Time for Livin'

Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do "random questions," so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants posts and leave a comment. Because we don't have any rules, it is your choice. We hate rules. We love to answer the questions, however, and here is today's questions!

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Saturday 9: Time for Livin' (1968)

Unfamiliar with this week's tune? Hear it here.

1) This song is about taking "time for life." Do you have a busy, highly-scheduled Saturday planned? Or will you have an opportunity to just relax and enjoy? We will be staying in.  Our county has a quite a lot of scoff-laws, so it is getting hit hard with the new variant, whether anyone wants to admit it yet or not. 
 
2) Lead singer Larry Ramos begins by telling us he likes to kick off his shoes and go barefoot. How about you? Do you like to feel "the good earth under your feet?" I've gone barefoot almost my whole life.  Now, not so much but still love to do it.  I always want to feel that visceral connection with Mother Earth.
 
3) He sings that once he took off his watch, he found he had all the time in the world. Tell us about your watch.  I have four wrist watches that I like to wear from time to time.  No pun intended.  Two of them I've inherited from my mother. Two of them are gifts from my Hubby.

4) With lyrics that include words like "grooving" and "hang-ups," this song is very much a product of its time. Share some of the slang you used during your adolescent years.  "Grooving" and "Hang Ups" as well as "Far Out" and "Outa sight" come from my youth.  Let's see.. "Fab" ''Blast" and that's just a few.  Anyway, as Sam says,  some of it's come around yet again..

5) He sings that his attitude has been rearranged. What is something you have changed your mind about? 

Don't read the following if you are easily upset by forthright views about facts of Matters.....You may be sorry you asked but: 

I am a Quaker, through and through, and I do not like what I'm seeing...

I'm sad to say, it's far right Modern Christians.  I've changed my mind about them all for the most part, by deciding they are going down a dangerous path.  From the Archbishop of  the Kremlin's Russian Orthodox Church who is the WORST manifestation of this phenomenon, to Bible thumping evangelicals in thousand dollar suits.  What's Christ got to do with it?  

They have, in my view, forgotten what Real Power is.  Real Power is the sort of thing that Christ himself displayed many times, and his disciples.  

I feel that far right modern Christianity has crossed a line and  is now a danger to our democracy. The forefathers were explicit about maintaining the separation of Church and State.  They saw what had happened in Europe. 

I feel like too many of the leaders now crave power for it's own sake and they love money more than honor, or even Christian virtues.  I've seen this coming for a long LONG time.  Ever since 1964, and a revival meeting that my neighborhood pastor and his wife took me to, I've watched this. 

The Christian right was just getting rolling to overtake the political life of the country, and it sickened me. And I've never forgotten it as the years went by.  They fell for Mammon in my view.  This got taken to a national level by the advent of those Breakfasts that Washington has had for decades.  You weren't anyone unless you were part of it.

 HERE is a link... But that is only One of the manifestations. We are in trouble now because a lot of so called Russian Ex-pats attended them during the 90's and early 2000's.  It's all public knowledge; you can research it.  I'm too old to keep this on my heart anymore.. 

I apologize if it offends people who feel it's inappropriate to the meme, but it is the only answer I could give.  I have changed my mind about the truth of the shifts in Washington.  I think every American needs to know this is happening.  It's not benign. 

6) This week's group, The Association, was founded in Hawaii. Hawaii produces more pineapple than other state in the union. When did you most recently have pineapple? Sometime last year.  I love fresh pineapple but it's hard to find.

7) In 1968, when this song was popular, Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. Think about the last wedding you attended. Were you closer to the bride or to the groom, or were you equally close to both? The groom.  He is a friend's son.
 
8) In 1968, when this song was popular, Laugh In was America's #1 TV show and it made a star of Goldie Hawn. Do you have a favorite Goldie Hawn movie?  I loved the remake of  "The Out of Towners" and also, equally, "First Wives".
 
9) Random question: Who is the most recent person you made smile, and what did you do? That person was my hubby and it was this morning.  It was some dumb random thing I joked about, and we both had a good snarky laugh over it.  It was something Political about that world class Poot,  Putin. At the risk of getting Black Listed by the Bots, I won't repeat it. hahahaha!

As if!  And that is another Nineteen Sixties "ism".