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Gorilla my dreams…

The New American Digest Posted on July 23, 2026 by JeanJuly 18, 2026

first published by Jean Nov 29, 2008 on her web site "Pondering"

I love this photo... it says .......Pondering....... all over it.
Photographer is Ralph Rankin.
Met him at the art festival last weekend.
He also does some wonderful work in pottery.

Maybe we should have a caption contest? Huh? Yeah?
Leave your ideas in the comments. Somehow we or I will pick a winner. I'll even give a prize to the winner.
Let's do it!

UPDATE: Get all your captions in by 10 pm Tuesday. I'll figure out some voting thing so a winner can be picked.

NOTE: This post is close to 20 years old. I'll let Jean comment; it's her post.

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Gerard Van der Leun
12/26/45 - 1/27/23


Gerard's Last Post
(posthumous): Feb 4, 2023
"So Long. See You All a Little Further Down the Road"

When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?
Or tropical rain?
Or snow from the heavens?
Will I join with the ocean blue?
Or run into a savior true?
And shake hands laughing
And walk through the night, straight to the light
Holding the love I’ve known in my life
And no hard feelings

Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings

The following was posted along with the announcement of Gerard's passing.
Leonard Cohen - Going Home

For a 2005 interview with Gerard


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  1. Joe on Gorilla my dreams…July 23, 2026

    It is my opinion that this photo captures the essence of exasperation that most of us have, some of us…

  2. jean on How To Buy A New PickupJuly 23, 2026

    What?? You, as you are aware, are a crazy man.

  3. DT on How To Buy A New PickupJuly 23, 2026

    If that question's for me, I bought the replacement outright on the spot.

  4. DT on How To Buy A New PickupJuly 23, 2026

    Not the worst road I've been on.

  5. jean on Gorilla my dreams…July 23, 2026

    The comments from back then (waaaaaaay back then) were pretty amusing. I have some leftover product from my store if…


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Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
I'm not sleepy
and there ain't no place I'm goin' to

Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man,
play a song for me
In the jingle jangle morning,
I'll come followin' you

Take me for a trip upon
your magic swirling ship
All my senses have been stripped
And my hands can't feel to grip
And my toes too numb to step
Wait only for my boot heels to be wanderin'

I'm ready to go anywhere,
I'm ready for to fade
Unto my own parade
Cast your dancing spell my way
I promise to go under it


Men who saw night coming down about them could somehow act as if they stood at the edge of dawn.


From Gerard's site. The picture always caught my eye.

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