The maze at German adventure park Erlebnispark Teichland. Sometimes, life’s like that.  Copyright © 2014 by HuffPost. 
 

War, war is stupid
And people are stupid
And love means nothing
In some strange quarters 

“The War Song,” Culture Club

Ridley Greene: writer, editor, mentor, friend, and one of the featured acts at ArtsEtc’s launch at Waterfront Café way back in 2004.  Photo Copyright © 2023 by Kingsley Roberts.    

What’s in a number?  Art Copyright © 2023 by Akaila Armstrong and ArtsEtc Inc.

You say it's your birthday
Well it's my birthday too, yeah
The Beatles, “Birthday”

I ALMOST MISSED my own party.

Party?

Nah.  More like the entire birthday.

It was my business partner and partner in literary activism, Linda M. Deane, who had to point out the date.

“So…what are we doing about our twenty years?”

Say what?

When?

“This year.  It’s ArtsEtc’s twentieth anniversary.”

“Good morning from Vermont.”  Photo Copyright © 2022 by Richard D. Venne.

“You say you’ve been twice a wife, 
And you’re through with life, 
Oh, but honey, what the hell’s it for?” 
Stan Rogers, “45 Years”

“Even though we don’t have snow heaven knows love will come through.”  NexCyx, “We Don’t Have Snow”

Madder than that.  Entertainer and social commentator Eric Lewis is among the thousands of Barbadians upset over government’s suggestion to move the retirement age to 72.  Photo Copyright © 2022.

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people, and now, that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.”  Abraham Lincoln

George Lamming, 1927-2022.  Photo Copyright © 2002 by Ronnie Carrington.

HOW IMPORTANT is a book, any book?  To any one person, people, time, or place?