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The Monday Morning Memo

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Fiction author Brad Whittington is the wizard’s age and his kids are the age of the wizard’s kids and sometimes I see him when I’m having lunch with the wizard and the princess at Cafe Malta. We always ask Brad to join us at our table. He usually does. Friday was one of those days. We ordered 6 appetizers and 3 bottles of wine before we ordered lunch. (This is what it means to go to lunch with the wizard on a Friday.) Watching the wine disappear from the bottles is like watching the sand decline in an hourglass. Brad saves his most interesting stuff for that moment when the sand is halfway down in hourglass number three.

He said, “You’ve heard Hendrix do Purple Haze.”

“Of course.”

“I’m going to send you a link to the Roto-Rooter version of it.”

“Cool.”

For the uninitiated, Purple Haze is a signature song of Jimi Hendrix. The Roto-Rooter version of it – beneath the Hendrix version below – is a barbershop quartet interpretation of that song using trombones and stuff. Lyrics? They’re a celebration of the very drugs that would claim Jimi’s life a few months after this song was recorded.

Purple Haze was in my brain.
Lately things don’t seem the same.
Actin’ funny but I don’t know why.
‘scuse me while I kiss the sky.

Purple Haze all around.
Don’t know if I’m coming up or down.
Am I happy or in misery?
Whatever it is, that girl put a spell on me.

Purple Haze was in my eyes.
Don’t know if it’s day or night.
You’ve got me blowing, blowing my mind.
Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

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“Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when
with the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wilder seas
Where storms will show Your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.

We ask you to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push back the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.

This we ask in the name of our Captain,
Who is Jesus Christ.”

- Sir Francis Drake who sailed in 1577. Sent to me by Susan Ryan

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