Friday, January 24, 2020, a day if history books are not banned or burned, a day, if democracy is destroyed or demands it’s just reward, a day when one of the last hopes, the last vestiges of freedom of speech may have been able to survive…Friday, January 24, 2020, the final attempt of House Managers to provide, out loud, facts and truth to the Republican-controlled Senate (and you know each and every one of them, no matter how hard they feign ignorance, knew everything the House Managers said to be THE TRUTH,) regarding the crimes the Impeachable Crimes, (let alone criminal activities from which a mere mortal citizen would be sent to prison) performed with great delight and delivery by Donald J. Trump! We heard it said, again, and again, and again, (The Facts and Nothing But the Fact’s Ma’am,) we learned a Civics Lesson, we gleaned a little bit more regarding the purpose and function of the United States Constitution, and we witnessed either the birth of a Dictatorship, the demise of our Democracy, or the early warning cries of a Dystopian Nation, never again to see the light of freedom and justice for all.
Lots of ideas, machinations, madness swirled around my head today, but as I was walking home from Grocery Shopping, suddenly, (and I swear out of the blue…maybe the fates were intervening…playing on my Apple Music selection the song I Did It My Way, began to swing and sway…(the version with both Paul Anka and Frank Sinatra) I may be 70 years old, BUT I swear I am not a fan of Frank, nor have I had a Paul Anka song anywhere close to me since the American Bandstand Days, as my sisters watched that show. But if it was a glitch, or I had forgotten that once I MAYBE liked this song, it was playing. To put things in this decade, let me just say that an OMG, came out of my mouth, so loud, that the “Boys, “ in WEHO who usually find me invisible stopped and looked at me (now that in itself is SOME THING!) I returned home looked up the lyrics, and had an aha moment, again…I realized just how poignant some of the lyrics were to these dreadful and dreary times. I will two sections of the song, which HONESTLY when read could have a double meaning…MEANING, Mr. Trump will be KING, or perhaps the House Managers made an inroad and placed a detour on our road to rot and ruin.
“Yes, there were times, I'm sure you knew When I bit off more than I could chew But through it all, when there was doubt I ate it up and spit it out I faced it all and I stood tall And did it my way.”---- And now, the end is near And so I face the final curtain, My friend, I'll say it clear I'll state my case, of which I'm certain, I did it my way.”(I Did It My Way/Paul Anka)
