(1014) Better day out there today, mood around the corners of the sphere from resigned to more buoyant, slow blogging all the same as much gathering, communicating in other places going on, plus chores. For example, the Bookmarks in the navbar are now in three, to make more manageable, hopefully. (1055)

 

10. Moosh corner

… (was getting withdrawal symptoms) …

9. It might be Barron

… maybe just a fan, maybe DJT staff … still valid news:

8. Good work, Andrew

… I’d love to see Midazolam Matt finally nailed.

7. Is she still worthwhile as a source?

6. On a mission

… whether from God remains to be seen. When I made contact recently with my first ex 57 years ago, she was asking if I was trying to resolve something? Could not answer that weeks ago but think I can now … yes, a mission perhaps to “put things in historical context”.

I’m supposing that most of us reaching a certain age do start reflecting, if time, and finding some sort of closure if possible. For some, it’s a nostalgic kick, esp. through music, e.g. this coming up on Quora from one Bruce Johnson:

“Townshend started off his point of view by stating, “You know, I could sit down and have a conversation with Paul about rock ‘n’ roll, and we’d be talking about two different things. To me, rock was The Rolling Stones, and before that, Chuck Berry, and before that, maybe a few people who lived in fields in Louisiana, but I can’t really include the Beatles in that. The Beatles were over with Herman’s Hermits. That’s not rock ‘n’ roll.”

Townshend viewed The Beatles as “a big pop phenomenon” who created “light music with occasional masterpieces thrown in.” This quote in particular is a hot, hot take, to say the least. Still, when viewed through Townshend’s lens (and when one compares The Beatles’ music to that of The Who, Led Zeppelin, and The Rolling Stones), they aren’t black-and-white rock ‘n’ roll in the slightest.

-Rolling Stone, 1982.”

Well yes, I’ve also been exploring music and in fact have a music post coming up which I’ve no idea who here will like. It’s ragtime and in other exploration, I’ve got back to grandmothers’ birthdates in the mid 1880s onwards, which puts all the rest of it, inc. my parents, plus lil ole me, in context, in perspective.

Thus the first full on ex-gf 57 years ago at a tender age really can be seen in perspective (the one I refound weeks ago) … plus the perceptions at that time, that the good times were just going to keep on rolling, not a care in the world, apart from school and exams.

Oh what a rude awakening we were all to have. They grew up, I maybe did not, eternal Peter Pan … until I was forced by life to grow up. The seven years following that summer idyll we had were rough. Good moments along the way but overall … rough.

And today, as a result of all this exploration? Attitude? Mood? Well not unlike with the blog exploration we’re doing, the finding out. For what for us to know? Because we bring sadness upon ourselves … chances lost etc., poor decisions, good ones … but the reason to know is those words used above … perspective, and maybe context. Seeing something which happened in context does help.

For an inquisitive mind.