«Can’t hear myself think« is a trite shout-out you yell at your kids as they chase around your dining table. Clichés start at the kernel of truth, in this case that noise can be disturbing.
It can also be disrespectful, as our friend Dr. Arline Bronzhaft tells us. Read her plea for a respectful quiet, here.
Huddling with podcasts has become a source of comfort for me. I spend a part of my respite time under earphones and tuned to one of these specific three.
At the moment, that rotation is led by Julia Louis Dreyfus. I am caught up on Wiser than Me, which gladdens me (I have been enriched), and I can’t wait for Wednesday.
Anderson Cooper offers wisdom on grieving; perversely, I find tremendous uplift in listening to All There Is with…. I am far from done with the seasons of this series.
Somehow, Brooke Shields snuck on to my listening cycle. On Now What? she interviews people who have dealt with moments of transition. (Who hasn’t?) These shared pivotal moments are enlightening.
I found myself listening to one of the most distinctive voices the other day. [Bebe Neuwirth has a special timbre when she speaks.]
I appreciate her work as a dancer and actress, but I love her for a moment at a Broadway Cares event some 4 years ago.
The audience was instructed “cell phones off.” A routine command in the theater. Within minutes, a phone went off.
Ms. Neuwirth rose to the occasion in righteous outrage admonishing the offender.
I hate hearing ringing during a performance, don’t you?
Apparently, she and I are in sync on this one.
What’s something you believe everyone should know.
We’ve seen Candide at least a couple of times. If by “seen,” you count the back rows of the Theatre, which is still occupied by Wicked for these dozen plus years. The stage is away aways from the topt’o the house there.
We saw Grand Hotel with Cyd Charisse uptop, too. Even from that height, she had spectacular legs.
I digress a bit, but yes, everyone should be aware of Ms. Charisse’s beauty in her Bway debut at age 70 and the steep incline that defines the Gershwin Theatre’s seating capacity.
Candide was led by Jim Dale and a newly minted Jason Daniely and featured Arte Johnson. Its music is by Leonard Bernstein with some additional Sondheim songs.
Like Forrest, Candide falls into a series of adventures [well mis- adventures].
His naïveté, [well their naïveté] creates the disconnect between how unsettling things are and their happy-go-lucky reactions.
“The best of all possible worlds” offers many upsets to the hero [well heroes] of these picaresques
In Gump’s best world, “life is like a box of chocolates.”
Two views, two famous lines. Two innocents abroad.
Sing it to the tune of .. yeah you guessed it.
When you tell people you plan a visit to the Museum of the City of New York, they usually have a positive response.
My friend M said something to the effect of , “I love that place.” You get the drift.
I loved the Manny Vega exhibit. That especially, but there was a lot to like in every gallery.
So, a chance to enjoy tea [and crumpets?] with a curator just seemed like a perfect lunchtime activity.
One such event passed us by on the 2nd (with Sarah Henry), and The Curator’s Cup: Afternoon Tea with Sarah Seidman is on Oct 22nd, aka this Tuesday.
I am intending on attending the November 19th. I look forward to The Curator’s Cup: Afternoon Tea with Lilly Tuttle.
It’s because of this long over drawn summer that plantings along the Avenue are overgrown.
What do you enjoy most about writing?
As I write, I find one thought, one idea, or kernel of an idea leading me to more.
Sometimes, a simple premise will reveal layers of interesting and unexpected notions.
Who knew I had such depths of feeling about a kiwi?
In every transaction, we humans have created specific languages. The vocabularies of business are a case in point. The language of love is another [and very, very different] one.
Let’s address the business model first. I worked in marketing, to be exact, direct mail marketing. The language was one that addressed [see the pun and move on] the needs of our industry.
We were busy targeting audiences and anticipating percentages of response. It’s been ages, so I have lost mastery of what all we were on about.
Your banker and realtor have business vocabularies linked to returns. It’s likely that you’ll always be intetested in % in any biz.
Lawyers no doubt understand tort and litigation as I, for one, do not.
My doctor had better have some knowledge of arcana not easily accessible to me.
All of this is conducted in English, by the way. [If you’re Catholic, your priest may be reverting to Latin, although it’s as likely not.] So, under an umbrella of English, we have little pools of business dialects. As it were.
Just sharing the obvious for you to elaborate.
Not everyone treats the months with as much reverence as we do.
In Spanish, for instance, there are no caps introducing their names. September is just an ordinary noun (except if it starts the sentence). Nothing exalted about septiembre.
It’s interesting because some languages put lots of regular words on pedestals. German is an example along with our own germanic tongue.
Being a proponent of American style freedoms as they evolve and move forward, I have often used the term democracy.
Origins? Dêmos (the people, or perhaps the many, or ¿the mob?). Kratos [power], so could it be simpler? Yeah, it could.
It’s already muddled by the question of who the dêmos might be. Add to that that the word for assembly ecclesia is a root with associations to religion, and I am reeling in uncertainty.
Critics of the Athenian model of dêmoskratos abound of late. Socrates, anyone?
As it has been pointed out the gents who framed the document that establishes our form of government called our nation a Republic. They based their pre- cedence on the Roman formula.
I don’t want to take this issue lightly. “And for the Republic for which it stands.”
The principles of rights and freedoms are honored in that Latinate model as well, of course.
May we always embrace the 4th of July and uphold the privileges of a free nation.
Ok. Now I feel foolish.
The weather site just showed me that the moon was set to set around 2 in the afternoon.
Not to belabor this “news,” but I am processing the information. A slow learner looks like.
I didn’t know that. I didn’t know a.m. there was a moonrise followed by a moonset.
According to this, it’s out from just before 1 a.m.
This indicates that we’ve got moon about 14 hours.
All The Best