You've got a Friend in the BOG.

[hopemountain]

10. thank you, she

it is wonderful to come here and acknowledge and celebrate the good here with you all.

this song has been in the forefront for me personally - of late. it is the song my family - especially my mom - know me for because i sang it a whole lot in the early 70's and would play it on the family stereo when i came home on the weekends from college.

my mom is in the latter, latter stage of alzheimer's. less than 90 lbs, unable to speak or move her limbs. any day now. one of her last phone calls to me a few years ago before the steep downhill of her decline, she called me to say she had found my old album and was playing it (i could hear it in the background) and she was thinking of me. so sweet.

these are trying times on so many levels - one can only imagine how challenging it is for so many across our country - from many walks of life, the poor, unemployed, disabled, the sick, our vets, our young people trying to move forward in life, food pantry organizers, soup kitchen volunteers who see they do not have enough, all of our leaders, etc., all creatures great and small, and for our potus and his wife and family.