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Looking east late yesterday

"It is helpful to realize that when we are stuck, blocked, or hurting, there is usually a very good reason. And because there is usually a good reason, we would be wise to uncover it at a pace that is in keeping with our ability to integrate what we uncover. What may appear at first to be a jungle of useless weeds may be weeds that stabilize a slope."

(Donna Farhi), from Bringing Yoga to Life)

Oboe listening to sounds at night

Funny how I don't have time to read any more blogs and then I find this one and want to read it, too.

Listen to something I found there.

I read that scene as being early spring after a long hard winter.

Day Lily in April / Easter 2011

Listen

"The truth was obscure, too profound and too pure / To live it you have to explode." (Bob D.)

Apparently I look more like myself in the morning (-:

After trying this with several photos last night and finding out that I look 83% or less like Charles Bronson, Jane Goodall, Clint Eastwood, Golda Meir, Elie Wiesel, Jackie Chan, Meryl Streep and Hugh Jackman, I took another picture of myself on Photo Booth and found that in the morning after a good night's sleep, after getting together with friends and taking a walk by myself afterward, that I resemble the above people, 53% or less, in the photo I took today.

Kurt Cobain? When I first saw Kurt Cobain all those years ago, my thought was that if Richard and I had had a son, he would have looked like Kurt Cobain.

Charles Bronson?

I was most pleased to think I might be related to Golda Meir or Jane Goodall.

That was fun. Now I've got to start my work week.

Love of Words, Flutes, Oboe, Michelangelo

This is from A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Garg:







highfalutin
PRONUNCIATION:
(hy-fuh-LOOT-n)
Also spelled as hifalutin or highfalutin' or hifalutin' or highfaluting.

MEANING:
adjective: Pompous; bombastic.

ETYMOLOGY:
Of uncertain origin, perhaps from high-fluting, from flute. Earliest documented use: 1839.

NOTES:
Highfalutin may or may not be high flute, but the flute's cousin, oboe, is high wood. It's a corruption of French haut (high) + bois (wood). The musical instrument is named owing to its having the highest register among woodwinds. An orchestra typically tunes to an oboe.

USAGE:
"The document talks very highfalutin' and lofty language, which sounds great and is hard to disagree with, but at the end of the day businesses just want to get the basics right."
Hamish Fletcher; Push for More Innovative Auckland; New Zealand Herald (Auckland); Mar 29, 2011.

Explore "highfalutin" in the Visual Thesaurus.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (1475-1564)

(That's Oboe, the flute's cousin, looking at my laptop as the orchestra tunes to her.)

Reconciliation Dream

I have added some images to my Flickr mosaic at the top of my blog. This is the image from the back cover of my book.

It's been quite a day, trying unsuccessfully to order 25 copies of the most recent version of my book, 42 years: a book of changes, through iPhoto.

The best part of the day was when two Canada Geese flew in and landed at the southeast end of Scudder Pond, and I was able to laugh out loud at how absurdly difficult it was to make a simple order through iPhoto.

I thought that was the best part of the day until I got phone call from an old friend. We talked for a long time, catching up, laughing, sharing experiences, strength and hope.