"Morally Responsible"

"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. "


Robert A Heinlein

Political Language

"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." 

George Orwell

Are We Ever Alone ?

Ducks(again)

B&W Ducks

A Hard Freeze is Gonna Come

Waltzing's for Dreamers

written by Richard Thompson

sung by Edwina Hayes

Richard Thompson has a beautiful recording of this on you tube as well

Oh play me a blue song and fade down the light

I'm sad as a proud man can be sad tonight

Just let me dream on, oh just let me sway

While the sweet violins and the saxophones play

And Miss, you don't know me, but can't we pretend

That we care for each other, till the band reach the end

One step for aching, and two steps for breaking

Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love

One step for sighing and two steps for crying

Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love

Now they say love's for gamblers, oh the pendulum swings

I bet hard on love and I lost everything

So don't send me home now, put a shot in my arm

And we'll drink out old memories and we'll drink in the dawn

And Mr Bandleader won't you play one more time

For I've good folding money in this pocket of mine

Oh, one step for aching, two steps for breaking

Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love

One step for sighing, and two steps for crying

Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love

Oh Miss, you don't know me, but can't we pretend

That we care for each other, till the band reach the end

Oh, one step for aching, two steps for breaking

Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love

One step for sighing, two steps for crying

Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love

Waltzing's for dreamers and losers in love

The Pretender - Jackson Browne

I felt this way too long

"I'm going to be a happy idiot

And struggle for the legal tender

Where the ads take aim and lay their claim

To the heart and the soul of the spender

And believe in whatever may lie

In those things that money can buy

Though true love could have been a contender

Are you there?

Say a prayer for the Pretender

Who started out so young and strong

Only to surrender"

Variations on a Rock Car

Must Have Been One Hell of a Party

Time Passes

Ducks in a Row

On the last Saturday of April 2012 about 10 in the morning, I saw this family of ducks crossing Main Ave. There was the leader and 10 followers as they crossed Main then down Ninth and down Phillips to Eighth and then looked for a place to get to the river. Some had trouble with the curbs but followed. Here are some pictures I took at the last giant step of that journey. 

In blind faith they walk off the cliff

 and they land near the broken glass and empty goose eggs and struggle to get to their feet

the last two while the others wait

and now there are nine

and now this portion of the journey is over and for them blind trust worked.