Musical Saturday Morning

UNCLE

Last week I was on Amazon ordering some exploration reference materials for later this summer ... when I saw the Man From U.N.C.L.E. .....

I was living Germany when the series began and it was an instant hit amongst of all us NATO brats!  We actually believed that U.N.C.L.E. must actually exist, it was all too plausible!  Sort of like believing that the National Enquirer actual reports real news!  LOL!

And there were even 8 movie reles in Europe, I understand they were not available to American audiences, much less us youth.  They were all rated 'M' for mature audiences only ...  No fair!  Even Bond's movies were 'G' on the NATO bases.  Different versions were shown in the European theaters, as 'M'.  sigh....

So, I have been watching the eight movies and yes they are 'M's!  For the time pretty risque, today not so much as even a rating in this morally corrupt day and age .....

But interesting story lines, very much filmed in a TV mentality and format.  It would be utterly viewed as acceptable today.  Though, the lack of swearing may make the films quaint.

Now back to my 190 hours of marathon viewing!

Enough

With too much free time, one has too much time to think ...

What does God expect of me?
What does God expect of any of us?
How much is ENOUGH?

Yeah, these past three years have been a mighty horrible.
And anyone would be a liar if they were not to wonder about what God expects of each of us ...

Of course, I am old German by upbringing - everything is viewed as being black and white.
As my father told me  as a child, "There is definitely a God, and you must recognize that he exists, but he really is not nice and you really do not want to know him."

Well, as I was to understand decades later - his viewpoint was skewed as a troubled Swiss youth whom chose to join the Reich, it was the duty of every Germanic after all.  His family, all strong Zwingli Christians, violently disagreed.

So, I do KNOW there is a God.
I do KNOW Him to be loving and personal.
And I have seen Him exacting His justice .....
Hence, I learned how He works ... so at least I know I am not under wrath (whew!)

But what does He expect of us?
How much are we expected to take in silence ..... ?

Well:

• God exists (whether you acknowledge Him or not!)
• God is sovereign over your life (whether you like it or not!)
• God is molding you for your eternal life (whether you want it or not!)
• God will push you to your limits (until you submit to His Will!)
• God will sustain you through your shaping process

So when you think on the more than human characters preserved for us in the Bible, we can see just how far God is willing to go to mold someone, as well as,  how He works in our lives.  Think of Moses, David, Ezekiel, or the lives of any of the apostles!  Winners, losers, lots of people in the Bible whom endured or failed ... and endurance apparently can include failures as the less than perfect basis of our growth!

But through these thoughts I am reminded of the question I heard so long ago: "Which Jesus do you serve?  The one of the Bible, the one of man's creation or the one in your mind?"

God has a really stringent requirement that you know whom He is and what He stands for.
He is the creator of all we can comprehend.  He demands we place nothing in front of our worship of Him.  I need go no further.

Intellectually, we discount God asthe  creator, we question the why and the how of creation, we go out of our way to destroy His creation!  We create laws to outlaw conflicting thought - we mock those whom we declare unenlightened.  We have so many false gods it is almost an endless list which encompasses all of us!  Just think of sports, sex, drugs, alcohol, our jobs, our families ...... our mostly pagan churches calling upon culture rather than Biblical values in their teachings and judgements!  Accepting sin as normal or excusing it!

No, we never will have perfect anything!  Not you, not me, not my friends, not my church.  But it is possible to at least know and be able to discern where we fail - and repent our failure ..... and not repeat it!

So where does that leave me, in my frustration?

God is testing, God is teaching, it is the only way in which to view these many years.
So ya just gotta keep on, keeping on  .....

Klansman

Again remember I am rebuilding my mind from absolute zero, almost.  Yeah still only one memory, apparently of no value though.

I have been reading through old magazines, tearing out pictures and articles of interest.  So in the Jan/Feb 2013 of The Saturday Evening Post is an article entitled, "Portrait of a Klansman".

Nice photo of a guy in a living-room, holding rifle with a Mauser style action.  A few other adults and toddlers round it out.  Brings no problem to my mind, until you remember that the article is about Klansmen.  So it seems Klansmen love guys, play with guns, show them off the guys, win guns in contests, give toy guns to children - etc.  Obviously written by someone with firearm issues, they would probably complain about knives too!  Sigh ...

But, it triggered a memory of living in South Carolina, in the "heart of the KKK country" as the 30 foot billboard announced as you drove into town.  And they were quite active with calling up integrated schools with bomb threats, stopping school buses and lighting them up, and generally terrorizing the town.  So many memories - so much unhappiness!

No, no love here for bigots in my life!  Hence, the source of many of my issues with my Family!   Prejudice should really be the family's last name of the American side!  Thank God my Plattner aunts and uncle are what I call normal!  Of course living in a small country surrounded by many nations leaves little room for prejudice.

Interestingly, God does not think much those whom think more of themselves than they should, or less of others than they deserve ...

Protein

After the third surgery this year, March 1st, I was told to over consume protein.  And, I have been!  I am so sick of all forms of protein!

I honestly dream at times of  eating salads.  Spinach, cold and hot, any salad with a home made thousand island dressing!, a fresh crab louie, or how about a world class chef salad?  How I long for a beet salad, so common in the fall back home in Switzerland!  I would even settle for the Siberian fur coat I lived on for several months in a land where anything green is unknown ...  (if anyone is interested I do have recipe from my Great-Auunt)

Today, as I often do during the week - I get a ride to local place with acceptable steak and eggs.  As usual, I add sliced tomatoes and avocado.  And my tummy is full and happy but utterly bored with protein! :(

However, the protein approach appears to be working.  In just the passed three weewks my wound has decreased by 65%!  It may well be that I will have or be awfully close to wound closure in the next three weeks!

But, I still have to allow time for the wound scar to thicken and heal.  Then I will be able to start physical therapy again ... and casting ... and a new leg ... and learning to walk all over again!  :)

Yup, my metal detector is gfoing to be up and running by fall!

Humility

It was 1975 and I was camping with the college Bible study group on the banks of the Hoh River at La Push, Washington.  It was April and we had a three day weekend, so camping was a requirement, no matter how cold it was!  And was it ever!

On Friday night, we had discussed having a baptism time on Saturday morning.  Now, I had not been dunked since I had accepted that Jesus was real - and so was my need of Him.

It was quite the ordeal as there was ice on the ground, we were barefoot, about to be dunked into ice cold glacial water.  Yeah, not the smartest situation .... but we were being obedient.  Afterwards, we retired to the unheated bathrooms at the campground to dry off and put some warm clothing on!

I stripped down and started drying off.  But I was distracted by a guy named Leonard Savage (email me dude when you see this!) whom was kneeling at my feet and trying to clean off all of the sand and fir needles!  I was horrified!

We had quite a discussion afterwards.  I had never even heard of someone cleaning someone else's feet other than the story of Jesus washing the disciple's feet!  And I was no disciple!  We talked about doing what is necessary, being willing to do the least, to be the least to help our brother and sisters in the faith.  Hmmmmm ......

I only stumbled into footwashing one other time - at a wedding a decade ago where they washed one another's feet to show their willingness to put the other one first!  You would have thought they had sacrificed the pastor as part of the ceremony!  I have not seen a fight like that in a  church since my oldest daughter covered her head to pray in church!  EEPAH!!!!!  Cross-culture train wrecks can be fun ....

But, humility ... with one another, in public, in the church, as the basis of our marriages.  Hmmm, sure is not the message of this culture - much less of today's Church!

We can not have God's power in our lives, in our marriages, in our ministries as long was we insist on keeping the big ME at the center of our lives.  Live by God's rules, live by His power, do His work - and - it all begins with humility before Him and others.  No, I am not saying we need to start footwashing, but the heart of that intent is what we need to cultivate.

Musical Saturday Morning

From is probably the best album ever produced - Pet Sounds, is this little song by Brian Wilson and performed in this footage. 



In my college days I got to spend many hours a week with Mark Linsay, late of the Raiders, so I got to hear all of the gossip about the 60's rockers that I liked.  But he would never talk much about himself or his problems - his daughter kept me up todate on Mark and his health.  I did care.  And I was very sorry to hear what had caused Brian to disappear - same as Mark - poor choices.

And it has been great for me to see that both have found ways around their issues - they are very  talented!  But the lost years .......

Powered By

As mind is forced to relive 1967 in excruciating detail, over and over again!, I at least am finding answers to situations I have long questioned.

I have long wondered about the disparity anyone can see in the church.  Power hungry ministers, manipulative workers, questionable ministry efforts.  It made no sense!

The answer is that in God's realm of desire is that we do all by and through His empowerment via the Holy Spirit.  Unfortunately, that does not happen enough - much less within the realm of "ministry".  WE, you and I, are called to live by the power and direction of the Holy Spirit, not our wits!  And yet it can be observed over and over again - defeated Christians not understanding how everything could have gone "so wrong" and ministries that started strong and now flail to stay on "top".  We fail be cause we walk by the flesh, not by His Spirit.  And it happens so slowly, we can not perceive the change and end up shaking our heads over how wrong it all went.  And the worse - the super powerful, successful ministries that are just too good to be true ...

To the extent that we do not humble ourselves before God,  there will be no power of the Holy Spirit our lives.  God's work, done God's way, in the power of the Holy Spirit - with no hint of flesh ... is what He expects.

It does not matter your denominational leanings, the Church always seems to default to doing God's work though the power of the flesh - not the Spirit!  The BIG failing here is always EGO.  If we have the world's ( f the flesh) mentality of wanting to be first, the biggest, the best, putting on the splashiest show, etc - we are no longer qualified for Christian leadership, much less to be a Christian witness!

Let that sink in .....

And to the extent that we seek power - we are then walking in the flesh and not by the Spirit.  In fact, the Holy Spirit will not have anything to do with us.  It is only by our walking in faith and constant confession that we can hope to achieve the humility God seeks inside of us.

Drive

At my surgical review last week, I was finally cleared to drive again!  Now you have to remember that back in January I bought myself a new car - the surgeon had guaranteed my recovery was only going to be about a week after all!  And now the surgeon had to ask if I really thought I was mentally competent to drive.  Really?

But, that was four months and three surgeries ago, With a whole lot of boring in-between .....

And yesterday, I finally got to drive my car!

Well, first up I  had to take care of a flat tire courtesy of GG, then pray that car to the gas station - also compliments of GG, and clean out all of the trash she left in the car (McDonald's bags and candy wrappers!  Sigh .....

I scootered out to the car, got in with no troubles, folded up the scooter, set it in the passenger floor area and fired my baby up.   The engine came to life, the turbo quietly purring, I gently pulled on to the street.  Slowly I pulled up to the stop sign.  The house on the corner has a Dodge Charger - lots of noise at 5 a.m. every morning, I am not so sure it has more power than this little four cylinder though.  I finished my drive to my favorite breakfast spot.

It was a beautiful drive.  The turbo is a little surprising in what it does and how it kicks in.  It will definitely be a great ride on this summer's drive to see my step-mother in Colorado!  Sweet.  Of course, it is a sleeper car, no one would ever guess that this little car produces almost 300 horsepower, much less gets 34.6 miles per gallon on this ride!  Tehe brochures say it can get up to 50 mpg - if you can keep your pedal off the floor!

But, I quickly figured out that I  am not really ready to drive - certainly of no real distance.  Yeah, my mind is not really sharp enough yet for that!  :(  So I will not be able to work the car through its five gears until very much later!  And I now notice that it really does not have an over drive, thought it did, but it could be that the fifth gear is geared high enough to accomplish this.  If it had been electric select, as GG's car is, then with judicious shifting and over-drive, it becomes a ten speed and if done correctly very smooth as it continues to accelerate through its gear range.  I would definitely then want to hunt that Charger on the corner!

Ah, a boy and his car!   Time to continue dreaming about driving ...

As Useful As A Stick

So, remember that my mind is stuck in 1967, every night dreams - remembering something from that year!  As I have figured out - it is decision points which are replaying over and over again - decisions which mapped out directions I unknowingly chose which brought me to other decisions later in life (which currently I have no memory of but I imagine that I will be cursed with in many, many more dreams ...

In "Thoughts From The Little Apple" I related one time about meeting Francis Schaeffer and a very long talk we had, in 1967.  I was unchurched so his discussion was at best wasted on this very unhappy youth that day.  And I think my utter ignorance on anything he wanted discuss amazed him!  And he talked about a stick .....

Think about Moses, a normal kind of guy, nothing really special about him other than he grew up as the brother of a future Pharaoh of Egypt.  He murders a soldier for beating a Hebrew slave and runs away to hide in the wilderness.  He herds sheep, I have no doubt he was very much a broken man - that fear in the3 back of his mind he had murdered a man, a soldier, he must have been wanted.   No hope, no future because of one rash act .....

He comes upon a bush which appears to be burning and meets God.

Now shepherds use sticks or what is known as crooks to motivate sheep to do as desired., it could have been anywhere from three to six feet long.  How tall was Moses?  Maybe that tall.  And God wanted to talk to the Hebrew slaves and eventually Pharaoh.  What proof was there that God had talked to Moses?  That stick of wood .....

And called upon Moses to use that stick fo initiate each of the plagues which hit Egypt.  The parting of the Sea waters.  To produce fresh water from rock in the desert - twice.  To turn the tide of battle.  It was no longer just a stick - it was now God's stick.....

As useful as a stump, as my father would say.  As useful as a stick it would seem.  It is not the value we place upon something - it is God's use of that object which matters!  did God need to use a long dead piewce of wood to make a point to Pharaoh? Or the Hebrews?  Or a faithless Miriam?  Of course not!

It was to support Moses and his authority before Pharaoh, before the slaves, in Miriam's face.  It forced the hard of heart to do what God wanted!  But it never was the stick - it was all God displaying His power.

And so, early this morning, this memory rolling around in my mind, can I be a stick for God?  Yeah when ever my body allows a life restart ..... I desire to be used and definitely with no objections this time .....

No One Rremembered

As you read through the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) it is hard not to miss that all involved in the story of Jesus' Ministry were really forgetful!  Matthew tells of Jesus to be crucified in chapter 16, in chapter 17 the grave awaits Him, and in chapter 20 His resurrection.

Read Luke 14:1-12

The Women Forgot
Then remembered when confronted by an angel.
Note that the men were no shows at the tomb until later.

The Disciples Failed To Remember
Jesus' resurrection was an "idle tale",
"nonsense"
"madness"
They did not understand.
They werte not waiting.
They gave up.

Peter Remembered That Night Well
His own failures.
But forgot Jesus' words.
He ran to the tomb.
He searched for the body.

And few of us remember Jesus' words that we are to await our own resurrection!  Yeah our goal on this Earth is death and our own resurrection.  We live our lives for ourselves, by our own will, by our wits - and that path only leads to judgement!  Just like each of the players in the Gospel story, we also have to remember His words and keep foremost in our minds that this life is not the end, it is only the  beginning ...

House on theRocks

Matthew 7:24-27 and Luke 6:46-49

• You are the construction worker
• Take responsibilityk for your life
• Choose your foundation carefully
• Your will suffer storms
• Prepare for them
• You lay that foundation on the rock!

Everything you do
everything you surround yourself with
IS the building of your life! 

Continually build on a solid foundation!

Know there will be storms in your life, weather them!

And remember that the Rock is a person - Jesus, not principles!
 

Musical Saturday Morning

Yet another moldy oldie!  From 1965, The Animals ...

God Is In The Valley

So now final thoughts on the Book of Lamentations, so read through chapter 5.

Lamentations is written as a song but chapter 5 does not follow the rules of oriental song meter.  It is unbalanced with no closure.  Do not ask me, I am not a music person.  I like to listen but could tell you nothing about I am listening to!  So we will just go with what the experts say ...

Learn To Accept Lows
We are just fine when everything is going our way.
But God could not care less about "your" way.
He wants you to find Him in the valleys of life and lean on Him!

Ask For Help
Lift yourself, your brothers and sisters up in prayer!
Ask God to remember us in times of trouble.
See our need!
Bring us back to Himself.

We are powerless, only He can restore us!

Embrace Answers
Remember your Biblical history:
God did not meet their expectations
Not everyone has returned
The temple was not as grand
Jerusalem not restored as before

And then came the unexpected: Jesus!

Under Judgement

Yesterday, we took a minimalistic look at the book of Lamentations and how I wish I could work in stents longer than 15 minutes and actually reconquer typing!  sigh ...

Certainly there is nothing worse than ending upon the wrong side of God's wrath.  In the Bible many managed the feat of wearing out God's patience, to their doom and in the  case of Jeremiah, he found himself leaving under God's condemnation because the rulers, priests and people had become corrupt!  Yes everyone suffered under God's wrath, though Jeremiah's faithfulness saved his hide in the end!

Today it is easy see where God's patience has ended and wrath has descended upon the people, the nation, etc ....

I am German by birth, so I will pick on Germany first ...  What you say?  A prosperous, progressive country!  That is the kind of wrath to live under!  But, look and see the dead Christian Church and the paganism of the culture and youth.  No, God is not there nor blessing them.

And as a corporate entity, most nations fall under God's judgement and under his wrath to the extent of His patience at that point in time.  As believers, we struggle in churches more pagan than Christian because God is allowing us to discover Hsa lack of blessings and correct our behavior.  But we lack wisdom and finding those with discernment is mighty rare!  So, we like Jeremiah, get to struggle against the world's invasion of our faith ... well downsatream from where this began.

Read Lamentations 4

Understand he Pain
Everyone around you walks under judgement by God.
Everyone is lacking God's blessings, to varied extents.
See the problems, they abound!

Step In It
Size up what stands between you and God.
FIX it - it is that simple, but horrible to overcomje!
Pray, real prayer!

Change Your Values
Read your Bible
Learn what it is that God values
Make those your values!
Then help others to understand why those values are important!

Lamentations

I have mentioned a few times that I have been studying and meditating upon this rather depressing book of the Bible.

The prophet Jeremiah was not well liked by the rulers of the day because he continually pointed them to God and repentance ... for as the rulers go, so goes the people ...  And he wrote these five little chapters to lay out how far the Hebrews had fallen.

So, what can we say about a lamentation?  Read Lamentations 1

State The Problem
Acknowledge YOU have a problem
Confront the problem
Admit the problem
Move beyond the problem
Praise God what He will do

Be Shocked
As then, no one will listen
No one will react
No one will condemn

Hear The Stories
But not just the victors!
Use your brain and investigate what you hear!

Leg Update

Thought I would take a moment tolet you know how I am doing recovering from the three surgeries this year - pretty darn good across the past week!

Albeit, it was a hard month getting to this last week!  But the gaping wound has gone from 17.5x4.5x8 cm in size to yesterdays measurements of 6.5x1.5x2.7 cm!  Such a significant change!  Given this rate, it is possible that by the end of May the incision will be closed and I will be cast for the new socket!

Outside of intense boredom - I am healthy and healing :)

My nephew, aka babysitter,  got some weird eye virus and has been grounded from driving for three weeks now :(

But there has been much excitement:
Son moving back in
Son moving out
Repent three times for each!  sigh ...
So the house got trashed - to the point it exceeded everyones ability to keep up with it!
Daughter going
Thankfully ninja kitty going eventually!

But order eventually has ensued ....

:)

The Devil Knows

We live in a world defeated by Satan.
We attended (mostly) churches which represent culture, not God.
Our desire for God is shouted out by the overwhelming witness of corrupt ministers.

What can you do?

Read Acts 19:11 through 20

Know Who You Are

• Saved
• Your sins are covered

Live In Jesus Name
Verses 13-14  Jesus was just a name to them.
Something invoked out of superstition!
(Not so unlike most of christianity today!)

Do what you do - in Jesus name!
For and by Him alone!
Live that life for REAL - no faking it!

Take Out The Garbage
They had to burn their magic books.
End the sin in their life!

What must you do>

Repent of your sin (your rebellion against God).
Stop!
Change the direction of your life.

(Know that some situations can be a bit sticky ...)

Dinner Out

Swede came over and we had a hilarious time lampooning all things government related! :)

The levity continued when GG met up with us for a very long Mexican dinner! :)

Suddenly, there is this hand on my shoulder and some overly familiar female is all over me!  And some guy is standing behind me - I hate people standing behind me!.  I was polite as we chatted with them and eventually they moved along.  It was all so very uncomfortable...

I looked at GG and Swede and asked who the heck they were .....
Apparently long time friends from decades ago .....
And I had NO memory of them!

It confuses me so badly when I try to remember  but there is  nothing to find!  It is also mentally exhausting to try.  I slept so well that night!

I wonder so much about all things I can not even suspect.

Who am I now, who was I yesterday?  Everyone calls me Kris 3.0 now - so much better than 1.0 I am told ---- sigh.

Really I wish I could just disappear and reappear in some other place.  I could just be Kris - not a 1.0, 2.0 or even a 3.0 - just Kris, without anyone trying to reconcile who I am to whom I was.   And no more trying to explain how I live on royalties - but for what?  There is memory any longer ...
But where ever I could go really needs a Der  Wiene schnitzel!
Ahhhhhhhhh ....
:)

Musical Saturday Morning

No not directed at anyone ... just rediscovered this song and remembering the sixties and my European youth .....

You Are Expected

God Is Throwing A Party
It is to be a feast!
You are invited
Relationships are real there
People are accepting of you

Our Excuses Are Lame
False, fake, lies
They said they would come
They refused the second invite (declaration of war!)

Everyone Is Invited
Jews were forewarned
Then everyone was invited

Not Fair!

Certainly, nowhere in the Bible does it claim that God is fair.
By contrast, it claims and demonstrates that God is just and you will get what you got coming!

Matthew 20:1-16

It Is Not About Fair
How will we will treat one another in Heaven
God gives to us generously
We will  be thankful for what He Gives
It is all about GRACE

Watch Yourself
Don't worry about what others have/get/receive
Learn gratitude
No one is under paid in the parable
It is about your generousity

Come To Grace
Do it early in life
Stay to the finish

Sleep Over

Late Sunday evening, I got a call from oldest daughter to let me know that oldest grand-daughter was staging a protest.  Yes, she was demanding a sleep-over with grandpa or yhere would be NO anything from her at all!

It has been hard seeing her this year because of all of surgeries and long weeks trying to just find my nose ... Eepah!, what a year!  But I am her favorite in the family, even when she was just a new born!  No one could calm her down as fast just grandpa holding her.  It really freaked daughter out that her child was happier in my arms than hers!  It was really just that I wear wool, I like wool on my skin - and so does grand-daughter!  LOL

So now at age 9, grand-daughter insists on visiting with me at least every two weeks - and as daughter discovered - there is hell to pay if she can not!

I figured, okay, I can survive her and keep her busy with art projects.  Nice thought Kris!  Then her brother decided he had to come and youngest grandchild heard of a sleep over and now I had three to "plan" for.  Well, with one leg, the inmates were going to run this show!

We watched, "George og the Jungle", Sunday night and they loved that one! I read them Dr. Suess', "Wish for a Fish" - another winner!  I went to bed exhausted but very pleased ....

Monday morning ... well ...

Youngest grand-daughter woke deciding she was in love with grandson and so she was chasing him all over the house screaming about her desire to kiss him!  Sigh, exactly like her mother at the same age!  Grandson would have been a screaming but he has been mute for two years now.

Then she asked for paper and a pencil and started drawing - when she was complete, she showed everyone at the table her picture which had earlier had earlier looked like an open mouth but now was a confusing cross between a mouth and Salvadore Dali.  She then looked at me earnestly and said, "This is your mouth and all of the dead things inside of it!"

"Huh?"

"It certainly smells alike someone, or maybe many, have died in you mouth!"

How does one reply when you had just brushed you teeth?  Sigh ......

Breakfast was a bust as some put all of my hash browns in the freezer to make room for cupcakes in the refrigerators.  So, pull the hash browns out to defrost and make Cup Noodles for them.  We did get the hash browns but for  a late lunch - and a real hit for them, as they were for my sister and I when we were young :)

(well time to shorten this as this has taken me almost two hours to type this far and am quite exhausted!  time to close)

In all it went very well, much more humor but I just have nothing left at this point ...

Sigh

As if life has not sucked enough as of late:
First daughter moved back out
Son then moved back in
His ex is now visiting daily
Fell off my scooter and whopped the stump!
I had a minor heart attack
And Gaellic Girl had to blow up
Well actually threw a world class temper tantrum
Of course she dropped a Dr Pepper of all things!
I can't even walk but it is ALL my fault!

Fighting yet another infection in the wound
Broke a crown
Did I mention biting a chunk of tongue off and the blood blister ruptured
Living on codeine 
sigh

What a life!

On the positive side:
Daughter's cat is finally gone
no real damage due to fall, just pain
The wound continues to heal
A theft at an antique show years ago was resolved
Very happy to have almost all items returned

Well back to building my Goodwill pick pile

Musical Saturday Morning

Yes, it is a first Sunday and historically I have posted 1980's videos but I no longer can remember what I have posted in the past.

So, to go with the theme of the past month for me - a song from 1967.
Hope you like it.