To be faire, I think we're all idiots!
But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for…
A woman said to me after my speech, “Nobody should ever be bombed.”I replied, “Nothing could be more obvious.” from “Fates Worse Than Death” by Kurt Vonnegut Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
Video takes a bit longer. While you waiting for me to finish some projects, here’s a little video from the 1930s to pass the time.
“At dinner I sat next to James Branch Cabell who asked me, Is Gertrude Stein serious? Desperately, I replied. That puts a different light on it, he said. For you, I said, not for me.” From What is Remembered by Alice B. Toklas Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context…
(Photograph by J.L. Munn, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France) This sculpture (L’Age mûr or Maturity) is one of my favorites from Camille Claudel. In its painstaking detail, you find the culmination of a life hard lived in the name of art.
Watch for yourself and see if you can tell which is which ;-D
For those of you who don’t read French, these images are from an adapted version of Around the world in 80 days performed in a small town not far from Montreal summer 2019. Pour vous qui peut lire le français, voici plus des détails sur la production.
Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might win,By fearing to attempt. William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure Sunday Sentence: The sentence(s) that touched me this week, out of context and without commentary. Inspired by David Abrams at The Quivering Pen.
1. Indeed I live in the dark ages! A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens A hard heart. He who laughs Has not yet heard The terrible tidings. Ah, what an age it is When to speak of trees is almost a crime For it is a kind of silence about injustice!…
I can’t say if this movie stands up to the passage of time. I don’t know if it can speak to children today as it once so lovingly spoke to me. I do know that there are 3 Christmas movies that consistently bring a smile to my face simply by the fond memories of family…