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  Jenny Boyd A song has being playing on my mental jukebox in recent days. I bought it as a single back in 1968. At the risk of transferring this earworm to your head I am nevertheless going to share "Jennifer Juniper" with you. Many visitors to "Yorkshire Pudding" will instantly recall that it was a minor hit for Donovan who I have blogged about before . The song seems to convey some of the innocent, other worldliness of many songs of the hippy era and Donovan was often seen as the British  herald of that movement. It is said that "Jennifer Juniper" was inspired by Jenny Boyd, the sister of Patti Boyd who had loving relationships with both George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Jenny herself was once married to Mick Fleetwood  but she never had an intimate relationship with Donovan. Here's Donovan performing the song on an American television show in 1968. It seems like ancient history now. Below the video, I have helpfully added the lyrics so that yo...

 Happy Monday. It’s a good day because I’m alive, and grateful for all your love on my previous post. Somebody asked in the previous post that they’d need to know my medical history to understand why I wrote what I did. Let me tell you, if I understood it myself, maybe I’d share. The fact is, I don’t.  My doctors don’t. Right now, I don’t know how or why what happened happened if that makes sense. I can’t worry about the why right now. All I can focus on is repairing the damage. I’m under no illusion that I can recover it all. I’m just on a journey to rebuild what can be rebuilt. There is no toxic positivity here. I just have to remain hopeful. If my mind goes, so goes the body. And that is something that I’m in position to lose.  I’m learning daily that my mind needs to be fed the same or better than my physical body right now.  I’m having to be boring. No travel for awhile. My body needs to be strengthened to a certain degree before everyone is comfortable with me...