Ronnie, Johnny and Jerry

I was channel surfing yesterday, when this part of a song lyric popped into my head:

Imagine no possessions

I wonder if you can

The poetic flashback was inspired by the channel I stopped on for a moment.

No need for greed or hunger

A brotherhood of man

It was the QVC channel. And what was the inspirational product that gave me pause?

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world

The John Lennon Jewelry Collection. The John Freakin’ Lennon JEWELRY collection!!!!! How does the estate of the late groovy millionaire who asked us to imagine no possessions allow this TV mall to entice us to possess items in the one category of belongings a possessionless person would probably never own?

From the mindset that brings us Jerry Garcia ties? Neckwear from the late millionaire singer who never owned a tie.

From the same mindset that named an airport in the Nation’s Capital for the President who fired the air traffic controllers?

All Baby Boomers, no doubt. What has happened to us?

By the way, although John Lennon was an instrument of change during the 60s, he was born 6 years before the boom began. Jerry Garcia was performing in the middle of it all, but was born 4 years before the boom. Ron Reagan was born 7 years, 51 days after the first successful powered, manned flight. But Ron, Junior is a boomer, born in 1958; dropped out of Yale, became a ballet dancer, political commentator and frequent host of dog shows on Animal Planet.

You may say Im a dreamer,

but Im not the only one,

I hope some day you'll join us,

And the world will live as one