Living On the Diagonal

THE PROPHECY OF BOB DYLAN - "A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL"     Many believed one true genius before his time, composed music and lyrics true in 1962 and it holds the same truth today. Bob Dylan became the voice of a new generation, for the disenfranchised and those denied justice. The times subjugated a population to a system being born coming to fruition.    "The Free Wheel'n Bob Dylan"  became an American classic during its own tenure. However, Dylan became the lyrical prophet for a nation ridden with lies to the people. The promise of liberty and justice began to unravel. Our democratic way of life dissolved into the oligarchy in place today who took no prisoners. The arrogance is found in the percentage we all now know.   "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" is song that has often come to mind in recent years and dominates my images of the surreal, the obnoxious and the untruths of the current elec...

A friend entered a heartfelt POST where he lamented the trials of changing friendships and a "feeling of always being alone." I was moved by his honesty and wished to respond to everyone who often "feels alone." Your sentiments reflect my own. In earlier years I grasped for friendship, honesty and loyalty as though holding on to a tree root in a futile attempt to survive. It was not just to survive. I held tightly until whom I thought was the right person! If they happened to stop, study my predicament and then scratch their chin asking themselves "should I get involved." Unfortunately our society is developing an increasing rate of those "individuals" who adopt a "Me First" personal mandate to their life. Today with someone who expects, demands honesty, loyalty and generosity of assistance without thought or care, consideration or gratitude and most surprisingly without any sense of loyalty or any feeling of mutual empathy when co...