Randomness for A Winter Day and Good Friends

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A little Jackson Browne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGz8L4of3po

Cheesecake for the ears (mine, anyway)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcAYoMBDgIs

Maybe the one single song I love most; we've been thru a lot together (play it loud):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU0yg2ep1Tc

One way or another, 'it' always ends up like this, no matter what the 'it' is (though Jonesy is no Sandy)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkLM7qd8q5g

And because I'm a nerd, this would be perfection if Jimmy, Jonesy and Bonzo were here. She's even better than Sandy. (and really Percy. Cymbals? No. Bodhran all through.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjofsqj8OEM

This is a month after I last saw them
I've said this before and I'll say it til I die. We had the best of youthtime to be alive in, in generations. Maybe the Flapper Gen was that rebellious but they weren't about a cause. We had similarities. There was war. But there was thought. There was freedom. There was incredible music. There was risk and responsibility. And tons of consequences.

For my generation going to a Zep concert was like going to a religious rite. The smoke was so thick you barely saw the gods from afar... the people danced and sang with abandon...there was joy and hope in the temple of Led Zeppelin. I miss those rites
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okafT6Ok92Y

It's all so fleeting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8VUolqWr8U

Let your mind wander today. Remember funny good things. Look at the person you're with and remember something that makes you laugh from the inside. We tend to not savor the cherished stuff and these days let the very real dark smegma cover us. It hasn't always been this way and it won't always be, either. All things must pass.

R.I,P. Sue Press