A SAFE PLACE

6.2.18 Yep. We're still standing. Still tending to a Safe Place. Come set a spell. We book no Trump here. 

This evening we present for your heart and soul's solace the legendary Peruvian singer, Susana Baca, and her wonderful group performing a folk tale of a young Peruvian slave girl named "Maria Lando".  One World.

Dawn breaks shattering like a statue

Like a statue of wings that scatter throughout the city

And noon sings like a bell made of water

A bell made of golden water that keeps us from loneliness

And the night lifts its tall goblet

Its tall, tall goblet, early moon over the sea

But for Maria there is no dawn

But for Maria there is no midday

But for Maria there is no moon

Lifting its red goblet over the waters

Maria has no time to lift her eyes

Maria to lift her eyes, broken by lack of sleep

Maria broken by lack of sleep from so much suffering

Maria from so much suffering, all she does is work

Maria just works and works

Maria only works

And her work enriches others

Songwriters: Cesar Calvo / Chabuca Granda

Maria Lando lyrics © Tintoretto Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8xuRPIdDjc

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Jared Kushner: First Impressions

First impressions of the mystery whiz kid and all around do everything fixer of the new world order, Jared Kushner, following his denial of Russian collusion.

Jared Kushner.
Quiet. Modest. Pleasant looking in a gee whiz kind of way.
Not just another Jewish fella; he's royalty. When Benjie Netanyahu came to New York, he was the house guest of the Kushner crew.

He's just getting the hang of this ruling the country thing, ya know, like reading 200 emails a day and going to lots of meetings with lots of folks he pretends he doesn't know.

If we would just leave him alone, he will bring peace to the Mid-East and a deliver a Trump Palace to rival any in history right in downtown Jerusalem where it belongs.

But look again. Look at his eyes. Unblinking. Carbon. Cold. Hard. Calculating.

And the lies that roll so readily from a titanium bladed tongue rather than the Trumpian blunderblast.

Always shrouded in a wisp of invisibility. An escape artistnever to be found when the deal goes down.

Jared Kushner is Donald Trump's viceroy . That makes him a very dangerous man.

Whether Jared Kushner escapes his present predicament or not, his long-term future is unlikely to be terminal. He is going to be a factor in our public lives for many years to come.

Senator Kushner. President Kushner. Such a nice boy.

Boston Globe on Kushner in Somerville

Harvard Crimson on Kushner as an undergrad

HL July 24, 2017

Nightmare visions abound

 Nightmare visions abound. Through the dank fog, visions emerge. We are staring at the intersection of geopolitics, international finance and organized crime. Laundered money being washed across continents and oceans. Conducted by rapacious mobsters of multiple lineages and nationalities, fueled by stupefying greed, self-dealing and monstrous hubris, undeterred by and unfettered by quaint notions of law, honor, integrity or patriotism. Coiled at the rotted core of it all stands the Lying Don, marching to the beat of a foreign drum.

Meanwhile, somewhere in the night, sifting through the smoke and gazing behind the mirror, The Law Man regards the Jumbo Jig Saw puzzle before him, rolls up crisp sleeves with smart precision, dons the Sam Waterson mask he has been saving for just the proper occasion, flicks the switch on the ceiling fan and resolutely resumes examining and placing the pieces, seeing them ever more clearly in the swiftly thinning haze. HL 7.13.17

Meeting at the Summit

Nightmare visions abound.

"Welcome to the team. Have a ball" - Boss Vlad

A Rifleman massacre for the kiddies

Bloody day after bloody day. 

Bleeding decade after bleeding decade.  

One murderous generation
following the next murderous generation

From our bloodletting birth
as a nation now circling the globe  

to our last expiring moment. 

We the People shoot to kill. 

This is what we do. 

This is who we are. 

Same as it ever was. 

Same as it always will be.

So tell me,
how did we ever get this way?