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Too many games that I can’t play
Too many windmills in my way
– jennings/kerr

If you do this whole blogger, social media thing long enough you begin to feel like your simply talking to friends and acquaintances.  You begin to see the same names and faces all the time in comments or on Twitter or whatever and you grow accustom to your circle. But that’s an illusion. The fact is you’ll never know who stops by.  So when I got a nice email from the vice president of Barbara Orbison Productions I was really surprised.

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Take a little walk to the edge of town
Go across the tracks Where the viaduct looms
like a bird of doom – Nick Cave

Here’s the music for today’s post…
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The folks on the northwest coast always warn you that when the sky is dark and gray for days you simply have to get out and stay active.  So yesterday under the pressure d, claustrophobic squeeze of heavy clouds I drug everyone along to explore another section of the 400 Trail.  Of course the problem with me and clouds is my perspective get’s a big ah, filtered…

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Yalla?  Hurry up, get moving, get going. . . Yalla is also sometimes used for an expression of an upbeat or good mood.  In Israel I head both.  “Yalla, Yalla!” as Hurry up, or “Yalla Bye” on the phone.  Of course being a fan of Natasha Atlas I’d heard, “Yalla, Yalla” shaking my car doors for years. . . Yeah, and sometimes it did get some odd looks from passers by. . .

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Funny how my memory slips
while looking over manuscripts
Of unpublished rhyme
Drinking my vodka and lime

But look around, leaves are brown now
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter
- paul simon

Next Monday I am out of here. That leaves me with one week to get everything here in order. (you can wish me good luck now!) So let’s see. . . where do I begin. .

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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCjFTsvL7mk
And let me try
With pleasured hands
To take you and the sun to
Promised lands
- the zombies

Welcome to the Monday after. The Monday after the last weekend after the holiday weekend. The Monday after the first Tuesday of School. The Monday after the first weekend when a long holiday is no longer an option. The Monday when all hope is truly lost. The Monday when autumn slipped through that still open summer’s night window and woke you with a cold shock. The Monday after the first Sunday of a new football season. The Monday when the first thing I read was that firing off just 1/300th of 1% of the world’s nuclear arsenal would drop the worlds temperature by 2 degrees causing something worse than the Little Ice Age (between the 15th & 19th century). The Monday after the conventions when politics really get stupid. The Monday when the Zombies are more appropriate than the Beach boys. The Monday after my last paddling class of the season, when being wet sort of sucks, when people realize they should have taken the class sooner. The Monday that signals a time when summer lust turns to love . . . or turns off. The Monday when Lemons and limes give away to apples and cinnamon. The Monday when I really start looking forward visiting friends in Israel which is much better than just looking forward to snow.