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  I start listening to Hotel California and for just a minute the world shifts. It's 1976 and I need to push the hair out of my eyes. The slow start as Felder and Walsh start the slide guitar. Henley hits the drum kit three times and we're off. I can taste just a little warm smoke from so many years ago. Still just a hint of a Pony Miller and my 18, 19 year old body feeling like it could go on forever. Just like that. Youth and idiocy and who knew what the "future" would hold. Right then I was just going to lean back and put my head on the speaker and take another sip.

  Life is a journey. You might not think so in youth. But, you look around and that crazy wild kid is now 60 something and the hands that first fumbled with the chords of Hotel California on the guitar now have age spots. Crazy stuff. Yet, we all live under the illusion of normalcy. I hear that a lot these days. Normal. Just want to get back to normal.

But, what is normal? Normal at 35 isn't the normal of 55 and normal at 65 won't be the normal of my twenties. Normal. Just gotta get back. Everybody is going stir crazy. The 70's station changes from Hotel California to Freddie Mercury leading Queen in Bohemian Rhapsody. I wish I could be normal. As in 18 years old and bulletproof. "Goodbye everybody. I've got to go." Freddie now gives way to the lead guitar. "Anyway the Wind Blows."

I'm an introvert. That doesn't mean that I hate people. I don't. It doesn't even mean I never want to be around people. I just like to be around people in smaller doses than I did in my youth. But, people want to get back to normal. Maybe that's part of it. I don't know what normal is. Everybody's normal is different depending on the time of life and the current situation you find yourself in.

One thing about life that is constant is change. I would feel better if I thought the government had the backs of the people the same way it has the backs of the corporations. Because I promise you be it Donald Trump or Barack Obama be it lib or con they ain't going to let the big banks and big corporations fail. Discharge the debt of Chase Manhattan Bank? Hell Yeah! Forgive the mortgage of all the struggling middle class and give a year of jubilee? Why even those great "Christian" business men and women won't do that. Socialism don'tcha know. But, we keep voting them in. As long as they are on our team then we good.