I awoke with a good feeling about love. It is true that my love for my step-sister was the catalyst that gave my understanding and feelings about love. Later at Tolstoy I was given the love that has remained as a remarkable understanding of love, a love that was reciprocal and very pure.
That love was always easy to understand and feel if I saw
a movie about love. It is a love that never goes away. It is always felt and
shared with life on the planet earth. It is truly amazing feeling.
I write in big type because of friend of mine (who is
gone) told me he could not read my website because he could not read the type. So,
I made the type bigger for him.
Wally is with me and Ramon, Wally has a black shirt
looking to the left, arms around his knees. I am behind Wally (not named) Ramon
is above me (shirtless).
Below Wally in 1997 when he told me he could not read my
website because he could not read the small type.
When
I was picking apples and Ramon found me and asked me to go to Morningstar.
Wally was traveling with Nancy and her kids. The name “Fruit n’ Nut Nancy” was
given to her because what she did on our trip south to Morningstar.
I
stopped picking apples and went South to Morningstar with Joanie, Ramon, Wally,
Nancy and her kids.
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The sheriff
dressed as Santa Claus gave us all a small pack (4 cigarette pack) to pose for
the picture.
When I joined the Navy I swore to …
I Thomas Diaz do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."What kind of logic is that? Moses has his Ten Commandments and Jesus and Christianity followed them. Now the folks in Iran believe that if the United States is mostly Christian, they can kill Christianity and the Hebrew Nations and go to Heaven.
I have no clue what Donald Trump thinks? Is it an eye for
an eye. What kind of logic is that? How do the worms that dig under other
nations think?
Child do you really understand the miracle before your eyes.
Sometimes you hear, “Why?” Technology gives you a choice.
The world around us is full of the technology that the world of old has never
known. Jesus and Ghandi would approve, Moses would thank the god he visited
with. I sit in the year 2026 and I am an old man and listen. I write and say my
goodness what a world I live in.
Child do you really understand the miracle before your
eyes.
I just saw a movie about what the government did and the parents of the child did not know what the government did.
In Ukraine the children of that era are using that intelligence.
What am I talking about?
When we bought our Commodore computer, we did not know
what the government was doing. We thought it was great that our children were
learning about computers and using games they were teaching children how to use
computers. As the evolution continued, I understood what was happening. At first,
I thought it was great and then in the year 2001 (twenty some years later I
understood). The government in the 1980’s were teaching our young adults how to
manipulate joy sticks. Using the joy sticks to fly planes , move cars, drive
tanks, handle machine guns and today to fly drones. We see the results in
school killings and war in Ukraine where drones and joy sticks are killing
Russian soldiers in kill zones.
Our parents just think that our kids are downstairs
playing video games. In the 1980’s it was our nation’s government grants to universities
and colleges and new computer companies to create games that children could use
and learn.
Now that I am old and the great leader does not listen. I told the world that the man was evil. I grew up with a grandmother, that taught me the great thought. I knew I stuttered and I cried and I played. My voice was quiet and not known. In my early teens I read the books of saints and wondered why the world did not listen. In the movies they had news reels, and they said and I saw Ghandi and Hitler, Ghandhi sitting and spinning cloth and Hitler standing tall and his arm stretched in his wicked strength. I saw the reels of war on islands, fire burning into the cave of mankind. I was young and I wondered why, I cried at night to sleep. Every night I cried and thought why and went to sleep.
I am listening to George Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue. It
is an American Jazz Piece for piano and jazz band. George created it for a full
orchestra. This photo below is Paul Witmans orchestra who played the first
concert of George Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue with George on the piano.
“Rhapsody in Blue is
a 1924 musical composition for solo piano and jazz band by George
Gershwin. Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman, the work combines
elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects and
premiered in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music" on
February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York City. Whiteman's band
performed the rhapsody with Gershwin playing the piano.
George lived a boyhood not unusual in New York tenements,
which included running around with his friends, roller-skating and misbehaving
in the streets. Until 1908, he cared nothing about music. Then, as a
ten-year-old, he was intrigued upon hearing his friend Maxie Rosenzweig's
violin recital. The
sound, and the way his friend played, captivated him. At about the same time,
George's parents had bought a piano for his older brother Ira. To his parents'
surprise, though, and to Ira's relief, it was George who spent more time
playing it as he continued to enjoy it.
In 1913, Gershwin left school at the age of 15 to work as
a "song plugger" on New York City's Tin Pan Alley. He earned $15
a week from Jerome H. Remick and Company, a Detroit-based publishing firm with
a branch office in New York. His first published song was "When You Want
'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em" in 1916.
It earned the 17-year-old 50 cents.
George was born on September 26, 1898, in the Snediker
Avenue apartment. His birth certificate identifies him as Jacob Gershwine, with
the surname pronounced "Gershvin" in the Yiddish-speaking community.
He was named after his grandfather, and, contrary to the American
practice, had no middle name. He soon became known as George, and
changed the spelling of his surname to "Gershwin" around the time he
became a professional musician; other family members followed suit[
after Ira and George, another boy, Arthur Gershwin (1900–1981),
and a girl, Frances Gershwin (1906–1999), were born into the family.
The family lived in many different residences, as their father changed
dwellings with each new enterprise in which he became involved. They grew up
mostly in the Yiddish Theater District. George and Ira frequented the
local Yiddish theaters, with George occasionally appearing onstage as an extra.
Gershwin's parents were both Jewish immigrants from the
Russian Empire.”
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