The thing about depression caused by past trauma is this: it is something foistered upon us, for sure, as all experience is, whether we seek out experience, or not. Good and bad experiences just roll in. But it is different to watching Star Trek and being really upset when Spock died...and having to wait until the next movie when he comes back. What we do to deal with an awful event, deep down, is to personalise it, to make it part of us, part of our fabric, our tapestry, as it is real...to survive it... as we can't effectively deny it. So, this black dog of depression brought about by experience, is indeed part of us and it is best to respect it as part of our wholeness. Periods of depression are not a black gap in life, but simply a way of progressing through life as we grow larger through...experience of life. Some experiences are really horrible the same as some are really wondrous. We don't have experts treating us for Too Much Joy...but depression is much the same thing, just the other side of it. Wise folk will say that every coin has 2 sides, and that is true to some extent. ..but there are maybe 5 or 6 more sides to it all that current wisdom doesn't know about yet, and never will.

Poem: Love Poem

Love Poem

In gracious green
the last resort
the stars between the leaves were caught
faceless lovers on rolling grass
found love within the roiling task
and pulled down stars
to make a mask.

New Album in preparation/ Box Cutter Johnny & The Roiling Gerunds: Cutting Loose on Tremelo Bridge

Liner Notes for Album Cut Loose on Tremelo Bridge...'The album started as a Concept Album about Concept Albums...and initially I had trouble getting the raw, loud, electric sound I wanted out of the Fender Stratocastor, but then my agent suggested that it would be good to have an electrical lead going from the guitar to the amp, and since then, there's been a marked improvement.
The album moves progressively through all forms of world music, both Country, and Western, with an emphasis on White Blues played in a Swamp.

I don't think Trump is likely to be assassinated. Obama was a far more hated figure to most folk who owned guns (and bibles) in the US and Obama got through 8 years unscathed. I expected Trump will do so too. And if one did knock off Trump, you'd have Pence as President a straight down the line ambitious bright Christian Republican, and who wants that? That's worse. Give Trump his 4 or 8 elected years I'd say. people did vote for him because most hated the way things were, that's true. So let's see if things improve. Principles of democracy in action.

very Funny stuff.: Australian Prime Minister to Trump: Please continue with our agreement for 200 refugees we have locked up in prisons on pacific islands (all found to be very good refugees by legitimate international standards) to be sent to the USA... Trump: Of course we agree but we do not diminish our right to deny access to a percentage of them...up to 100%...but we do agree, of course... Australian Govt: We have an agreement! Yah! All these people have been vetted by the pre-Trump govt. Trump: Yes, so they will all have to be re-vetted now under much more severe criteria...but everyone of them, apart from males, or men, children, or families, should be fine, but then, that depends...and we haven't worked that out yet...but sure, the agreement is solid. Australian Govt: YAaah!

Australian Government: What happens when Mediocracy is taken to the Extreme and is then Standardised.

Melbourne is changing. House across the road, 4 bed, 2 bathroom, 20 years old, cream double brick, 2 garages.big. Nice looking house. This morning, they tore it down to make way for a bigger 2 storey mansion type house. Like the house we live in, there was nothing wrong with the house they tore down. Remember when people used to buy house to live in? This is an old expensive established area with some brilliant houses more like citadels built 1920s etc They seem to stay, but anything from the 60s...I guess they weren't great design years, they seem to just be bulldozed. The unfortunate thing is that the new mansions that replace them take up so much space there's no room for gardens and yards etc. Still, as Mr Dylan noted sometime back..."Hey the Vice President's gone mad..where? Downtown, when, last night...Well, that's too bad...nothing I can do about it, just something else I'll have to forget...then I went and checked the line to see if the clothes were still wet."