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After finishing breakfast, PG made a pot of coffee and went to look at the battery. Prying the cover off with a screwdriver, he saw that there was almost no water inside. He went to the toolshed to get the distilled water, and saw the sun rising over the trees in the backyard. He put what seemed like three cups of water in the battery, and tried to start the car. The car did not start, but did make more noise than it did last night. PG pulled the battery off the car and hooked it up to the charger.
Back to the dialog about war and peace. The only Tolstoy PG had read was a short story about a man called Ivan Ilyitch. It was so long ago that about all he remembers is that he read it. Still, war and peace are two constants of man’s existence. There had been a feature about this in The Aquarian Drunkard. AD is a blog written by a former Dunwoody resident who now exists in LA. The feature focused on Pete Seeger, and the song “Turn, Turn, Turn”.
TTT is taken almost verbatim from the book of Ecclesiastes. The only change that Mr. Seeger made, when he adapted the poem, was in the last line. “There is a time for peace, I swear its not too late”. TTT is about the dualities of life, and how there is a place for all these things. When PG was collecting rocks three years ago, he kept thinking “ there is a time to gather stones together”.
Wikipedia notes that the adaptation was made “in the fifties”, which was both a time of war…both hot and cold… and a time of peace. It became a hit for the Byrds in the fall of 1965, as the escalation of the Vietnam war was in full bloom.

Pete Seeger is still alive, at the age of 89. PG first heard of him when he was on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. It was during Vietnam, and Mr. Seeger did a song…”Waist deep in the big muddy”… about how “The big fool said to push on, push on”. The CBS censors did not allow this the first time he was on, but eventually he did perform it. Many thought he was talking about Lyndon Johnson.
Two more items about Mr. Seeger, and it is time to push on. He used the stage name “Pete Bowers” as a young man to avoid making trouble for his father. And a band he played in, the Weavers, popularized a gullah spiritual, “Kumbaya”.We are the flow, we are the ebb. We are the weaver, we are the web.
PG checked the fishwrapper to see when the Georgia Florida game began. While he was there, he looked in on his other alma mater, Cross Keys High School. CK is riding a 28 game losing streak. Halloween night, they lost to Greater Atlanta Christian 66-7.
Spell check suggestions for this feature:
Ilyitch- Bitchily, glitch, twitchy
Seeger- Seeder, seeker
Byrds- birds, bards
Kumbaya- lumbago, lumbar