OTHERS WILL SHIFT THEIR ASSUMPTIONS OVER TIME

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GO WITH THE FLOW

   

DIVE INTO YOUR FANTASIES

                        MY HOROSCOPE SAYS THE NEW MOON IS IN MY 12TH HOUSE OF VIRGO.  I AM TO INDULGE MY IMAGINATION,DO YOGA AND JOIN A SPIRITUAL GROUP.  IT'S SUNDAY SO I GUESS THAT MEANS IGNORE THE SWIRLING WINDS PRECEEDING HURRICANE IRENE AND GO TO CHURCH AND/OR DO YOGA ON THE BEACH.

                    WE MAY EVEN GET TORNADOES.  WE ARE SUPPOSED TO GET 75 MPH WINDS.  IT'S GUSTY NOW AND THE STORM IS NOT IN NYC YET.  THERE 100 TREES IN THE WOODS BEHIND MY HOUSE.  EVERY TWO MINUTES,THEY ALL SWAY. THERE IS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE ONE INCH OF RAIN.  HOPEFULLY THE TREES WON'T UPROOT.   SO WE'LL SEE WHAT IRENE BRINGS.  QUE SERA SERA!

MIXED METAPHOR

                                   TRANSITIONS ARE HARD.  I'M GOING FROM GREEN AND BROWN TO RED AND BLUE.  IT'S ALL BECAUSE OF HURRICANE IRENE WHICH IS HITTING CONNECTICUT AND NOT US.  WE WILL GET WIND AND ONE INCH OF RAIN.  WE  WERE SUPPOSED TO GET  A FULL FORCE BRUSHING BUT IT CHANGED OVERNIGHT UNBEKNOWNST TO ME.  BUT WE HAD ALREADY TAKEN DOWN OUR OUTDOOR RED,WHITE AND BLUE HOT AIR MOBILES AND HUNG THEM FROM THE RAFTERS IN THE SUNROOM.  SO THEN WE HAD TO CHANGE COLOR MOTIFS TO MATCH THE BALLOONS.
                                SO I REMOVED THE GREEN AND WHITE IVY LAMP AND REPLACED IT WITH A RED AND BLUE TIFFANY LAMP.  THE GREEN CANDELLABRA WAS MOVED TO THE KITCHEN AND A RED ROSES PAIR OF CANDLESTICKS TOOK ITS PLACE.  THE IVY DECORATED CLOCK WAS MOVED TOTHE BACK OF THE ROOM BY THE GREEN CURTAINS.  THE IVY LAMP IS NOW IN THE LIVING ROOM. 
                                A YELLOW SUN MOBILE NOW HITS YOU ON TOP OF THE ROOM WHEN YOU APPROACH THE DESK.  BUT IT'S MADE OF FELT SO IT DOESN'T HURT.  WHETHER THE MOBILES WILL EVERY TURNIN THE WIND IN THE SUNROOM IS DEBATABLE.  THE HURRICANE WINDS SHOULD MOVE THEM.  THE 10 BY 15FT ROOM HAS 5 SLIDING DOORS.  SO THERE SHOULD BE SOME WIND.
                                  IT'S ALL VERY WHIMSICAL NOW IN THE SUNROOM WHICH WAS QUITE HUNTING LODGE BROWN AND GREEN.  I WANT TO DECLUTTER BUT IT'S HARD TO PART WITH OUR MEMORABILIA AND UNCERTAIN WHERE TO STORE IT.  THEBASEMENT IS MOLDY AND MUSTY ESPECIALLY AFTER A HURRICANE.  SPEAKING OF HURRICANES, OUR CONDO IN FLORIDA WAS RUINED BY THE 2004 HURRICAES.  ALL THE DRY WALL HAD TO BE REMOVED.  WE BOUGHT IT FOR
$70,000 IN 2000 AND SOLD IT GUTTED FOR $240,000 IN 2005.  WE RECEIVED $30,000 FROM THE INSURANCE FOR DAMAGES.  WE WOULD HAVE HAD MORE BUT THE CABINETS WEREN'T COVERED BECAUSE WE HADN'T BOUGHT THE RIDER IN 2004 WHEN THE INSURANCE COVERAGE CHANGED. 
                                WE BOUGHT A HOUSE IN TITUSVILLE ON THE GOLFCOURSE IN 2004.  WE BOUGHT A TOWNOUSE IN A BETTER NEIGHBORHOOD AND ONA BETTER GOLF COURSE IN 2007.  THE ECONOMY CRASHED IN SEPTEMBER 2008 AND WE HAVE BEEN UNABLE TOSELL EITHER UNLESS WE TAKE A BIG LOSS.  OUR AGENT PRUDENTIAL IS SELLING THE ONE NEXT TO US WHICH IS IN PERFECT ORDER FOR $159,000.  THAT'S $100,000 LESS THAN WE PAID IN 2007/

HURRICANE IRENE

                              HOPEFULLY IT WON'T BE SO BAD ON THE CAPE.  BUT I DIDN'T LISTEN TO THE NEWS OR WEATHER AND JUST PUT EVERYTHING AWAY TODAY.  IT MAY JUST BE A TROPICAL STORM.  BUT STILL MAYBE A STORM SURGE BUT ONLY ONE INCH OF RAIN ON CAPE COD.  I GOT CAUGHT IN THE HYPE.  C'EST LA VIE.  
                              I KNEW THERE WAS EXTREME HYPE WHEN FOX NEWS HAD BROWNIE NOTORIOUS FOR THE HURRICANE IN NEW ORLEANS ON AS AN EXPERT. NOW THAT'S REPUBLICAN CHUTSPAH!  STILL I GOT CAUGHT IN THE MADNESS. 

                                SO IRENE GOOD NIGHT!  GOOD NIGHT IRENE I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS.  TOMORROW WILL BE GORGEOUS.  SO RAIN,RAIN GO AWAY COME AGAIN ANOTHER DAY WITH 70 PERCENT HUMIDITY.   A HURRICANE BOB YOU ARE NOT!!!!! PHEW!

MY HOROSCOPE BY RICK LEVINE

                               THE BEST WAY TO DISCOVER WHAT YOU CAN DO IS TO SIMPLY DO IT.    SO DON'T WORRY- JUST DO IT!   NOW THAT'S A HOROSCOPE AND VERY ZEN.
GOOGLE WANTS TO CHANGE MY HOMEPAGE FOR SOME UNGODLY REASON AND THEN I'D LOSE RICK.  HE'S KIND OF LIKE HUMPHREY BOGART'S RICK.  MY RICK IS VERY STALWART AND TACTITURN.  HE NEVER GETS EXCITED AND IS VERY LOW KEY.  BUT YOU CAN COUNT ON RICK TO BE ON YOUR SIDE AND LOOK OUT FOR YOUR BACK. 

LET IT RIP

                               SO JUST DO IT!  NOW!  AHA!

ON A CLEAR DAY

                              I SAT IN THE LIFE GUARD'S CHAIR AT 7PM AND WAITED FOR THE SUNSET.  THLIFE GUARDS LEAVE AT 5 OR 6.  SOON THERE WILL BE NONE BECAUSE THEY HEAD BACK TO COLLEGE NEXT WEEK.  IT WAS VERY CLEAR AND FRESH AND VERY  STILL.  A FEW PEOPLE WERE SWIMMING IN THE CALM WATER.  FISHERMEN AND A WOMEN WERE ON THE ROCKS TRYING TO CATCH A FISH IN THE HIGH TIDE.                 
              I WAVED AT A HELICOPTER FLYING TO MARTHA'S VINEYARD.  THE PRESIDENT IS VACATIOING THERE WHILE TRIPOLI IS BEING BOMBED BY NATO AND THE REBELS ARE TRYING TO TAKE CONTROL.  GADAPHI IS IN HIDING OR HAS DISAPPEARED A LA OSAMA BIN LADEN.  GADAPHI'S SON REPUTEE TO BE CAPTURED APPEARED AT THE PRESS HOTEL TO SHOW HE WAS STILL ALIVE AND VOWING TO WIN.  THE US HAS SUPPLIED DRONES TO PINPOINT THE GOVERNMENT FORCES.
                      THANK HEAVENS THE PRESIDENT HAS GOOD WEATHER ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD.  OVERTAKING A CRAZED DICTATOR IS NOT AN EASY PROPOSITION.  THE PRESIDENT ADVISED HIM TO GIVE UP TO AVOID FURTHER DESTRUCTION OF TRIPOLI.  THE OTHER NIGHT THE PRESIDENT WENT TO A PARTY FUNDRAISER AT A PROFESSOR'S HOUSE IN OAK BLUFFS.  IT LOOKED LIKE A SIMPLE LITTLE CAPE COD HOUSE.   IT WAS VERY HOT SO HOPEFULLY THE PROFESSOR HAS AC. 

MARTHA'S VINEYARD

                     TODAY I WENT TO TOWN TO THE BANK AND THE LIBRARY.  IT WAS GREAT WALKING IN THE FRESH AIR.  THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH WAS PREPARING FOR LOBSTER ROLLS ON THE LAWN AT 5P.M..  I WENT HOME INSTEAD.  I DID GO TO THE MUSEUM ON THE GREENS' BOXWOOD GARDEN.  THE ROSES WERE VERY PINK AND BLOOMING.  THE YELLOW MUMS HAD BLUE BACHELOR BUTTONS WITH THEM.  ANYWAY IT WAS A PPERFECT NEW ENGLAND DDAY AS I PASSED THE CONGREGARTIONAL CHURCH WITH A PAUL REVERE BELL AND KATHERINE LEE BATES THE AUTHOR OF AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL AS A FORMER PASTOR. 

TRIPPING

SNOQUALMIE FALLS WASHINGTON STATE



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PEGGY'S BACKYARD IN WASHINGTON STATE

THE START

BE YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF AND NOTHING ELSE

                                  WHAT IS YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF?  WHO DARES BE AUTHENTIC?  POPEYE?  I AM WHAT I AM,SAID POPEYE.  HE HAD SPINACH AND OLIVE OIL.  HE WAS POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN.  HE LIVED IN A TUNA FISH CAN OR SOMETHING.  HE HAD MUSCLES AND BEAT UP A LOT OF PEOPLE.  I GUESS THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BECOME AUTHENTIC.  HMMMM!
                                    AND NOTHING ELSE IS QUITE DEFINITE.  CONVENTIONALITY IS TABOO.  DO YOU OBEY THE LAW?  OR MAKE YOUR OWN LAWS?  ONE OF THE MOST AUTHENTIC PEOPLE ON EARTH IS NO DRAMA PRESIDENT OBAMA.  STILL HE KNOWS TO COMPROMISE OR SEEM TO COMPROMISE TO GET HIS WAY.  

O-O-O-O-O-OH POPEYE

                                    CAN YOU REALLY BE TOTALLY AUTHENTIC AND SURVIVE?  ISN'T  LIFE A LOT OF GIVE AND TAKE AND TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK?  OTHERWISE YOU BETTER HAVE MUSCLES AND BE READY TO FIGHT LIKE POPEYE.  WHY DID HIS EYE POP OUT LIKE THAT?  DID HE LOSE A FIGHT?  NEVER.  POPEYE WAS HIS AUTHENTIC SELF AND NOTHING ELSE EVEN WHEN OLIVE OIL SAID:  OH POPEYE!

WINDFALL WON BEST DOCUMENTARY AT THE WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL

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WIND TURBINE ON CAPE COD DRIVING NEIGHBORS CRAZY AT NIGHT

CAPE COD CLEAN ENERGY

                           NOW THAT'S BIG NEWS.  WINDFALL TELLS THE STORY OF A TOWN IN UPSTATE NEW YORK WHERE FARMERS ALLOW GIGANTIC WIND TURBINES TO BE PUT ON THEIR LAND BY AN IRISH WIND TURBINE MANUFACTURER.  CHANGE THE RURAL AREA NOT NECESSARILY FOR THE BETTER.  NO ONE REALIZED THEIR IMPACT ON THE LANDSCAPE OR LIFE OF THE RESIDENTS.  IT BECOMES THE HATFIELD AND MCCOYS PRACTICALLY AS PRO AND CON WIND FARMS DUKE IT OUT.  SOME REGRET THE WINDFALL OF MONEY THEY RECEIVED FOR ALLOWING A WINDFARM ON THEIR FARM.
                             TURBINES CAN BE THE SIZE OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.   THAT'S BIG,NOISY AND INTRUSIVE TO THE LANDSCAPE AND LIFE OF THE INHABITANTS.  THE CANADIAN FILM MAKER TOLD THEIR STORY.  IT WON THE FESTIVAL BEST DOCUMENTARY PRIZE IN A TOWN THAT HAS PROMOTED CLEAN ENERGY ESPECIALLY WIND TURBINES .  MEANWHILE WOODS HOLE'S NEIGHBOR'S IN HYANNIS ON NANTUCKET SOUND HAVE BEEN FIGHTING IT VOCIFEROUSLY.  TED KENNNEDY'S FUNERAL WAS A TESTAMENT TO THE LOVE OF PEOPLE FOR NANTUCKET SOUND.  ALL THE KENNEDY'S SPOKE OF THEIR LOVE OF THE SEA WHEN EULOGIZING ED WHO LOVED TO SAIL ON THE SOUND.  HE SPOKE OFTEN AGAINST THE 135 TURBINES MANUFACTURED BY A GERMAN COMPANY APPROVED TO BE BUILT OFF NANTUCKET.   ROBERT KENNEDY JR.  RECENTLY WROTE IN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL OPPOSING THE 135 TURBINES IN THE PRISTINE NANTUCKET SOUND.
                       PRESIDENT OBAMA AND MANY DEMOCRATS SUPPORT THE WINDFALL FROM THESE WINDFARMS.  THEY SEE IT A A SOURCE OF CLEAN ENERGY,LESS DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL AND AS A GOOD INDUSTRY FOR THE US ECONOMY.  SO WHO CARES ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PEOPLE, KEEP THOSE CONSTRUCTION UNIONS,GREEN POWER RADICALS AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES HAPPY.  WE MUST SACRIFICE THE SEA FOR THE GOOD OF MAN.  WOULDN'T SOLAR PANELS ON EVERY HOUSE IN THE USA BE LESS OBSTRUSIVE?  BIG BUSINESS NEEDS TO BUILD.  IF IT'S NOT A STADIUM TO REPLACE A PERFECTLY GOOD ONE ,IT'S A HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD THE MORTGAGE.   THE PRESIDENT WILL VACATION ON A FARM ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD  SOON.  I HOPE HE'LL ENJOY THE HUM OF THE WIND TURBINES ON THE FARM'S FRONT LAWN.  WOULDN'T A SOLAR PANEL ON THE YUPPIE FARM HOUSE ROOF BE A LOT QUIETER.  PERHAPS HE'LL ENJOY TURBINE BUZZING SO MUCH, A CLEAN ENERGY TURBINE WILL BE PUT ON THE WHITE HOUSE LAWN.

VINEYARD COTTAGE

                THE GERMANS HAVEN'T HAD TO FIRE A SHOT AND THEY NOW OWN NANTUCKET SOUND.  WHAT'S NEXT THE MISSISSIPPI?

STRIVING

                                   EVER ONWARD
                                   EVER UPWARD 
                                   ON OUR WAY WE GO


THAT WAS MY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL SONG.  NEXT YEAR IS MY 50TH HIGH SCHOOL REUNION.  JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS PRESIDENT THEN.  I WAS IN COLLEGE WHEN HE WAS SHOT.  STILL STRIVING I WENT TO STUDY FRENCH AT THE COLLEGE LANGUAGE LAB.  IT WAS CLOSING. THE DIRECTOR , AN IMMIGRANT WAS CRYING.  I MOURNED WITH HIM AND GAVE UP STRIVING. 


 JOHN GLENN WAS THE FIRST AMERICAN IN SPACE WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL.  ALTHOUGH THE FIRST TO CONQUER INNER SPACE WAS THE CASTRO CONVERTIBLE.   WE HAD TO WEAR SKIRTS TO DINNER IN COLLEGE WHEN I WAS A FRESHMAN.  WE HAD A DORM CURFEW OF 10 PM.  BY THE NEXT YEAR ALL RESTRICTIONS WERE ELIMINATED.  


THEN CAME THE VIET NAM WAR IN THE LATE SIXTIES.  MY MASTERS DEGREE COMMENCEMENT AT COLUMBIA U IN NYC WAS INTERRUPTED BY THE GRADUATING COLUMBIA COLLEGE STUDENTS WALING OUT TO PROTEST THE WAR.  


MAKE LOVE NOT WAR BECAME THE MOTTO OF THE 60'S AND 70'S.   WE WERE OFF TO THE RACES.  BUT IN THE BACK OF OUR MIND WAS OUR ONWARD AND UPWARD STRIVING.  I MADE A LIVNG FOR 34 YEARS AND AM LIVING IN RETIREMENT WITH MY BEST FRIEND RAY ON THE FRUITS OF THAT LABOR, 


SO ONWARD AND UPWARD
STRIVE ON MACDUFF

 MY BACK YARD IN FLORIDA

FOR OUR CAUSE IS TOUGH!