FLOCK TOGETHER AND LET THE FUN FLY! SEPTEMBER MORN . . . WE DANCED UNTIL THE NIGHT BECAME THE DAY . . . TWO LOVERS DANCED LIKE SOME ROMANTIC PLAY; SEPTEMBER MORNING STILL CAN MAKE ME FEEL THAT WAY . . . --DIAMOND. WAKING TO A MOUNTAIN OF SUNFLOWERS. EVERY SONG A MEMORY. SMILE. ACTUALLY, BEING OUT THE POVERELLO, IS MAKING ME FEEL GREEN, SELF-SUFFICIENT, INDEPENDENT, AND RAT NEST FREE . . . I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I HAVE BEEN SET UP, WITH COPS RUSHING IN, OR HAD 168 SPIES, FROM THE HOMELESS SHELTER, RAT ME OUT AND DO STAKE OUTS AROUND TOWN . . . THIS MUST BE THE WAY JESUS CHRIST FELT, WHEN THE VERY PEOPLE HE WAS SAVING, HIM THEIR SOULS, ME THEIR RIGHTS AND PROPERTY, TURNED ON HIM, BETRAYED HIM, RATTED HIM OUT, AND COULD NOT STAY WITH HIM, BUT ONE HOUR? SHOCKING, BUT HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. EVER SINCE LEAVING THE POV. WITH THE LAST DAY, THERE GETTING MY CELL PHONE BATTERY, STOLEN, GOVERNMENT FOR SURE, OR THE PERSON WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE OUTER PHONE TOO, BUT, I SWEAR IN THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS, I HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN A COP, OTHER THAN AT THE COP SHOP! LAST WEEK OR SO, WHEN I GOT BACK IN TOWN, HELL, I GOT A DIET COKE AND SAT OUTSIDE ZIP TRIP, AND MUST HAVE SEEN 20 COPS IN ABOUT A HALF HOUR! SCREAM! NOW THE DEAD DROP ZONE FOR ME, SEEMS TO BE THE BUS AND THE BUS TERMINAL, WHICH IS PATHETIC . . . ALL I HAVE DONE, IS LOVE AND BRAG ON THE BUS, FOREVER! WHATEVER--DON'T COME CRYING TO ME, WHEN YOU GET FALSELY ARRESTED, OR COPS SEIZE YOUR PROPERTY AND YOU HAVE NOT CONSTITUTIONAL RECOURSE, BECAUSE YOU BETRAYED ME, AND THE COPS FINALLY GOT ME . . . WHICH WILL PROBABLY NEVER HAPPEN, BUT, YOU NEVER KNOW, AND PEOPLE WEAR DOWN, BEING A WAR FOR 20 YEARS, STARTING WITH ASSET FORFEITURE. ON RIGHTS: USE THEM OR LOSE THEM. I AM ONE PERSON, ALTHOUGH, PEOPLE NATIONWIDE ARE STARTING TO TAKE UP THE BATTLE AND PROTESTING THE VIOLATION OF RIGHTS, MARCHING AGAINST OTHER ABUSES OF POWER, AND TAKING OUT CORRUPT GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, AND IT IS ABOUT TIME! SHIT! THE LONG AND LONELY DRIVE TO HELL.--GOD'S REVOLVER. THERE IS SOMETHING THAT GETS IN YOUR BLOOD WHEN YOU KICK OFF THE SHACKLES AND CHAINS, CONSTRAINTS, AND BONDAGE, GOING PURELY ON THE ADRENALINE OF FREEDOM, AGENCY, CHOICE AND SIMPLICITY. I LOVE IT . . . IN THE WORDS OF HENRY DAVID THOREAU, SIMPLIFY, SIMPLY, SIMPLY . . . WE ARE THE WORLD'S LARGEST CONSUMER NATION. DO WE REALLY NEED ALL THE SHIT WE BUY? I FOR ONE, AM NOT A SHOPPER, SO, IT IS LIKE PULLING TEETH TO GET ME TO GET IN A STORE, OTHER THAN GOING IN FOR EXACTLY WHAT I NEED AND THEN LEAVING, JUST AS RAPIDLY AS I CAME IN. HOWEVER, IT IS PEOPLE LIKE YOU, SHOPPERS, WHO KEEP THE ECONOMY AFLOAT, SO, KEEP SHOPPING! LOL! ACTUALLY, AFTER WRITING TWO OR THREE BLOGS YESTERDAY, I AM TAPPED OUT FOR ONCE . . . SHOCK, EVEN MY NOTES ARE NOT MAKING SENSE. LOL! I AM SURE AFTER I WATCH A FEW "TRUE CRIME" SHOWS OR THE NEWS, OR READING THE NEWSPAPER THE CREATIVE JUICES WILL START FLOWING . . . BURNED OUT, RIGHT NOW, BUT IN A MELLOW, LOW ENERGY MOOD. HAVING COPS CHASE YOU 24/7, TENDS TO KEEP YOU MOTIVATED AND ENERGIZED, SO THIS WILL BE A NEW PHASE OF MY LIFE! IRON SHARPENS IRON, I HOPE I HAVE MADE THEM BETTER AND I KNOW THEY HAVE HELPED ME HONE IN MY SKILLS FOR RUNNING, ESCAPING, DITCHING AND DODGING! LOL! MAYBE THE COPS HAVE LEARNED FROM A FEW OF MY TRICKS, TRIPS, AND TACTICS! AH, SUNDAY, IS A DAY OF REST, AND I AM JUS' CHILLIN! DIGGIN' ON THE QUIET OF A SUNDAY MORNING . . . AH, SO PEACEFUL, SO NICE, SO LOW KEYED. THIS AMPED UP CHICK, CAN DIG A PEACEFUL DAY FOR ONCE. ALTHOUGH THE RUSSIAN CHICK FROM THE POV. SHOWED UP, SKULKING AROUND MCDONALD'S, MAKING ME NERVOUS, THAT SOMETHING IS UP . . . I TOLD HER I LIKED HANGING BY MYSELF, SO DON'T BUG ME, NO NICETIES WITH HER, BLUNT IS THE NAME OF THE GAME OR SHE DOESN'T GET IT . . . I DIG BEING LONE, THAT IS WHY I SPEND 95% OF MY TIME WITH MYSELF! I AM SELFISH ABOUT MY TIME, HATE SMALL CHAT, AND WORKING TO MAKE CONVERSATION, WITH ANYONE! I AM EITHER REALLY SOCIAL, OR REALLY PRIVATE . . . GETTING MORE AND MORE, PRIVATE AS I GET OLDER. THE FUNNY THING IS, THAT, THE MORE I ADMIT TO AGING, THE MORE PEOPLE THINK I AM YOUNGER . . . TWO WOMEN THIS WEEK ASKED ME IF I WAS IN COLLEGE! AND THE OTHER NIGHT, I WALKED PASSED TWO COLLEGE BOYS, AND ONE, LOOKED ME UP AND DOWN, AND SAID, YUMMMMM, I DIBS! I THOUGHT, HE MUST BE DRUNK! LOL! BUT I WAS FLATTERED NONE THE LESS! ON ONE OF THE NEWS SHOWS I WATCHED, LAST NIGHT AT THE BREAK CAFE', THEY HAD THIS TEACHER, WHO WAS CONVICTED OF RAPE, FOR HAVING AN AFFAIR WITH HER 13 YEAR OLD STUDENT--GOING TO PRISON FOR 7 YEARS, WHILE HE AND HIS MOTHER RAISED THEIR TWO CHILDREN, HE HAD WITH HER BY THE TIME HE WAS 15, AND THE TWO ENDED UP, THROUGH ALL THE SCANDAL, GETTING MARRIED, AND THEY WERE CELEBRATING THEIR 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY; HE WAS LIKE 32 AND SHE WAS 52, AND ACTUALLY, THEY MADE A PRETTY NICE LOOKING COUPLE, SHE WAS CUTE AND STILL YOUNG LOOKING, TALKED ALMOST LIKE A YOUNG GIRL, AND HE SEEMED ALMOST TO BE THE MORE MATURE OF THE TWO, BEING PRACTICAL AND REAL ABOUT, NOT ONLY MARRIAGE, BUT, ABOUT WHAT HE WOULD DO IF HIS OWN TO DAUGHTERS, GOT INVOLVED WITH ONE OF THEIR TEACHERS . . . HE WOULD TRY TO STOP THEM! LOL! BUT THROUGH IT ALL, NEITHER SPOUSE, REGRETTED ALL THE HELL THEY WENT THROUGH, AND MARRIAGE IS JUST MARRIAGE, SAME CHALLENGES, BUT THROUGH IT ALL THE LOVE LASTED, SO WHO IS TO SAY? LIFE IS INTERESTING, TWISTED, COMPLICATED, FULL OF PARADOXES AND CONTRADICTIONS . . . THERE ARE NO RIGHT AND WRONGS, JUST GUIDING PRINCIPLES, WITH THE MAIN ONE BEING LOVE. OH, IT WAS INTERESTING, IN THE LAST WEEK, PRESIDENT OBAMA BUT OUT AN EDICT, NOT NECESSARILY AN EXECUTIVE ORDER, THAT TRANSGENDER PEOPLE, ARE TO BE ALLOWED TO GO TO THE BATHROOM, IN THE PLACE THAT THEY MOST HIGHLY IDENTIFY WITH. SOME CONSERVATIVE FROM, OF COURSE, TEXAS, IS SCREAMING THAT BOYS WILL JUST SAY THEY ARE FEELING FEMALE TODAY, GO IN THE GIRLS RESTROOMS AT SCHOOL, TO GET A PEEK . . . WHO WANTS TO SEE SOMEONE GOING TO THE BATHROOM? TALK ABOUT A ROMANCE KILLER, AND BRINGING AN OPINION OF SOMEONE DOWN AND DIRTY! LOL! THIS DUDE MENTIONED THAT SOME GUYS, WILL SNEAK INTO A GIRL'S RESTROOM OR GYM, AND HIDE IN THE HEATING VENTS, AND TAKE VIDEOS OF NAKED WOMEN . . . NO THAT IS NOT THE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE YOU, DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THOSE WHO, IDENTIFY WITH WOMEN . . . IT IS THE HETEROSEXUAL GUY! THERE WAS A CASE, I EITHER HEARD ABOUT IN LAW SCHOOL OR READ ABOUT IN THE NEWSPAPER, WHERE A SICK GUY, WAS ACTUALLY DOWN IN AN OUTHOUSE, TAKING VIDEOS OF GIRLS AS THEY WERE GOING TO THE BATHROOM, IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS . . . WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE OUR SICKO'S IN SOCIETY, AND BATHROOM ASSIGNMENT, IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE THAT, BUT I WAS IMPRESSED WITH THE TRANSGENDER WOMAN, FORMERLY A MAN, WHO SAID, WE JUST WANT TO BE TREATED WITH RESPECT, AND IF YOU CAN'T DO THAT, JUST TREAT US WITH LOVE. YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GET YOUR MIND AROUND, A SEX CHANGE, OR SOMEONE IDENTIFYING WITH A DIFFERENT SEX, AND MOST FROM BIRTH, AND GLADLY I DON'T HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IT, TO TREAT THEM WITH RESPECT AND LOVE. SERIOUSLY FOLKS, THAT IS THE BOTTOM LINE, ON THE TWO GREATEST COMMANDMENTS, TO LOVE GOD, AND LOVE YOUR FELLOW MEN . . . ALL OTHER COMMANDMENTS HANG ON THESE TWO! RELIGION ASIDE, CHURCH ASIDE, REPUBLICAN VALUES ASIDE, JUST FUCKING LOVE PEOPLE! SERVE THEM! RESPECT THEM! EVEN ENJOY THEM . . . WHEN I WAS IN DURANGO, COLORADO, STAYING AT A HOMELESS SHELTER, WE HAD A 6'5" TRANSGENDER FEMALE, STAYING IN THE 7 OR 8 BED DORM, AND AT FIRST, I WAS FREAKED OUT BY HER/HIM, I WAS NOT EVEN SURE WHAT TO CALL HER? BUT AS I JUST RELAXED, SEEING THE GOOD EXAMPLES OF THE OTHER WOMEN IN THE ROOM, COMING FROM A MUCH MORE LIBERAL STATE THAN UTAH, THEY WERE COOL WITH HER, AND TREATED HER WITH RESPECT AND LOVE, SO I FOLLOWED THEIR STERLING EXAMPLES, AND GOT TO KNOW THIS WOMAN, WHO TOWERED OVER ME AND HAD A DEEP VOICE, BUT WORE WOMAN'S CLOTHES, AND WHEN ALL WAS SAID AND DONE, IN MY SEVERAL WEEK STAY, SHE WAS BY FAR, MY FAVORITE PERSON, FUNNY, SMART, A PHOTOGRAPHER, FOR THE DURANGO RIVER RAFTING COMPANY, SHE WAS INFORMATIVE, AND I EVEN CONSIDERED, ASKING HER IF I COULD CRASH ON HER COUCH, WHILE I DECIDED WHITHER TO LIVE, IN DURANGO, CO. OR GO BACK UP TO MONTANA, BUT SHE MOVED 8 MILES OUT OF TOWN, AND I DON'T HAVE A CAR OR MY TRUCK. SO MANY PEOPLE, ARE GREAT, COOL, FUN, INTERESTING, WHEN WE GET EXPOSED TO THEM, AND GET TO KNOW THEIR LIVES AND STORIES . . . I FUCKING LOVE COLORFUL PEOPLE, BOREDOM IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL FOR ME, LIFE BETTER BE EXCITING, OR I WILL MAKE IT EXCITING, AND THAT GETS ME IN TROUBLE, THEREFORE, EXCITING PEOPLE, KEEP ME OUT OF TROUBLE . . . PEOPLE LIKE ANNIE, OHIO FARM GIRL, HANGING AROUND MISSOULA AND THE POV. FOR 20 YEARS, CRACKS ME UP EACH TIME I SEE HER, CRAZY ASS STORIES, AND BONGO, ON TOUR WITH PEARL JAM . . . I USED TO AVOID HIM LIKE THE PLAGUE, BUT, ONE DAY, WHEN I MUST HAVE BEEN THINKING RIGHT, OR HAD READ THE SCRIPTURES, I DECIDED TO GIVE HIM A CHANGE, AND DEAL WITH HIS WILD DRUM PLAYING AND BAND STORIES, I DON'T THINK I BELIEVED . . . BUT, ONCE I GOT TO KNOW HIM, HE WAS COOL, GOT ME BACK STAGE PASSES TO PEARL JAM CONCERTS AND HE REALLY DOES PLAY SECOND DRUMS FOR THE FAMED BAND, HE HAS ALSO, BEEN A ROADIE FOR VAN HALLEN! LOL! HE HAS MET TONS OF FAMOUS PEOPLE, AND HE IS FUNNY! BRANCH OUT, EXPLORE ALL THE FLAVORS, TASTES, COLORS, OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS GREAT WORLD . . . HOW BORING TO STICK WITH YOUR KIND, TRUE BIRDS OF A FEATHER FLOCK TOGETHER, BUT IF WE ALL FLACK TOGETHER LET THE FUN FLY! HAVE A GREAT DAY!