What else might you find in your inbox from CS après Easter Sunday circa 2022 other than a colorful blast from the past from our peeps of Jefferson Airplane - heartily stuffed full of ideas and insight solely for the benefit of your golf, but of course?

What with the large portions of metabunk in every nook & cranny of our blue-lit screen lives.

I mean, just who and what to believe, especially when it's 'free (what is the perceived value of free, after all?)'? Some bloke's interpretation, opinion or preference, or science/physics based truths?

Fact, or fiction? 

Like the album and song in today's title: psychedelic-laced tune(s) from singer and writer Grace Slick, or strong words protesting the Vietnam War?

I'll let you decide (check the links above) - just as you'll be able to choose if you're open to helping some kids in need (further south screenwise), with a contribution to my upcoming actions on April 25.  

But first, you know this routine, boys & girls: click on the image above and take in a wondrous live performance from a 1967 (the Easter Bunny was hoppin'!) Smother's Brothers Comedy Hour telecast.  Then groove on back thissa way for how its lyrics, history and meaning may guide you down a more prosperous path (and out of rabbit holes - white, black or other) upon the links, and elsewhere...


White Rabbit




A Slick foursome to consider: 

  "Slick based the lyrics and drew imagery from Lewis Carroll's 1865 children's' book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  

 "Grace Slick was raised in a tony suburban household in Palo Alto, California, about 30 miles south of San Francisco. This being the 1950's, women were expected to conform to the norms and aspire to be housewives. Slick identified with Alice; moving to San Francisco and forming a rock band was her "rabbit hole" moment. When she joined Jefferson Airplane, that was another journey down the rabbit hole."

?  Is this what meaningful golf guidance has come to in this day and age?  Somebody drop some LSD into the greedy pockets of those referenced above, and into your coo-laid? Rabbit holes of no escape, indeed. 

Luckily there are those who still care about you as a golfer.  I consider myself one such character, and have others in my Rolodex if you'd care to see the light sometime soon (see below). 

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Just like you know how destructive the influences of media are - yet you continue to consume.  Chasing, falling - rinse and repeat.  Addiction at its finest. 

Patterns, amigos - much like in our golf swings and mindsets.  Are they serving, or torturing, you? Oh, you thought it was just a matter of taking the right Instasmack pill?  How's that working? 

As far as showing up - does your golf guide observe (you moving and sharing thoughts/feels - not just the data on a screen), listen to and interpret what it is you express during a learning encounter? Preaching and making you feel oh-so small - or acknowledging and cultivating to make you feel 10 feet tall when you arrive at the 1st tee? 

And, what rarely if ever shows up in a competitive round of golf for you, that is omnipresent on the practice grounds?  What gives?  Did you not get the memo about relevant practice that lasts and transfers to the playing grounds?  Train2Trust - or don't train at all. 


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According to Slick, there were always people who misinterpreted this song, despite her best efforts to get the lyrics across. In the book Anatomy of a Song, published in 2016, she said: 'I always felt like a good-looking schoolteacher singing White Rabbit. I'd sing the words slowly and precisely, so the people who needed to hear them wouldn't miss the point. But they did. To this day, I don't think most people realize the song was aimed at parents who drank and told their kids not to do drugs. I felt they were full of s--t, but to write a good song, you need a few more words than that.'"

Is what you feel in your golf swing really happening..?? How do you know?  Feedback (of the competent genre por favor, not your well-meaning playing partners) people, feedback! Expert eyes, experience/cause & effect knowledge, and video are reliable sources.

Wow, misinterpretations in the house. White Knights disguised as instructors talking backwards?  Or perhaps, you're just another chess piece of a golfer and golf swing, being fed a method, and told where to go like all the others?  

Pity - has logic and proportion fallen sloppy dead on the fact that you are a case study of 1? 'Cause you are. 


The Pillow

Certainly not the goal last I checked when a player arrives upon a learning environment looking for help, but far too often the reality.

Keep in mind: we all live in our own little dream worlds.  A world to be recognized, respected and acknowledged, rather than dismissed if it differs from our own.  Your oft-misbehaving golf ball doesn't care about dream worlds - only the physics being created at the moment of impact. 


Go Ask Alice



Or any of the kids who I will be helping Monday next with a sun-up to sun-down day of strolls and jogs upon my old stomping grounds at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club.

I'll play 143 holes on foot on April 25 to help raise funds for the Children's Cancer Association.  Care to help?  Click on the young lady above.

Now about asking Alice... perhaps you thought I was kidding?  Or the sheer power of music to heal?

Alice V. is an 18-year-old, diagnosed with cancer a few months ago in Portland as an exchange student. Before she was able to return home to Italy for treatment, Alice found comfort in listening to her favorite songs with her new friend, JoyRx specialist Kelsey. 

“Music is just my life…I can’t imagine living without it. Music has the power to make me happy or sad, just by listening to a song. I always need to listen to music during my treatments. These are songs that I like to listen to when I want to be happy and feel relaxed.” —Alice 

  


"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then"

     -- Alice of Wonderland