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Piri, while our guitars sleep the affected people gently weep. Or maybe it should be while my guitar gently weeps the politicians are asleep at the wheel. Though throwing people to the lions today would be considered a crime. Thats what they did in Roman times. Back in the day of the Roman Empire, Emperors thought they were gods.  I often wonder in this day have our politicians moved on. One man's justice is another's injustice one man's song is another's noise. Many workers work hard singing their songs while the hoy polloi put their air muffs on. We are all 90 percent water but what people often see is just what sits above. Diversity is a good state divisive leaders just create hate. The balance between need and greed is always going to be a tricky one. The frustration for all people on earth is how our leaders are using their stewardship of public assets. What is the real agenda of those seeking  power when they open their mouths is it the truth or smoke and mirrors. I don't think there is any country where the people would sing yes the President loves me because what he or she does tells me so.     

RIP  Dondra. Here is a poem written by Strummer Bills beautiful Dondra back in 2015 about the power of love when you find your soul buddy.

The sunshine that you gave to me
Warmed my heart and soul
It chased away the shadows and then my life felt whole

Sunshine painted all the corners of my life
Surrounding me with comfort and taking away the strife
Sunshine, invisible, surrounding me, so warm
Swaddles me, comforts me and so I fear no harm

Reminding me of you and your selfless devotion
I'm fortunate to know a love that so transcends emotion
Your gift flowed gently in the room,  grew into my heart
And took away the gloom.

I never knew you had the Sunshine
That it was saved for me
God leant to you the sunshine
And was pleased that you chose me.
Special gifts like Sunshine are so, so very rare
God trusted you with Sunshine
Because He knows how much you care"
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Dondra Craig 9/16/2015

Dondra Craig     

Hello Jan, your a good talent and a real good sort it is always good to have you do what you do. Thank you for being you. The things we do and pursue shouldn't be governed by age  but hopefully the good things it can do. Age doesn't define you you're a natural talent.     

Richard, I limit my internet time nowadays as I find it takes me down different rabbit holes and distracts me from doing other things that make me feel good and challenge me in a good way. As my musical dexterity wanes in the last few years I find my creativity instead of sparking a explosion of new ideas in my mind  has become like a flower that no longer blooms making it harder to paint my story in a way that makes my mind dance. Sometimes when I have an idea it does freshen up my mind but when I throw it out there instead of it picking up steam it starts to sink due to me not being able to give it good legs. Having said that there is more to me than trying to write a song so life is good. Age is just a canvas that let my colours blend in a way its freeing not being onto everything. Harry Bernstein started writing his first novel when he was 93. He gained literary fame when it was published when he was96.. He went on to write three more books.     

EB If you stay engaged, you will stay creative. Age has little to do with it.  As they say many a good tune is played on an old fiddle.     

I wonder how much of that is AI and how much does the human put into it.. I will attach me having a short conversation with an animator about that side of things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilmgLZBPfSw     

Affirmative, Richard be good if EB put up the link for this. The roll of humans seems to be getting taken over I'm not sure if all the hard work of credible creatives is going to be ruined by someone pressing just a few buttons and entering a few commands. Did any sci-fi writers in the past predict what is happening with AI now??? Is art any good without human emotion??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY

Cheers Richard when I clicked on your link it didn't take me to the documentary just a synopsis about King Homeboy without me being able to access it. So it could be the same one as the one on YouTube that I put my link to .     

Good Subject to talk about Grah. I must have seen thousands of buskers in my lifetime. In my experience the really talented ones will get an audience around them.  Out on the street there are always going to be fakes and hustlers as well as real talent.  To me its about the integrity of the performance. When a performer uses tech that's fine providing they are showing talent and are entertaining. A few years back there was a lot of Micheal Jackson impersonators  busking some real good most not that good.  I'm not a Micheal Jackson fan but there was one guy he was brilliant had all the moves and really put on a good show and I liked that. He was lip-syncing to Micheal Jackson tracks but his dance moves and performance was top class.  He had the perfect dance moves right look and cloths plus he did some other cleaver things with a very comedic talk between songs.  I think now to make any money busking you have to be real good and even then the real good ones because of the economics around the world are struggling.Part of the art of busking is securing a good spot where the passerby has money to spend away from the beggars and drug addicts that seem to be appearing everywhere on streets around the world.     

Cheers Piri
I am a bit of a medium to well done steak man. Good old John Lennon had it right when it came to Peace. Over the years due to my involvement with a lot of war vets I have also seen the way good people have been left with horrible impacts after been involved with war conflicts. I will attach a short video of me talking to a war vet friend of mine Ray about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGMUcZTeOBk     

Thank you, Grah I don't know who Bob and Lou are but I like the comment.  My monologue, with the guitar was a bit of an experiment in bringing ideas out using different threads that hopefully connect what I was thinking when hearing the world news on the radio the morning I wrote the lyrics.  Originally   started it as a straight-out poem that slowly built up into a feeling of apprehension but also in the hope like nature that things continually change and have seasons. The ups and downs and all the bumps in the road of life summed up in a couple of minutes with my guitar backing up the words.