TODAY IS LOVE DURING WARTIME'S BLOGDAY
My friend Jonah's blog Love During Wartime is one year old today. Jonah aka jac aka Jason and Dr. Omed aka Grendel aka Parsifal go back a long, long way. We've been corresponding under various funny hat aliases for over 25 years, going back to the bad old days before personal computers and email. In the early eighties, when I was living in Oklahoma City, and Jonah resided in Norman, about 35 miles away, we sent letters back and forth by U.S. Mail as if we lived in different continents. I still have most if not all of Jonah's letters, and copies of most of mine (all pounded out on an Adler portable typewriter). This correspondence is of unestimable value to me; I would not be the poet or the man I am today without it. I have already posted a napkin poem and a letter of Jonah's in the Dromedary Syndicate. Today, in honor of Love During Wartime's blogday, and our long lived and fruitful correspondence, I post the following letter from my Jonah files as a sort of guest sermon.
"Jonah" in the good ol' bad ol' days
SUNDAY SERMON: PROGRESS REPORT FROM THE FALLOUT SHELTER
"I am free. Every day, I am free to be whoever I am. I have all the liberties of any honest man. I am sure to die someday, perhaps even today; but I shall live out the day to the hilt, freely." Jonah
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Freedom of Speech: Use it or lose it.
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