This is one of those Mondays when I couldn't figure out what to say.  Some of you went to work, and found out you had this President's Day off.  Sure,  President Joe Biden made an unprecedented visit to Kyiv , and that was noteworthy.  Our 98-year former president,  Jimmy Carter , is resting reasonably well. What else?  The weather is fine in much of the world, especially the USA.  This is also  World Day of Social Justice , and  Carnival Monday .  Think Mardi Gras.   13 years ago I walked out of my hotel into downtown Munich and experienced an incredible celebration, called  Fasching , which in most of southwest Germany is a kind of a one-day Mardi Gras celebrated today.  People are walking around drinking from full bottles of wine, and many are gaudily dressed.  Everything is tolerated by officials.  I also had one of my  Best Lunches  that day. In the U.S. this is  National Cherry Pie Day .  Also,  National Love Your Pet Day .  Owners are encouraged to pamper them.  And ho

It was 1958 and popular that year was   To Know Him Is to Love Him , by the Teddy Bears.  I bring this subject on this Sunday because my freshman college roommate said:  This is all about God. While that option was only a remote possibility to me at that time, I re-thought this potential when I woke up to view on Music Choice this song.  So what are the alternatives? Your father. A pet. God. A dog. Someone you like. So I went to  Wikipedia , and saw that the song was written by Phil Spector... THE infamous Phil Spector   ( left, also bottom left in above photo and playing guitar in the You Tube song ), who I'll delve into a bit later.  He said the words were on his father's tombstone:   To have known him was to have loved him .  Well, I guess that answers the question.  Then again, maybe not.   Spector further said that, for the music, he slowed-down the 1926  When the Red, Red Robin (Comes Bob, Bobbin' Along) , first made popular by Al Jolson.  Written that year by Harry W