Povey Prattle

Commercial/Industrial/Warehouse building. Was a faded and dirty red barn colour. Renewed and painted. I like it! Orange and the new Black.

I picked up my scrip at Walgreen's today.  I paid $15 for  the Clopidogrel tablets (90 days supply)  tablets which should have cost $419 -- this enormously reduced cost is thanks to my superb (Episcopal)  Church Pension Fund coverage. Many American citizens who need Clopidogrel    (especially those without Insurance coverage) would be faced with an annual cost of  nearly $1600  for this essential medication, but I pay only $60 per annum. Doesn't seem fair, wise, or just. Especially because the cost for the poorer citizens eats up a high percentage of their meager enough incomes, long  before paying for rent, food, and transportation to and from  work. We clearly need an equalizing national health system which provides the best care at the lowest cost for all citizens. But you, my republican friends, will protest that such a system would be "socialist" (so it must be bad). Oh phoney balon...

"Christeeny"   (Christeen) is the fiancee of my dear and good nephew Daniel James Povey. Based in Bristol, U.K.  she makes the most wonderful special occasion cakes: God willing, and if the crick don't rise, I'll officiate at Christeen and Dan's wedding in 2020.  

From a poem by W.H. Auden (thanks to Bruce L for the tip-off  on this) September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.

Greta Thunberg, that amazing and prophetic woman,  is calling our world leaders to repentance and change in the face of the impending world wide disaster as a result of climate change. The best that the President of the United States can do in response to her wisdom,  is to mock her in his cruel and malicious twitter post. President Trump you are not a nice man. In fact, you are evil.   Who could ever imagine that the bully pulpit of the White House would be used to deride a sixteen years old woman?   Has Trump  no decency? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trump loves to hang around with some American Evangelical leaders who endorse his every utterance (and fart). "Evangelical"  leaders in the U.S.A., and in many other lands,  claim to be Biblical Christians,  even as they amass their wealth as a form of pseudo protection in the face of the impending disaster. Have these so-called...

St. Martin in the Fields -  a sacred and quiet  space in London's busy and hectic Trafalgar Square. Classical Music lovers may never had darkened the doors of St. Martin in the Fields, but they will most certainly be acquainted with the Chamber Orchestra known as the "Academy of St. Martin in the Fields" and its founder and long time leader, the late Sir Neville Marriner.  (The Orchestra is now led by the famed Violinist  Joshua Bell). But here is a bit of humour re the identification of the Orchestra with its founding leader. (via WCRB Boston). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Turn on any classical radio station and you’re guaranteed to hear the ASMF at some point or another, probably conducted by Neville Marriner.  This phenomenon was parodied back in the 80s by cartoonist Charles Rodrigues in the magazine Stereo Review. A man...

I have lived in Sarasota, FL  since 2006. My move from Massachusetts to Florida has had many challenges and blessings. The blessings have included making new friends  -  women and men who I would want to be near me when I approach death. The challenge is that "off they go". ------------------------------------------------------------------- The Revd. Deacon Alan Rogers, taken away by death.  I miss him so much. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Revd. Andrea (Andi) Taylor, taken away by her call to a new parish on Cape Cod, MA Andi and her husband Jonathan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Revd. Wesley Wasdyke and his wife Cindy Wasdyke who have moved from Sarasota, FL to Chapel Hill, N.C. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ And today;   the wonderful Ann Albritton (retired Professo...