Saturday, November 7, 2015
Someday you'll understand...........
Creedence Clearwater Revival.................Someday Never Comes
First thing I remember was asking papa, why,
For there were many things I didn't know.
And daddy always smiled and took me by the hand,
Saying, someday you'll understand.
[Chorus]
Well, I'm here to tell you now, each and every mother's son,
That you better learn it fast, you better learn it young,
'Cause someday never comes.
Well, time and tears went by and I collected dust.
For there were many things I didn't know.
When daddy went away, he said, try to be a man,
And someday you'll understand.
Well, I'm here to tell you now, each and every mother's son,
That you better learn it fast, you better learn it young,
'Cause someday never comes.
And then one day in April, I wasn't even there,
For there were many things I didn't know.
A son was born to me. Mama held his hand,
Sayin' someday you'll understand.
Well, I'm here to tell you now, each and every mother's son,
That you better learn it fast, you better learn it young,
'Cause someday never comes
Ooo someday never comes.
Think it was September, the year I went away,
For there were many things I didn't know.
And I still see him standing, tryin' to be a man,
I said, someday you'll understand.
Well, I'm here to tell you now, each and every mother's son,
That you better learn it fast, you better learn it young,
'Cause someday never comes
Ooo someday never comes.
God love George Will......................
Donald Trump is just one symptom of today’s cultural pathology of self-validating vehemence with blustery certitudes substituting for evidence.
-So says George Will in his recent column eviscerating Bill O'Reilly for slandering Ronald Reagan in O'Reilly's latest "Killing" (This book is nonsensical history and execrable citizenship, and should come with a warning: “Caution — you are about to enter a no-facts zone.”) book.
with perfect sweetness..................
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what your duty is better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fifty years ago.............................
The Animals...........................Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Life Its Ownself..............as it comes..........
Life is, in fact, a battle. On this point optimists and pessimists agree. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally, unhappy. But the world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night; we wake up to it again for ever and ever; we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it. We can welcome experience as it comes, and give it what it demands, in exchange for something which it is idle to pause to call much or little so long as it contributes to swell the volume of consciousness.
-Henry James, as excerpted from The Sorrowful World of Turgénieff
Friday, November 6, 2015
A gift from the heavens...................
Santana (with Chad Kroeger?).....................Into The Night
Can I get an amen...................
So, opinions were sought about whether us humans past "the age of reproduction" were "evolutionarily useless." One brave soul (not me, I promise) took a stab at it. I'm liking his notion of "communal learning." It's sort of how I feel about our wee corner of the Intertunnel, it's a place of "communal learning." Thanks neighbor.
On belief................................
"Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
-Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Alice In Wonderland
Fifty years ago......................................
The Beatles.........................................................Day Tripper
On turning.................................
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
-Michael Jordan
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
-John Wooden
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
-Max Lucado
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
-Unknown
A remedy..........................
“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”
-Kurt Vonnegut
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Indian summer................................?
Linda Ronstadt......................................................Heat Wave
been running too long...............
Ryan Tennis....................................................Wake Me Up
Opening paragraphs.........................
The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with "Wow! Signore professore dottore Eco, what a library you have! How many of these books have you read?" and the others - a very small minority - who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.
-Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
So, what do you think.......................?
"Reproduction is the central act in the life of every living thing. Once an individual has survived past the age of reproduction, the individual is evolutionarily useless."
-Peter Bevelin
Perhaps it is true, but isn't he totally ignoring the evolutionary value of the growth of consciousness? Also, what are we to make of the totally, and voluntarily, low birth rates in so many developed countries? Seems like lots of folk are avoiding their "central act."
If it didn't take so damn long, evolution might teach us a thing or two about taking the long view.
Fifty years ago........................
Four Tops...........................................................I'm Grateful
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