Thousand Roads

Tim Russert

Tim Russert, NBC News’ Washington bureau chief and the moderator of “Meet the Press,” died Friday after suffering a heart attack at the bureau. He was 58. I really enjoyed watching him on "Meet the Press" and the many interviews he conducted with celebrities to politicians.  He made politics interesting for me. I was especially touched by his book "Big Russ and Me"

Good-bye

The best exercise for the human heart is reaching down and picking someone else up.
-Tim Russert from the book "Big Russ and Me"   

HB

Events in 1965

• Australia Joins Vietnam War
  
  
• Hindi becomes the official language of India.
  
  
• Racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500, and later wins the Formula One world driving championship in the same year.
  
  
• The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak: An estimated fifty-one tornadoes (forty-seven confirmed) hit in six Midwestern states killing anywhere from 256 to 271 people and injuring some 1,500 more.
  
  
• The Maple leaf becomes Canada’s new national flag symbol
  
  
• Rhodesia Declares Unilateral Independence From Great Britain and becomes Zimbabwe
  
  
• India and Pakistan Fighting continues to escalate
  
  
• Malcolm X shot in New York
  
  
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads civil rights march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery
  
  
• Britain brings in a new Race Relations Act hoping to stop some of the unrest in inner cities
  
  
• Cigarette advertising banned on Television in Britain
  


• In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic steel Gateway Arch is completed ( The St Louis Arch )
  
  
• Several U.S. states (VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY and portions of NJ) and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 1/2 hours. 30 million people 
  
  

Cost of Living in 1965

Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.59%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 5.0%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 969
Average Cost of new house $13,600.00
Average Income per year $6,450.00
Gas per Gallon 31 cents
Average Cost of a new car $2,650.00
Loaf of bread 21 cents
Average Rent per month $118,00

How did you create your username for VOX? What influenced your decision?
Submitted by Strive2Be.

Wingtipzz...Well, to tell the truth. I have always loved men in dress shoes. The old saying "you can tell a lot about a person by what shoes they wear" seems to ring true. These aren't wingtips in the picture below...but you get the ides.

Allen Edmonds - Captoes

Now my blog is called 1000 Roads....The name was inspired by my favorite music artist David Crosby from his CD "Thousand Roads". He inspires me because of how he overcame his addictions (very close to my experience).

David Crosby - Thousand Roads

One thing I really like about working at the Post Office is that I can listen to my iPod and rediscover all this great music I have (a library of over 16000 songs. I rediscovered this Indigo Girls song last night and I guess it is the way I have been feeling lately..or maybe what I am hopeful (ready) for in the future. The song is called "Power of Two"

When Nietzsche Wept (2007)

I watched a great film last night entitled "When Nietzsche Wept". It is a fictional story of Frederick Nietzsche (well, who did you think??? Susan Nietzsche...Jeff Nietzsche...what???). the film is based on the book by Irvin D. Yalom.

Below is part of a synopsis from Amazon.com written by Grady Harp of Los Angeles, CA.

1872 is the time and two men are haunted by demons, and the 'demons' happen to be failed love affairs with famous women. Dr. Josef Breuer (Ben Cross) is a famous physician but is obsessed with an hysterical young woman Bertha (Michal Yannai). Another beautiful lady enters Breuer's world in the form of Lou Salome (Katheryn Winnick) who has had a brief affair with the philosopher Nietzsche (Arman Assante) and feels he needs Breuer's help with his 'Talk Therapy'. The two men meet, share fears, and agree to a mutually beneficial relationship: Breuer will help Nietzsche with his migraines (due to his obsession with Lou Salome) and Nietzsche will share his philosophical approach to the world to help Breuer with is recurring nightmares. The resulting experience is an introduction to psychoanalysis as a treatment, a treatment that fascinates the young Freud (Jamie Elman).

The interesting realization Nietzsche came to about himself was that his depression stemmed from the need (or desire) to be loved, whether it's source was a true friendship or sexual in nature. The one time that he did open himself up and "trusted" he was burned and so he began to isolate himself from everyone.

This story reminded me of a picture I posted awhile back from National Geographic that spoke to the irony of all this technology that is supposed to be bringing us together. Enough said. The picture below really says it all.

Connection