(reference: https://youtu.be/CSvbtlcH6mw )
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Journey of an Evolving Writer
With 2020 hindsight, what will 2021 bring?
Leave it to astronomy to predict all the phrases we will be going through:
( reference: https://youtu.be/8XV2-pmiyAg )
We've been mooned!
How nice.
Here's to 2022!
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Photo: wikipedia.com/moon phases
The Network TV Station Sign Off....
In the days before cable TV, the internet, YouTube, social media, TV network stations were not on-the-air 24/7.
At the end of their broadcast day--usually around midnight, the network signed off the air. Usually playing a short presentation with a patriotic theme.
Then came the test pattern and/or the white noise with the snowy screen until 6:00 a.m.
A new day.
* When TV Stations Signed Off at Midnight
One of my favorite sign offs:
Nez Perce, The Lord's Prayer: Chief Shatka Bear Step offers the sacred Christian prayer in Indian sign language
(reference: https://youtu.be/PhLLHjn5sNc )
This sign off prayer in Native American Indian sign language had moved me since my childhood.
And it was the inspiration for this scene of Book 4, Rainmaker, in The Commander and the Chief series.
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Book 4 of The Commander and the Chief is available as paperback or Kindle: Rainmaker
The story continues from Books 1 - 3.
President Todd, after his questionable re-election, weaponizes the US justice department to take down his enemies. And the Commander, Reginald Barrett, and the Chief, Nova Orlovic, are in Todd’s sights. Meanwhile, reporter Kim Chi Li pursues a pair of unsolved mother-child murders tied to the Todds’ rise to power. For Kim Chi, it’s personal.
Then terrorists strike at the Barrett-Orlovic reunion in Wyoming. Sabotage of oil and gas wells and the western power grid spark Armageddon in the West. With trust in government at abyssal levels, will the ensuing destruction ignite another Civil War? It will take a Rainmaker and a miracle to quench these fires and serve justice on behalf of the living and the dead.
The video below givesa taste of what is to come in Book 4. From November 27, 2019 news of wildfires and rain in California:
( reference: https://youtu.be/8uPb5YT1Ui8 )
For the rest of the series: The Commander and the Chief
Your readership is appreciated.
photo: DAVIS Creative
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The first days of September marked the start and finish of the most deadly war in recorded history:
World War Two: September 1, 1939 - September 2, 1945
Below, the causalities are shown by country:
(reference: https://youtu.be/7cgRwDkP6vk )
And as of this posting (August 29, 2020) we are near the 75th anniversary of the end the World War II.
Below is a tribute to the patriots who fought against tyranny:
(reference: https://youtu.be/1svtYOukRp4 )
On a personal note, my father-in-law was one of those who fought in that war. After his death, his family found a memoir of some of his adventures over there:
World War Two: Memories of North Africa
In the 21st century, the greatest generation is passing from the scene.
As King Solomon wrote:
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Photo: Yalta Conference (Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin)/wikipedia