A Profound Mystery is not a song.  Tried You Tube and found one video on the subject .  However, not worth your while to click on it.  No dictionary even defines Profound Myster y, but that is because it only does this for an individual word.  Appropriately enough, as this is Sunday, most of the reference to this term comes from religious sources. God is a Profound Mystery.  So is the Big Bang.  Experts dally around the term, but no one can pin down the reality or unreality. Similarly, I don't know why my favorite song is  Wakare No Isochidori .    It is distinctly possible that of the 7.6 billion people living on Planet Earth, I am the only person who has it as #1.  WNI is the only song that was written and first popular in Hawaii, then gained some fame in Japan.  When?  Not sure, but probably in the 1930's.   Here is a quote from a posting of a decade ago , when I traveled from Sapporo to Wakkanai, the northern most city on Japan: I was listening to some Japanese music on m

Total COVID-19 deaths : World:  1,627,626 Europe:  461,548 South America:  341,129 Asia ( including India and Middle East ):  313,636 USA:  308,091 Africa:  56,740 China:  4,634 Oceania:  1,039 Diamond Princess:  13 Grand Princess:  7 Taiwan:  7 At first glance, you might wonder, how could I possibly link a pigeon with truffles.  As those who regularly read this blog site know, there is a Blue-bar pigeon that follows me around the world.  Of course this is because there are so many of these world-wide.  You almost can't not see one whenever there is a large flock.  The pigeon is so common, that they are wherever we are.  As an aside, a particularly amazing bird is the Arctic Tern , for it annually flies 25,000 miles, the circumference of Planet Earth.  They also have a life expectancy of 30 years.  Thus, in the average lifetime, the Arctic Tern equivalently travels to the Moon, back to Earth and return to the Moon.  What a life. But back to my Blue-bar Pigeon, the first one intera