Re posted from 2006....the first week of Mind Jazz.....and leading to the lyrics of ARE YOU?

The process of writing a love song, a love story, a love letter or a poem about love really does enter the realm of illusionary triangulation.

One knows what one knows
One hopes for what one hopes for
And then everything in between controls the reality

We can attempt to understand why something might not be happening and yet there is that place that lives inside our minds that really lets us know that we don’t really have a clue.

And that maybe we aren’t suppose to know

Which really pisses me off

It’s one thing if I can’t find the answers to questions that determine my state of being, it’s another thing if I’m not suppose to play inside that type of dream.
That is where the Universal joke starts to take shape and somehow dominates my time…..and always leaves me wondering with something I can’t rhyme.

Why should I care
if the games not fair
I’m not the one who set the rules

Can’t I just ignore the facts and simply laugh
Just like other fools

Does something need to happen when searching for a truth? Does a lighting bolt of insight need to strike me through my roof? Does an inspirational moment need to break inside my mind? And does it really matter if you get drunk on beer or wine? Has anything ever taken the place of love since the dawning of mankind? And of course has anyone ever seen inside my twisted little mind?

I share things that get put down on solid molecular matter, but does it matter?

I create colorful designs that seem to have designed
themselves
in spite of using my hands
my time
and my
imagination

I feel very little control
When creating
The flow

And then the real work begins….filling in

Choosing colors doesn’t require energy
And some might say that’s quite apparent
And others might feel that I ponder long and hard over hues and shades….

It’s actually fun to watch what my hands select for color

It’s a part that seems to be outside of me
Much like the love that I don’t have lying next to me

And is the reason

that I continue to ask



Are you the valley I should photograph
Or the mountain I can climb
Are you a song that I must write
Or the poem I will rhyme

2006-2019

13 years ago tomorrow I started Mind Jazz and in that first 7 days  I posted 22 times.  If you refer to the archives on the right side, below my favorite sites, you will see at the very bottom that there were 22 entries. I highly suggest, if you want a broad brush exposure, going back in that first couple of years and randomly select articles to read.

Some of those entries were things I had written before I started blogging and some were regarding my other projects such as Neo-Illumination and my artwork.

One of the postings was a song (Are You?) I had written and then altered to fit my "Leajewell"script.
I was just reading it again and thought it seemed relevant even though there is no actual non-fantasy person that I am currently directing energy toward.

It just seems relevant because I dig the idea of falling in love even though it is highly unlikely that IT will happen again in my lifetime.  Of course I'm the guy who thought McGovern would beat Nixon so I am capable of being surprised.

The lyrics to that song are below.....the melody to that song is on some tape stuffed in some box somewhere in my various boxes stuffed with stuff.

40 years ago I would refer to my writing as "stuff" and it still seems like the right term.

ARE YOU?

Are you the valley I should photograph
Or the mountain I can climb
Are you a song that I must sing
Or the poem I will rhyme

Are you a movie I might write
Or a melody just lurking in my mind
Maybe just a memory
Of something I can’t find

This thing you are
That I can’t seem to know
Just lingers very softly
Somewhere inside my soul

It’s a peaceful image
And incredibly beautiful to see
But it’s also very strange
That you’re not lying next to me

The energy that fills this void
Is strong and seems so real
But when I reach over to touch you
There’s nothing that I can feel

Are you the valley I should photograph
Or the mountain I can climb
Are you a song that I must write
Or the poem I will rhyme

If it’s just a dream
With no physical reality
Then it becomes a cosmic joke
That heaven plays on me

The laughter that is heard
From angels, demons and in between beings
Explains very clearly
Why no one hears my screams

Ha ha ha always overshadows boo hoo hoo
No matter where you live

A good laugh is better than a good tear
If that’s all you have to give



And I understand the truth
Why you can’t come to me
Even though I think
It’s somewhere you might like to be

I’m not real
in the space that is your dream
just a whisper in some illusion
of what love might mean

but I know you are out there
as I am in here
and sometime it would be nice
if this vision could be clear

maybe just a quick flash
that lights up my heart
and let’s me know that you know
that something just might start

I can’t make you come to me
No matter what I say
Just like there’s nothing I can do
To make you go away

Are you the valley I should photograph?
Or the mountain I can climb?
Are you a song that I must write?
Or the poem I will rhyme?

The Donald and Greta

I don't have a twitter account and actually I don't have a cell phone anymore so therefore I'm so out of touch with reality that anything I say can't be taken seriously...but of course the final opinion rests with you.

I gave up the cell phone experience a few years ago in an effort to show my daughter that one can live without it.

It didn't work. She's still addicted.

But what did work is that I can live without it and things seem much more quiet when I'm away from home.

At home I have my computer, TV and two land lines, a daughter and a 33 month old granddaughter, an ex-wife (no fooling and no fooling around...just her taking over the sofa and helping to raise our granddaughter) so my quiet time is in my bedroom reading, writing and doing my artwork before falling asleep.

The cell phone is an intrusion but it contains apps.

Thus I have no app experience and in that arena I'm probably very much out of touch.

I read two newspapers every day.... so yesterday's news is covered.  Of course one of the papers I read is the LA TIMES (the other being a local Santa Monica one) and I've heard rumors that it's a liberal paper but I have no idea what that means.

People that watch Fox News tell me that the LA TIMES is a joke.

AND THAT IS A REALLY GOOD JOKE....but of course those people don't get that joke so we go around and around and around and so on and so forth.

The reason I brought up twitter (I guess it should be caps, right?) is because I saw a story on line this am that said President "Biff" was ridiculing Greta Thunberg on his Twitter account where apparently he has 60 million followers.

The fact The Donald has 60 million followers doesn't surprise me because 62 million people voted for The Liar.

By the way, FIRE the LIAR 100% cotton t-shirts will be available as soon as Dems have their candidate.

What does surprise me is that 60 million people have Twitter accounts.  Of course that makes no sense because in reality there must be one or two billion people on Twitter for there to be 60 million following that creepy guy in The White House.

I guess it's important to find out who has the most followers on Twitter.......time out while I do the research.

I'm back......didn't seem very long did it?

ARE YOU READY?

The Most Followed Accounts on Twitter

1. Barack Obama (110.2m followers)
2. Katy Perry (108.3m followers) ...
3. Justin Bieber (107.3m followers) ...
4. Rihanna (94.5m followers) ...
5. Taylor Swift (85.1m followers) ...
6. Cristiano Ronaldo (81m followers) ...
7. Lady Gaga (80.2m followers) ...
8. Ellen DeGeneres (79m followers) ..

Now I honestly can say that I feel so much better than I did ten minutes ago just knowing that The Donald isn't in the top 8....and that BARACK OBAMA IS NUMERO UNO.

THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT WITH THE WORLD!!!!!!!

Now let's get back to the bashing of Greta by The Liar.

If you don't know who Greta Thunberg is then something is most definitely wrong with the world news box inside your head.

Maybe you need to view her Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/gretathunbergsweden/

or
maybe you need to pick up the latest Time magazine


I'm not going to write about her because I want you to read about her......I'm just going to ask one simple question.

WHAT WOULD COMPEL A SITTING UNITED STATES PRESIDENT TO BELITTLE A 16 YEAR GIRL WHO SIMPLY WANTS TO SAVE THE HUMAN RACE?

Please note it's not about saving the planet.....the planet doesn't need saving.
The species that inhabit the planet 
are
the
ones
in
danger.

And those species are numerous and they include
you
and
future
generations
of
yous
and
yours

YOUS AND YOURS
will now that might be the name of my new script, or poem, or song or piece of art.

                           YOUSANDYOURS


Perhaps I'll just string the letters together....which makes more sense than what The Donald says about Greta.

Please take the time to read about her and then tell me that you know someone who will vote for Donald Trump in 2020.

By the way....I don't want President "Biff" to leave office anyway EXCEPT 
for 
THE VOTING BOOTH METHOD.

November 3 2020 is the date in case you were wondering.

I'm hoping that Greta gets recruited by the Democratic candidate to attend every major campaign speech during the months of September and October....and she absolutely must attend the Democratic National Convention in July.

Oh, and one last little thought....if you don't know about Greta than Paul Dirac's equation from 1928 will really spin your noodle.

Check it out.   He is highly regarded among people who follow science 
but that means our President has no idea who he is.

And that means his 62 million Twitheads have no idea who he is. 

And those people are voting in Nov.

Time to stop the nonsense.

FIRE THE LIAR

PENALIZE STUPIDITY!

GO GRETA