SATURDAY/SUNDAY

1.11.2020
7:30 a.m.
East Manhattan
HERE COMES THE SUN

 10 a.m.
It Arrives at our Front Window

Then Enters In
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 ~*~

POLITICS
Two Movies Viewed
Trailers
1979
"The China Syndrome"

https://youtu.be/UFMsnicAtiY

 2011
"The Ides of March"

https://youtu.be/5JSs3NWQjMo

1.12.2020
9 a.m.
East Manhattan
MOODY SUNDAY

 10 a.m.

 4 p.m.

 The Ten Commandments
by Ray Pospisil

So now we drop the old concern
of playing odds to please our lord
by choice of ram or ox we burn
and bet we move his fickle sword

to smite our foes, we alsoease
the dread from keeping fatty thights
ourselves, and throwing extra greae
on coals to make our smoke there rise

in angel form. No need to heap
the bodies high so we can book
a line of faith, and better reap
at harvest. We're not off the hook

by long-shots, though, and can't just grift
for action now, since God will view
our worship less by goats we lift
on fires than by how I treat you. 

5 p.m.
Corina Collage

Midnight
Late night Constitutional

<<<<>>>>  

SHADOWING MYSELF

I feel as though I'm slogging along behind myself, shadowing myself.

Depending on the light, I'm either a few inches to the right or left, or several leagues behind.  I need a super-hero infusion to rise above the debris cluttering my vision.  I think I've got a touch of 'fight or flight' still active at the sub-atomic level.

(illuminated sign on a telephone booth)

.

It's Friday night and I've eaten a vegetable melange with six Thai dumplings.  My neighbor devoted some more time to dropping numbers into my new phone address listing, with a promise of more entries tomorrow.  More kindness.

 

"Local Hero" is playing on my tiny TV.  I love the film, love going to Scotland, love the Burt Lancaster performance (one of his last), and that of the exuberant Russian fisherman, the whole cast really, love the writing, love, love the moment when they see the Northern lights, and that last poignant scene where, back in the big City, the protagonist misses being there.

 

(television screen with my reflection on the right,

 the Northern lights scene on the left)

A true gem this movie.