--THAT’S A SONG FOR ANOTHER TIME

 …I check my junk mail folder because often submission responses end up there.  Lately there haven’t been any of those, but instead there were these:

-DESPERATE RUSSIAN GIRLS LOOKING FOR DATES!

-Y/OUR S/EARCH FOR A GIRL HAS ENDED!  VICTORIA BRIDES HAS THE GIRL FOR YOU!

-ARE YOU STILL ALONE?  HURRY UP!  ON-LINE DATING IS WORTH YOUR TIME?

-TREAT YOUR HEADACHES WITH NEW CANNABIS GUMMI BEARS!  THEY’RE DELICIOUS AND GOOD FOR YOU!!

--ForeignBeauties.  DISCREET, AVAILABLE WOMEN ARE WAITING FOR YOU!       

-Kitty just send you $3,450,000 using PayPal

-Burn FAT Fast.  No diet or exercise needed

--Wonder Why You’re Not Making Friends At Work?

…Apparently the internet is trying to find me women, pot, and a way to lose weight, not to mention some rich chick named Kitty who sent me over $3 million....  Lucky me.  (I also just got an email from “Esmerelda” who said her “visionary power could change my life.”)

…I hope your Friday and Saturday and Sunday are all splendid.  Here are some things I like for the weekend:

“The things that make us different, those are our superpowers.” Lena Waithe

“I don’t think there’s a day that goes by where I go to the supermarket that a woman doesn’t come up and want to give me a hug.  From little girls to grandmothers, it’s beautiful.  Even the hardcore guys—construction workers, night-shift men—they all are like, ‘I just want to hug you, brother.  You remind me of my father’.  It was spread through William—that feeling of loving people and telling them while you can.”  Ron Cephas Jones, “William” from THIS IS US

“I do feel as I get older hat there’s a finite amount of time left.  It’s made me more interested in making records.  They last longer than me, and they don’t go away.” Tom Petty

“I don’t know Who—or What—put the question, I don’t know when it was put.  I don’t even remember answering.  But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone—or Something—and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that, therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.” Dag Hammerskjold

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are stronger at their broken places.” Hemingway

"Choice of attention, to pay attention to this and ignore that, is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer." W. H. Auden

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation." Pearl S. Buck

"Good friendships are fragile things and require as much care as any other fragile and precious thing." Randolph S. Bourne

“Ultimately we’re all just walking each other home.” Ram Dass

“None of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love.” Mother Teresa

“All that is holding us together is stories and compassion.” Barry Lopez

“Life is but a day at most.” Robert Burns

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it." Picasso

"You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration." James Allen