FEIRCE FEBRUARY FINISHES

Last Hyacinth Bloom

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Library

Two New Audio Books

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The Almost Everything Local Store

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Overnight
Winds rattled, rose high and fell hard until they blew away all the soot and sadness.
Or, so it seemed when I opened my window on our world.

Monday Mail
Arrived from California...
.
...a precious bear,  a telephone answering machine and two videos

 Blessed be my good fortune in Friendship

Evening
Taking Refuge at the Zendo
a
Home Again


Tuesday Morning

"The wind has settled, the blossoms have fallen;
Birds sing, the mountains grow dark --
This is the wondrous power of Buddhism."
-Taigu Ryokan-

Thought

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"GREEN BOOK"
Thanks to AMC $5 Tuesdays Club, I saw it with a neighbor late afternoon, and loved it. Some critics dismiss it as just predictable Cliches. Sure, but in 1962 those 'cliches' were actually  facts of life. Two quite brilliant actors deliver nuanced performances I found admirable, and the sound track was right out of my high school years when a classmate and i sometimes sneaked out of our separate ground floor apartments through back windows late at night when our respective mothers, both working widows, had fallen asleep, We walked to the local 'hang out' a block away where we played the Jukebox, sipped egg creams and flirted with older boys.

Bare Bones Plot
Dr. Don Shirley is a world-class African-American pianist about to embark on a concert tour in the Deep South in 1962. In need of a driver and protection, Shirley recruits Tony Lip, a tough-talking bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx. Despite their differences, the two men soon develop an unexpected bond while confronting racism and danger in an era of blatant segregation.

 https://youtu.be/QkZxoko_HC0

Then we
VOTED
New York Public Advocate will govern till the end of this term.
Then there will be another election with the front runners who remain, but the final decision will depend on who the major parties elect to run in November and who we vote for then.

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Bleak Wednesday Morning
The Sun Obscured on Day One of our Congressional Circus Broadcast with it's dogged reaffirmation of intractable divisions fully operational.

The BEST Headline

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"The Examiner"
by W. H. Auden
Read by Tom O'Bedlam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH1_mbZfvCo&fbclid=IwAR3sYAa6k1RB2ILbU78LoD3c-bsrq-plHQetRsw_H8fCm2e8Xdqv6wYNhwk
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Thursday Morning
Last day of February

 World Wildlife Fund
Anxious to abandon a difficult February, I turn a calendar page and know I'll miss this tiger gazing at me from just behind the laptop...

However, I'm prepared to subsist on my own smile when I see these Blue footed boobies, who subsist on fish from the Pacific Ocean. 

In the Mail:
A sweet note from Jude Hill
Nourishing and Encouraging

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March First
It snowed again...

...just a little more.

(((more to come)))