one thing today

  Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie Bob Dylan When yer head gets twisted and yer mind grows numb When you think you're too old, too young, too smart or too dumb When yer laggin' behind an' losin' yer pace In a slow-motion crawl of life's busy race No matter what yer doing if you start givin' up If the wine don't come to the top of yer cup If the wind's got you sideways with with one hand holdin' on And the other starts slipping and the feeling is gone And yer train engine fire needs a new spark to catch it And the wood's easy findin' but yer lazy to fetch it And yer sidewalk starts curlin' and the street gets too long And you start walkin' backwards though you know its wrong And lonesome comes up as down goes the day And tomorrow's mornin' seems so far away And you feel the reins from yer pony are slippin' And yer rope is a-slidin' 'cause yer hands are a-drippin' And yer sun-decked desert and everg...

  I thought I lost more than six hundred pages of journal tonight.  Fooling around with margins and things and thought it might help if I changed the Pages doc into a Word doc and tried it ... and it came up blank in the new doc and vanished in the original. Ugh. Panic. A call to Apple and a thirty minute wait for help. Called Elizabeth instead and after a short while we - meaning she - found a way to retrieve it. Sixteen years of life account was rescued. My thoughts swirl at the possibility of that great loss and I travelled from desolation to relief as this year closes and we see what awaits us.

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  George Clooney was an inductee tonight on the Kennedy Center Honors program. His father Nick recounted that on the day Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated he was trying to write news copy at a local California tv station.   Seven year old George came into the green room and dumped a bag of his toy guns on the coffee table. He told his dad he didn’t want them anymore.   Nick stopped writing his script and reported what his son did to his viewers.  

                                                                                                                                      Go to CNN                               and search for                                  Sha'kyra 

  elegance:  dignified gracefulness or restrained beauty of style : polish. I watched the 2016 best movie Moonlight .   There is a scene where a boy rides in the passenger seat of a car and sticks his arm out the window. The wind pushes his hand back and forth and up and down.   He tries to control it and then surrenders to the strong air.   Is there anyone who hasn't done that as a child?  

  Spent Christmas day feeling a little like the only living boy in nyc in a cushy OK kinda way - listening to early Rhymin’ Simon, Glen C, Blossom Dearie, Etta James, Hoagy C, Bix B, Beyond the Sea Bobby D.   I’m reading his bio and, like Jack You Can't Handle the Truth N,  he found out late in life that his sister was really his mother.