Both Sides Now

Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and they snow on everyone,
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down,and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds, at all

Moons and Junes and ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way that you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way

But now it's just another show
And you leave em laughing when you go
And if you can,don't let them know
Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take,and still somehow
It's loves illusions that I recall
I really don't know,I really don't know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say I love you, right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads,they tell me that I've changed
Well somethings lost,but somethings gained
In living every day

I looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life,at all
I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life,I really don't know life at all


~Joni Mitchell~  ¶ 02:58

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  Merry Christmas to all my friends and enemies alike….Bill  ¶ 17:34

  Gee not even sworn into office yet and already the “Executive” perks are flowing in. This company would like to offer me a new “Executive” boyfriend from Russia Or Eastern Europe. With all included prices starting at $12000, U.S.D. Hmm I wonder if I can expense it, maybe on my secretary’s Visa card....Bill  ¶ 12:24

  What an interesting week. Today at lunch with a group of friends at the much maligned Mandarin pig-a-thon Chinese buffet. My fortune cookie was strikingly prophetic. “you’re a born Leader”. It is prophetic because yesterday in a landslide victory I won the election for the Presidency of our Union Local. I can say I am honestly taken aback by the confidence the membership has shown me. And really it scares the hell out of me as expectations are high and the job before us as a union are complex. My Executive experience is not what I would want it to be, I have always been the backroom boy whom people came to for a quiet word or two or conversely one of the more vocal voices from the peanut gallery. I guess after 25 years of careful avoidance of any official role the time has come to put up or shut up. So I guess it is put up since I am incapable of shutting up.

This week our government has finally put to rest the same sex marriage issue in Canada. It is here to stay. The general opinion now is that those left trying to deny this fundamental human right in Canada are just fringe of society nutters. Even our Conservative Government acknowledges that this file is closed. I for one will sleep better at night knowing that there is no sword above my head waiting to take rights away from me or any of my family members. The progress we as a society have made in improving minority rights in our nation, in just the past few years, since Prime Minister Trudeau gave us our charter of rights, which came into force on April 17, 1982 is astounding.

In April of the previous year I joined IATSE we were a small Local then. It was still very much a time when one had to be selective in who knew you were Gay, and who didn’t. I could have been expelled for conduct discreditable to the union, “fag” jokes were part of the light entertainment of the meetings. And of course there was no question of any benefits being extended to my same sex partner for some time to come. In those early days I accepted the fact that there would be discrimination and denial of opportunity and over the years there was, both by my union and by my principle employer. Happily those days are long gone.

Next month as I stand before the membership and take the oath of office for President it will be very clear in my mind how much our Union has progressed, most of the members there, will see an individual who they have chosen to represent there interests, period . Everything else doesn’t matter. And that is how it should be….Bill  ¶ 22:29

  I Love Lucy- Friendship song

What the world needs more of is...
....Bill  ¶ 00:46

  I need to go back to work so I can have a rest. A couple of hours in a semi dark booth pushing a few buttons on command from a Stage Manager would be quite restful just now. It is catch-up time after a very busy Summer. I am repainting the inside of my house, building a deck at my Mum &Dad's (well supervising and reassuring the old folks that they have not hired a cowboy builder.) Next week a new gas fireplace goes in their front room. ( And much reassurance that it will not explode and burn the house down) I have a story about a house fire just before Christmas and my favourite "Linus" blanket having been left behind during the harrowing second floor escape to safety. It survived as obviously, so did I. I finally bought a TV combo for my "old" friend in the nursing home. He was absolutely delighted and immediately asked me to smuggle him some porn into the old folks home. I did, no further comment. The yard clean-up has finished just in time to put up the X-mas lights, that would be times two of course. Oh and there is the little matter of the election I am running in next month. Yes, I need my head examined, as I fear I shall win and after 25 years of assiduously casting comments from the peanut gallery and avoiding any office. My number seems to be up. I am (probably) about to become union boss. Yikes! what next, A new Cadillac and an old stogie....Bill  ¶ 17:32