Welcome to Saturday ...
Howl, and they put you outside."
~Lady and the Tramp
Two big eyes rest staring at each keystroke this morning as i've settled in at my son's bungalow with fenced back yard in Knoxville. Like me, Jackson aged spouting a white chin, now.
We communicate, talk to the moon and nap a lot.
As i've been traveling and catching up on family, i've had little time to tend to this morning's OT, so i'll build it as the coffee pours ...
Almost 400 years after the first folio of Shakespeare was published in 1623, scholars believe they have identified the early owner of one copy of the text, who made hundreds of insightful annotations throughout: John Milton.
The astonishing find, which academics say could be one of the most important literary discoveries of modern times, was made by Cambridge University fellow Jason Scott-Warren when he was reading an article about the anonymous annotator by Pennsylvania State University English professor Claire Bourne. Bourne’s study of this copy, which has been housed in the Free Library of Philadelphia since 1944, dated the annotator to the mid-17th century, finding them alive to “the sense, accuracy, and interpretative possibility of the dialogue”. She also provided many images of the handwritten notes, which struck Scott-Warren as looking oddly similar to Milton’s hand. ~ The Guardian
Box of Rain
Look out of any window
Any morning, any evening, any day
Maybe the sun is shining
Birds are winging or
Rain is falling from a heavy sky,
What do you want me to do,
To do for you to see you through?
For this is all a dream we dreamed
One afternoon long ago
Walk out of any doorway 
Feel your way, feel your way
Like the day before
Maybe you'll find direction
Around some corner
Where it's been waiting to meet you,
What do you want me to do,
To watch for you while you're sleeping?
Well please don't be surprised
When you find me dreaming too
Look into any eyes
You find by you, you can see
Clear through to another day
Maybe been seen before
Through other eyes on other days
While going home,
What do you want me to do,
To do for you to see you through?
It's all a dream we dreamed
One afternoon long ago
Walk into splintered sunlight
Inch your way through dead dreams
To another land
Maybe you're tired and broken
Your tongue is twisted
With words half spoken
And thoughts unclear
What do you want me to do
To do for you to see you through
A box of rain will ease the pain
And love will see you through
Just a box of rain,
Wind and water,
Believe it if you need it,
If you don't just pass it on
Sun and shower,
Wind and rain,
In and out the window
Like a moth before a flame
And it's just a box of rain
I don't know who put it there
Believe it if you need it
Or leave it if you dare
And it's just a box of rain
Or a ribbon for your hair
Such a long long time to be gone
And a short time to be there
RIP ~ Robert C. Hunter
Comments
Morning photos from Grandfaher mountain's newsletter
Is Jackson your son
or his dog? Doesn't matter. White whiskers are a sign of wisdom.
Zionism is a social disease
Jackson Pollock drips with love like his namesake,
an American Golden Retriever my son purchased as a puppy when studying art and living with me before his marriage about six years ago. Sadly for me, he took Jackson with him.
The kids are vacationing in Northern Michigan/Wisconsin.
A good morning to you, sir.
Can I say that I loved
That you opened up your OT with a quote from "Lady and the Tramp"? Which, btw, was the first Disney movie my 20 year old parents went to see together. Sweet, eh?
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Ahh, Jackson Pollock
known for his drips. Now I get it...
A contemporary of his, Pablo Picasso, with an anti-war surrealistic image. Guernica
Cheers!
Zionism is a social disease
A favorite Picasso,
Pure and simple
art in 'found' objects
my favorite medium!
...there's a masterpiece in that junk
creative minds can see meaning in the discarded
like value in tossed away souls
Zionism is a social disease
One of the first examples of
reuse, repurpose, recycle.
Brilliant.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Both, beautiful,
Picasso's Bull's head and your response.
So easy, getting lost.
As a super in the Village, i grew acquainted with many street people, fascinating stories of their pasts often unfolded making me wonder at times, whose is really lost?
I, too, enjoy, appreciate the simple in creation, nature's and artist's.
Hotter in Knoxville than home by about 20 degrees, though it's a pleasant day thus far, see a heat-wave on the way for next week. Lived at a campsite about 25 miles west of the city on a TVA lake when receiving proton cancer treatment, so i kinda know my way around and just yesterday taking a shortcut, my son and i drove through the old depressed area of downtown and the conversation turned to the similarities cities and people share. Visited here during the 82 World's Fair.
May more simplicity surprise us as today's time evolves ...
good morning
Finally got a bit (0.1") of rain. At least it settled the dust, and makes me feel better. I hate to see the forest wilting.
The BRAG - bike ride across Georgia - came through the area yesterday, and camped in nearby Summerville. They were already loaded and biking as I went to Trade Day. Slim pickings there this AM, but visited around with old friends.
Hope you all have a good day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, Lookout,
I learn from wiki that Summerville has more than doubled its population since 2010 to 724 souls. Must admit some envy to those bike riding folks, especially when going uphill in the heat.
The Laurel Theater...
...is a nice Knoxville venue where we've played before. I see some friends are playing there tonight.
http://www.jubileearts.org/calendar.pdf
....and there's a great community radio station there too
https://wdvx.com/
Enjoy your stay. Be cool!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
good morning smiley
The finale of the Climate Strike week passed yesterday with thousands of folks meeting at the town clock, then walking down to Amazon and Google to have say, and then to the Peoples' Green where the kids spoke at an open mike. Makes me smile again to think of it. People marched from up on the hill at UCSC, from the three local high schools and some grade schools plus the rest of usuns. Too cool, to say the least. And the pressure will keep on keepin' on now. So they be afeared. Heh. In other news my climate blog is picking up 3-5 new folks a week. Not much but information is power. Thanks for the breath of fresh air. May your day go well...
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Good morning, magi,
great news, quality growth is best. Big thanks for all you do and are doing environmentally, our children made good noise, getting the attention of the asshats, even, always a good sign when the enemy takes note. Onward ...
If they only stopped to think they may understand the life they saved may be their on
Have a bluejay talking to me as i write, quite a few around i've noticed, luckily lots of birdies in the back yard filling the air, hawks, too, yea.
Good morning
It remains hot here as well; in the high 90's with quite a bit of humidity thrown in the mix.
I enjoyed the story of the Milton annotations. What a fun find and housed in the Free Library in Philadelphia since 1944 (which makes it all the better).
The BBC is reporting a story about a couple of Gauguin paintings that hung on someones kitchen wall for forty years before being 'discovered'. It's a fun piece as well but I can't seem to link to it for you.
Thanks for building the OT this morning.
The laws must change
(at the)
Turning Point
John Mayall
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Zionism is a social disease
Thanks for introducing John Mayall,
added to booklist of c99 music collection, which is huge, now, will need categorizing someday.
Can't find the Gauguin story either, randtntx, and
i read it, too. painting hung in kitchen by stove, iirc.
Son's a good shade tree in backyard, and AC when i need to escape. Walking Jackson early and late in day.
Good time for me to be still and as QMS reminds us above smell the roses which i'm literally doing as i purchased a tiny miniature red rose bush for DIL and seeing the pedals slowly unfold delights.
Hope your work has evened out so you've more free time ...
That's what
we do here as well. Spend our time outside early in the morning and late in the evening...it's beautiful at that time but even if it weren't , our dog would insist on being outdoors then. He's the boss around here.
Thanks for the good wishes...I will try to make it so. Hurray for your tiny rose bush...may it flourish.
Hola y Feliz Sabado, smiley. Wife returned yestidday from a
weeks absence, and it is her week to cook, so soon we're off to wander the farmers' market and the burden is on her to pick and choose while I idly browse and carry stuff. I finish off my week tonight with some shredded pork enchiladas for which I already ave all the fixin's, unless I pick up a fresh jalapeno to toss in for good luck.
Great pic an poem, and, of course, the good news about Milton's notes, if verified. Perhaps we'll see the end of all that "Bacon did it" type shit at last, for surely Milton would've mentioned such a thing somewhere. My mind, of course, ran to Milton -> paradise lost & found (did they have a lost and found in paradise?) -> Omar & paradise enow. Bread is running low and it's my turn for that, but wine we gots aplenty. (Bread schedule alternates on its own rhythm in order to keep two separate sourdough starters refreshed and healthy throughout the year.)
Look/sounds like you got plenty of boughs to sit under, and lots of color too. Color is coming here too, but spotty what with all the conifers and live oaks dominating the landscape with an understory of perennial shrubbery like ceanothus, sage, coffeeberry, coyote bush and all that.
Have a great one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Afternoon, el,
Bet your sourdoughs are to kill for, a most precious commodity in a Conestoga wagon.
Your pork enchiladas gave me a taste, a yearning, so in between, while out i purchased pork and a fresh large bunch of collards, made the cornbread yesterday, have bacon and garlic and special virgin oil to dress them up in saute pan after a soothing blanche, will decide at the last moment which to use, olive oil or bacon. Pork sauteed with capers and lemon juice or maybe baked with sage, decisions, decisions, anyways start with a good wine and enjoy dinner.
We’re expecting record heat in the Atlanta Metro area.
Some lucky folks got some rain, but we only got a sun shower with no accumulation. It’s been a record-breaking month for heat, with more to come. And we are in extreme drought conditions.
The farmer lady from down south of here, from whom I buy eggs and meat, says that the drought is tough on the animals. They are having trouble keeping water for the animals because it evaporates so quickly. The pig wallows are even trickier. Pigs need to wallow to keep cool, but the water in the wallows soaks in quickly because the ground is so dry.
High rainfall totals here can easily disappear giving way to extreme drought. At least we haven’t had wildfires yet.
The weather guys are reporting all this as just weather. They make no connection with the warming Earth. This is a red state after all.
“It ain’t gonna rain no more, no more
It ain’t gonna rain no more.
Oh, how in heck
Can I wash my neck,
If it ain’t gonna rain no more?”
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
El and Lily O lady, got to run out be back to comment later.
Afternoon Lily O Lady,
Hard times for all in drought, hope the rain you need comes soon. Dry at home as well, not serious as of yet though.
Atlanta can be so hot and humid, take care in the heatwave forecast for most of us south, east and lower Midwest.
Not the Septembers of yester-year for sure.
Sugar Magnolia seems appropriate for the heat and south.
Good to see you.
My song seems to have done the trick! We got 1.6 inches
of rain this afternoon. Not a drought buster, but welcome nevertheless. Guess I CAN was my neck after all.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Singing and rain dancing,
one never knows how magic works. Good.
Good Morning Smiley
You paint a lovely picture of the onset of Fall back east, along with the falling rain of your poem.
We had a light rain here all day yesterday which I was able to enjoy from my kitchen window as I prepped meals for the week, drinking my celery juice, listening and dancing to the music.
It's still very green here. Trees have grown three times their size from all the rain we had this year, and I suspect the oranges come December will be very sweet. Fall here in the west coast might not have all the different colors as the east coast, but we have an added bonus of getting to enjoy the fall colors we do have for a few months. Usually into December, the leaves are still falling.
Autumn being one of my favorite seasons, that gives me great pleasure. Must be the wistful romantic in me..
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Your autumn song
put me in mind of this one. Lenya and Weill married each other not once but twice (apparently).
Anyway it speaks of their love and their autumn days.
Songs to listen to
While watching the leaves fall...what a great idea for a soundtrack, eh?
Enjoyed the music. She's got a lovely voice.
There is always Music amongst the trees in the Garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear it. ~ Minnie Aumonier
Afternoon Anja,
Tears like leaves fall with Nat and those gold colors in vid. Used to sing this.
Can easily picture you dancing while cooking
Make the most of each morsel, it's all we got.
Apparently you read the sign, "wistful romantics welcome here."
Heh, so good to hear this one again. Gotta get back to my old
all day listening thing, just takes sooooo long to set up when you're busy doing many different things in many different sub-locations.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hola, Smiley! Quick drive-by (for now) to say
'hi,' and wish you a good visit with family and Jackson! Give him a big ear scritch for me, okay?
Knoxville's a nice town, although I don't know it well. Been quite a few years since we've been there. IIRC, our consultation with a UT Vet School professor/Vet Neurologist and Behaviorist--regarding Mister B's separation anxiety--was the last time.
Hey, we're making decent progress toward retirement plans, having finally switched residences in order to take advantage of major tax breaks. (meaning, primary residence in Talibama--as Joe would say
) So far, almost everything seems to be falling into place quite nicely. We are fortunate that relatives (young couple--professors) have entered into a long-term lease (for the TN homestead). IOW, we're not being forced to wait until we sell (before proceeding), but, we aren't left holding the bag, either.
Got a bit of preliminary info about the 2020 Silver Script Part D RX Plans to share, but, have to walk Kaity, and, take care of a couple of chores before I round up the screenshots (to post).
Anyhoo, I'll catch up with you Guys again later this evening, with, unfortunately, not-so-good news about the 'changes' to Silver Script. I feared that the merger of CVS/Aetna would not bode well for plan beneficiaries. Looks like I was right.
Mollie
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Was about to call 911 and search for you, Mollie, :)
You've been on my mind. As the crow flies, we are closer. Happy to read plans are working and looking forward to living vicariously along your journey.
Great to see you, give Mr and pup a hug.
Thank you, Smiley--love Vivaldi's "4 Seasons." And,
appreciate it, if you noticed my absence.
Hey, you know that I'll be around, if I possibly can be. (do my best to 'lurk' and 'rec' even if I feel too time-pressured to post--which I have, lately)
Okay--gonna make this short and sweet (about Silver Script) for this evening. Hope to elaborate more on Part D Plans next Saturday. (more info will be available by then)
Basically, thought I'd just post two screenshots I made from Agent 'previews' that I've dug up. Fairly steep price increase for Silver Script 'Choice.' SS 'Allure' plan's been dropped for 2020.
Here you go,
and,
Sorry, Folks--that looks awful. They're legible in my photo viewer. Go figure.
Well, hopefully, I'll be able to get much better illustrations during the Part D Open Enrollment period.
Everyone have a good rest of your weekend!
Mollie
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
Global Citizens concert from Central park live now, link
here: https://www.livenewswatch.com/msnbc-news.html
Hi smiley
Thank you for another wonderful OT. They are always so welcoming.
I’ve been reading many of the lyrics of Robert Hunter over the past few days, and am considering purchasing A Box Full of Rain. His poetry is so ethereal and earthy at the same time. I experience a similar sense of spirit in your writings.
Enjoy the company and affection of Jackson, and a welcoming reunion with Grandfather Mountain on your return.
Afternoon janis,
Been a treat having you in same timezone.
Hunter lives, lucky for all who read and listen. A wonderful time we've had, a generation close to hearts.
Know the feeling you describe about returning home, leaving has a tense as well as if one never really departs; sun goes round and round.
Listening to the Knoxville radio station Lookout posted above.
Greens on the stove, dog fed, evening walk coming up.
evening from two j's
What a wonderful bunch of comments today
Shows there is a good group of like minded souls here.
Thanks for bringing us together this way.
Wanted to share the peace / earth banner I made today.
Zionism is a social disease
Cool, i see what flags
of honor should look like; making a difference.
One love ...
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