BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, OCT. 1, 2015) — Today THE PLANET begins our sixth year. This is column 1,300. What started out as a simple writing exercise (our equivalent of a daily workout) has blossomed in a way we did not plan, could not anticipate, and would not try to replicate.

Today is a day for brevity and whimsy. Speaking of the second, we present our lawn sign:

How can you not like such honesty and integrity?

… To It’s Fullest

Here is THE PLANET, representing Europolis Management, backstage with rocker Chris Montez.

Whether taking care of business for Europolis Management in West Springfield or punching up a screenplay in California, whether teaching a class at the college or writing PLANET VALENTI at The Fortress, we try to do everything with total engagement. It’s been our “practice,” since we can remember. Are you washing the dishes? Do it fully. Weeding the garden? Learn a little more than what you knew. Each moment is an opportunity to be alive in every aspect of the experience. Life, as the poet once wrote, is “a bitter aspic,” but it is all we have. The idea is to “have” it fully, with “good” and “bad” running as they will in the now.

In the case of our postings here, we offer a public service that seeks to share information and commentary that will help dispel in some small way the political, social, and cultural miasma that has been become a once-lovely city’s default position.

You will have us with you for a little while more, and when we go, you will not follow. Now is the time. Stay there, stay free, and never take “the high and holy house for your pawn or treasury.”

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Feel free to send us on this anniversary whatever congratulations you want, whatever criticisms you find in an abandoned spot.

THE PLANET shall be back tomorrow with The Weekend Edition. Be sure to check us out tonight, on the tube, for PLANET VALENTI TELEVISION. It beings at 7 p.m. on channel 16. As we end every column, we love you all.

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“They’ve given you a number, and taken ‘way your name.” — Johnny Rivers, “Secret Agent Man,” (1965).

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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