Foolin' 'Round -- in these tumult-u-ous times...

  while hanging aroundthis morning, I was listening to some old seldom scene traditional kind of music that brought me home to a place which made me think about all these things going on in our lives...  you know, and yet some people seem to think that elections and coverage of elections is the most important thing in our lives right now...  and it maybe...    I don't know... but it made me contemplate about how in the grand scheme of things that coverage of Elections is quite frivolous with back and forth chatter, the "late breaking news",  pun-dents and etc., etc.... it goes on and on with candidates not really significantly speaking to issues, concerns and the like....  heck it is one rally cry after another and a promise upon promise the cannot be applied or kept......  so that is why  I spin my recordsand try to stay A-political and A-religious to have my radio play or say...    I mean, I just don't know alot and I don't have all the answers, and I don't want to throw my thoughts out on someone else's, or give an opinion that has no meaning but to myself.....   so  I often recall the old John Stewart song, where he says " I got a church right here inside me..  suits me quite alright..."  and then, in the background you can hear the choir girls singing slowly "glory, glory,  hallelujah, i  have seen the light" in a beautiful Baptist kinda Southern style...    John, if you were alive now what would you say...   he was with the old campaigner on that "mohther country" train with Bobby Kennedy,  and gave it his all...   there that night when Bobby got shot..    it affected him as it hurt all of us back then.....  I now think about politics and a different light for some reason, having seen what happened of the years and to the challenges and the perseverance of people over I'll kinds of diversity.... it is amazing and is really what counts...   just as music counts... it affects us, cleanses us, heals us and helps us focus on what matters to each of us....      so hope you enjoy today's Juke Joint show.....   www.kunr.org  3pm PST ti 5pm.....   hang in there gators -- lator -- jim