For nostalgia Tuesday, I'm going back 15 years to 7October2020.  Why?  Mostly because I woke up this morning and watched Debby Boone singing   You Light Up My Life ,   which ranked   #92 in my Top 100 list.   More specifically, because on the screen was something about her mother-in-law Rosemary Clooney.  I did not not know they were related.  That photo to the left is of Debby with her husband Gabriel Ferrrer and Rosemary. About 7October2010, from  Wikipedia : A lot of deaths in the Middle East. Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel Prize in Literature. A lost Vivaldi flute concerto,  Il Gran Mogol , is  found in Edinburgh.    The other three pieces of the quartet remain lost. Written in the late 1720s or early 1730s. How did it get to Scotland? Listen to  Il Gran Mogol . I love Baroque music, a genre created between 1600 and 1750 in Europe.  Prominent composers include Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, ...

About the matter of speaking to God, the Pew Research Center reports that  75% of Americans talk to God , and a little more than a third said God talks back.  From 1995,  Neale Donald Walsch  began to write a series of books called  Conversations with God ?   Struck a nerve. Book 1 became a publishing sensation, staying on The  New York Times  Best Sellers list for 137 weeks. He purported to actually speak to God, and his readers believed him. Recorded three thousand pages of material in nine books. So for my more modern Artificial Intelligence look at religion, where better then to search for AI spiritual chats by asking  Google AI Overview : Apps like   Bible Chat, Chat with God AI, and Text With Jesus   offer AI-powered chatbots for conversing with biblical figures or accessing scripture-based answers to spiritual questions.   These apps provide a platform for users to find comfort, guidance, and inspiration, though they are...

Is it possible that Donald Trump could have crossed the line into actual derangement?  The pressure has been horrendous, and the thought of prison must be terrorizing.  Don't know if there is a medically scientific term for mental derangement, but maybe something all-inclusive like psychiatric disorder might be it. Well, the  USA Women's Soccer team is out of the World Cup .  They lost to Sweden.   England  would now be the favorite, followed by Spain, but maybe now even Japan, which is in a down period compared to their past, could well slip into #3 position.  Japan vs Sweden on Thursday could well provide an answer. Have you been following the Bud Light boycott? Bud Light is the top beer brand in the U.S. Well, earlier this year, Anheuser-Busch decided to address some declining sales and attract a younger group. During March Madness, Tik Tok personality Dylan Mulvaney was selected to increase sales. She  played Audrey Hepburn  in ...