Charade

spy

Agent.

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HALLOWEEN arrangement / treat

A co-worker gave me an aesthetically pleasing "Halloween" treat: a small, plastic, stemmed drink glass filled with candy corn, a package of peanut M & Ms, whoppers, Milk Duds, and some foil-wrapped items with thematic decorations on them, such as eyeballs...(Scary!).

All wrapped up in crisp, crackly, clear cellophane, tied at the top with wide orange and black ribbon, decorated / spiders & spider webs, as well as slimmer orange ribbon, dangling in curls.

Dolores is artistic and creative, and good at crafts and cooking.
She works in a Supply Room in a meat-packing plant.

When I see her creations, I sometimes think of the fact -- or, phenomenon, or, unhappy fact -- that some people have wonderful talent but it isn't a possibility for them to make a living using that talent.

A person can imagine opening a flower shop, gift shop, craft store, restaurant, or what have you, and for most people who have always worked for a salary or wage, the thought of "starting my own business" is like this great thing that sparkles in our imaginations like the ultimate precious gem.

But in truth, from what I observe, talent, vision, and being Good At something are a far cry from what you need to have a successful business and make enough money to pay bills and exist, let alone achieve the economic security and wealth which people would like to have.

On the other hand, maybe it isn't so sad, to not create wealth or even make a living using what you are good at and what you love most.

Maybe if you make it into a business, you take the fun out of it, in some cases.

I guess everybody just does what they can.

And was thinking, the other day -- Trying Again. A lot of what we do in Life, whether it's something we very much want to do, or something we are forced by circumstances to do, is just -- simply -- trying again.

Since I don't need candy myself, I started trying to figure out who I could give this to -- there's a big, tough-looking man who came from someplace out of state to work here; he does some of the hardest, messiest work in this plant. I've seen his family -- a woman (wife or girlfriend), soft-spoken, with a gentle face, and two beautiful toddlers, boy and girl a year or two apart.

I'm going to send this attractive Halloween arrangement / treat home with Cymon when he comes out, in about an hour and a half.

Win-win.

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communication

The reason they tell you that is because it's not true.

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invented words

You hear the word "disenfranchised" -- people who do not have money or security.

It occurred to me today that some people are not so much disenfranchised as they are nonenfranchised.

It's like -- they've never been enfranchised in the first place.

Maybe these are not words; neither is conflictatory, but I use it anyway. (Maybe it is a word.) Dictionary time.
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The older I get, the more idealistic I become. That's the opposite of how it's supposed to be, I think, or anyway how it usually is.

And, I observed a few posts ago -- I had an epiphany one evening and realized that the more negative things happened, the more I believed in Good.

Weird.

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song

"Ninety Miles An Hour Down A Dead End Street" is the name of a song I had never heard before until yesterday.

On You Tube, you can listen to Bob Dylan sing it, and also Hank Snow.

Hank Snow is a country singer from earlier times with whose music I'm not thoroughly familiar with -- had heard of him.

The song is about temptation.

Snow version: begins mournful, then becomes bouncy.
Dylan version: mournful, contemplative throughout.

Both good.

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book review

Go on Google, and type in
The Interrogative Mood New York Times Review

and you can read a review of a book titled "The Interrogative Mood."

Thought the review was entertaining and thought-provoking.

dylan chronicles

> > > > > "The blue-collar family became the shock absorber of the broken deal.

On top of this, Americans of every class found themselves less and less secure about their jobs, pensions and health insurance." < < < < <
(--NYTimes)

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"MONEY DOESN'T TALK, IT SWEARS."
(--Bob Dylan)

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Going on my list of books I really want:
"Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume one"

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