"We live within..."

 one of the daily morning guitar therapy sessions...with the sunrise therapy and the hot coffee therapy and the multitude of other aspects to my days and nights I may just be healing...

the nomads have the right idea....mobility is life...life is mobility...the"INSTITUTE OF NOMADIC ARCHITECTURE " has some very good videos of nomads constructing their housing...humans. are pretty creative about how they managed to live in all environments...

the old and worn and the new and fresh often live side by side...but rarely understand one another...I have watched some great music videos lately...I stumbled across SARAH DELANY BUFFET and her video work...she is a trained cinematographer (although she majored in criminal law) and she decided to document her old dad playing some tunes you don't know by heart...some of these tunes jimmy buffet has only played less than a dozen times in public but they are still on his albums...his recollections of his beginnings in the music biz are interesting and his life in New Orleans, Key West and in the Carribean islands makes for some interesting personal history...ms. Buffet handles the camera work and questioning with great candor and humor...also there is a woman named Alison Balsom who illustrates three different kinds of trumpets and finds she likes the Baroque best...historically educational..."Down that line" by "the leopards" by "silent paprika films" is interesting and these folks have many offerings...

 pipe which was laying on the desert floor apparently run over by a tank during training ops in WW2

the number of people who have been damaged physically and mentally due to societies insistence on pursuing violent conflicts has resulted in societies which have reduced ability to provide for citizens to have even the rudiments of the things necessary for an enjoyable life...war is not the answer...

"We live within the immediacy of our own personal worlds, where a sense of "normality" is hard to displace, even as "normality" begins to look like an illusion. It's possible that our capacity to adjust to almost any "new normal" may turn out , ironically, to be one of our greatest liabilities as a species." from "What the ocean holds" by Verlyn Klinkenberg in the New York Review of Books 10/17/24