What to Value?

Folk #1: Yes. We turned away from the Black Cloud of Shite hovering over & around us, (see previous post), and had a good Sunday anyway. That's the trick. Even though I basically felt like crap I carried on. I played my guitar in late morning, maybe came up with new riff, a seed for a new song. I read a few chapters of a book by Rick Rubin "The Creative Act: A Way of Being."  My partner cooked a fabulous mid-day, vegetarian meal. Then we trekked to a neighborhood bar & community meeting place and enjoyed a late afternoon of music, laughter, love, friendship, joy, crazy fun. We didn't play, we were just a small part of the audience. The bar was stuffed with an incredible array of creative humanity in all it's forms: musicians, teachers, artists, poets, interesting characters all. There was no talk of the shite, the doom, the Idiot, the War. All of that fell away. We got a bit silly, a series of comical conversations; we just luxuriated in the good vibrations. It was all quite life-affirming. The current "leaders," of our country are not worthy. Let me just put down a marker: The Folk, The People, The Common Ones are so much better than those trying to remake the USA into a cruel Fascist Hellscape. A line out of the blue stuck with me: "It's all about values." Yes. What to value? Here's a pretty good list: https://jamesclear.com/core-values. We live in a world of darkness & light. Better to lean to the light, it's good for the heart, the head, the soul. There is goodness everywhere around us. Just need to be open, choose well.