My AGE 75 birthday cake is lit yesterday at youngest brother John's lovely cottage in near Galilee Village , ocean side Rhode Island . Just thinking : " The world I grew up in the USA of the 50s , 60s and lived most of my adult life in the 70s and 80s and early 90s is GONE WITH THE WIND. Our beloved father Domenic Ruggieri passed away in October of 1999. In a way it was good that he missed the past truly HORRIBLE quarter of century . Our beloved mother Janet lived - comforted by her family - until May 2011. One of Ma's more sardonic thoughts : " Life is a shit sandwich and every day you must take a bite ! " . Of course , Ma had happier loving thoughts .
Year 2022 finds independent socialist Radical Ron truly a lone wolf with intellectual ties to no political organization ( most Marxist parties have degenerated into bizarre personality cults with inner circles of neurotic Jews. HOPELESS ! ) and spiritual ties to no religious organization except the now fourth dimensional pre-Vatican II Catholic Church. Could the mysterious SECOND COMING assume the form of a vengeful ( " Vengeance is the Lord's ! ) monster asteroid of a " color from outer space " ?
In a way I am my own version of Albert Camus' existential " Stranger " and H.P. Lovecraft's " Outsider ". And George Orwell's " Fugitive from the Camp of Victory " .
Almost Theodore Dreiser's " An American Tragedy ". Almost one of Jack London's " People of the Abyss ".
There but for the grace of God go I .
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