This is Afghanistan outside of the wire. The Russians mined most of it. Today, Afghans clear the mine fields. The bad guys can get a little closer. What's a bad guy? Anyone that launches a rocket or fires a mortar in to your neighborhood. Keeping it simple. "What's Goin On?" the Marvin Gaye song that summed up the 60's for me still sings true. "We have got to find a way to bring some lovin here today." Then like now we have to find a way out of the madness. And then like now I listen to music, read literature and gaze at art which gives me hope. There is no hope in politics it is nothing more than a prescription for despair. You can put your faith in Mozart and know that he touches the sublime. Or you can listen to Motown feeling the hope of gospel, the energy of jazz and the street poetry of Marvin Gaye. Or like myself you can stake out a small piece of a trout stream where you can find an interior world of delicate mayflies and soft currents that beckon to thee. Maybe, its just keeping the faith in the things that are true: art, the creation and a fly rod.
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