E, E and Eternity

E is an Excellent letter in the English language. The peoples of Britain had emerged, over centuries of time, from a collection of migrating tribes, one of which was the Angles, who had migrated across the North Sea from the lands now called Denmark. Replacing the A with an E, for English, instead of Anglish, was a favourable arrangement because E has four parts instead of three—one big lines, one little line in the middle, and two lines, one on top; one on the bottom. More is better—in this case more lines four instead of three, as the English people discovered, by and byE, while sailing around the Earth a few times . . . and thereby associating their English selves and their culture and their literacy with other peoples, cultures, on far-away contintents, in lands where, so to speak, the sunset never set on the English. I know that seems a little Egotistic, but it worked quite a while for the English. But even they had to learn a thing or two when we Yanks had to tell King George III to take his Empire on shove it! But I digress. I will Egress to . . . they didn’t totally screw up; the English did do some things right. Here’s another thing. Early on, the English people were reading the Bible, and finding therein a literate connection with the ancient legacy of the HEbrew people. In that Bible, they noticed that one of the old-timers of that Scripture was (I’m going way back in Time here). . . Enoch, seventh generation fellow from Adam. . . and that Enoch had been taken into Eternity by Elohim, the Creator of the Earth and the Universe and all, Everything that is Everywhere! See what I mean about this E. . . E is the beginning of Excellence, always has been. Another Examplar of this E-phenom in the Bible is a prophet, Elijah, who was also taken directly into the Eternal realm by Elohim. He was taken up in a chariot of fire; then his trainee, Elisha followed in his footsteps. Elijah’s dramatic Exit in the chariot of fire was an inspiration to all Bible-readers for many ages thereafter, all the way into the 20th century. In the 1930’s the English people were amping up their energy to later run the nazis back into their holes. A team of English runners were running on a beach in St. Andrews, Scotland. They were preparing to compete in the 1936 Olympics, which were soon to take place in Germany, where all the holocaustic trouble in the world was busting out, from the mouth of a little krauty mustachio’d madman. The scene of the Englishmen running was later presented in a movie, Chariots of Fire, a film which tracked the Efforts of Eric Liddell, a Christian Englishman, and Harold Abrahams, a Jewish compatriot , in their storied path from training to victory in the 1936 Olympics.

Many years later, my son and I were walking on that beach when he stopped suddenly to ask me: “Do you recognize it?” “Recognize what?” I asked. He waved his hand along the wave-swept shore, toward the town of St. Andrews. But I still had not made the connection. We were running on that beach where the English runners had run back in ’36 when they had been training for the ‘36 Olympics. Those English runners later ran victorious at the Olympics in Berlin. . . . on chariots of fire, so to speak, as Elijah had done long, long ago in a land far, far away on this Earth, on the Easternmost shore of the Mediterranean Sea. Not only that, but, it’s no accident that the sun—source of Energy and warmth for everyone on Earth—comes up in the East! In a sense, Everything Emerges from the East. Civilization has generally moved, for the most part, in Earth history, from Eastward. Most of the ancient literature on which our civilization Emerged was written or carved in stone in, or near, the Euphrates valley, beginning in a land far, far away, in an Earth time long, long ago. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that there’s something special about that horizon over there. . . in the East! The sun sets in the West. That setting is like, downhill all the way, or at least the westward half of it, after its ascent from the East horizon. But Life is good like that. We’re born into it. Our life Emerges out of the shadow of mama’s womb like the sun rising in the East. But one day life will set down in the west and we will go into the big E.. . EtErnity! I Entreat you to Enter into Eternity with me, through the Everlasting life that Christ gave us when He Emerged from the grave on Easter morning; twas the the most important Event in history, the RE surrection, whereby we Enter into Eternity with the Everlasting Lord of Everything that Ever was, is or will bE! Smoke

It's Still Politics to Me

Here’s a little ditty of a poem, inspired by an old Billy Joel song I heard on the radio back in the day. . . Billy Joel’s “It’s Still Rock ’n Roll to Me.” (See link at bottom.) Here’s my 2025 America ditty, with words arranged (more or less) to fit the pattern that Billy had made such good use of in “Still Rock ’n Roll to Me.” What’s a matter with our wacky politickin’ in the year 2025? I wish I could be read’n some old newspapers from the year ’55. Where have we been on social media lately? You can’t make a make a point without first turning hately. Everybody’s talkin’ ‘bout the Jan6 riot, but it’s still insurrection to me. What’s a matter with the party I remember in November as a child? We can see that it’s gone all dismembered; that its all goin’ hog-wild. I can see its not the same old GO-party. Their best bet’s a maga mobby-starty.

mad men rippin’ down donkey-funk deep-junk; it’s still insurrection to me. Oh it doesn’t matter what they say on FacX fume cuz its just a bling echo room There’s a new king in town; though he aint got a crown and it feels like its doom and gloom How about a new pair of parties with a new way of doin’ things? We could really be a lawful Republic without all the b.s. bling1 Then we’d find ourselves a new way to govern instead of blowin’ fire in the mega-maga oven.

Next phase; new wave, no craze, anyways its still politics to me! Glass half-Full Now, if you wanna hear Billy singing his “Still Rock n Roll” song. . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngPI9ySYIUU