70th birthday at the Dock

Opus Vida – An Individual Life


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These wars and operations carried on over the course of four presidencies, leading to incredible death tolls around the world, a generation of wounded and traumatized soldiers, geopolitical instability, a massive loss of global trust in the United States, and a hemorrhaging of resources. In the past, such imperialism might have filled the coffers of the aggressor nation, but now the state was enriching private interests instead of creating a modern healthcare system, providing necessary updates to infrastructure, housing citizens, and fully funding the educational system, America transferred its wealth to the military industrial complex, including the new architects of its digital necessities, and a handful of bilionaires – our own oligarchs. 2023  

Welcome to My Life – 71 Years and Counting

An individual is born, lives a life accumulating things, ideas, experiences, and then dies. Where go the artefacts generated through that life? Family is first on the scene, going through the remains, but family have only so much space so the pickings are small. The individual's life is forgotten except for photos kept and reminiscences among themselves. How many generations of photos are kept? How many stories remain? The experiences and ideas. Who gets my stuff when I'm gone? Who really cares? My guitars, songs, writings, stories, essays, drawings – the stuff of my life – furniture I've made, wood that I've worked, things fabricated.

We chronicle the lives of "important" figures throughout history. Very few of us warrant a gander: the hopes, loves, dreams, ideas of the rest of us. What's your story? What's your song? What have you done? We can be Tom Hanks when he made fire in "Castaway" - "look what I have done!" Lest we forget ourselves, let us say "look what we have done!

– Thom and Willy