Quite the contrast to yesterday’s dismal gloom. Sunny days like this are to be treasured and maximized for whatever. A nice day to be, play, and work outside.
When talking about beauty, beautiful days are pretty valuable and to be savoured like any other natural beauty.
used by Steve Schmidt at the end of a long catalogue of negative characteristics to describe Trump. Quote of the day.
Uh, Quaker, what took you so long to figure it out?
Indigenous people in Canada make up 4.9 % of the total population.
Black people make up 3.5 % of the total population.
In the States, blacks make up 13% of the total U.S. population.
I suspect that many people these days would have assumed those numbers to be much higher, which maybe points to the influence and effects of media news.
The best of this remarkable, edgy, poetic American playwright in a nice slipcased dual dust-jacket volume set. (The only other playwright’s body of work that could compete with Williams’s was Arthur Miller).
Includes–
The Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Named Desire
Summer and Smoke
The Rose Tattoo
Camino Real
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Orpheus Descending
Suddenly Last Summer
Sweet Bird of Youth
The Night of the Iguana
The Eccentricities of a Nightingale
The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore
Small Craft Warnings
Out Cry
and many other plays. Williams’s understandings of essential male-female relationships run very deep. Highly recommended.
The glorious soap, that changed television based on John Galsworthy’s books, which was released then world-wide and became a viewing sensation for both men and women.
The 26 1-hr. episodes (1,300 minutes) were released on 7 b & w discs (came out just before color took over the airwaves) with over 2 hrs. of bonus features. A cast of 150 actors, 2000 separate costumes, and 100 sets. Starring Kenneth More (of A Night to Remember and Sink the Bismark), Eric Porter (who later played a sinister Moriarty in Brett’s Holmes series), Nyree Dawn Porter, Susan Hampshire (of The Pallisers series), and Nicholas Pennell (who became a Canadian Stratford Festival favorite).
The opening episodes, in particular, are engrossing with a number of love triangles and the famous conflict between Irene and Soames. Classic BBC tv with quality acting. Highly recommended.
An asteroid the size of a football field which could have caused a nuclear explosion on contact with our planet whizzed by us in early June, completely unnoticed till afterward by the planet’s astronomers and scientists. Kind of gives you no confidence in experts all over again.
Long overdue, methinks. One of these days….
which I’ve mentioned before here several times is the inability to make distinctions.
The calls to defund police are assumed by many protesters to = doing away with police depts. altogether.
Black Lives Matter aside, we’d have complete chaos if we totally shut down the only institution we can and do turn to when crimes are being committed and our lives are in danger. No, we need police to protect the public and our communities, period. They are irreplaceable. Doh, common sense.
Likewise, if a crime takes place that we personally don’t like, burning down the nearby restaurant makes no sense at all and doesn’t bring the dead man back to life. Wendy’s did not kill the black guy fleeing the police. It was busy serving fast food.
It is this failure to make distinctions and to see nuances that is both ignorant and dangerous. Agendas of any protesters that are unnecessarily and gratuitously destructive to others or that don’t treat innocent parties equally or respectfully are not excusable or morally superior. Fact.
Shades of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. (“Yesterday the bird of night did sit./Even at noon-day upon the marketplace,/Hooting and shrieking.”
I knew something was up when, on the Sat. morning walk, we saw two baby squirrels being chased by magpies in a tree and they wouldn’t leave off even when clapped at.
Followed by the severe thunderstorms that rolled through town around midnight minus all the damage that Calgary and points south got.
Just before 6 this morning, I was awakened by a cacophony of crowds and magpies shrieking outside in kill-mode.
A little hard to ignore, to say the least, but I do have a problem with murder, killing, violence, and other forms of ganging up.
So I shuffled out onto the patio to clap them away, facilitating an end to complete mayhem and Nature red in tooth and claw outside.
No question that Nature was at its unnatural best this past 24 hours in these parts.
