User:Amusicgem

I am a high shool graduate with some college but no degree.I became a minister and consientious objector and did not participate in the Civil Rights movement of the late 50's and 60's, nor the Vietnam War. Since 9/11 I have seen the world go into critical times, hard to deal with,in which Violence seems to be the name- of- the- game. Someone said: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes". Beatings and killings of unarmed citizens ,wars, killings of mothers,fathers,children,neighbors by each other,sexual rape druggings, drive- by shootings, sniper mass shootings on college campuses, in hospital waiting rooms, between street gangs and drug cartels and against law-enforcement agencies. Domestic violence on both wives and husbands, rapes, child molestations and killings along with children killing their parents, national leaders their citizens. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. Perhaps this will change someday. May we have Peace! Over my years of life learning, reading,experiences,investigations, and meditations on the meaning of life, I have concluded that there are three questions all living humans have to answer, in my view. They are: Where did we come from? , Why are we here?, and Where are we going?. I have played a number of musical instruments, love Jazz, Classical music and anything else that equates to Duke Ellington's adage : "If it sounds good it is good." I love travel also. As Mose Allison sang in one of his songs, to whit, "I don't worry about a thing, since  nothing is going to be allright!." And in this connection, I like to sing harmony along with music and with other persons.