The desperate, frantic, endless quest for "fame" today. How many "likes." Please give it a "thumbs up." A bit pathetic.

I'll never forget an interview I read in the NEW YORK POST all those years ago when Ray Charles was beginning to become well-known. The interviewer asked, "Did you always want to be famous Ray?"

Ray Charles was taken aback, bemused: "I never wanted to be famous, man, I wanted to be GREAT."

DROWN IN MY OWN TEARS
(Please click link directly above to listen to the song).

Richard Koenigsberg