Adrift on the River Styx

Behold, the single-masted sailboat embarking with passengers to explore the River Styx during the summer of 2012. For some, it was their last voyage. I wonder what the summer of 2013 will bring? Oh, yes. The music for our river voyage is "Out of My Mind," performed by Who Cares. The first words of the song form the last words of this post. I am certain you will recognize the band members (he says with a laugh), one of whom crossed over the river only a few days after the release of this song ....

Real music & real life still exist .... barely

Picture in your mind four houses on one side of a street and three houses on the other side of the street. In the past four months, among those seven houses there have been three deaths, one birth and one divorce. No two incidents have taken place in the same house. That means two houses have experienced nothing remarkable and five have experienced something either very good or something very bad. Well, you get my drift.

I am in one of the two house which has experienced nothing. I am sort of holding my breath. At the same time, I am sort of laughing. Sooner or later, life will overtake me one way or another -- as it does all of us -- but, I always have been the type to wear a smile and to say, "Dare you," to anyone who steps into my path. I should have been dead two or three times with that attitude, but Freyja looks over me and after me with a laugh of her own, and my Manitou has much wisdom and experience.

Freyja and Ecclesiastes have all the answers, and having an ancient Manitou by my side sometimes makes all the difference.

Never mind me. I am sort of moody this evening. Or, maybe, as the song goes:

It took a while but it drove me senseless
Now they say I’m non compos mentis
Little wonder I’m still here at all
Staring out from the guilt free on the wall