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Here I go again hoping this will make sense to you, and me both. 

As I scratch this I’m lookin’ at 84 in a couple of days on June 28. Please don’t send cards- money would be ok. 

Folks ask me after 29 years of Bifocals how I can still think of things to write. Answer: long-term memory. Let you think I’m boasting, my short-term memory has gone bonkers. Just yesterday I found my jar of peanut butter in the frig. I don’t like cold peanut butter. Warm is better… smears good. 

What has happened to sensible thoughts? I’m talking enough sensible thought to put together readable script in order to produce a good novel, a good play, or a passable movie; minus cursing and smutty talk every breath. 

Every now and then I begin a TV movie that starts out pretty well. Then all of a sudden it collapses into enough cursing and/or vulgarity to knock your cap in the creek; without one ounce of uniqueness. Someone said “It is amazing how much phoniness it takes to produce one grain of originality.” 

And smutty talk? Senseless. Literally. Growing up, I knew a crazy man named Rufus.  Rufus was incapable of sensible thought or action. The only two sentences he could manage were: “I know you-I know you.” But Rufus could say a string of smutty words as long as your leg… to men, women, children, it didn’t matter. Too, he made indecent gestures turned women. He also would do number one or number two, outside or inside, wherever the urge came upon him. Rufus was crazy, he knew no better. Most of us do, or do we? Sadly to say. 

Do we have trouble praising or complimenting others? Recently I read: “It is a sign of inner death when we no longer can praise the living.” We know on at least two occasions God took people, Enoch and Elisha. Elisha was caught up in a whirlwind and went to be with God; In Enoch’s case the Bible simply says, “Enoch walked with God and God took him.” This leads me to the question I’ve pondered most of my life, does God take out (ZAP) bad people too? 

‘Case in point: Several years back Joseph Stalin, then Russia’s Prime minister, was planning another big purge of the Jews from Russia. It never came off. Two weeks before it was to begin Stalin suddenly sied from a massive stroke. Stalin and Hitler together did away with 53,000,000 Jews and others they deemed of no account… the old said sick and lame etc. Hitler shot himself. God said, “The Jews are my chosen people.” You harm them you are in a world of hurt. 

*When you see this, my birthday has passed-belations are in order. No cards. Money is still OK. 

Hey, I’ve got to grab my saddle horn and blow. 

Kindest regards…..