"Look at the stars- it won't fix the
economy. It won't stop wars. It won't
give you flat abs, or better sex or even
help you figure out your relationship
and what you want to do with your
life. But it's important. It help you remember that you and your problems
are both infinitesimally small and
conversely, that you are a piece of an
amazing and vast universe."
I bought a pin like this for my cousin Pati and she bought one for me just like it.
This retail store for novelties together with a related mail order business was operated by John Geiger and his brother Dudley.
Propinquity: " It refers to the physical or psychological proximity between people."
"The most wasted of all days is
one without laughter." e.e. cummings
Wake
up
in
anticipation
somethsing
great
is
going
to
happen
today.
"So often in life things that you regard as an impediment,
turn out to be "Great Good Fortune" Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Well I'm all ready to go to the Long Beach Airport soon. Tomorrow is Sofia's 1st grade class play. They are performing the "3 Little Pigs". She told me she is "the smart pig". Ha ha ha. She is so excited I will be there but not more excited than me. (is it "I or me?") Well you know who is more excited! Thursday is Grandparents day at her school so I will be there. I really don't think a plane is necessary. I'm flying pretty high right now on my own. My phone battery died last night. I'm taking a spare phone and will try to get a new battery in Dallas. Next check in will be from the Lone Star State. Bye y'all!
"At the bridge I stood
lately in the brown night.
From afar came a song:
as a golden drop it welled
over the quivering surface.
Gondolas, lights, and music-
drunken it swam out into the twilight.
My soul, a stringed instrument
song to itself, invisibly touched,
a secret gondola song,
quivering with iridescent happiness.
Did anyone listen to it? "- Friedrich Nietzsche, Venice
We visited my moms 105 year old BFF Helen whom I’ve spoken of many times. Her daughter asked us to come for lunch yesterday. Helen is doing well but is no longer ambulatory. She has such a sweet disposition and really enjoyed the carrot cake my sister Jocelyn made. We sat and talked with her about old times and though hard of hearing she has such a good memory for many things and a funny sense of humor. She makes us all laugh. We feel incredibly lucky to be able to visit with her again.
My grandson Rocco turned 19 months yesterday. A lot of changes in one year. I am busy packing now to fly out to see Rocco and Sofia on monday. Trying to keep my feet on the ground. Feel like I'm floating on a cloud and giddy with anticipation. I've only seen him once in person when he was 6 months old.
Our book club selection was "Hamnet" by Maggie O'Farrell.
Since we could not meet formally as planned today we decided to have a small gathering of book club members in the park today who could meet up to celebrate "Shakespeare's" birthday (it's April 23rd).
There was prosecco and cupcakes and we royally toasted "Will".
Sherri gifted us all with essential Rosemary oil made from her garden herb.
A lovely afternoon together.
Whether he was writing comedies, histories, tragedies, or sonnets, William Shakespeare almost always touched upon the theme of love. Across his complete works — including 39 plays and 154 sonnets — the word “love” appears 2,191 times. Sometimes, of course, his characters expressed doubts about love. Take Beatrice, for example, in Much Ado About Nothing, who quipped, “I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
Unlike many of his contemporaries, Shakespeare commented on all aspects of love: unrequited, compassionate, lustful, and everything in between. He saw all the nuances — all the joy and tragedy — that love could provoke. He also made a distinction between the courtly love of the nobles and the uninhibited sexual love of the common people, but for Shakespeare, neither was any more true or valuable than the other.
Shakespeare’s most famous star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet, became an archetype for young love, even though their tale ended in tragedy. Their love was immature at first, but grew into something more profound. Happier endings are found in the playwright’s comedies, perhaps most notably in the witty romance between Benedick and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing.
Through his many plays and sonnets — comedic, tragic, or otherwise — Shakespeare left us with a wealth of quotes about love. Here are some of the most profound and passionate lines from the pen of history’s most celebrated bard.
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is wing’d Cupid painted blind.
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The course of true love never did run smooth.
— A Midsummer Night’s Dream
I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say “I love you.”
— Henry V
Speak low if you speak love.
— Much Ado About Nothing
I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.
— Much Ado About Nothing
See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek.
— Romeo and Juliet
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
— Romeo and Juliet
Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, Did my heart fly at your service.
— The Tempest
If music be the food of love, play on.
— Twelfth Night
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
— Twelfth Night
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate
— Sonnet 18
No sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.
— As You Like It
Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
— Hamlet
Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken.
— Sonnet 116
And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony.
— Love's Labour's Lost
So are you to my thoughts as food to life, Or as sweet-seasoned showers are to the ground.
— Sonnet 75
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
— Venus and Adonis
I love you more than words can wield the matter; Dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty; Beyond what can be valued, rich or rare; No less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honour.
— King Lear
"I want to remember that no one
is going to make my dreams
come true for me...it is my job
to get up every day and work
toward the things that are deepest
in my heart...and to enjoy
every step of the journey rather
than wishing I was already
where I want to end up.
"It is the hard days- the
days that challenge you
to your very core--that
will determine who you are.
You will be defined
not just by what you
achieve, but by
how you survive." -Sheryl Sandberg
Auntie Rae at the Jingu family gardens, San Antotio Texas
"Rhythm, symmetry and a happy combination of elegance and utility- a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle -these have been fully attained and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness." -Marie Luise Gothein
We had a nice day today. We ate our traditional brunch of bagels lox cream cheese and chile relleno casserole.
After brunch we hiked at a new place for us in Seal Beach, Gum Grove Park.
We facetimed with the kids and watched them open up Easter treats. Dinner was baked ham and scalloped potatoes. Our wonderful neighbor Darlene brought us two delicious desserts. One was a strawberry treat and the other was some of the tres leches cake her son in law Tony made. So yummy.
