When the Levee Breaks

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If it keeps on raining, levee's going to break

Yeah, about that ...

I'm taking a pause from the book, let the Muse catch her breath for a day or two. Truth be told, I gotta stop blaming the Muse, it's me that's bloody exhausted. Too many late nights, too many "toss and turn" nights over the past fortnight. Quite honestly, there's too much going on in my head right now to actually try and sleep.

While I can't make it stop raining, I can cut back on one or two of my creative activities, just to catch my breath, so to speak. Never thought that writing would be such hard work.

I hope you all like Paweł's reports from Poland on what's going on in Ukraine from a European perspective. When he sends me another, it will go to the top of the queue. He keeps writing, I'll keep publishing. The only thing I do to Paweł's posts is correct typos, he uses the English spelling of words, which occasionally differs from the American spelling, I leave those as is. Paweł's English is pretty darned good, far better than my Polish (or German for that matter).

The war in Ukraine concerns me, I had thought that we'd gotten past that sort of behavior. No matter Mad Vlad's take on history, he's got his own version, most big shots do, here's how I see things -

Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
Ilya Repin

Ukrainian soldiers, writing a letter to Putin.
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Ukrainian deputies writing a letter to Putin
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Yup, I side with Ukraine, they didn't invade Russia, Russia invaded them. I never side with a bully.

Now as for the post title, it goes with my over-tiredness, the situation in Ukraine, and it's a pretty damned fine song. I first heard it done by Led Zeppelin, way back in the day. (1972 it was.) Great song, awesome drums by John Bonham. 

My mother was never a big fan of the song, primarily because of this line -

Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good

(It was the latter half of the phrase she didn't like.) I've always loved that song. But, and I say this with some reluctance, I think I've heard a version I like even more than Zeppelin's. First heard it over at Diogenes' Middle Finger, this one -

That's some toe-tappin', foot stompin' music right there, done by a bunch of very talented musicians from around the world.

Good stuff.

See you on the morrow.