Observation – Page 4 – All The Best

“Yankee, go home”

Someone had just informed me a week ago that the Yankee season was going badly.

This apropos my husband not wanting to be a Yankee fan “’cause they never lose.”

The Yankee – Red Sox matchup was on our set for less than a minute when we were greeted by a grand slam. [All numbers are approximate as I wasn’t fully attending.]

The Yankees had a 4-run lead quicker than you could say Jackie Robinson.

Any further information about the Yankees (or my husband’s Mets) will be gleaned from encounters on our street. I don’t expect to be following games or the fate of our home teams.

K2-18b

So far, so good.

120 million light years is a substantial distance, but it has the earmarks of home.

A hydrogen rich and people ready environment awaits.

Carbon is considered a life-building and sustaining mineral; “K2..” has that, too.

Bring your bathing suit as NASA scientists say there are oceans on K2- 18b.

Singalong

Catchy music and novelty songs go hand in hand. The tune that starts off the comedy-detective series Monk is a case in point. Randy Newman (singer songwriter) is a funny man.

The Lawrence Welk rerun this evening featured The Music Man. This musical has its odd song when Prof Harold Hill cons the town with a capital P.

The show used lots of comedy songs in its choreography and programming. Arthur Duncan tapped loudly to “Milkman, Milkman keep those bottles quiet.” Larry Hooper was talented in The Auctioneer, a song I love because I can’t keep up with its lyrics.

The most unusual number was about Mme Lazonga and her dance lessons. Bobby and Cissy danced to it along with Mary Lou Metzger, Jack Imel, Ken Delo, and Anacani in this episode.

It turns out that this ditty was from a movie of the same name, Six Lessons from Madame Lazonga (1941). Jimmy Dorsey recorded it.

Such originality is always welcome, but I think Bobby outdid himself on the choreography for this one.

Magic Time

What’s your favorite time of day?

It’s the morning as the sun comes up.

Later in the day, it’s the sunset in what my mom referred to as the magic hour.

Twilight is followed by nightfall or, on some occasions, moon rise.

All quite spectacular.

GdMrning

Breakfast is or should be a quiet and peaceful meal. To his credit, he didn’t utter a chirp.

Just sitting around

What motivates you?

It turned into dinner-and-a-show at our local Starbucks today. All that buzz: very stimulating. I was motivated.

What happened

What profession do you admire most and why?

Writers of historical fiction have the patience and savvy of scientists. They unearth secrets from the past to share with us. It’s as painstaking a process as archaeology.

Only once the excavation is done does a narrative unfold. Wow.

Enlightment

What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?

This 1957 book introduced us in the west to a different mode of thought.

Carrying water is an expression.

It’s a bit old fashioned and a bit odd. In some iterations it is very Zen.

You may carry your own water or do so for someone else. Valuing who you are, you carry your own water. In service to others, you do so for them.

You find the quality of your life in the carrying.

Don’t have to look far

Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that.

Back to work isn’t happening for me. It’s one of the positives of retirement.

A return to the office is therefore not in the cards either. Irony is, however, always timely.

Zoom, the annoying and helpful tool that helps meetings happen when in person isn’t going to, ordered the dreaded RTO.

The only qualifier that doesn’t qualify here is that this is far from an uninteresting bit of news.

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