Jazz for aficionados

Thank you Mary-Jo, I even have her compassion for those who are less fortunate.




One day I was talking to the smartest person I have ever met in my life, and I was going on and on, using the word "reality" a lot. He let me talk without interrupting, and after a silence, he responded; "Orpheus, there are many realities".

I was speaking as though there was some kind of undeniable reality that everyone should see, but his statement made a light come on and see that there are almost as many realities as there are people. There are far too many bleak realities in this country; no need to go to a village in Africa.

While I'm doing OK, there is an extreme excessive amount of "unnecessary" suffering in the richest country on the planet, and my "reality" will not allow me to forget that.

I hope my "reality" doesn't ruin anyone else's "reality".




Happy Thanksgiving!

Just before I pressed "x", he looked to me and I thought I heard: What about this one?

Lonnie Smith - It's Changed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lsZb93rY8E

Right back at ya frogman!  

Happy Thanksgiving to all!


Some "thanks" tunes - and funky too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WasNE-62uLE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHXCXSGh_q0

orpheus10 

There is far to much humanity suffering going on in the whole world and as you said right here in "the land of opportunity"

I am just as aware of it as you are the only difference is you feel the need to talk about it an awful lot and I go there on rare occasions. Believe me it frustrates and angers me as much as you I just try not to think about it because I know it will never change.


One thing for certain about living here in the U.S.A.


You wont wake up to bombs being dropped around your house by an air raid or tanks rumbling down your street.

There is no real ethnic cleansing and mass crimes against humanity - the recent surge in "mass killings" by mentally unstable individuals is not the same as genocidal ideology and nowhere near the scale of what happened in Bosnia and Rwanda in the 90's nor what still happens nearly every day all over Africa and the Middle East.

Corporate America, Wall Street, and the Central Banking System control everything and use the middle class as pawns in their chess game.

There are hundreds of thousands of homeless people and many of them will not have a great Thanksgiving.

I could go on but it upsets me and that is the reason I rarely bring it up.

I'm going to keep on paying my part as a cog in the machine, enjoy my Thanksgiving, then spend thousands of dollars for Christmas which I really shouldn't but I have my credit cards to use and pay interest to the bankers just like I paid them an extra 200k for interest on my mortgage.


Life goes on...…  

Well said pjw.