A few years ago I quit all social media because I was not going to give Zuckerberg and his ilk even one more penny off my data given how much they have destroyed the fabric of our society and its political discourse. There is a 30-day window before your page is shut down. It was very nice to receive messages by people telling me they would miss my posts. Hopefully some of them found this website so they can continue reading my thoughts for whatever they’re worth.

 

I also quit my TV subscriptions. I found it was actually a phenomenal waste of time. There were better sources for information. I can’t believe how much more reading and work on my stamp collection I’ve gotten done since then. One of my favorite networks is MSNBC but I became frustrated by Rachel Maddow going on for 20 minutes and repeating the same thing 10 times or Lawrence O’Donnell (if you don’t know all the things he has done you should look him up on Wikipedia) being on for 1 minute followed by 2 minutes of commercials. I found clicking on sites while having my brief breakfast in the morning would at least give me the headlines and YouTube enables me to see the late night comedians which is probably the best thing on TV!

 

So one morning I am scanning YouTube for headlines and I see Judy Collins and Pete Seeger doing a song. I believe in another post I told of having the pleasure of getting to know Pete Seeger’s sister Peggy when I drove my friend Ira Wallet to his viola lessons with her in Miami. When I was organizing the Earth Day celebration in Miami in 1970 I asked her for his address and wrote to him asking to join us that day in Coconut Grove. I received a nice letter back saying he had already committed to attending another celebration. I look back over the years and can’t believe how many things I did not think at the time I would wish I had saved decades later. That letter was one of them.

 

I listen to the song. It is attached here. Many of you know I was a political activist in the ’60s particularly in relation to the environmental movement. The whole song consists of lyrics from Ecclesiastes. “There is a time for everything under heaven…” The song consists of opposites such as a time to love and a time to hate. This performance was during the Vietnam war. Near the end of the song the lyrics changed to: “A time for peace, I swear it’s not too late….” I have gotten more emotional as I’ve gotten older (I have read it can be a sign of the onset of Alzheimer’s…).,I had such a strong reaction to hearing that lyric I went to my computer and created this post to share it with you.