Not sure how I missed it.......................

 

.................but Diana Rigg's birthday was on July 20th.

memories.....................

 

The truth is that memory and forgetting are forever entwined. . . .

     Neurobiologists learn a great deal about memory by studying forgetting.  To forget something means we had to have known it at some point, and that's different than never having known it in the first place.  And even when we think we know something, memory is fallible in two different ways.  First, we can lose things in our memory banks, sometimes temporarily, sometimes for a lifetime.  Second, when we do locate and retrieve a memory, it can be fantastically distorted without our realizing it.

     The truth is we have false memories every day, lots of them.  We just don't know it because we're not often challenged.

-Daniel J. Levitin, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord:  Music as Medicine

Gone, but not forgotten...............

 

Dave Mason....................Look At You Look At Me

I don't know about you...................

 

.......................but I miss the Eclectipundit blog.

February 12, 1809.....................

  

..............Abraham Lincoln's birthday.

The strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds. Nor should this lead to a war upon property, or the owners of property. Property is the fruit of labor — property is desirable — is a positive good in the world. That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another; but let him labor diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

In the background.......................

The Allman Brothers Band.........................Idlewild South

 

Gone but not forgotten.................

David Sanborn........................................Pearls

Fifty years ago...................

       Hank Aaron breaks the Babe's home run record

 

Gone but not forgotten..........................

...............................Tommy Smothers

 

It's hard to get enough of........................

................................Charlie Munger. 

A national treasure passes.................

  ................We were blessed to have him around for as long as we did.

Because.............................

      We picked up our oyster loaves and once again were out on the pier eating lunch together.  He sat at the very end of the dock on the crapping pier and tossed sticks to the dogs, who gallivanted into the shallow water to retrieve them.  They swam back to the pier, shook the water from their fur, and dropped the sticks at our feet, waiting for the next toss.  After several more throws, they sensed a change in mood and swam off toward the beach, leaving my father and me alone.

     "It's getting worse, Jim," he said flatly.  "It's the scariest thing I have ever been through in my life."  I didn't know what to say.  I was in tears but couldn't speak.  Saying I was sorry just didn't feel like enough.  My dad sensed this immediately and changed the topic.  "You know why I chose to fly instead of go to sea?"

      There it was, the question that had been nagging at me all these years.  Now, on the end of the pier near the end of his lucid days, I was going to get the answer.  "Why?" I asked.

     "Because it was what I wasn't supposed to do.  Looks like you have made a career out of that, doing what you're not supposed to do.  I'm proud of you, boy."

-Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty

expanded horizons.......................

      I started out wanting to be a Serious Southern Writer.  My mother had made me a reader and stressed the legacy of my family's Mississippi roots.  William Faulkner, Walker Percy, Eudora Welty, and Flannery O'Connor were household names—Mississippians who had made people take notice. . . .

Well, I knew I wasn't one of those people.  I was too warped by the court-jester-like behavior that's essential to being a good stage performer.  I knew that whatever I wrote, it would have a heavy layer of humor.  By the time I expanded my horizons from three verses and a couple of choruses to short stories, and then prose, my sense of humor naturally came along for the ride.

     Besides, I don't have the talent to compete with the Great Serious Writers.  Anyway, writing is not a competition to me.  Writing is fun, and I am simply a storyteller.  I also really enjoy the self-discipline writing requires.

-Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty

Question answered....................

 Parents, teachers, coaches, and guidance counselors bombarded me with the same question: "What are you going to do with your life?"  I didn't even want to think about that when I was fourteen.  My teachers called me a daydreamer.  They would write comments on my report card like, "He seems to live in a fantasy world and prefers that to paying serious attention to serious subject matters that will prepare him for life."

     The life they were so hell-bent on preparing me for bored the living shit out of me.  It seemed way too serious.  I saw more meaning in the mysteries of the ocean and the planets than in theology or religion.  I was too busy figuring out ways to skip school, go diving, and get laid.  My heroes were not presidents, they were pirates.  Emerging from adolescence with a healthy "lack of respect for the proper authorities," and a head full of romanticism and hero worship, I was able to come up with an answer.

    Q. What are you going to do with your life?

    A. Live a pretty interesting one.

-Jimmy Buffett, A Pirate Looks at Fifty

     

I miss these guys.....................

Clark and Dawes with a timeless piece explaining how our financial system "works".

 

One of the great ones...............

Michael Stanley Band..Stagepass/Let's Get the Show On the Road

 

Gone, but not forgotten.....................

 .................................Jim Brown:

Gone but not forgotten...............

 

Chester Nimitz......................

“Whenever possible, take calculated risks as may be warranted”

"I do not want to hear or see such gloom and defeatism. We are not going to do any good sitting here mourning or wailing or wringing our hands. Do the best you can with what you have."

“All we can do is bide our time and take advantage of any opportunity that might come along.”

-back story may be found here

Gone, but not forgotten........................

............................. Diana Rigg, born this day in 1938.