That shoe shop had very good shoes in it. Good shoes, for Minus 30 degree environments are not easy to find. They need to be warm, for sure, but also ventilated somehow because otherwise your feet sweat and then the sweat freezes...and when you stop walking, your toes fall off. I bought a good pair of those shoes, fairly cheaply, and they are still good now...and you don't slip when walking on ice...brilliant design. Good China leather and structure...with nearby Russian Siberian shoe making experience and understanding. Love has its price. Shoes are fine if you keep walking, but if you are transfixed by love and stop to hug and kiss in the street, there is some pain involved pretty quickly. It's best to leave the pain of love to the young, whenever possible. There's pain enough at the other end of it all, anyway, for those who have done their walking and kissing. Everything in its right measure, and joy to boot!

I took this pic in the early morning in Shen Yang City, a small provincial Chinese city of only 9 million souls, in the North East of China, at about minus 30 degrees celsius. I was across the snowy street when I took the picture. The distant sun rising just for them.

Being an affable and friendly being with a long long history in end of life pain control and care, I have noted that sometimes people you meet and sometimes even work with, can be quite nasty and hurtful...only a few... but I have decided that the best thing to do is to let go of any real harm done to me and simply invest in calling upon the legions and minions of arcane vengeful spirits of times past to wreak havoc upon them in all the myriad dark forms with great abiding cruel prejudice. I.E: Just let it go. That's the best way. 'Closure' for me...and yet something opening up... just for them. It's a gift, really.

March is the annual time every year when the USA and South Korea do their massive live fire practice on invading North Korea and North Korea, as always, in response, fires off a few rockets into the Sea of Japan and then the USA calls North korea crazy...every March. Lots of dick-rattling in North Asia tonight. As usual Mother China suggests that the kids stop being so fucking stupid and dangerous...and on it goes.

I think we can often here this 'dick rattling' in the background of our futures...as if they knew what they were doing...when they just don't.

The Monkees - "Pleasant Valley Sunday" - ORIGINAL VIDEO - HQ

I'm sure you and I are up there on the upskip of the minute lookin out at all there be and whisperin bit about how it keeps changin, yet its always on the move from the right to the far right, every time...and we'd be wonderin if that be just the nature of the species calling out from the different cages there, so scared of each other, the little sooks. It's like the advent of Human Reason never happened at all, at all. Ah, the good old days. To be sure. We are star dust, to be sure, but it must be said that we are star dust with great pretensions indeed.

I just ate a whole organic roasted chicken and I must admit I feel a lot better than I did before I ate it. I feel, and its hard to explain, but, deep down, not hungry now.

poor john, he never knew what networking was, and he didn't study what an EQ was, so he just had to go through life with his brain and his heart...as he was.