1000 days

I have reset some of my clocks today.  One year to wait for the "next time".  One thousand days to complete my task.  Probably more like 1000 nights.  But it really will happen.

Brother John is Gone

Another sad day in the music world with the loss of Dr. John [not pictured in the thumbnail].  They are certainly not making new music like this anymore.  I wonder what I will be listening to in the future if I can manage to remain in the world myself.

Dr. John wrote... “In New Orleans, in religion, as in food or race or music, you can’t separate nothing from nothing. Everything mingles each into the other — Catholic saint worship with gris-gris spirits, evangelical tent meetings with spiritual-church ceremonies — until nothing is purely itself but becomes part of one fonky gumbo.”

Returned from a safari

Somewhere along the way, I lost the thread.  That is evidenced by the fact that I had the Breeders Cannonball album when it was released, but that it took YouTube recommendations for me to hear "Safari", an almost perfectly refined track.

I also lost the thread by trying to compose a blog post on my Android device, owned, like YouTube, by the Alphabet corporation.  But my draft was somehow lost in limbo when I tried to upload it.  It was "saving" forever, a computer scientist's definition of eternal life, I suppose.

That "lost draft" was titled "mixed feelings", and it was a series of counterpoints, observed at the time.

The excitement of a voyage vs. the separation from loved ones

The anticipation of experiencing the new vs. the disappointment of not being able to share those experiences

The fulfillment of a plan vs. a plan frustrated and canceled

And even a few more that I have forgotten before I lost the thread.  But I will hurry to post this on my Alphabet-owned blog before I have forgotten entirely the Shibboleth that allows me to pass through.