Ruminations

I had mentioned a lyric in a song on the computer the other day that pretty well described Valdez (Dr Stanley McGowen) and me in the early days. "… Running full throttle / with a long necked bottle / and a black hearse following me … ". Looking back at the 70's, I sometimes wonder how he and I (and a lot of our cohorts) arrived at old age as fairly normal citizens … indeed, the fact that we survived at all is something akin to miraculous. The 70's was an especially raucous decade if you traveled in our group. We drank too much, partied too loud and much too often, and generally made life a real problem for those that we cared about. There were many (including a couple of wives on my part) but one name stands out for me and that was Kathy Comaduran. She was a huge pain in the a** at times, and always too needy, but always loving and I am blessed to have known her … Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. She is now older, a grandma and very happy down in Texas. Ah, la memoria del pasado los amantes. I am glad that she found happiness, as I have finally found. Indeed, there are a lot of people who lived life full throttle in Cochise County in those days. I wonder what happened to them all. Too soon old, too late wise I guess.

    I am re-entering my Blog world at  lovefromthedesert.blogspot.com. That way I can write, as is my wont, without clogging up your e-mail inbaskets. I feel, as they say in Latin furor scribindi … a rage to write. I know that you guys do not have "furor lectio" … a need to read. So-o-o-o, I am putting my useless observations, poems and thoughts on the blog and then I'll just write the rare 'update' letter so that you know what is up with the ever fetching Ms Hilda and me. Speaking of Ms Hilda, she had her second eye done (cataracts) and they had to put in a lens, still waiting to see how it turns out but looking promising.

  Hilda has to work SLINGO at VFW Post 549 today, I called the numbers yesterday. So, we have spent the entire weekend at the Post. We watched a movie or two last evening and I did some work on the BLOG and the Post website.

    A news item from our local (fairly liberal) daily paper noted:  Births to unwed mothers in Pima County Arizona are not evenly distributed among racial and ethnic groups. Although Hispanics make up about one-third of the county's population, they accounted for more than half of the births to unwed mothers in 2011, Arizona Department of Health Services data show. By contrast, whites, who constitute just more than half of the population, accounted for less than a third of those births. The mothers of 9 percent of the children born to unwed mothers in 2011 were American Indian, 2 percent were Asian and 6 percent were black.


The first Hillary for President bumper sticker has been sighted. It said:
 Monica Lewinsky's Ex-Boyfriend's Wife for President