1988, in fact, at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesboro, Tennessee. And yes, that’s Pete Seeger on my right….or my left, whether you’re inside me or outside looking at me. If Van Gogh could get confused over which ear was cut off (the left ear), perhaps I might be forgiven:

Van Gogh “sliced off his left ear, whick is not apparent in the portrait, since he used a mirror to paint it, making it seem like the right ear is bandaged instead.” Wikimedia.org/wiki/Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear

Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear – Wikipedia↗

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A LOTTA WORK!

I’m impressed and thankful for those bloggers who apparently spend most of their lives researching and writing and publishing their blog. One among many is Lobotero, on Saner Thought. Recently he reported on the birth of an humanzee one hundred years ago.

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ON X – Aaron Ruper shared footage of Charlie Kirk speaking in Duluth, Georgia, where he said “The Democratic Party believes everything that God hates,”

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On Tech: Amazon plans to replace more than half a million jobs with robots

The New York Times

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MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT

Drenched with the imprint

of dream images knocking

to be set free, to voice that

which is sensed behind

the known shadows

of words splashing

yet in the wake

of the unsaid.

Nan