Hey, doesn't that title sound like something that good ole Messybear would come up with?

With that, I'm reading a new novel called Fallen Mountains by a young lady that is really good thus far. In it, she quotes William Faulkner, "The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past." Reading that line has a profound impact and if I have to explain it, it's not being thought about enough.

Anyway, my point is this - I've just about given up on changing the minds of those with minds that can't be changed. We are in a time that I am certain history will bear out as being under those of the most morally and ability-wise incompetent president in the history of America. And again, with THAT, it seems the only thing we can focus on is we have one life to live and we need to live it well; rich with meaning without allowing these times to destroy us. Yes, it is hard, frustrating and maddening, but it is still doable and most likely doable by placing the focus on the most important things in our lives.

As Paul Newman railed against in the movie Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, his unrequited love for his father was returned by his father by the accumulation and providing of "things."

Today, I watched a wonderful movie with Robert Redford and Nick Nolte called A Walk In The Woods. Lately, for visual entertainment, these are the things that I've been looking for - pieces that focus on the things that mean something to us. Forget the superhero CGI things that give us a saccharin sugar rush that soon dissipates into nothing of substance. I want those things where the impact lingers on.

Which leads me to the band Lord Huron. The movie A Walk In The Woods is sprinkled with their tunes. Of course, I am familiar with their tune Time To Run, but Wow. Their lyrics are wonderfully adult and profound for this recently retired, melancholy searching for meaning in this vapid world older man......