Sometimes you just have to enjoy the moment……….

While I was gone, my Amazon order came! (It was supposed to have been here before we left). Besides buying this book:

Which I have been meaning to read for a while now-and has applicability to the country’s current situation. There were also two CD’s for the S.O. and finally, something for me-a stroll back into my ancient past:

I loved that album and have not heard it in a long time-mainly because I did not have it on CD and the vinyl (plus a means to play it)-went bye bye a long time ago.

One of the good things about where we live now is that the mornings are simply glorious when the weather and the Almighty cooperate. That makes my drive to work sometimes glorious too-especially in the S.O.’s car with six cylinders of fine German technology purring like a kitten.

Yesterday was such a day-at least till I got to the parking lot. A glorious morning, clear sky, and color in the hills. In the middle of it all, me, with the speakers turned up and listening to this:

Jerusalem and the all three Karn Evil #9 tracks are my favorites on that album.

In my high school days I never realized that the hymn, which was written by William Blake in 1804 as a Preface to his work, Milton-is now somewhat contriversial. I read somewhere that it was popular during the inter-war years as a symbol of the British Empire-and even today is still popular as an “unofficial anthem” of Great Britain.

All I really know is that-while cresting over a hill and seeing the outstretched straightaway of road ahead, with the mountains that shelter the Tennessee Valley out on the horizon, basked in the clear sunlight of a beautiful clear winter’s day-I can feel, for just a brief period of time, as master of all I see. King of MY little empire. Instead of just another faceless, nameless, man walking government corridors. And that’s a great feeling indeed.

Sometimes you just have to live within the moment.