Remember Bowling Green!!

What another wild week it's been! And where do we go from here? Muslim Bans? EPA dismantled? No Jews in a Holocaust Remembrance? Invade Mexico? Dishonest financial advisors allowed to fleece their customers? Coal debris into watersheds? Tear down the wall between Church and State? Blunder into a botched military raid where dozens of women and children are killed? Elevate an Alt-Right/Islamaphobe to the National Security Council? Nominate a judge that's to the Right of Scalia? Suggest that Frederick Douglass is still alive? Hang up on the Australian PM? Inspire at National Prayer Breakfast by calling out Arnold Schwarzenegger's lower ratings? Using a bust of MLK at the Black History Month Breakfast to rail about how the media is unfair and crooked? I could really go on, but I'm tired of all this winning.

Instead, I highly recommend you take a moment to check out the humanitarian effort being conducted on behalf of all the victims of the horrible Bowling Green Massacre:

https://www.bowlinggreenmassacrefund.com

There! Don't you feel better? They did not give their lives and limbs in vain. Now, for those who would like to separate the Real from the Fake, and the Facts from their Alternate, may I suggest the wonderful regular service provided by America's premier newspaper (sorry, NYT):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/?utm_term=.5066df81fa6d

Now then... it's easy to get caught up in the insanity of our New World Disorder. We've all fallen down the rabbit hole and there's just no simple way back. And becoming enmeshed in the often hateful rhetoric and malevolent thinking that can frame our problems leads nowhere that's good. We all need to take a few steps back. Breath in and out a few times. Clear our heads and focus on what's True and Beautiful. Towards that end, may I direct your attention to this stunning, jaw-dropping version of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow", by Eva Cassidy. There's never been a version like this. It will salve your soul, I guarantee it:

The Eva Cassidy story is amazing, sad and beautiful. She recorded this in between gigs as a landscaper/nursery worker. Unknown to her at the time, she was dying of cancer. A few months after this show, she was gone. A copy of her performance made its way to a DJ at the BBC. He played it on a whim. It took Britain by storm. She has three posthumous Number Ones over there, and has sold over 10 million copies. Criminally, few people know about her in the States... Anyway, I hope you like it. I LOVE IT.