Breakfast is or should be a quiet and peaceful meal. To his credit, he didn’t utter a chirp.
GdMrning
Excitement
Tell us about the last thing you got excited about.
Being emotional is a wonderful and terrifying state.
Excitement can be catching like a bad cold, or it might be self-contained like the tap water in your carry bottle.
If it spills over into your other moods or gives you the giggles, that’s nice.
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.
Nothing but the best
What are your top ten favorite movies?
Moonstruck
A League of Their Own
Forget Paris
When Harry Met Sally
Pausing midway on the midway to think about what is truly the best in the wide history of films.
Do we count the Chaplin works like City Lights, The Great Dictator, or Modern Times. Do we look at old odd and weird classics like Metropolis? Or the horror picture from 1922, the silent Nosferatu? Do we stick to talkie times? I generally do.
Singing in the Rain [If we are still speaking of talkies]
An American In Paris
Midnight in Paris
Top Hat
Royal Wedding
“The best laid plans”
How do you plan your goals?
Thanks to Shakespeare’s aphorism, I am inclined to think of planning as futile.
Um
What is a word you feel that too many people use?
Hesitant speakers use grunty sounds as placeholders. It’s inelegant.
Worse is a habit my fellow Boomers got into of inserting “like” in mid-thought.
Our sentences flowed as smoothly as muddied molasses. “It’s (like) you know man,” we’d say incoherently.
Made the guy pausing with an “um” seem genius.
Hominids
The skull’s lower jaw has particularly confounded scientists because it combines features of Homo sapiens and another ancient human relative — the mysterious Denisovans. And like Denisovans, HLD 6 did not seem to have a true chin.
CNN Science Wonder Theory newsletter
The find has sparked questions about a pivotal point in the evolutionary history of early human relatives, or hominins, that began in the late Middle Pleistocene.
The human timeline has gotten so very much more complicated. As archaeologists uncover new finds, we are introduced to remote ancestors we never knew.
In my elementary school days, I had reason to believe that the evolution was simpler. I wasn’t paying much attention, of course, but history seemed within my grasp.
As I went on in my education, there seemed to be fewer links in the human chain than are being discovered.
There was always a mysterious “missing link” that I assumed scientists understood.
It’s not a complaint, but boy, is it puzzling. Who were great²⁰⁰⁰ grandma and grandpa? Wiil we ever really know them?
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.
Found objects
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
In my youth, I knew a pair of artists whose work was informed by found objects.
They scoured the streets near their Lower East Side apartment for cloth and discarded spindles and leftover thread. Cardboard and milk cartons were turned into artwork.
Recycling the leavings of their industrial neighbors was an artful endeavor in and of itself.
Objets
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?
Once upon a.., I planned on opening a little store with my friend Helen. We thought it would be cool to sell crafts.
I had been taking pictures with my Rollei Rolleiflex, which I wanted to include in our inventory.
The storefront we had in mind was deliberately tiny.
All The Best 