Heart palpitations!

Today's Tids Issue 3,555

Opening Stuff:

My heart beats not for politicians or celebrities; nor the proclamations of insecure egos. I feel the warm fluttering when I see lovers look into each other’s eyes. When tears trickle from parents eyes when red babies are fresh from the womb. Love begins before life emerges, and never ends through restless years. Till wrinkled hand touches wrinkled hand. And, the heart never stops feeling.

A local sports wag, Bill Reynolds, gives us the “Line of the Week”: “If you saw somebody playing Trump in a movie, you would say he’s overacting.”

There’s a strange little law suit disrupting society brought by Oregon’s “Our Children’s Trust” and inspired by the head of a group called “Kids Vs. Global Warming.” The suit represents 21 young people between the ages of 8 and 21 and brings action against the Federal Government for not doing enough to stop GW. The first oddity is that it unites Obama and Fossil Fuel companies against a legal action striking the essence of America, the ability for congress to make laws. Most intriguing though is that these kids who live in the word of Facebook et. all. Want to curtail the sources that power Google and social network servers, and of course their beloved electric cars of the future. It should be thrown out of court, but this is an incredibly serious suit that could curtail lawmaking in America. Kids united though internet networks relying on fossil fuel power trying to rid the world of the core of their cloistered lives. The world just gets weirder, and scarier.

And, even weirder. Loretta Lynch has confirmed that she “referred the matter of whether climate change deniers should be brought up on racketeering charges to the FBI.” How scary is it to think that people with their own opinions could be criminals in the land of the free. I cringe.

While you are sleeping, goblins play. When you awake the sun looks bright but clouds linger beyond the sea.

I like the line in the new John Deere tractor mower commercial: “It’s not how fast you mow the lawn, but how well you mow the lawn fast.” Think about it. I think there’s a broader lesson in there. It’s a lot more than just about clipping grass.

There’s a lot of angst around the country this first day of Spring. But I think these are a pretty good times. Vidalia Onions are back in produce departments and you still can keep snack bags open without the fear of having soggy Cheetos’s. Keep your life small and smile.

The Question:

Name five of Glenn Close’s best movies.

The Headlines:

--US Stock Futures Look Brighter; Investment Companies Moving Away From Riskier Projects; China And Euro-Stocks Higher.

--US Sends More Troops To Iraq After ISIS Rocket Kills Marine.

--Obama Meets With Cuban Tyrant Successor; President Is Accompanied By SSRI Socialist Congressional Delegation Which Is Appropriate.

--Trump Schedules Meeting With Repub Party Leaders.

--Like It Or Not, Paul Ryan Thrust Into Leading The Repubs Through The Potentially Disruptive Convention.

--NK Fires Five Missiles Into Sea Of Japan.

--Istanbul Suicide Bomber Linked To ISIS.

--Petraeus Testifies On Benghazi Behind Closed Doors.

--After Higher Bid Starwood Agrees To Forgo China Dollars And Go With Marriott.

--SSRI Legislature Looking At Law That Would have State Take Over All City And Town and Villages School Budgets.

--Tids Guy NCAA Brackets In Tatters With Loses By Michigan State And Kentucky.

Bad Optics, Department:

A poster in a supposed active down square in Havana features the authoritarian faces of Raul Castro and Barack Obama. It looks like a propaganda effort for dictators in a Communist country.

I think I’m going to have to buy some more Rachmaninoff. He is great for heart palpitations.

I think the people who are rapturous over 0-man’s visit to Cuba are the same people who thought Castro’s takeover of Cuba was a good idea.

I’m sorry I never had the chance to love all my ancestors who I never knew. After all, they are all a part of who I am. Of course I would have to determine from whom I received the good and bad  traits, so I could portion the love appropriately.

Many a heart is in the mouths of fans at the NCAA games. 13 lower half of the bracket seeds have won in exciting down to the wire games of the opening round. And late last night there were some incredible fast, comeback wins. It is not surprising in this “One and Done” era of college basketball. Many of the lower seeded teams are loaded with experienced seniors who know how to play team basketball. The big money schools hate it, but they have created the travesty. The women’s NCAA’s are much better. Well kind of – UConn won its opener by about 50 points.

I like to watch Spring Training games to inure my nerves for the real season.

The hardest thing about writing the Tids each day, is interpreting my handwriting in my notes. Many a possible good Tids lies crumpled in the waste basket. Maybe some future archeologists will find them in long abandoned landfalls. Archeologists love the undecipherable.

Just think, archeologists of the future will have to study “Cursive” in graduate school.

Talk about real mind numbing excitement, you should be where a lot of knowledgeable New England sports fans are this week. While the Basketball regional’s are all around us here in RI, the playoffs to reach the NCAA hockey’s Frozen Four have been amazing.  College Hockey is always edge of the seat, pace the floor angst, and last night the eyes of many locals were riveted on the Providence College,-UMass/Lowell 3 overtime game with 110 shots on goal, and a UML win on a disputed winning shot. Talk about a spent, drained body.

In case you are interested, Prince George calls Queen Eliz “Gan-Gan”. I’m a sucker for British monarchy stuff.

Warning to Apple, Microsoft, FaceBook, et.al.: US Steel was for years the bellwether of the American economy and now it just seems to lose billions each year, forcing it to close plants. And, lay off people.

Activists protesting Trump as the divider should look at themselves.

Have I told you lately that Camille Saint San’s first piano concerto is as good as it gets. It lifts you off the ground on day’s drear, like the sun on a morning clear.

The Parking Lot: Chapter 51.

   Jeremiah was getting stronger every day. It seemed that the worst of his injury had passed and he was good now to accompany his father to the Village on the harbor to talk with the now more friendly Howland sector of the town of Sakonnet.  He sat taller, now proud again in his saddle, but it still pained him a little when he had to bend lower to kiss Elizabeth before leaving. The sting  was worth it though as he raised up enjoying taste of her moist lips. The small sting in his stomach now raced to the pain center in his brain.  Elizabeth saw the reaction in his eyes, but did not mention it or try to get him to stay home. She knew he needed to get back into the fray.

   The men, about a dozen of them road off to what should be a good reconciliation for all of the people. Richards’s original plan was working. She went over and hugged Jeremiah’s mother, who she knew was feeling disturbed about her son’s rush back to the family business. “I understand, Elizabeth, it is just that I am a mother. You know about that too.” Elizabeth squeezed her harder. They stepped back and smiled. Elizabeth liked being part of the Hicks family.

   She turned to walk down to the cool clear stream that flowed behind the compound of homes. This is one family that didn’t have to be worried about being attacked by those barbaric Indians. She almost laughed out loud! She stopped short, and frowned. She thought she heard something rustling in the bushes nearby. Hearing nothing, she took another step or two.

   “Now ain’t that a pretty little woman, hey Aaron.” She inhaled deeply and turne. There on a horse sat Zach Howland next to another grizzly looking follower of his. She took one, two steps backwards, her eyes shifting looking for a clear route. Then she turned and ran.

The Answer:

Glenn Close is a pretty great actress and has made more than 50 films. The site called “Ranker” rates her Top 47 starting with their Best being: Dangerous Liaisons. She first caught my eye in the #2 rated film, The World According To Garp. The rest of the Top Ten are Albert Nobbs, 101 Dalmatians, The Big Chill (Which put me to sleep), Paradise Road, Reversal of Fortune, Jagged Edge (Which I liked and wish they would make more pictures in the genre.), The Natural and Hamlet. Now here’s the oddity, many of you and me may have chosen Fatal Attraction as one of her best known and certainly memorable roles, and for which she was  nominated for an academy award for best Actress. Go figure. But alas, it is not to be found in Ranker. I used to like this site.

I think that what this country needs most is several good doses of what Ben Carson had been preaching in his run for the office. “We need to understand that we are not each other’s enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction..that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.”

He also said, ”The Roman empire was every much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in term of who they were. And after all of those thongs converged they went right down thre tube very quickly.”

Carson believed strongly in the goodness of God’s message. Maybe Ben is the only politician worth listening to this week that triumphs so magnificently with Easter Sunday.