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well said, kalyâna-mitta. & I would concur…

But that’s just it, Mick, I do have my "squeeze” (blessing duly counted and counted again and again, oh let me french-kiss her every quarter-inch until the sun goes sinister) and it is so rich a lucky thing; so rich that I am tossed every waking moment now as to how and why she and I are still alive in a world so full of wonders and perfection being usurped and pissed away more rapidly with each given day, and there’s nothing any of use can do to stem the flood of asininities from spewing out the asshole of human so-called progress & change and drowning us and our graduating son and soon to be junior son (both deeply inspired boys who are likely to eventually procreate and bring more inspired pains in the asses into an even cruddier, shittier world being fucked with by dickheads with power) and everybody we’ve come to know and they’ve come to know and you and those who you know and those who they know and may get to know who’d gladly aim to trumpet in a new Renaissance of human evolution before the whole of it has truly breached the final curtain call.

Yep, ...we can live out the remainder of our life together in the giddy midst of the fall of Rome … or Carthage (whichever fitting metaphor for an empire & a Punic War), grit our teeth and count our budget and watch our woods and grass turning browner each year while we bask in a sweet passive balance of work and leisure, but isn’t it a pity that it NEVER had to be this way? .....rrrrRassin, frassin.................