanded that we fix the broken miniature high chair so that her babies can sit in it.  I said ok.  Yes it is.  This morning someone said, Hello Trouble to me and my response was I haven't been called Trouble since I was jail bait.
Yes it is, it's true, yes it is.