Musings on Creative Art, Film, Strong Jazz, and U.S.Culture: November 2017

LATELY, I have realized the poignant importance of making better connections in our daily lives. Our culture is weird so we need to get back to primitive high-flung emotionalism. I now connect more with my son and my two granddaughters and I feel much more satisfaction in my inner soul. The culture of reading good thriller writers and listening to profound super-mod composers has helped me in a huge sense of the word, Also, reading bizarre writers like Julian Barnes and the elegant Italian, Umberto Eco has helped me a lot. Let us have more cultural fun everybody. I watched a grand film on Amazon Prime the other night and one of the female characters suddenly said, "I am not afraid anymore." What a beautiful, meaningful statement that was. I am trying to get more zip and shiny wit into my thinking. I am scurrying away from the insipid lunancy of negativism and My God,,,I feel much better.