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A few hours ago, the news spread that another American journalist was beheaded. My mind is all over the place. I rarely write politics perhaps because when you reach a certain age you begin to see things differently; a world that can\u2019t get together and sign the Kyoto protocol to protect our environment; a world back in September, 1938 when British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain came back from a meeting with Hitler and uttered, \u201cPeace for our Time.\u201d \u00a0To mood myself, I just listened to Barry McGuire sing \u201cThe Eve of Destruction\u201d from 1965. I was 20. \u00a0Every few years, I watch the totally silly movie, \u2018It\u2019s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World\u2019 and I laugh and laugh. And now I\u2019d like to write a few hundred pages why it is a sad sad sad sad world with truth and consequences.\u00a0 Maybe I will one day soon.<\/p>\n
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Before going on, here are a few comments about surgeons and hospitals and why sometimes you should cross a river or mountain range to find the right one. Fifteen years ago, I had two knee operations at the Hospital for Special Surgery<\/i> in New York City. My surgeon(DR DAVID ALTCHEK) removed both my meniscus and shaved some of my arthritic bones.\u00a0 Two days later, I was shooting hoops in the backyard with my son. He\u2019s never beaten me. For the last 15 years, I\u2019ve been playing tennis twice a week and riding the exercise bike four times a week with no pain whatsoever.\u00a0 Last week at the same hospital, I had complete shoulder replacement surgery<\/u> with the SAME surgeon. He took a saw and cut out my tired old shoulder bone and cut tendons and ligaments to do so and made me bionic of sorts. You should all know that since my surgery, I have NOT taken one pain pill. I\u2019m grateful there was a river to cross.<\/p>\n
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As a \u00a0writer now (that first book review, which calls me an accomplished novelist is defining) I’ve been asked a variety of questions. \u00a0As a possible on-line centrist and Universalist Unitarian (I take those on-line psychological tests all the time), questions \u00a0keep popping-up and arriving in my over-protective mailboxes) If my mother was around, I’d never be hard copying, like right now, the fact I’m one of those UU people. She wouldn’t understand that fact and also the third chapter in my novel which gently touches (as in a handshake and brief kiss) the ancient verboten topic of skin color curiosity. Imagination with real sound effects: my cell phone rang (Nessun Dorma tone) and my mother is yelling at me. \u201cWhere did all that come from? And I want you to tell me the truth, I’m your mother. Did you ever take an African-American girl to the Shark River in Belmar?\u201d Meanwhile, I’m thrilled, my mother, actually used a politically correct word. And I answer her and my cousin from Texas who also called, lest ye all forget, my novel, \u2018Vichy Water\u2019 is fiction.<\/p>\n
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Questions from the loneliness and abandon of an exercise bike abound on a Tuesday evening. Moments ago, pondering the fact that Ponce De Leon searched for the fountain of youth and I was sitting on it and pedaling, I asked myself how important is becoming a novelist. It’s my life now, a reason to believe (an old favorite folk song) and one of those pure existence justifications, being put on this earth to write. And I believe that. Wow( a wonderfully youthful word. How many card carrying AARP members use it regularly?)\u00a0 I believe spiritually that I’ve arrived; so much so, it could very well be novel number two; my journey to arrival at spirit, universe and understanding in a sad world.<\/p>\n
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NOTE: all pictures are from my journalistic journeys.<\/p>\n
Please watch for launch of\u00a0 www.jerseycentral.net<\/p>\n
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