8/31/23

 Thursday, August 31, 2023

In bed at10:30,  awake aat 4:30, up at 5.  56°,high of 70°, sunny day ahead, AQI=27, wind ENE at 7 mph,  5-9/13.l Sunrise at 6:13, sunset  at 7:28, 13+14.

Super Blue Moon overnight.  Gorgeous, wonderful corona.  It reminded me of two of my favorite Elvis Presley songs on his 1956 album Elvis 1956 when I was 15 years old.  Dwight Eisenhower was president, most Southern congressmen signed The Southern Manifesto protesting Brown v. Board of Education, Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery, AL bus led to the iconic 1956 bus boycott.  It was the year Russian Soviet troops invaded Hungary to put down its anti-Soviet revolution, leading to the emigration of thousands including many who came to Milwaukee and founded St. Emeric's Church on 17th Street where I would occasionally serve as an 'altar boy' in 1960-61.

Blue Moon

Blue moon / You saw me standin' alone

Without a dream in my heart / Without a love of my own

Blue moon / You knew just what I was there for

You heard me sayin' a prayer for / Someone I really could care for

And then there suddenly appeared before me

The only one my arms will hold

I heard somebody whisper, "Please adore me"

And when I looked, the moon had turned to gold

Blue moon /Now, I'm no longer alone

Without a dream in my heart / Without a love of my own

When My Blue Moon Turns to Gold Again

Memories that linger in my heart

Memories that make my heart grow cold

But some day we'll live them all again

And my blue moon again will turn to gold.

When my blue moon turns to gold again

When the rainbow turns the clouds away

When my blue moon turns to gold again

You'll be back within my arms to stay

The castles we built in dreams together

Are the sweetest stories ever told

And in my dreams they'll live again, sweetheart

And my blue moon again has turn to gold

Blue day, wasted.