Dedicated to the far-too-many people who's new year is starting the way the old year is ending with bombs, smoke, blood and ashes.
Here's hoping 2024 will end better.
End 2023/Begin 2024
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Christmas Eve (Ukraine)
Savatage was a heavy metal band that recorded an excellent 1995 album, DEAD WINTER DEAD (not exactly a holiday album).
Their popular song was CHRISTMAS EVE (Sarajevo 12/24) which was to be meditation on the plight of the people during the war in Sarajevo. Notable for it’s heavy metal instrumental version of CAROL OF THE BELLS it would soon become enshrined in popular holiday culture when the band changed it’s name to release an entire Christmas album. When Savatage reinvented themselves as The Trans Siberian Orchestra.
Now there is another unwarranted war being inflicted on a people who did not ask and did not deserve it. Let’s use this time to reflect on Ukraine and what the people are going thru this year. May they merge victorious against Putin’s savage, punishing brutalization.
STOP THE WAR NOW!!!
Hopefully by time this posts the Russia's unprovoked, unjust war on Ukraine will be over. These abstract images are inspired by the fact that Russia has now used chemical weapons (phosphorus bombs). These phosphorus bombs glow in the night and cause severe burning. They are illegal and were developed by Hitler's Nazi regime which dubbed them "the flaming onion". Like Edwin Starr sang "STOP THE WAR NOW! Don't put if off another day." https://youtu.be/rFv0gqIPAE4
When I scheduled this post back near the beginning of March I sincerely hoped that I maybe the nonsense of this foolish war would be over by now. Obviously I was, sadly, wrong to hope that. I’m so sick and tired of human’s and their stupid ideas of conquest. I honestly don’t think there is any hope for humanity anymore. I’m beyond cynical at this point. There is only absurdity. Wishing Putin dead or for regime change seems useless because like the great Hydra, you cut off one head there are two others waiting to replace it. Meaningless, meaningless, everything is meaningless…
... on being and becoming ... 