tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-133986972024-03-19T00:29:25.783-04:00Zone of Totality“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” -Buddha***
We mortals are composed of two great schools--Enlightened knaves or else religious fools.
--Abul 'Ala al Ma'arri (973-1057)***
"Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" -Auntie Mame
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Philosophy, History, Travel, the Arts, Whatever's on my Table...Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.comBlogger771125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-43574797358376222972024-03-10T20:37:00.013-04:002024-03-10T20:40:20.284-04:00Glen Falls, Highlands, Dillard House, Black Rock Mountain<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><b>Photos from our spring holiday week</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="#"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyX5be11zhyF4mily2g27V1eb3Tt3zLAySqOCBYOldYsJxpkBHFZn5oWum8kEw6fhH5M5tUhNWHFHQcIFCqpRQ21F0_qmgaZwaVkws9XG0XIADzzwF6NCAJNULxMF1Gfn6yOdaxudMFtMS0BVFT4Qd1batYebDs2tfmabjgsWkvvvIivE5Ek57/s600/cottagedillard23.jpg" style="clear: left; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCliI8HybLLF6XoFns9JchBo4OL8WptrEpQNIXRmkAnbTiKJsW0Jxy9HwZmO8zqOl_Vssu3NYTipnJ6KPIR6jxVISqu7nzFjNZMG9Zq2P0srdE51XOuWqmBtT9BJXt2XLtaZLc5MMW8RQsncXlP9V035ODhNpPQKLXCc1t_pR_JYEnCPBb_YUS/s1080/bridge.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCliI8HybLLF6XoFns9JchBo4OL8WptrEpQNIXRmkAnbTiKJsW0Jxy9HwZmO8zqOl_Vssu3NYTipnJ6KPIR6jxVISqu7nzFjNZMG9Zq2P0srdE51XOuWqmBtT9BJXt2XLtaZLc5MMW8RQsncXlP9V035ODhNpPQKLXCc1t_pR_JYEnCPBb_YUS/s320/bridge.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>We shall be returning to the Blue Ridge Mountains in the summer of '24 with our dear friends from Charlotte, NC and our dear friends from Germany. In the meantime, we shall continue to enjoy the slightly nearer treks and stays in Cloudland Canyon and Rabun Gap, Dillard and Highlands. The days of the Dillard House may now be numbered since being bought by a company in Atlanta. The promise is of an expanded and luxurious resort there. We know how those promises usually turn out. </p><p><a href="https://whatnowatlanta.com/upgrades-coming-to-the-dillard-house/">https://whatnowatlanta.com/upgrades-coming-to-the-dillard-house/</a></p><p>Here are glimpses and comments from our stays in North Georgia and North Carolina.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA4ezxs1cKaAuvX1rtNI7hZ8nYNfpJCD5DDaMcJW9pYxGLtirmS9I1m1lGzAW4vlHg1rkJaxDVLoDBfjvZrUE2hA-RX1-oul5Ln_fQsvj8MRsQq5erbQ8HKoxUdBgjWdtqYJ-1dQChesA2WJaIsisVHyfSrr7jEjzP3b7gFD004i1fiq-ttZ68/s890/IMG_20240218_140757~2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="890" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA4ezxs1cKaAuvX1rtNI7hZ8nYNfpJCD5DDaMcJW9pYxGLtirmS9I1m1lGzAW4vlHg1rkJaxDVLoDBfjvZrUE2hA-RX1-oul5Ln_fQsvj8MRsQq5erbQ8HKoxUdBgjWdtqYJ-1dQChesA2WJaIsisVHyfSrr7jEjzP3b7gFD004i1fiq-ttZ68/s320/IMG_20240218_140757~2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrh9Dc-QD3X-4k7dnwMGibGF13ORJ8o44S9606kNz48TNSriT60wEfP9zkVXULztlk1ipmRFjWCiKFs7yVOzNX4piNUgFovjM4tviVqkd0_l2YCAJdQxSfYKmuweDSrq_TnSIrbApiWEbN-HBadDcm0A3UIXc7YkPrg5SgX_aZ75w-NRwWsmlC/s1915/snowhorse.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1915" data-original-width="1763" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrh9Dc-QD3X-4k7dnwMGibGF13ORJ8o44S9606kNz48TNSriT60wEfP9zkVXULztlk1ipmRFjWCiKFs7yVOzNX4piNUgFovjM4tviVqkd0_l2YCAJdQxSfYKmuweDSrq_TnSIrbApiWEbN-HBadDcm0A3UIXc7YkPrg5SgX_aZ75w-NRwWsmlC/s320/snowhorse.jpg" width="295" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>How did I imagine old age? Sitting in a rocking chair like the ones on our balconies over the years, taking in the view of mountains or forest, hiking down to the waterfall, or up to the scenic overlook, enjoying good meals, spending precious time basking in the love of my husband of many decades. and sharing it all with friends. Whether the Stars, Planets, and the Milky way, or a total eclipse of the sun, or the nod of a a beautiful horse, there is so much to enrich life up here in the Blue Ridge Mountains. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgylJKOIteqQUHJHgz5YgtpKgTz4XC7mNtiXtd8xVEpPGBSeK_4MRbZaL15c31s2NEQ8LDppfMyc8Kd6pSC0m-pu2D4lNTGpqPmKfNYfSz5RAwkjoM-GXJvVGnzdCYH5yB8cDp41N0HhFrwC_Zt8T0uVgQ8gOx7XykjZsaXVC2tO0q4ggQXjohP/s2048/March%20in%20Cloudland.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1026" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgylJKOIteqQUHJHgz5YgtpKgTz4XC7mNtiXtd8xVEpPGBSeK_4MRbZaL15c31s2NEQ8LDppfMyc8Kd6pSC0m-pu2D4lNTGpqPmKfNYfSz5RAwkjoM-GXJvVGnzdCYH5yB8cDp41N0HhFrwC_Zt8T0uVgQ8gOx7XykjZsaXVC2tO0q4ggQXjohP/s320/March%20in%20Cloudland.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Unlike Proust's novel, it was not a case of the past recaptured. There was certainly nostalgia and longtime friendship involved. Yet, I felt New Orleans was somehow diminished. Perhaps things that have impressed me for decades no longer sparkle so brightly. Perhaps I am diminished. The numerous pleasures and revelations of relationships and variations on the menage-a-trois I experienced in New Orleans are only dreamlike now, very fond memories and nothing more. Well, what did I expect? Only the Rémoulade Shrimp Darryl had at Galatoire's, which he shared with me, had the savor I recall so vividly. </p><p>Our stay in the lovely, eccentric, timeless <a href="https://parkviewguesthouse.com/">Parkview Hotel </a>on Audubon Park was a joy. Remind me, if I'm ever there again, to stay in room 20 with its grand view of the park and its ample balcony. Our second floor room was fine, especially with the jacuzzi. It too had a balcony on which I managed to sit and read. The hotel lobby with its Peacock Bar, and a gorgeous Christmas tree, also with peacock ornaments, was a delight. We all imbibed the free cream sherry always replenished with fine crystal sherry glasses. The breakfasts were fairly good and certainly adequate, far better than breakfasts we paid for in the French Quarter. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNQ46edQ13YuZvRbqRYT1KltTrIo897y1DSQ1ysZeo9hlGeZkTwIu8_xivhwCX7UnZOsWWj7aUAUxUEUuGIduNeBYorUXMUMAQCRAeQEf4tEtiAGVaHoaYn6pQaIf7erh4w7Zi4fHR_yGqoYWRzGCJYmOuV248v_g6X3aiDsTn2ul-5Uk2dt3/s1440/ducksturtleAudubon23.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNQ46edQ13YuZvRbqRYT1KltTrIo897y1DSQ1ysZeo9hlGeZkTwIu8_xivhwCX7UnZOsWWj7aUAUxUEUuGIduNeBYorUXMUMAQCRAeQEf4tEtiAGVaHoaYn6pQaIf7erh4w7Zi4fHR_yGqoYWRzGCJYmOuV248v_g6X3aiDsTn2ul-5Uk2dt3/s320/ducksturtleAudubon23.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>Audubon Park gave us walks and 500+ ducks to watch. Swans and white egrets also appeared in this sanctuary. Walking paths and the bridge I remembered enhanced our strolls. Tulane brought back memories of my first philosophy teaching experience and my defense of my doctoral dissertation. The houses around Tulane and along St. Charles Ave glowed in their rich grandeur.</p><p>New Orleans provided plenty of renewed friendship: Wolfgang and Sebastian, Maggie and Jocelin, and Katie, our ever gracious hostess. We rode the street car to the Quarter, dined at Frankie and Johnny's, The Napoleon House. With Katie we dined at Commander's, Antoine's, and Galatoire's, all attended by hordes of diners and wait staff. The food was good, impressive, and diminished from my memory of times past. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRgYT6LbV7MgOgksIzxO3ip0dn1WgCll_jpNL0i22fCRzQ9mTt1uWZPFnl_H2arXkIV9rWfc7VohYtsfA1aRYvgmHPrRrXIiaHaVgwgpk9AsfSlJPsPX7BYP-0cDvx4N1_8pr9tOrWIvvuZyrHkJOLp6BGO5mN2G60vRY-4on6SStDXEa8wCSF/s640/Frankie&Johnny's2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRgYT6LbV7MgOgksIzxO3ip0dn1WgCll_jpNL0i22fCRzQ9mTt1uWZPFnl_H2arXkIV9rWfc7VohYtsfA1aRYvgmHPrRrXIiaHaVgwgpk9AsfSlJPsPX7BYP-0cDvx4N1_8pr9tOrWIvvuZyrHkJOLp6BGO5mN2G60vRY-4on6SStDXEa8wCSF/s320/Frankie&Johnny's2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd-TL4s7p6nRit86N4kEN6UYKqGsBr7PELx7Vb3pgd1-NRcOIFnSwqI0S-ESfjN8uIeZQX5Poqk_FFw7Kvaawuq1CoPijENTeYlUSmU49gpxpSeKwGLrAHqzpHWUaoXjGLZOjh11C8FgVlVmjV5j2OdtBHKAqLhe6WIukDemv6UCUUAT0-mgCv/s1440/Galatoire's%2023.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1146" data-original-width="1440" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd-TL4s7p6nRit86N4kEN6UYKqGsBr7PELx7Vb3pgd1-NRcOIFnSwqI0S-ESfjN8uIeZQX5Poqk_FFw7Kvaawuq1CoPijENTeYlUSmU49gpxpSeKwGLrAHqzpHWUaoXjGLZOjh11C8FgVlVmjV5j2OdtBHKAqLhe6WIukDemv6UCUUAT0-mgCv/s320/Galatoire's%2023.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>One tourist event stands out from the rest: our ride on the Natchez Riverboat with its highly enjoyable jazz band. We also heard a great jazz band at the <a href="https://www.spottedcatmusicclub.com/">Spotted Cat </a>on Frenchmen Street on one rainy night. Loved the crowd there. And at the Rock and Bowl where we played an embarrassing game before hearing the rousing performance. All but Sebastian danced. Our holiday fun was followed by delicious Chinese cuisine at the <a href="https://fivehappinessnola.com/">Five Happiness</a>. </p><p>In the French Quarter, Darryl and I had a nice room with a balcony overlooking St. Ann St. at the <a href="https://www.placedarmes.com/">Place D'Armes</a>. 5 days at the Parkview and five there. Noisy but fun, I'd say. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjByO6b9qSWcDa5vYeXNff4Iq9vKp_83B8otGLf8KGQexMvMmdjlQhBobNWEWANg-3j3EayiUoon5iAuHx9vE476KthBRZOsRr0gKb6lrdF02oMDe1KutU1SCez0gevSXIdONsz14YQ2ulnRytcizhJIm_4lWZYfM_3okyEUlKi_nrORpbQQLSt/s1440/Spotted%20Cat%20Jazz%20'23.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjByO6b9qSWcDa5vYeXNff4Iq9vKp_83B8otGLf8KGQexMvMmdjlQhBobNWEWANg-3j3EayiUoon5iAuHx9vE476KthBRZOsRr0gKb6lrdF02oMDe1KutU1SCez0gevSXIdONsz14YQ2ulnRytcizhJIm_4lWZYfM_3okyEUlKi_nrORpbQQLSt/s320/Spotted%20Cat%20Jazz%20'23.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVvlbCiCwhZlNQcAkvibW1fmvlToiVU-JnlunRekvAfSFby_Klr10I6EI0rpaPX1xBMaZ6x4HV32vBzqUjQcqHiIRp4rxPbCal_R-2rdUdjFknKo5FkoERb_vwrjCoTv8pm4dZFmHZgU8jWICGJV1Rfbn8MlGikY7ZqoHMhyphenhyphenIQdKwvQP-V48Lt/s1800/xmastree23.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVvlbCiCwhZlNQcAkvibW1fmvlToiVU-JnlunRekvAfSFby_Klr10I6EI0rpaPX1xBMaZ6x4HV32vBzqUjQcqHiIRp4rxPbCal_R-2rdUdjFknKo5FkoERb_vwrjCoTv8pm4dZFmHZgU8jWICGJV1Rfbn8MlGikY7ZqoHMhyphenhyphenIQdKwvQP-V48Lt/s320/xmastree23.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>For all the food, the fun, the music, and the activity, I must say news trickled in from sources other than TV (where Darryl and I watched TCM and Judy Garland or Cary Grant). Even on holiday in New Orleans, the planet's destruction by climate change and corrupt politics cannot be ignored. The awareness of disaster grows; there is a sense of anxiety everywhere. Even my optimistic friends, like Barbie in the movie of her name, are forced to face the real world, instead of their imagined fantasy world. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_vBwusJy6RSSLI_y6q1HCL4CRsOBML2HWTe-wacwkRs5FgjucvXRWKFweJKfjrDHjl7k5I1SeDXEnHDtFTBEDuDe9oUhsMJghbiAlfIeUeLK_wpmJJArGd9xsfhY2qIiPXP7tZvSJf_VKS-UWVDBceU9C4DKkpRbzqhyphenhyphenddEu2lwac1qK4vjsW/s1440/CraneAudubonPark23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_vBwusJy6RSSLI_y6q1HCL4CRsOBML2HWTe-wacwkRs5FgjucvXRWKFweJKfjrDHjl7k5I1SeDXEnHDtFTBEDuDe9oUhsMJghbiAlfIeUeLK_wpmJJArGd9xsfhY2qIiPXP7tZvSJf_VKS-UWVDBceU9C4DKkpRbzqhyphenhyphenddEu2lwac1qK4vjsW/s320/CraneAudubonPark23.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-66990133169758250152023-12-02T07:52:00.005-05:002023-12-02T09:23:11.231-05:00Beethoven, Piano Sonata 32<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKGGIZehyphenhyphenveNlvhMdveCbjiiNPftdMmQ_dVQbh2qbMFec5k68nT5vZdqz5OAaezx82vmjse-X4M59574J0n1eO4VQhhREuiPd5faz8eFBbUT1mDNoxWsR5TEAPkXk2xXPeaMS8kUKGLyQcQUWo1Qzx-RDHxy8gUpr4POoJiQg0HmY6IMhGKbA2/s1713/DT.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="1713" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKGGIZehyphenhyphenveNlvhMdveCbjiiNPftdMmQ_dVQbh2qbMFec5k68nT5vZdqz5OAaezx82vmjse-X4M59574J0n1eO4VQhhREuiPd5faz8eFBbUT1mDNoxWsR5TEAPkXk2xXPeaMS8kUKGLyQcQUWo1Qzx-RDHxy8gUpr4POoJiQg0HmY6IMhGKbA2/s320/DT.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f0f0f; font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Daniil Trifonov</span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8m9Lqu_t2s&ab_channel=EscuelasdeMusica">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8m9Lqu_t2s&ab_channel=EscuelasdeMusica</a></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">What a remarkable work of art Beethoven's 32d piano sonata is. This performance of it by </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: trebuchet;">Daniil Trifonov is recorded beautifully and, for me, it is incredibly moving. It has always amazed and confounded me that Beethoven, himself, could not hear it. What transcendent state of mind he must have had to be able to hear, only in his mind, what this sonata would sound like. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The 32d Sonata was his last. As the age of 80 comes into view for me, I want nothing more than the peace of mind and simple beauty of this sonata. I've seen much of the world, had a fine life, had love, especially the love of my ever patient husband, had wonderful friends, have been told how much my teaching has meant to others. There is so much to be grateful for, so much to praise in my experience of almost four score years. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d;">There has also been grief and suffering in my life, the tragic loss of three profound friendships to murder, AIDS, and suicide. My own personal grief pales in the face of wars, starvation, poverty, and cruelty. Perhaps Shakespeare got humanity best when he presented us with fools strutting upon a stage, embodying the utter absurdity of the human condition. That, alas, is what I see every day. No amount of good food, or even great art, can blind me to what is happening worldwide, to what atrocities we are committing day after day. The good are not winning... Let me count the ways.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d;">Can I live with global injustice and the horrors it spawns? I don't know. Can I count my blessings and ignore the rest? Isn't doing so, itself, contributing to the injustice? Well, I have no answers. All I can do is listen to another great work of music, or go back to sleep this early, fog enshrouded morning in Druid Hills. </span></span></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwas_7H5KUs&ab_channel=BATACHANDESU"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwas_7H5KUs&ab_channel=BATACHANDESU</span></a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSsn39qJ_aHBlKCiUo7naHrKMsQPvzUdtZMWG9rmlz5D_tN04EfIWovnsqGSN8_eC9Sr7SqGyZ8zzhlnUl0ca7XsKxdY68igywhQKuj1qIUuHWWSZ44_NersuPMs7tVKmxewRiEorhgxzTUqrSrXzrO_B8O2GkksVT_aNY8zZy3yztBvXp9lV3/s2048/glennGould2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSsn39qJ_aHBlKCiUo7naHrKMsQPvzUdtZMWG9rmlz5D_tN04EfIWovnsqGSN8_eC9Sr7SqGyZ8zzhlnUl0ca7XsKxdY68igywhQKuj1qIUuHWWSZ44_NersuPMs7tVKmxewRiEorhgxzTUqrSrXzrO_B8O2GkksVT_aNY8zZy3yztBvXp9lV3/s320/glennGould2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Glenn Gould<br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-73410675611562567692023-10-29T11:29:00.006-04:002023-10-29T11:55:09.362-04:00Day of the Dead<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPjjsppQDonbZqaibqwkS04nOhNtmgtLP5aCOW2zTlT6rZeLqfcPtBfe4QsLSbi3RKsqut5mpGMKmu7SoZggnaj6RO7UFtZ5FdIgkk8L5PftOFmS3UVOf_rRQN-1zPDMi5xcugLNNeukaw318CZ9fBb8aQwSiifbI8XdIL6gT2FNnaFVHSXjjJ/s991/dayofthedead.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="991" data-original-width="991" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPjjsppQDonbZqaibqwkS04nOhNtmgtLP5aCOW2zTlT6rZeLqfcPtBfe4QsLSbi3RKsqut5mpGMKmu7SoZggnaj6RO7UFtZ5FdIgkk8L5PftOFmS3UVOf_rRQN-1zPDMi5xcugLNNeukaw318CZ9fBb8aQwSiifbI8XdIL6gT2FNnaFVHSXjjJ/s320/dayofthedead.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Ah, if it were only I who will be dying in the decade ahead. But what better time to think of the balm of death than the Day of the Dead. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #660000;">Why, you may ask, am I so pessimistic? Well, I call it realistic. Israel and Palestine are killing thousands of innocent people in a war of bigotry. Russia and Ukraine are at war for years. Threats of future wars are simmering. The e</span><span style="color: #660000;">ndless mass shootings continue unabated. </span><span style="color: #660000;"> Climate change is killing people all over the planet. Our own Congress is run by bigots and people spreading hate. For me, no amount of good food, beverage, or travel, or even my delightful hikes in the forest and in the mountains can numb the awareness of the evil we daily inflict on ourselves, on the animals of the world, and on the planet itself. Mankind is cruel and destructive, no matter the gorgeous art, the creativity, the genius, if you will. We are killers. Eventually we shall kill ourselves in a painful way, whether by war or by pollution. And when we hide our heads in the sand, we suffocate. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>That being said, I do want to fondly remember some the dear dead in my own life. Murder, suicide, disease, and broken hips took them. Only Dad lived into his mid-nineties. All the rest died too young. 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font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p>Autumn in Druid Hills</b></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">On this delightful morning, what better way to worship on a Sunday than to listen to piano sonatas. As Israel goes to war, as people all over the planet are dying from war and climate disasters, there seems to me to be nothing to do but enjoy the beauty of music, of autumn air, and the recall of a lovely day, yesterday, strolling through the towering trees of Fernbank Forest for a mile or two of breezes in the trees, an occasional woodpecker, and sublime tranquility. </span></p><p><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Beyond our porch the camellia is in full fall bloom. its pink blossoms soaking up the sun and dancing in the cool breezes. Darryl promises a quiche. Druid Hills provides an oasis for us. Here are a few photographs from Fernbank I took a few weeks ago. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlp7xpy_BvoATDpq-zytZmM7YjBi6Vqr5t-oGDQaMTqeT7VOYtSXq1dPHxlZG66bVHd7oC58tUlFU44_S10oQnEAyaAdn6Ci4fGXGE6NRmcPHCrKCJh0OqBXVhTOLbh4Ov2ysA8zc9N9Vdt9u3YxlPJ3dn5qWuOYdPAni6ZiJsxXtj-kWDNEpR/s4080/PXL_20230924_150929919.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlp7xpy_BvoATDpq-zytZmM7YjBi6Vqr5t-oGDQaMTqeT7VOYtSXq1dPHxlZG66bVHd7oC58tUlFU44_S10oQnEAyaAdn6Ci4fGXGE6NRmcPHCrKCJh0OqBXVhTOLbh4Ov2ysA8zc9N9Vdt9u3YxlPJ3dn5qWuOYdPAni6ZiJsxXtj-kWDNEpR/s320/PXL_20230924_150929919.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsz4A5bLQU8DyiLeHt9KnfCErEQu_fvFMrXmrOtQqnCnFmcmf5FqrRbOebwwenRleMRP6PA2akWjWnhJ6yV8I1Pky5R1M7070doQAhYmHqGWXcTz3ARKYlG9b3u40DoDo-bRtc18XfPTwGW-Gi9whAikJeo89Ho8jagI6Fhv7YErltrUPbSE7C/s2911/PXL_20230924_151543928.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2719" data-original-width="2911" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsz4A5bLQU8DyiLeHt9KnfCErEQu_fvFMrXmrOtQqnCnFmcmf5FqrRbOebwwenRleMRP6PA2akWjWnhJ6yV8I1Pky5R1M7070doQAhYmHqGWXcTz3ARKYlG9b3u40DoDo-bRtc18XfPTwGW-Gi9whAikJeo89Ho8jagI6Fhv7YErltrUPbSE7C/s320/PXL_20230924_151543928.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4g4_APiwIGk-V1LW8Tmh2_nb0LUkWzlKIgGY7s3dl50_rHgemjEd6XgidV0L5IfCwjhqeisHvGu_36cFNsKr3CO38Oaxs3qRNJSnpaNTdIvK6eW3A6a5kOOFGxK8wDVS-5bzSeyMCAnZYrKG1PpyJOcyaDuMZHLNqY2LOaFRjAYrcvwjY9bOr/s4080/PXL_20230924_150554551.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4080" data-original-width="3072" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4g4_APiwIGk-V1LW8Tmh2_nb0LUkWzlKIgGY7s3dl50_rHgemjEd6XgidV0L5IfCwjhqeisHvGu_36cFNsKr3CO38Oaxs3qRNJSnpaNTdIvK6eW3A6a5kOOFGxK8wDVS-5bzSeyMCAnZYrKG1PpyJOcyaDuMZHLNqY2LOaFRjAYrcvwjY9bOr/s320/PXL_20230924_150554551.jpg" width="241" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #990000; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-72496906101497165792023-09-09T10:47:00.004-04:002023-09-09T21:46:13.554-04:00How Fragile We Are<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggeQh8WsrOXOChIXujpCBUD1VWJ1F1NhHD_5VdxzupmYv5nGAWXz3_UlDPQRJSvP9hEdidgZQ3tRvkxIMPoK9p04oipPkej5iByaYoBjow9HMIbqhRx3935hv9i4gzX5HkGsptZ3eP5md7wY7HuZijjrBjCWk3EKeWBVVj5TtW77vb58NUA9b9/s2000/Socrates.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggeQh8WsrOXOChIXujpCBUD1VWJ1F1NhHD_5VdxzupmYv5nGAWXz3_UlDPQRJSvP9hEdidgZQ3tRvkxIMPoK9p04oipPkej5iByaYoBjow9HMIbqhRx3935hv9i4gzX5HkGsptZ3eP5md7wY7HuZijjrBjCWk3EKeWBVVj5TtW77vb58NUA9b9/s320/Socrates.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">We are discussing Socrates in my Philosophy class this week and next. Here was a philosopher the citizens of Athens put to death for questioning the norms of the city. He criticized and exposed the lack of reason and knowledge the Sophists and other authorities revealed when Socrates engaged them in dialog. Here is a recent, good overview of his guilt and innocence, his irony, and his sense of humor from the University of Chicago:</span></p><h1 class="c-headline__heading" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: -0.0875rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><br /></h1><h1 class="c-headline__heading" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: -0.0875rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><a href="https://wisdomcenter.uchicago.edu/news/wisdom-news/what-socrates-know-nothing-wisdom-can-teach-polarized-america" target="_blank"><u>What Socrates’ ‘know nothing’ wisdom can teach a polarized America</u></a></span></h1><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">If wisdom can lead to a sentence of death, living in a world of oligarchs and climate change can be perpetually a hazard. Millions of people do not have the education, the life experience, or the common sense to see through the myths and pretense of those in power. We succumb to abuse by insurance companies, banks, hospitals, lobbied legislatures, special interests, the numbing religions, their foolish, empty prayers, the norms of our own regimented society. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Darryl's younger brother Bill died this week from neglect and the inability to care for himself in an inattentive nursing home. My own brother languishes in Savannah with a bladder catheter left inside him with an appointment to see a urologist 10 days later, next week. The weak and the poor are regularly left with poor, neglectful treatments by a society obsessed with money. I think of my own misdiagnosis of cancer when the tumor I was told I had failed to appear during a biopsy, as did the alleged cancer. "We are 90% certain you have cancer," the physician at Emory Hospital told me. When questioned about that traumatizing statement, the doctor said, "we assume everyone your age has cancer." Of course, because thereby the hospital can charge my insurance company $39,000 and me a copayment of $1000. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Today over 2000 people in Morocco died in a huge earthquake. Is it possible to have empathy for these people? Or does our expression of sorrow, our empty, insulting prayers for so many people amount to little or nothing in a world of loss and suffering such as Buddha spoke of? Most people are incapable of grasping such suffering, incapable of comprehending the scope of devastation facing us from the warming climate, the rising seas, the melting glaciers and ice caps. We are fragile beyond our understanding. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Our civilization, like the wildlife in the world, is grinding, painfully grinding, to a glacially slow extinction. We see the destruction, the storms, the hurricanes, the wildfires, the disappearing of species, the famines and droughts. Then we jump in our SUVs and drive to the airport for an international flight. We simply cannot make the necessary transition from macrocosm to microcosm. So we do next to nothing, or add to the waste. Being almost blind, we elect the very politicians who are making things worse, ignoring climate, supporting the vast pollution of corporations, ending human rights, moving our society away from democracy to the autocracy of the oligarchs. "Say, what?"</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Please, do not despair; the vast universe will continue to birth stars; galaxies will collide; what we do on Earth will not matter in the great scheme of the universe. Beings who live in the Andromeda Galaxy have never even heard of us, and never will.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1XCKyLRu8gOPSWwmVFdKtscLBix6NgG_km-9TanYmIZ3-UDaoe2f6ayQedMR5McV2p8nSAiLDsHXjPD7N9rMpWUrFabzGRPi8tNzMo7uDL-oZ3GNkg2WMYNE4IWFp0xPUL7I7m-im52cutN4WDRDR5xBkg8SuADGiV2eVD0OaoAgSj4lCtjj/s4114/Andromeda_Galaxy.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2778" data-original-width="4114" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1XCKyLRu8gOPSWwmVFdKtscLBix6NgG_km-9TanYmIZ3-UDaoe2f6ayQedMR5McV2p8nSAiLDsHXjPD7N9rMpWUrFabzGRPi8tNzMo7uDL-oZ3GNkg2WMYNE4IWFp0xPUL7I7m-im52cutN4WDRDR5xBkg8SuADGiV2eVD0OaoAgSj4lCtjj/w414-h279/Andromeda_Galaxy.jpg" width="414" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaAorqR0ICk&ab_channel=James" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; 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font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1183" data-original-width="926" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaVxFeiGmdB22LEucf0jEzV229sR7KD7lKdL8H4CAUy9JC5AZv1TBs_NVTLv1xqs6SNTQCAwYXsBdUnPpr5LKnxsNyB3hLqxOf1gho_JT-3UeIN943iapdmLYWeljW-xThE93mPmtHm-jEfTln-21cDwKyQJAhQvnjPFnGC7XN8bSggjC4BDDw/s320/Laozi_Riding_an_Ox1.jpg" width="250" /></a></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>This tempest tossed day I've spent with Jess at home and at the stimulating, intoxicating atmosphere of Apres Diem. We ran through rivulets of water to get to our outdoor, but covered, table as lightning bolted and downpours poured down. It was a blessed, 73 degree, breezy setting. </b></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitLAwGkE2nMXkngav8ac13xPYkrOpQRLDy1jdtASU_Mf53B0Mwc7yfUmH7s_QYQlZtSRlyD8x7eBEyOF-l9dPldy0Iaoyl7LBeyMHoJG0nWrhAMMqwyeWU_evKCpdlP4fl_Y3ZK21_wF5940gS6Ngi8YShwjTMOM_gkRgJzZuDnE9xAEclq7mD/s4000/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer,_The_Four_Horsemen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="2907" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitLAwGkE2nMXkngav8ac13xPYkrOpQRLDy1jdtASU_Mf53B0Mwc7yfUmH7s_QYQlZtSRlyD8x7eBEyOF-l9dPldy0Iaoyl7LBeyMHoJG0nWrhAMMqwyeWU_evKCpdlP4fl_Y3ZK21_wF5940gS6Ngi8YShwjTMOM_gkRgJzZuDnE9xAEclq7mD/s320/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer,_The_Four_Horsemen.jpg" width="233" /></a></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Our four horsemen of conversation, carrying us through brunch and the afternoon, were art, philosophy, flailing democracy, and climate. Jess raised the question in our dialog, who is the radical, the person who will not stop addressing the disasters, or the person who is in radical denial, the calm one who is indifferent to political change and climate horrors? The screamer into the widening abyss, or the person who wills not to see or confront the abyss. You know, the three monkeys on a temple in Japan who cover their ears, eyes, and mouth? Maybe they are the most radical of all, the real monsters. </b></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7SwZAORWqJ8XWPW0ZpnAJl7tTwyDaXZYUeK0rcwfJFqYWd8Vkuu6ALd5pibsR0i_sGmDEvxGlcrB7F3PEXdWRJmWFCJGmE0FvPQ7UOS6jE35HESKYKmALyXLb4SsCxvjkT13r7kT3eWP0mm1lbSATSVSqnQ6LAJsx2oNggT4GyWB3dmOvQDap/s560/jesstybee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="428" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7SwZAORWqJ8XWPW0ZpnAJl7tTwyDaXZYUeK0rcwfJFqYWd8Vkuu6ALd5pibsR0i_sGmDEvxGlcrB7F3PEXdWRJmWFCJGmE0FvPQ7UOS6jE35HESKYKmALyXLb4SsCxvjkT13r7kT3eWP0mm1lbSATSVSqnQ6LAJsx2oNggT4GyWB3dmOvQDap/s320/jesstybee.jpg" width="245" /></a></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Jess and I share not only our world views, but our sense of humor. We laughed through <span style="background-color: white;">Pâté</span>. We laughed through poached eggs and salmon, waffles and fruit. And our dialog was fruitful indeed. We downed espressos and made a merry time of it. We found our way through the storms of the day.</b></span></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio7cpuoQ4rQqmN0ZpRnNFz0ZpiPxHkIHkp0x2ddz0W_oiddxfblu5EOXJsxjMWq2tn5jHtK3ZZKJykEbQT52HrvF23HLlIjD9C_sDyDLwKzDqErQ6ROoOzqBsea1dYUuOJfSXDD0Vsvk6E77buZqo7XaNapJwZwrVcrKD1gz-23V_yHIZ_RnGO/s467/jackpittstnawlins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="285" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio7cpuoQ4rQqmN0ZpRnNFz0ZpiPxHkIHkp0x2ddz0W_oiddxfblu5EOXJsxjMWq2tn5jHtK3ZZKJykEbQT52HrvF23HLlIjD9C_sDyDLwKzDqErQ6ROoOzqBsea1dYUuOJfSXDD0Vsvk6E77buZqo7XaNapJwZwrVcrKD1gz-23V_yHIZ_RnGO/s320/jackpittstnawlins.jpg" width="195" /></a></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-27757243649521633052023-07-26T09:46:00.035-04:002023-08-07T17:34:15.937-04:00How the years fly by...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">What's in a life? Adventure, Love, Thoughts and Feelings. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><header style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; margin-top: 1em;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 3.6rem; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 0.9; margin: 0px 0px 1em; order: 2; width: 796.5px;">Goethe and Beethoven</h3><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 1.3rem; letter-spacing: 0.2em; margin: 0px; order: 1; padding: 1em 0px; text-transform: uppercase; width: 796.5px;"><a href="https://libertiesjournal.com/author/alfred-brendel/" rel="tag" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #5aa89f; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; transition: all 0.3s ease-out 0s;">ALFRED BRENDEL</a></h4></header><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thinking about extraordinary figures such as Goethe and Beethoven, one gets the feeling of observing in the distance two inconceivably tall towers. Their height seems impossible to calculate. What do they have in common? Where do they differ from each other? How harmonious is their architecture? Are there areas of dilapidation? Getting nearer, you can count the number of stories and windows, but the highest features are hidden in the clouds. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let me start by establishing what Goethe and Beethoven are not. Beethoven’s music is not, as the legend has it, harsh and heroic, in the sense that this would indicate the core of his personality. To be sure, he composed grand works such as the Eroica Symphony and the Fifth Symphony, and he had to endure the latter part of his life heroically with his hearing gravely diminished. But where does the harsh-and-heroic picture leave the profundity of his incomparable slow movements, his </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">dolce </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">and his </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">pianissimo</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, his personal variety of grace, the dancing character of some of his finales, the humor that is discernible up to his final works? Without recognizing the full range of his expressivity and his innovative urge, we would fail to do justice to Beethoven’s greatness. Goethe, similarly, is not captured by his legend. He was not just the Olympian spirit or the privy councillor, the stormy poet or the distanced classicist of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Iphigenia</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">; he was all these things at once and so much more. The singularity of both are steeped in their personal diversity. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Both lived in a period of upheaval. Goethe as well as Beethoven, who was a generation younger, admired Napoleon, and Goethe, in awe, considered him demonic. Napoleon told Goethe that he had read </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Sorrows of Young Werther</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> for the seventh time. Beethoven tore up his dedication to Napoleon of the Eroica Symphony after he had proclaimed himself the French Emperor, but Goethe’s admiration did not cease. He continued to wear the cross of the </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Légion d’honneur</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> that was presented to him by Napoleon, and he kept a portrait relief of the French emperor next to his desk. Goethe’s art collection included no less than fifty Napoleon medals. He never shared the patriotic frenzy that Napoleon provoked in German circles. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">An aesthetic upheaval around 1800 was the transition to Romanticism. Goethe’s late that pronouncement “the Classical is healthy, the Romantic sick” should not lead us astray. He himself had taken part in the formation of Romantic poets and philosophers at the University of Jena, an institution that he had masterminded. Some of these writers were Goethe’s personal friends, and his </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">was profusely praised by Friedrich Schlegel. In the second part of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Faust</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and in some of his papers on the natural sciences, Goethe’s writing came close to the romantic idea of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Universalpoesie</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, of poetry merging with science. Late in his life, he declared that “it is high time that the passionate discord between Classics and Romantics will finally be reconciled.” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beethoven seems to us to belong safely to the classical side: even in the experimental works of his late style, he presents us with something autonomous and self-contained. And yet the contemporary German writer and composer E.T.A. Hoffmann, in his celebrated essay on the Fifth Symphony, called Beethoven a Romantic, while for the French he has always been </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">romantique</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. Thus we find contradictions not only in their personalities but also in the way they were perceived, and in the manner in which they remain meaningful to us. Neither of them quite add up.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beethoven and Goethe shared huge renown already in their lifetime. Beethoven’s coffin was followed in the streets of Vienna by many thousands of mourners, while Goethe in his later Weimar years received the homage of countless visitors whom he generously entertained. His </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Werther</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> brought him early fame. Later his posterity seemed to owe more to his </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Faust</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the impact of which in books, plays, opera, and film continue into our time. Beethoven’s posthumous fame grew to make him the most widely appreciated of all composers. His Ninth Symphony has become the universal anthem of progress; it is presented to the public throughout the world on any occasion that points towards peace, freedom, and fraternity, if possible with a cast of thousands. Napoleon aimed to conquer the world, but it was Beethoven, it would seem, who succeeded in doing so, and permanently. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Beethoven and Goethe also share a similar range of expression. Beethoven’s musical compass reaches from the lyrical to the heroic, from simplicity to complexity, from humor to tragedy, from every mode of motion including dance to the utmost calm, from extraversion to contemplation, from triumph to desolation, from turbulence to composure, from string quartets, sonatas, and symphonies to bagatelles, from the lofty universal to the patriotic aberration. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Goethe’s abundance, while no less impressive, was supplemented by the enormous range of his interests. Let me start with the literatures. Goethe had an impressive command of languages, read Greek and Latin in the original, wrote poems in English and French as a teenager, loved Persian poetry, and translated from the French, English, and Italian. He read Kant, and, to him even more important, Spinoza. He collected folk songs at Herder’s suggestion, and warmly welcomed Arnim’s and Brentano’s compilation of German folk poetry </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Des Knaben Wunderhorn</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, which appeared in 1805-1808. In his writings he treated history and politics, and also public affairs, economics, and mining. He immersed himself passionately in the arts and contemplated for a while whether to become a painter. Inspired by Winckelmann, he enthused about the art of antiquity, while Palladio became his architectural guiding light. His musical needs ought by no means to be forgotten — they were particularly geared towards singing. For comic opera and </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">opera buffa</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, he even wrote a number of libretti that were composed and performed. In Weimar, where he kept all of Mozart’s later operas in the repertory, he remained in charge of theatre and opera for many years, frequently stage-directing the performances himself. Yet what fascinated Goethe more than anything during his late years were the natural sciences. His </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Theory of Colors</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, written in opposition to Newton’s, was particularly close to his heart. His phenomenological approach has recently found a number of advocates; it stands opposed to the empirical world of Galileo or Newton. If there was a blind spot in Goethe’s quest for knowledge, it was mathematics. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">And what Goethe and Beethoven further shared, if only for a while, were the persistent advances of Bettina von Arnim, an attractive young woman of considerable eloquence, a kind of female Cherubino, who pursued them both relentlessly. The ardor with which she tried to persuade Goethe of Beethoven’s greatness obviously did not fall on receptive ears.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img class="insignia" src="https://libertiesjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/insignia-break.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 2em auto; max-width: 150px; width: 150px;" />Beethoven remained a staunch admirer of Goethe throughout his life — without, however, earning any acknowledgement for his settings of several of Goethe’s poems. The only one of Beethoven’s works that Goethe appreciated was his incidental music for Goethe’s play </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Egmont</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, a stirring plea for freedom that was performed at the Weimar court. But not overly much: it appears that Goethe, who was hardly a born revolutionary, perceived Beethoven’s music as excessively violent. Goethe admired Mozart above all; he staged</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Don Giovanni </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">at his theatre with particular care. Like his political ideas, Goethe’s musical views were strongly defined but hardly progressive. For this reason, the magnificence of Schubert’s </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">lieder</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> eluded him as well. Where Goethe’s ears continued to serve him to perfection was in the perception of the sound of his own poetic language. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">When Beethoven and Goethe met in Teplitz in 1812 and spent time together, Goethe sent a note to Christiane Vulpius: “Never have I encountered an artist more concentrated, more energetic, or more cordial.” It is remarkable that, for once, this lucid characterization of the person may also be applied to Beethoven’s music: to its concentration, its propelling impulse, its warmth. Soon, however, some differences became apparent — for example, Goethe’s effortless socializing with dukes, queens, and ladies-in-waiting versus Beethoven’s grim unconventionality and social sullenness, his way of sometimes brusquely dealing with friends and antagonizing even male benefactors — Lobkowitz, Kinsky, Lichnowsky, Razumovsky — who nevertheless generously continued to finance his life in Vienna, keeping the Schuppanzigh Quartet at his disposal, and organising extensive rehearsals for the Eroica Symphony in various of Lobkowitz’ castles ahead of its first performance in Vienna. A glance at their handwriting serves to make their social difference apparent. Goethe writes in a thoroughly controlled manner, the lines strictly horizontal, the letters strongly slanted to the right. Beethoven’s letters, notes, and music manuscripts, by contrast, frequently push at the borders of the legible in their chaotic disorder.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">While Beethoven’s hearing problems progressively excluded him from social contact, Goethe retained his reputation as a superb conversationalist and reciter over many years. Within a remarkable circle of poets, writers, and intellectuals living in Weimar or teaching in Jena, Goethe always stood out. So how did he look? For his time he was tall. Tending towards corpulence, he had stunning dark brown eyes, a sonorous bass voice, yellow and somewhat crooked teeth, and an impressively sizeable nose. All the same, he was considered good-looking, and not just by women. Count Wolf Baudissin — who, jointly with August Wilhelm Schlegel, Dorothea Schlegel and Ludwig Tieck, produced the great German-language version of Shakespeare — pronounced that he never saw a more beautiful man of sixty. Goethe’s eloquence was legendary. He spoke softly and in a very measured way, it was said, but with an incredible assurance and adroitness of expression, with vivid mimicry and expressive gestures in an uninterrupted flow. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yet Goethe also loved to contradict, which brings me to a principal feature of his personality. His inner constitution consisted of contradictions, a fact of which he was well aware. He called himself “a person whose nature constantly throws him from one extreme to the other.” Like his Faust, he himself is “a man with his contradictions.” Contradictions embraced the whole of his life. Goethe didn’t think highly of opinions and contradicted them with pleasure. “Each uttered word stimulates its contrary sense.” Kanzler von Müller, one of his most intelligent conversation partners, speaks of his ability “to transform himself into all shapes, to play with everything, to absorb the most diverse of opinions and let them pass.” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">On the one side, Goethe declared: “For poems conjured out of nothing I have no use.” On the other: “All my poems are occasional.” (</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Alle meine Gedichte sind Gelegenheitsgedichte</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.) For Goethe, “the obstinacy of the moment” embodied the natural and the norm. He demanded spontaneity, though he reported to Frau von Stein about his work on Wilhelm Meister’s Theatrical Mission “that he was infusing artificiality into his style, in order to make it appear more natural.” “The conscience of the poet is a precious thing, yet the true power of production always rests, in the end, in the unconscious.” Goethe mistrusted the Socratic “know thyself,” but he also wrote a memoir called </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dichtung und Wahrheit</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, or </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Poetry and Truth</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. He is light and dark, a man of alternations, open both to reason and the irrational. He criticizes sentimentalism while simultaneously penning his own productions in the sentimental manner, not to forget his satire called “The Triumph of Sentimentality.” He avoided funerals but he clandestinely kept Schiller’s skull at his house for decades. He protested that “there is nothing more painful to me than writing letters,” but he produced, by the estimate of Albrecht Schöne, more than twenty thousand of them. Against an all-devouring empiricism he counterposed his own dogmatic worldview. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">He even contradicts his own contradiction. Surprisingly enough, there is one constant in Goethe’s life: the unassailability of nature. “In a conversation with another human being I am never quite sure who of us is right, but in conflict with nature I can tell from the start that she is right.” “The consistency of nature consoles us beautifully about the inconsistency of men.” “In whatever fashion, life is good.” Goethe accepts nature in all its beauty and terror. Nature is unfeeling, illuminating the good and the bad in equal measure. The disastrous earthquake of Lisbon in 1755 did not unsettle him as it did Voltaire. Goethe, who mistrusted all rules and dogmas, surrendered to natural law, to the consistency of nature. He called nature an organ played by our Lord, with the devil operating the bellows. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Similarly, the artist in Goethe’s view proceeds not as an imitator but as an innovator and a creator. Here he agrees with Kant, of whom he said in old age: “His immeasurable merit on behalf of the world and, I may say, on my own behalf, is that in his </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Critique of Judgement</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> art and nature are positioned next to one another and both are entitled to act aimlessly from grand principles.” Madame de Staël, one of the most perceptive women of her time, who greatly contributed to Goethe’s fame, once remarked that Goethe “feels powerful enough to bring, like nature, destruction into his own work.” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In literature, Goethe saw Shakespeare’s creations as nature’s embodiment. His plays, as Goethe says, all rotate around that secret point, the one that no philosopher has yet been able to determine, the point where the peculiarity of our self, the pretended freedom of our will, collides with the necessary motion of the whole. To describe freedom of will as pretended and questionable strikes the present reader as strangely modern. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img class="insignia" src="https://libertiesjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/insignia-break.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 2em auto; max-width: 150px; width: 150px;" />Beethoven, too, was close to nature, but hardly in the same fundamental sense. In his roamings through the countryside, you would hardly imagine him philosophizing or cataloguing the plants rather than pursuing his musical ideas. To be sure, a work such as the Pastoral Symphony gives evidence for Beethoven’s warm rural sympathy and affection. Yet I see liberty, not nature, as his principal concern, while Goethe, as he himself says, in a conflict between </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Natur- und Freiheitsmännern</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, between the adherents of nature and the adherents of liberty, would choose the naturalist. What concerns Goethe is inner freedom, the freedom of the single individual and not, as in Beethoven’s case, that of a future, utopian mankind. In his </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mephisto</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> he declares that he wouldn’t mind raising a glass in honor of liberty “if only the quality of your wines were slightly better.” </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Already in Bonn, Beethoven encountered the writings of Kant and Schiller. In Kant he would have found this: “The beautiful things indicate that human beings fit into the world” — an essential sentence. (Nietzsche made it even more poignant when he later said that “the only justification of the world and of humankind is aesthetic.”) Of Goethe’s poems, Beethoven’s set twenty to music, although</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"> lied</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> composition was not his foremost interest. As we know, Beethoven had decided already in Bonn to compose Schiller’s “Ode to Joy.” When he finally did so in Vienna, he shortened the poem and left out those stanzas which celebrate nature. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">How did Beethoven look? Again, like Goethe, he was equipped with a sonorous bass voice. For the rest, his appearance was markedly different — stocky, pockmarked, with curly hair, untidy in his numerous Viennese quarters, negligent also in his attire. This unruliness stands in utter contrast to the rigorous control of his compositions. Yet Beethoven famously improvised on the piano. Goethe as well must have been an outstanding improviser — of poems, of course — as was Marianne von Willemer, for a while his poetic companion, who contributed a few of the finest pieces to his </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">West-Eastern Divan</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">. Already in Goethe’s early poems of this “Storm and Stress” period, we encounter a directness and a spontaneity not seen before. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Opinions about Goethe’s and Beethoven’s posthumous impact have differed. Both Heine and Nietzsche, two vociferous if not uncritical admirers, thought Goethe to have been an event within the German language that remained without consequence. On the other hand, there does not seem to be any doubt about his impact on various other disciplines. Beethoven’s later music remained an enigma even to some of his friends. It was admiringly absorbed by Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Liszt, and Wagner, yet its audacity found its true continuation only in the twentieth century. Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Brahms responded to the challenge of the late quartets by domesticating them, smoothing them out. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img class="insignia" src="https://libertiesjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/insignia-break.png" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 2em auto; max-width: 150px; width: 150px;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The ambition to write and to think about the meaning of music has persisted for centuries. One of Beethoven’s leading commentators calls him an ideological composer. Others have different and equally simplifying views. The urge to derive from his works a formal analysis or to impose on it poetic, philosophical, religious, or even political ideas makes us easily forget that music has above all to be performed, turned into sound. (I am speaking here both as a performer and a listener.) The notion that the personal life of an artist will inform us about the reason for a work or furnish us with the explanatory background of a piece is widespread. But art and artist are not an equation — rarely does one mirror the other. What the composer creates may even be the opposite of his personality. We are talking about two incommensurable spheres — the common human one necessarily limited, the one within a great artist almost unlimited. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The first piece that Mozart seems to have composed after the death of his father was “A Musical Joke.” Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto, a work so obviously given to the positive, was composed during Napoleon’s siege of Vienna 1809, which the composer described: “What a destructive and desolate life around me. Nothing but drums, cannons, human misery of all kinds.” By no means does Beethoven’s sympathy for Napoleon explain the musical greatness of his Third Symphony, nor does his longing for liberty and brotherhood explain the stature of his Ninth Symphony. (Program music after Beethoven, which is inspired by personalities from imagination and myth such as Faust, Don Quixote, Zarathustra, Taras Bulba or Scheherazade, or by artists and ideas, only rarely aims at self-disclosure.) Goethe understood this irreducibility: in his view music possesses a demonic dimension — rising from cryptic depths, chaos turns into order. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Can music tell a story? There are instances where one could believe it. Here is an example. In Beethoven’s two-movement Sonata Op. 54, the title </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">La Belle et la Bête</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> that was bestowed on it by Richard Rosenberg seems apt, because it also hints at the formal process. A gracefully feminine theme and a fiercely stomping masculine theme are juxtaposed. In the course of the movement, </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">la belle </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">gradually gets the upper hand: the space that is granted to the beast is curtailed at each recurrence. When in the coda a new lyrical theme appears, </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">la bête</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is reduced to soft triplets in the bass. After an ultimate short outburst of the beast in </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">fortissimo</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, the concluding bars belong to </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">la belle </i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">alone. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">There is something like a psychology of music that follows the trail of its frame of mind, its characters, its tensions and resolutions. To be able to hear it is a special talent. Beethoven seems to have toyed with the idea of providing his works with poetic titles, but he refrained from it in the end. And yet his skill at characterization has never been surpassed. He had honed it in several smaller variation works before, while in his three most important sets of theme and variations he extended and diversified the variation form to an unprecedented degree. Whoever plays all his sonatas will constantly be reminded of the fact that Beethoven does not repeat himself. Obviously, his memory for what he had already composed was as powerful as his urge for innovation. Was there any other composer who covered a comparable distance from his beginnings to the string quartet Op. 135? </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In humor, Beethoven has a marked advantage. Goethe, it is said, possessed a brilliant skill in reciting comic texts, but he was not a humorist and he did not want to be one. Can you imagine Goethe laughing? When he called a writer a humorist, he was excluding him from the possibility of greatness. The exception was Laurence Sterne, the author of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tristram Shandy</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">, who delighted him to no end. Goethe distinguished between “good” humor and “evil” humor, but he only appreciated the good kind because it requires “equanimity and strength of character,” whereas the evil kind includes misanthropy and contempt of the world. When humor becomes grotesque, Goethe feels threatened. He talks of his own “timidity in the face of the absurd,” which can be overcome only by good humor and irony. He was familiar with Schlegel’s statement that naivety and irony are the hallmarks of genius. Schiller counted Goethe among the naifs, and Goethe did not object. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Goethe’s main poetic artery, blood from the heart continued pulsing until the end. His encounters with Ulrike von Levetzow and the Polish pianist Maria Szymanowska generated glorious poems. Up to his last days, however, we also come across those states of mind of which Goethe says: “I find myself in a veritable poetic mood in which I don’t know what I want or what I ought to do.” He counts his </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wilhelm Meister</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> among the most incalculable productions “to which I myself do not own the key.” Madame de Staël mentions, not without justification, his deep-seated immorality covered by a veil of mysticism. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">But finally the veil obscures both of them. Whatever one can say about Beethoven and Goethe remains incomplete, an inadmissible simplification. The highest stories of the towers remain invisible.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.288px;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)" style="font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif;"><a href="https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/goethe-and-beethoven/">https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/goethe-and-beethoven/</a></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.288px;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)" style="font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.288px;"><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8)" style="font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-family: Garalda, georgia, serif; font-size: 19.2px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; letter-spacing: -0.015em; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px auto 1em;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></p>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-67554733017068606632023-06-26T09:36:00.004-04:002023-06-26T09:45:27.253-04:00James Land Jones<div class="separator"><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br style="background-color: white; color: yellow; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /></p><h1 style="color: #11084c; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="color: #20124d;">Happy Birthday to the Spirit of </span></h1><div><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></div><h1 style="color: #11084c; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="color: #20124d;">James Land Jones</span></h1><h1 style="color: #11084c; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; margin: 0px; position: relative; text-align: -webkit-center;"><center style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"></center><div style="font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br style="color: yellow;" /></span></div><center><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-small;">1934-1986</span></center><center><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></center><center><span face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #20124d; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Friend, Mentor, Kindred Spirit</span></span></center></h1><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img align="RIGHT" alt="Mom, Jim, and John in Atlanta" src="https://www.geocities.ws/dargossett/jim3.jpg" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: yellow; display: block; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #003366; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><a href="http://www.geocities.ws/dargossett/jimj.jpg" style="background: white; color: #771000; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Jim at Moon River" src="https://www.geocities.ws/dargossett/jimj2.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; position: relative;" /></a><span style="background-color: blue; color: yellow; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003366; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: yellow; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><a href="http://www.geocities.ws/dargossett/jim.jpg" style="background: white; color: #771000; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14.85px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Jim in Savannah, 1970" src="https://www.geocities.ws/dargossett/jim2.jpg" style="border: none; display: block; position: relative;" /></a><span style="background-color: blue; color: yellow; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #003366; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;">Jim at home</span></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;">24 West Gaston St., Savannah</span></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6fLd_RdLADAlNvE2yCZbU71vLlu1E3d1JUzlhUB0vaW1NdQuYCrBsSCamrXsvceY4ehdW085EaAIMqNkeT25kH79W0FZ6Z3gGtgEZigVNnHv8_p9GCcxDjlz9VaLC9_CXkrmjZV1iY4wHZk9NNLsmUd4bAIjd8nqGHP6o_L_r3WHaKegVs3XK/s939/homeGastonSt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="719" data-original-width="939" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6fLd_RdLADAlNvE2yCZbU71vLlu1E3d1JUzlhUB0vaW1NdQuYCrBsSCamrXsvceY4ehdW085EaAIMqNkeT25kH79W0FZ6Z3gGtgEZigVNnHv8_p9GCcxDjlz9VaLC9_CXkrmjZV1iY4wHZk9NNLsmUd4bAIjd8nqGHP6o_L_r3WHaKegVs3XK/s320/homeGastonSt.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; 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font-size: 14.85px;"><h1 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><br /></h1></center><p><br style="background-color: white; color: yellow; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;" /><br /></p><center style="background-color: white; color: #11084c; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: #20124d;">.....The Johnny Mercer House at Moon River where Jack and Jim lived in the early 1970s</span></center><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #11084c; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #11084c; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #11084c; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #11084c; font-family: "times new roman", times, freeserif, serif; font-size: 14.85px;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="color: #20124d;"><b>Author of <i>Adam's Dream: Mythic Consciousness in Keats and Yeats, </i>Jim was also President of the Savannah Chapter of the Georgia Poetry Society, founder of the Oklahoma journal <i>Nimrod</i>, and a prize- winning poet.</b></span></span></p>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-90774964668948213842023-06-11T23:03:00.009-04:002023-06-12T12:38:22.204-04:00Love of Wisdom<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTJSycSD5REFbwzfE8Ns0nVNWPXbf8f3tpLpt0Ask0Uet9f1s9FVz5JK-3HTVq5o-KIyLnavZj1QFBlRmfxzwzaHe8xH4b7gIOODh1zgIgBXt5LTW4mIClkZ-mcjVeD9k3Dx_gX9B5JkLfHsR5i_Glr26bZQJtWTEDo2raJxzTpzw4lGmawg/s604/Delphi.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="473" data-original-width="604" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTJSycSD5REFbwzfE8Ns0nVNWPXbf8f3tpLpt0Ask0Uet9f1s9FVz5JK-3HTVq5o-KIyLnavZj1QFBlRmfxzwzaHe8xH4b7gIOODh1zgIgBXt5LTW4mIClkZ-mcjVeD9k3Dx_gX9B5JkLfHsR5i_Glr26bZQJtWTEDo2raJxzTpzw4lGmawg/s320/Delphi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #999999;"><p style="font-weight: bold;"><b><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-weight: bold;"><b><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></b></p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Delphi</span></b></span><div><span style="color: #999999; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>From my first pilgrimage there. <br /></b></span><p></p><p><b><span style="color: #999999;"><br /></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Today at lunch with a few good friends and a fraternity brother, we took up the question of identity. Do we or don't we have a personal, enduring self? Or are we, as Hume claimed, a mere bundle of sensations? Even my model philosophers, De Beauvoir and Sartre, insisted that we are always free to choose what we become, choose what our essence is, because our existence comes first. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I guess I haven't thought of it in this light, in the light of a basement bar in a New Orleans like restaurant serving Po-boys and Muffulettas. But yes, at some point, I do think we create a sustainable and enduring self, informed by our choices. My father, when I asked, told me he thinks of himself as a good citizen. That was his understanding of who he was. My self cannot be anything other than a Philosopher. Thinking about what it means to be alive, what it means to be ethical, what it means to be fully alive, such are the questions I ask. The answer may take on different variations, but the essence is the same. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Who we are is also deeply built upon who we choose to love. For me love is a relationship of intimacy that lasts for any amount of time from 6 months to a lifetime, that changes how we think of ourselves, takes away and adds to our overall personality. Takes something away from our prior self, yet adds to who we are as well. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">13 relationships in my long 75 years of life I count as love, as defining, romantic relationships. Five are with women, eight with men; though the distinction of male and female may well need some elaboration these days. Each relationship was mutually progressive, adding to our understanding of ourselves and of the other. None of my relationships was ever defined by monogamy; a fairly impossible thing for someone who is bisexual and feels the attraction and the revelations from both sides. Were I a great novelist, there would be 13 works of literature covering each relationship. All thirteen relationships are ever in my thoughts. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">There are also the things that are not my person. I am not a Christian. I am not a capitalist. I see both outlooks to be closer to evil than to anything good or constructive. Emperor Constantine saw the ways in which Christianity could be manipulated to promote conformity and loyalty to the crown. How modern Christians can ignore the horrors of the church, burning people alive who did not conform, is beyond my understanding. The evils of consumer based capitalism with its harm to people, the environment, and the sanctity of life itself are so overwhelming. If I have religious feelings, call them Pantheism, love of Nature, with a hint of Buddhist compassion. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">But here I am, an alien to my many friends' religion, an alien to their political views or lack thereof, an alien to their disregard for the environment and what horrors we are doing to the planet, an alien to their simple hedonism which omits art and music for drink and travel. Well, I've done the latter in part, though I can not imagine a life without music or art and never tire of experiencing new art, new revelations about existing art, or new music. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Philosophy does not provide final answers; it provides ongoing questions, about life, about value, about existence. Philosophy is a great joy to me, as great a joy as beautiful new music heard for the first time, as great a joy as the first experience of sex with a loved one, female and male. Let me put it another way:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death-- enduring words of Auntie Mame.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrkG5tnZqTB5gZVRZ0rRyz8d2RUGrg6_k2emltV54vzXiQmimxoW3LDxhZYtKpo9nZnhhwoubyuoRxV_xP5LuIUJxpt2GFWNAiw3hCx0UCiNtTxpDA0tCeoS_9lqBkZlOQxutHKIxcPSUu72EeICjTCYucGZNVKj4ECz-_APooTu0JtLVgw/s417/jak21.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrkG5tnZqTB5gZVRZ0rRyz8d2RUGrg6_k2emltV54vzXiQmimxoW3LDxhZYtKpo9nZnhhwoubyuoRxV_xP5LuIUJxpt2GFWNAiw3hCx0UCiNtTxpDA0tCeoS_9lqBkZlOQxutHKIxcPSUu72EeICjTCYucGZNVKj4ECz-_APooTu0JtLVgw/s320/jak21.jpg" width="318" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrkG5tnZqTB5gZVRZ0rRyz8d2RUGrg6_k2emltV54vzXiQmimxoW3LDxhZYtKpo9nZnhhwoubyuoRxV_xP5LuIUJxpt2GFWNAiw3hCx0UCiNtTxpDA0tCeoS_9lqBkZlOQxutHKIxcPSUu72EeICjTCYucGZNVKj4ECz-_APooTu0JtLVgw/s417/jak21.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Jack at 21</span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrkG5tnZqTB5gZVRZ0rRyz8d2RUGrg6_k2emltV54vzXiQmimxoW3LDxhZYtKpo9nZnhhwoubyuoRxV_xP5LuIUJxpt2GFWNAiw3hCx0UCiNtTxpDA0tCeoS_9lqBkZlOQxutHKIxcPSUu72EeICjTCYucGZNVKj4ECz-_APooTu0JtLVgw/s417/jak21.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrkG5tnZqTB5gZVRZ0rRyz8d2RUGrg6_k2emltV54vzXiQmimxoW3LDxhZYtKpo9nZnhhwoubyuoRxV_xP5LuIUJxpt2GFWNAiw3hCx0UCiNtTxpDA0tCeoS_9lqBkZlOQxutHKIxcPSUu72EeICjTCYucGZNVKj4ECz-_APooTu0JtLVgw/s417/jak21.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTrkG5tnZqTB5gZVRZ0rRyz8d2RUGrg6_k2emltV54vzXiQmimxoW3LDxhZYtKpo9nZnhhwoubyuoRxV_xP5LuIUJxpt2GFWNAiw3hCx0UCiNtTxpDA0tCeoS_9lqBkZlOQxutHKIxcPSUu72EeICjTCYucGZNVKj4ECz-_APooTu0JtLVgw/s417/jak21.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_9xsLMMyNTg8Z4R32XXJ5RQ289H2EqymiIjeFFmHWTtyBBqQ727uvdpGla-xNzr-TzyGn3QtnohIQ5e-iAEfXoNoKQBuhr9WIyRWAac9rLE-ScFZsFUR4Id_duwMnGjCPRlILzWvwTS97ZPIo_z8H9xn8pXz-6oWFi8udUDB7Q5pYh5AAw/s363/darjakpmontpark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="321" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_9xsLMMyNTg8Z4R32XXJ5RQ289H2EqymiIjeFFmHWTtyBBqQ727uvdpGla-xNzr-TzyGn3QtnohIQ5e-iAEfXoNoKQBuhr9WIyRWAac9rLE-ScFZsFUR4Id_duwMnGjCPRlILzWvwTS97ZPIo_z8H9xn8pXz-6oWFi8udUDB7Q5pYh5AAw/s320/darjakpmontpark.jpg" width="283" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_9xsLMMyNTg8Z4R32XXJ5RQ289H2EqymiIjeFFmHWTtyBBqQ727uvdpGla-xNzr-TzyGn3QtnohIQ5e-iAEfXoNoKQBuhr9WIyRWAac9rLE-ScFZsFUR4Id_duwMnGjCPRlILzWvwTS97ZPIo_z8H9xn8pXz-6oWFi8udUDB7Q5pYh5AAw/s363/darjakpmontpark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_9xsLMMyNTg8Z4R32XXJ5RQ289H2EqymiIjeFFmHWTtyBBqQ727uvdpGla-xNzr-TzyGn3QtnohIQ5e-iAEfXoNoKQBuhr9WIyRWAac9rLE-ScFZsFUR4Id_duwMnGjCPRlILzWvwTS97ZPIo_z8H9xn8pXz-6oWFi8udUDB7Q5pYh5AAw/s363/darjakpmontpark.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">Darryl and Jack: Married</a></div></div>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-72379350727457185842023-06-03T11:12:00.004-04:002023-06-04T10:41:39.908-04:00Summertime and the Living is easy-- in the Mountains! <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktLFRZUx-0B68PMvy0zUrpeCNmKbIH_ekUVZ0c_IwM3VtobOQrnGAshtXvhdrWx38wgMqKzPxSDIVN_RerMNib2k4qa6dMCOuiWFbhno5nb923aAwDW1CeR0BEptFiesnE9lPE9YcWMD-a_bX41v9RsONjfBhKyKe69KFW5ZMBsKoIErZlw/s679/donkeys.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="548" data-original-width="679" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiktLFRZUx-0B68PMvy0zUrpeCNmKbIH_ekUVZ0c_IwM3VtobOQrnGAshtXvhdrWx38wgMqKzPxSDIVN_RerMNib2k4qa6dMCOuiWFbhno5nb923aAwDW1CeR0BEptFiesnE9lPE9YcWMD-a_bX41v9RsONjfBhKyKe69KFW5ZMBsKoIErZlw/s320/donkeys.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">June and July offer great opportunities for staying high up in the cool air of the Mountains of North Georgia and North Carolina. The Pisgah Inn, for instance sits at 5000 feet, overlooking mountains and valleys. Hiking trails, and fabulous meals abound at the places we stay. Trout, Truffle Oil Mushrooms, fried okra, fresh lima beans, sweet potatoes locally grown, culinary bliss. Birds, beasts, horses, and even a donkey or two enjoy the rolling hills. </span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF3UFYKYaD89o2Po5OWYk33-ibgakC3W3n8NNI7gVi7MN5l-OeO5Qn0Jc8Th-ZzREaiaUbENnS_lepVlwKbuCY8JoV1PCG53m50k-aRQP4AvzjYwyqC6nw9zdVgV0tnr-w_EjkA9bX6Fiw27iDuTEBpQkAjy-9q7Bg3MnEd2f1qru4uqs37Q/s576/lunchclub.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="576" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF3UFYKYaD89o2Po5OWYk33-ibgakC3W3n8NNI7gVi7MN5l-OeO5Qn0Jc8Th-ZzREaiaUbENnS_lepVlwKbuCY8JoV1PCG53m50k-aRQP4AvzjYwyqC6nw9zdVgV0tnr-w_EjkA9bX6Fiw27iDuTEBpQkAjy-9q7Bg3MnEd2f1qru4uqs37Q/s320/lunchclub.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhcXYEO0cam2dzAuejifpUlEOv18ovVtoMJIZu9jQ2-FrbdR1GPwdZvTB9jWXJn1UAA1xrMRzmHsAkQAs73x5fTR_T8W4Foy-j0r7nU-jKkNFzPkiI12Ja32tglPvb-OwqQ3lI5IIZ6kYZQ9_Ek35gOyjzoTjZWrr5kDYNMfAJEvzFKnOrw/s320/crown.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="color: #351c75;"><br /></span></div>Not since high school have I felt patriotism and never since understood it. I find U.S. politics horrific and the GOP to be a tribe of corruption. But I find the British Monarchy a ridiculous mockery of autocracy, form with no substance, a colossal waste. On the whole, I've become a pessimist-realist concerning humanity as we continue our wars, elect corrupt fools, and trash the planet. And we have the nerve to believe in an absurd heaven of angels floating over streets of gold. LOL.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Trump, Clarence Thomas, George Santos, Kevin McCarthy, religious Mike Pence, a ship of fools who are leading our country, who are damning Democrats who mean well, but haven't the wherewithal to deal, much less the ability to put the corrupt Republicans in their place. </span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Sad Charles III, looking altogether lost with his wife in a hall of, an anachronism of, so-called aristocrats, strutting the stage. His crown, his ermine hat, bejeweled, always threatening to fall right off his head. He is clutching a few modern ideas like fighting climate catastrophe, and praising diversity. So much money fueling this pageantry. Most of England no longer wants it.</span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The rest of the world fares even worse: endless wars, endless pollution, endless births of babies of false hope, babies who will face and suffer the horrors yet to unfold. Sad beyond words.</span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I am grateful for my life, and for my loves, and I am ever ready for the release we are all so sure of. I have had some very good decades, maybe even one more. My friends, I wish the same for you. </span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKthDIudgw7IV5qYDjbkLBWf-QvVNIjLBeIW_YwofK8C4kOBV29L6yQUnAdL0PUoilWLo_9x0vAnGgxOFF6obereMom_kgztSocg09SB24aRCV5jmPw1PGEVp5znKgpSVYyXvGeC0Z4ogr-opaIyrljUSBGTLr0F0tn4ZkoJ4TcZ3JZNbIA/s2048/waterfall.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1988" data-original-width="2048" height="311" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCKthDIudgw7IV5qYDjbkLBWf-QvVNIjLBeIW_YwofK8C4kOBV29L6yQUnAdL0PUoilWLo_9x0vAnGgxOFF6obereMom_kgztSocg09SB24aRCV5jmPw1PGEVp5znKgpSVYyXvGeC0Z4ogr-opaIyrljUSBGTLr0F0tn4ZkoJ4TcZ3JZNbIA/s320/waterfall.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet;">Jack Jameson</span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-6486104526013613972023-04-24T22:51:00.005-04:002023-04-24T23:03:03.552-04:00Darryl on the Firing of Don Lemon by CNN (Washington Post)<p> </p><div style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; margin: 0 0 var(--mini-unit) 0 !important;"><div class="HistoryComment-storyTitle-a97fbed4d95ecf92f5160df4cecac17e coral coral-myComment-story" style="color: var(--palette-text-500); font-family: var(--font-family-secondary); font-size: var(--font-size-3); font-weight: var(--font-weight-secondary-bold); line-height: 1.125; margin-bottom: 32px;">CNN fires longtime host and anchor Don Lemon</div></div><div style="background-color: white; margin: 0 0 var(--mini-unit) 0 !important;"><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 HorizontalGutter-root-42028c0a7886c844bb9f01763cc43000 HorizontalGutter-full-680598106a6954360bcd94b9d3839ca7" style="border: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="HistoryComment-content-32d3c1511e3bfb3696684544c1dae089" style="font-size: var(--font-size-3); font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular); line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px;"><div class="HTMLContent-root-5770ce4668399900d87c06ad10ba71a5 htmlContent-root-fe3506b39eaecd1a685ceda5e1292c4d coral coral-myComment-content" style="color: var(--color-ui-gray-darkest) !important; line-height: 20px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;">When Nikki Haley made ageist comments about the president, Don Lemon said, essentially, you're no spring chicken yourself, honey. She rightfully took umbrage and opportunistically decided to play the sexism card.<br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;">What chafes is that Haley's perfunctory slur against the president went unrebuked and unapologized for, but CNN nevertheless roared to defend her honor as a woman. (Whicn smacks of sexism too, but that's another topic.)<br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;">As usual, Republicans can dish it out but can't take it. They called Hillary a murderer and satanist, but when she called them deplorable, it was a bridge too far.<br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;">The situation with Lemon and Haley involved sharp words between two grown people. I say those two grown people could have worked things out.<br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;">But the situation with Biden involves a huge portion of the media bullying one person because of an immutable physical characteristic, his age. They have extended this to an entire class of people: ie, no one over 70 or 75 should run for president. Now <i>that's </i>ageism!<br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;">In such cases of media and political bullying, the victim usually has no recourse. Joe and Hillary can't pull a Nikki Haley. They can't get half the people in the media fired for calling them demented or corrupt. They just have to hunker down and take it.<br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;">Nikki Haley, however, gets to wrap herself in estro-victimhood because a boy had the temerity to slap a girl back, and playground rules say that can't be done.<br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;">And CNN gets to virtue signal that they were protecting a damsel in distress -- <i>all </i>damsels in distress! -- when in fact they found a handy pretext to dump a low-rated anchor without being accused of racism or homophobia.<br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;">Meanwhile the network lurches ever rightward.</div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times;">(Published in the Washington Post, April 24, 2023.)</span></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times;">The article upon which the comment was made:</span></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/24/don-lemon-fired-cnn/">https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/24/don-lemon-fired-cnn/</a></span></div><div><span style="color: #353f44; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #353f44; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #353f44; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #353f44; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #353f44; font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: 16px;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-12729161598773724772023-04-23T15:48:00.006-04:002023-04-23T16:58:22.662-04:00Young Bloomsbury<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvOI0pjT0h5SyTJwb7Zc7GNV76fsGJ-bS8aYqciScZMs46ZL6uc4d9L4chYTB8-zZ2AUQyO2xo1OsWm5ISEzneADfFvhyuOespMEU64zqBgtA00e3A0CTPP8Nk5QB6Cj-M1Xb4rq0yz6aAzYEyqLC9Ts7VXQ77ouukzEG-a6ToeHyRZxUPQ/s720/sartre-and-de-beauvoir.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="385" data-original-width="720" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvOI0pjT0h5SyTJwb7Zc7GNV76fsGJ-bS8aYqciScZMs46ZL6uc4d9L4chYTB8-zZ2AUQyO2xo1OsWm5ISEzneADfFvhyuOespMEU64zqBgtA00e3A0CTPP8Nk5QB6Cj-M1Xb4rq0yz6aAzYEyqLC9Ts7VXQ77ouukzEG-a6ToeHyRZxUPQ/w427-h228/sartre-and-de-beauvoir.jpg" width="427" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvOI0pjT0h5SyTJwb7Zc7GNV76fsGJ-bS8aYqciScZMs46ZL6uc4d9L4chYTB8-zZ2AUQyO2xo1OsWm5ISEzneADfFvhyuOespMEU64zqBgtA00e3A0CTPP8Nk5QB6Cj-M1Xb4rq0yz6aAzYEyqLC9Ts7VXQ77ouukzEG-a6ToeHyRZxUPQ/s720/sartre-and-de-beauvoir.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvOI0pjT0h5SyTJwb7Zc7GNV76fsGJ-bS8aYqciScZMs46ZL6uc4d9L4chYTB8-zZ2AUQyO2xo1OsWm5ISEzneADfFvhyuOespMEU64zqBgtA00e3A0CTPP8Nk5QB6Cj-M1Xb4rq0yz6aAzYEyqLC9Ts7VXQ77ouukzEG-a6ToeHyRZxUPQ/s720/sartre-and-de-beauvoir.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvOI0pjT0h5SyTJwb7Zc7GNV76fsGJ-bS8aYqciScZMs46ZL6uc4d9L4chYTB8-zZ2AUQyO2xo1OsWm5ISEzneADfFvhyuOespMEU64zqBgtA00e3A0CTPP8Nk5QB6Cj-M1Xb4rq0yz6aAzYEyqLC9Ts7VXQ77ouukzEG-a6ToeHyRZxUPQ/s720/sartre-and-de-beauvoir.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Philosophically I have to praise Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre. It is their existentialism and savoir faire that I most admire in philosophy. </span><p></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">When it comes to the day to day affairs of intellectuals and artists, I have to imagine myself cavorting with the Blooms berries. I'm sure I would have loved Lytton Strachey and published a bit more than I have in the Hogarth Press. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #20124d;">As I read </span><b style="color: #20124d;"><i>Young Bloomsbury</i></b><span style="color: #20124d;"> by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d;"><b>Nino Strachey, </b>I see immediately that theirs is a world I would love to inhabit. The people I know, with rare and wonderful exceptions, are unable to reject the possessiveness and jealousy, the fear and insecurity, of those who clutch their partners (as long as they can), rather than have the intimacy and camaraderie of a garden filled with like-minded, passionate psyches. We have to ask if Bloomsbury would have been a happier, even more successful clan if they had the benefit of friendly laws involving same sex relationships we have today. They were courageous to live bisexual lives in all the fullness of being, following Simone De Beauvoir's brilliant recommendation: </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">“In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.”</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;">― </span><span class="authorOrTitle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: bold;">Simone de Beauvoir</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span class="authorOrTitle" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQpeHx_Ji6mBx0wrSpnwt-SnThXlsiVQmlY8Y08imuRAifi5mXeLN0xTNe8KqMQJsM8O9Hw54oWy5G76aA2UN97WHdi8RZN2sdNPQ7P3Y1xpAXD0259OJS_76bPXqeAxqCs2gYJ8OxwEzuDf5IZ5zpViNTNKbxBvXo9yQIc6ThcIyQmae9w/s600/Lytton%20Strachey.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="600" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEQpeHx_Ji6mBx0wrSpnwt-SnThXlsiVQmlY8Y08imuRAifi5mXeLN0xTNe8KqMQJsM8O9Hw54oWy5G76aA2UN97WHdi8RZN2sdNPQ7P3Y1xpAXD0259OJS_76bPXqeAxqCs2gYJ8OxwEzuDf5IZ5zpViNTNKbxBvXo9yQIc6ThcIyQmae9w/s320/Lytton%20Strachey.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Lytton Strachey by Carrington</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Read the brief, marvelous essay on a showing of their work at the Tate:</div></blockquote><p> <a href="https://thewire.in/culture/painting-circles-loving-triangles-bloomsbury-groups-queer-ways-seeing">https://thewire.in/culture/painting-circles-loving-triangles-bloomsbury-groups-queer-ways-seeing</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #20124d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Cheers,</b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: trebuchet;"><b>Jack</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></p>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-34284606260866728152023-03-21T16:59:00.000-04:002023-03-21T16:59:10.763-04:00March in Cloudland<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcS5__SrA7XvOXWhVzpTL8uzZM0YN58EfLGg6dF-lg5dhucv3coQw7XVCrA7Gkm3oFBU1YCwJkcxtC7X-alpgyV0gbCIIlLFjzQcWtuCMshm0pKRzje-Evp8c2EIqxIV2SuPuRaY5ZZFgafdLL21smBvKmkymxBEKPFhT426MLq_-9cg4riw/s1080/Cherokee%20falls.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcS5__SrA7XvOXWhVzpTL8uzZM0YN58EfLGg6dF-lg5dhucv3coQw7XVCrA7Gkm3oFBU1YCwJkcxtC7X-alpgyV0gbCIIlLFjzQcWtuCMshm0pKRzje-Evp8c2EIqxIV2SuPuRaY5ZZFgafdLL21smBvKmkymxBEKPFhT426MLq_-9cg4riw/s320/Cherokee%20falls.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: trebuchet;"><b>Cloudland Canyon provided us with fresh air, springtime, a visit with friends, great food, and hiking to the waterfall and beyond. </b></span></p><p><span style="color: #073763; font-family: trebuchet;"><b>Starr had moved already to Ecuador; so we missed her company, but celebrated her new adventure in Cuenca. </b></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Jll54PkrLed-qZcnhcjLoPU-aWqIUEidH_Yp_tzTUl6czYRUThm7fqc80YHDGT5DX-OkZ8s_zXbgmZG2cQA0I7RvjeCnSl7jGqzSxtMg6BnTuMMKbGVTiDFNjKGBMq5eGS-mV14PbM7D3Uiq76GDl4OoJ25LD9VoeqezF1y5XhGtkfo1sw/s2048/gnosh%20on%20our%20screen%20porch..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1517" data-original-width="2048" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Jll54PkrLed-qZcnhcjLoPU-aWqIUEidH_Yp_tzTUl6czYRUThm7fqc80YHDGT5DX-OkZ8s_zXbgmZG2cQA0I7RvjeCnSl7jGqzSxtMg6BnTuMMKbGVTiDFNjKGBMq5eGS-mV14PbM7D3Uiq76GDl4OoJ25LD9VoeqezF1y5XhGtkfo1sw/s320/gnosh%20on%20our%20screen%20porch..jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0Jll54PkrLed-qZcnhcjLoPU-aWqIUEidH_Yp_tzTUl6czYRUThm7fqc80YHDGT5DX-OkZ8s_zXbgmZG2cQA0I7RvjeCnSl7jGqzSxtMg6BnTuMMKbGVTiDFNjKGBMq5eGS-mV14PbM7D3Uiq76GDl4OoJ25LD9VoeqezF1y5XhGtkfo1sw/s2048/gnosh%20on%20our%20screen%20porch..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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color: #111111; font-family: Postoni, garamond, serif; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 8px; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left;"><span data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;"><span face="Franklin, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 14px;">Lt. Jimmy Carter, center top, in the main control room</span></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Postoni, garamond, serif; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 8px; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left;"><span data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;"><span face="Franklin, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 14px;"> of submarine USS K-1 in 1952. (U.S. Navy)</span></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Postoni, garamond, serif; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 8px; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left;"><span data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;"><b>A nuclear reactor was melting down. Jimmy Carter </b></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Postoni, garamond, serif; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 8px; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: 4px; text-align: left;"><span data-qa="headline-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;"><b>came to the rescue.</b></span></div></div><h2 class="font--subhead font-light offblack mb-sm pb-xxs-ns subheadline" data-qa="subheadline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 1000px; padding-bottom: 4px;"><span style="font-size: small;">As a 28-year-old Navy lieutenant, Carter was one of the few people</span></h2><h2 class="font--subhead font-light offblack mb-sm pb-xxs-ns subheadline" data-qa="subheadline" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: Franklin, arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 16px; max-width: 1000px; 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color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The world was in the grip of the Cold War in 1952 when a nuclear reactor began melting down.</span></p></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">That reactor, located at Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario, had suffered an explosion on Dec. 12. Radioactive material had escaped into the atmosphere, and millions of gallons of radioactive water flooded into the reactor’s basement. Thankfully, no one was injured, but the Canadians needed help to disassemble the reactor’s damaged core.</span></p></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="article-body" data-qa="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: var(--wpds-fonts-body); line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); margin: 0px; padding-bottom: var(--wpds-space-150);"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The United States sent 28-year-old Jimmy Carter...</span></p><p class="wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy" data-el="text" data-testid="drop-cap-letter" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--wpds-colors-gray40); font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.25rem; line-height: var(--wpds-lineHeights-160); 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after a long, polarizing war; after nearly a decade of racial conflict and deaths/beatings that Republicans chose to blame on the victims; in the midst of economic turmoil and the loss of prestige abroad. He entered office in the middle of a global economic crisis, including stagflation and wage/price freezes implemented by Nixon/Ford; and faced a global fuel crisis.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">The little-known governor from Georgia was voted into office by a traumatized nation desperate for a president they could trust, one who swore he would never lie to them. Four years later, hypocritical voters decided the truth was overrated. They couldn't possibly turn the heat down, drive less, or trust diplomacy. That's how we got Reagan and the era of greed is good.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Biden's election checks the same boxes: Traumatized nation reeling from Trump and Covid. Racial unrest. Long, undeclared war jerryrigged by the outgoing president. Global financial struggle. Division and violence, and an electorate begging for a competent, calm, mature problem-solver in the White House.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">A mere two years later, amnesia once again strikes the right wing. And the propaganda circus cranks up the Republican clown show. Anyone who lived through the long effort to rehabilitate Nixon and demonize Carter will see the same feral hands at work today with Trump and Biden.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> --Darryl G.</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Here are some of the most popular replies to Darryl's comments, including a second comment by him:</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><article aria-labelledby="featuredComment-b11db575-5639-438e-8878-e265698e9c70-label" class="coral coral-featuredComment FeaturedCommentContainer-root-9c933c9822cf1d283308b8586d310191" data-testid="featuredComment-b11db575-5639-438e-8878-e265698e9c70" style="--palette-primary-100: none; --spacing-3: var(--size-spacing-lg); background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-ui-gray-lighter); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--palette-text-900); display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 0px 16px;"><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 HorizontalGutter-root-42028c0a7886c844bb9f01763cc43000 HorizontalGutter-full-680598106a6954360bcd94b9d3839ca7" style="border: 0px; order: -1; padding: 0px;"><div class="HTMLContent-root-5770ce4668399900d87c06ad10ba71a5 htmlContent-root-fe3506b39eaecd1a685ceda5e1292c4d FeaturedCommentContainer-body-49589b8a3ac0ad980ba688bd2cf9ba49 coral coral-content coral-featuredComment-content" style="color: var(--color-ui-gray-darkest); line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div style="font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: var(--font-size-4);"><b>Darryl G.</b></div><div style="font-family: var(--font-family-primary); font-size: var(--font-size-4); font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular);"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular);">On June 20, 1979, the Carter administration installed 32 solar panels designed to heat water on top of the White House.<br /></div><div style="font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular);"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular);">in 1986 the Reagan administration quietly dismantled the White House solar panel installation while resurfacing the roof. Reagan administration then gutted the research and development budgets for renewable energy at the then-fledgling U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) and eliminated tax breaks for the deployment of wind turbines and solar technologies—recommitting the nation to reliance on cheap but polluting fossil fuels, often from foreign suppliers.<br /></div><div style="font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular);"><br /></div><div style="font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular);">Jimmy Carter was 50 years ahead of his time whereas Reagan was another Drill-Baby-Drill Republican</div><div style="font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular);">-- Darry G. 1518 likes </div><div style="font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular);"><br /></div></div></div><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Flex-root-e30c492230d1edb681fe55ee4db5c12e coral coral-featuredComment-authorBar Flex-flex-d2ca733e3f89034ac350e74ab398ca2c Flex-alignCenter-26c1ac1572ede070f23436e4a05f81bd Flex-directionRow-2454f15d2085c2be40d132bad0acd66d Box-mt-3-9e189a242826ae17fc4f07573c50e914" style="--spacing-1: 0; --spacing-2: 0; --spacing-3: 0; align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: var(--spacing-3) !important;"><div class="Popover-root-3f2ec388eb9c8afe569f3401d3c59b59"><button aria-controls="username-popover-b11db575-5639-438e-8878-e265698e9c70" class="BaseButton-root-464189d43068742128bd39653c671d89 coral coral-username coral-comment-username" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) !important; appearance: none; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; border-width: initial; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: var(--size-spacing-xs); margin-top: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" type="button"><span class="Username-root-c00565d265d60c03a8fd24001a836d2b FeaturedCommentContainer-username-e3c4e4c4ea9f1d47dceacdd2b1bed9c0" color="var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)" style="font-weight: 700; line-height: 1; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: small;">Waxtraxs</span></span></button><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="A popover with more user information" id="username-popover-b11db575-5639-438e-8878-e265698e9c70" role="dialog"></div></div><span class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Box-ml-1-e580cb9b9b9ba5571c81cff32085fdc7" style="margin-left: var(--spacing-1) !important;"></span><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Box-ml-2-b72c378ba5cf7c7b7a9539281f929bac" style="margin-left: var(--spacing-2) !important;"><br /></div></div><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Flex-root-e30c492230d1edb681fe55ee4db5c12e coral coral-featuredComment-actionBar Flex-flex-d2ca733e3f89034ac350e74ab398ca2c Flex-justifySpaceBetween-1e1ecf12d82a80d36b234d1261a4a513 Box-mt-2-a163042b8ed6d94d4773d637f9639c51" style="--spacing-1: 0; --spacing-2: 16px; --spacing-3: 0; display: flex; justify-content: flex-end; margin-top: var(--spacing-2) !important;"><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Flex-root-e30c492230d1edb681fe55ee4db5c12e Flex-flex-d2ca733e3f89034ac350e74ab398ca2c Flex-alignCenter-26c1ac1572ede070f23436e4a05f81bd" style="align-items: center; display: flex;"><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Flex-root-e30c492230d1edb681fe55ee4db5c12e Flex-flex-d2ca733e3f89034ac350e74ab398ca2c Flex-alignCenter-26c1ac1572ede070f23436e4a05f81bd" style="align-items: center; display: flex;"><span color="var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)" style="font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular);">He’s been on my mind all day yesterday and when waking up during the night. A truly honorable man. One of very few Christians who actually LIVE their professed religion. This coming from an atheist. The world will be worse off without him.</span></div></div></div></article><article aria-labelledby="featuredComment-843f2569-541e-4e5d-af83-dd61e380af87-label" class="coral coral-featuredComment FeaturedCommentContainer-root-9c933c9822cf1d283308b8586d310191" data-testid="featuredComment-843f2569-541e-4e5d-af83-dd61e380af87" style="--palette-primary-100: none; --spacing-3: var(--size-spacing-lg); border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-ui-gray-lighter); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--palette-text-900); display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 0px 16px;"><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 HorizontalGutter-root-42028c0a7886c844bb9f01763cc43000 HorizontalGutter-full-680598106a6954360bcd94b9d3839ca7" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; order: -1; padding: 0px;"><div class="HTMLContent-root-5770ce4668399900d87c06ad10ba71a5 htmlContent-root-fe3506b39eaecd1a685ceda5e1292c4d FeaturedCommentContainer-body-49589b8a3ac0ad980ba688bd2cf9ba49 coral coral-content coral-featuredComment-content" style="color: var(--color-ui-gray-darkest); font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular); line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div>I remember when he and his wife came to Winnipeg building for Habitat for Humanity housing. 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America‘s ungratefulness toward Carter is embarrassing.<br /></div><div class="HTMLContent-root-5770ce4668399900d87c06ad10ba71a5 htmlContent-root-fe3506b39eaecd1a685ceda5e1292c4d FeaturedCommentContainer-body-49589b8a3ac0ad980ba688bd2cf9ba49 coral coral-content coral-featuredComment-content" style="color: var(--color-ui-gray-darkest); font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular); line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><br /></div></div><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Flex-root-e30c492230d1edb681fe55ee4db5c12e coral coral-featuredComment-authorBar Flex-flex-d2ca733e3f89034ac350e74ab398ca2c Flex-alignCenter-26c1ac1572ede070f23436e4a05f81bd Flex-directionRow-2454f15d2085c2be40d132bad0acd66d Box-mt-3-9e189a242826ae17fc4f07573c50e914" style="--spacing-1: 0; --spacing-2: 0; --spacing-3: 0; align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: var(--spacing-3) !important;"><div class="Popover-root-3f2ec388eb9c8afe569f3401d3c59b59"><button aria-controls="username-popover-75663ddc-768c-4758-a551-73b87ca232b6" class="BaseButton-root-464189d43068742128bd39653c671d89 coral coral-username coral-comment-username" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) !important; appearance: none; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; border-width: initial; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: var(--size-spacing-xs); margin-top: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" type="button"><span class="Username-root-c00565d265d60c03a8fd24001a836d2b FeaturedCommentContainer-username-e3c4e4c4ea9f1d47dceacdd2b1bed9c0" color="var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)" style="font-weight: 700; line-height: 1; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: small;">Sparky86</span></span></button></div></div></article><article aria-labelledby="featuredComment-64a1be7c-18ab-49b1-bce7-6e5ed7dfef0b-label" class="coral coral-featuredComment FeaturedCommentContainer-root-9c933c9822cf1d283308b8586d310191" data-testid="featuredComment-64a1be7c-18ab-49b1-bce7-6e5ed7dfef0b" style="--palette-primary-100: none; --spacing-3: var(--size-spacing-lg); background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-ui-gray-lighter); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--palette-text-900); display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 0px 16px;"><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 HorizontalGutter-root-42028c0a7886c844bb9f01763cc43000 HorizontalGutter-full-680598106a6954360bcd94b9d3839ca7" style="border: 0px; order: -1; padding: 0px;"><div class="HTMLContent-root-5770ce4668399900d87c06ad10ba71a5 htmlContent-root-fe3506b39eaecd1a685ceda5e1292c4d FeaturedCommentContainer-body-49589b8a3ac0ad980ba688bd2cf9ba49 coral coral-content coral-featuredComment-content" style="color: var(--color-ui-gray-darkest); font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular); line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Jimmy Carter was a good President. However, he was ill-prepared for the cesspool of politics in Washington. When he left the Presidency, he continued his life helping people, teaching in the church, and promoting democracy across the globe. He set a standard that few could live up to.<br /></div></div><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Flex-root-e30c492230d1edb681fe55ee4db5c12e coral coral-featuredComment-authorBar Flex-flex-d2ca733e3f89034ac350e74ab398ca2c Flex-alignCenter-26c1ac1572ede070f23436e4a05f81bd Flex-directionRow-2454f15d2085c2be40d132bad0acd66d Box-mt-3-9e189a242826ae17fc4f07573c50e914" style="--spacing-1: 0; --spacing-2: 0; --spacing-3: 0; align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: var(--spacing-3) !important;"><div class="Popover-root-3f2ec388eb9c8afe569f3401d3c59b59"><button aria-controls="username-popover-64a1be7c-18ab-49b1-bce7-6e5ed7dfef0b" class="BaseButton-root-464189d43068742128bd39653c671d89 coral coral-username coral-comment-username" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) !important; appearance: none; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; border-width: initial; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: var(--size-spacing-xs); margin-top: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" type="button"><span class="Username-root-c00565d265d60c03a8fd24001a836d2b FeaturedCommentContainer-username-e3c4e4c4ea9f1d47dceacdd2b1bed9c0" color="var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)" style="font-weight: 700; line-height: 1; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: small;">Pas_De_Deux</span></span></button><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="A popover with more user information" id="username-popover-64a1be7c-18ab-49b1-bce7-6e5ed7dfef0b" role="dialog"></div></div><span class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Box-ml-1-e580cb9b9b9ba5571c81cff32085fdc7" style="margin-left: var(--spacing-1) !important;"></span><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Box-ml-2-b72c378ba5cf7c7b7a9539281f929bac" style="margin-left: var(--spacing-2) !important;"><br /></div></div></article><article aria-labelledby="featuredComment-8b2fd9de-bb5c-4243-b000-738ab8052313-label" class="coral coral-featuredComment FeaturedCommentContainer-root-9c933c9822cf1d283308b8586d310191" data-testid="featuredComment-8b2fd9de-bb5c-4243-b000-738ab8052313" style="--palette-primary-100: none; --spacing-3: var(--size-spacing-lg); background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-ui-gray-lighter); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--palette-text-900); display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 0px 16px;"><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 HorizontalGutter-root-42028c0a7886c844bb9f01763cc43000 HorizontalGutter-full-680598106a6954360bcd94b9d3839ca7" style="border: 0px; order: -1; padding: 0px;"><div class="HTMLContent-root-5770ce4668399900d87c06ad10ba71a5 htmlContent-root-fe3506b39eaecd1a685ceda5e1292c4d FeaturedCommentContainer-body-49589b8a3ac0ad980ba688bd2cf9ba49 coral coral-content coral-featuredComment-content" style="color: var(--color-ui-gray-darkest); font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular); line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div>Carter is an actual hero and Reagan only ever played one on TV.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Life well lived. Rest well, good sailor.<br /></div></div></div><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Flex-root-e30c492230d1edb681fe55ee4db5c12e coral coral-featuredComment-authorBar Flex-flex-d2ca733e3f89034ac350e74ab398ca2c Flex-alignCenter-26c1ac1572ede070f23436e4a05f81bd Flex-directionRow-2454f15d2085c2be40d132bad0acd66d Box-mt-3-9e189a242826ae17fc4f07573c50e914" style="--spacing-1: 0; --spacing-2: 0; --spacing-3: 0; align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: var(--spacing-3) !important;"><div class="Popover-root-3f2ec388eb9c8afe569f3401d3c59b59"><button aria-controls="username-popover-8b2fd9de-bb5c-4243-b000-738ab8052313" class="BaseButton-root-464189d43068742128bd39653c671d89 coral coral-username coral-comment-username" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) !important; appearance: none; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; border-width: initial; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: var(--size-spacing-xs); margin-top: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" type="button"><span class="Username-root-c00565d265d60c03a8fd24001a836d2b FeaturedCommentContainer-username-e3c4e4c4ea9f1d47dceacdd2b1bed9c0" color="var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)" style="font-weight: 700; line-height: 1; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: small;">Wikey WashPo</span></span></button><div aria-hidden="true" aria-label="A popover with more user information" id="username-popover-8b2fd9de-bb5c-4243-b000-738ab8052313" role="dialog"></div></div><span class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Box-ml-1-e580cb9b9b9ba5571c81cff32085fdc7" style="margin-left: var(--spacing-1) !important;"></span><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Box-ml-2-b72c378ba5cf7c7b7a9539281f929bac" style="margin-left: var(--spacing-2) !important;"><br /></div></div></article><article aria-labelledby="featuredComment-8136fc4d-19fc-48f6-8a30-05d268af4706-label" class="coral coral-featuredComment FeaturedCommentContainer-root-9c933c9822cf1d283308b8586d310191" data-testid="featuredComment-8136fc4d-19fc-48f6-8a30-05d268af4706" style="--palette-primary-100: none; --spacing-3: var(--size-spacing-lg); background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-ui-gray-lighter); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--palette-text-900); display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 0px 16px;"><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 HorizontalGutter-root-42028c0a7886c844bb9f01763cc43000 HorizontalGutter-full-680598106a6954360bcd94b9d3839ca7" style="border: 0px; order: -1; padding: 0px;"><div class="HTMLContent-root-5770ce4668399900d87c06ad10ba71a5 htmlContent-root-fe3506b39eaecd1a685ceda5e1292c4d FeaturedCommentContainer-body-49589b8a3ac0ad980ba688bd2cf9ba49 coral coral-content coral-featuredComment-content" style="color: var(--color-ui-gray-darkest); font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular); line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;">Jimmy Carter was and is a Giant! He is the yardstick by which laudable human behavior must be measured. President Carter, thank you!</div><div class="HTMLContent-root-5770ce4668399900d87c06ad10ba71a5 htmlContent-root-fe3506b39eaecd1a685ceda5e1292c4d FeaturedCommentContainer-body-49589b8a3ac0ad980ba688bd2cf9ba49 coral coral-content coral-featuredComment-content" style="color: var(--color-ui-gray-darkest); font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular); line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><br /></div></div><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 Flex-root-e30c492230d1edb681fe55ee4db5c12e coral coral-featuredComment-authorBar Flex-flex-d2ca733e3f89034ac350e74ab398ca2c Flex-alignCenter-26c1ac1572ede070f23436e4a05f81bd Flex-directionRow-2454f15d2085c2be40d132bad0acd66d Box-mt-3-9e189a242826ae17fc4f07573c50e914" style="--spacing-1: 0; --spacing-2: 0; --spacing-3: 0; align-items: center; display: flex; flex-direction: row; margin-bottom: 8px; margin-top: var(--spacing-3) !important;"><div class="Popover-root-3f2ec388eb9c8afe569f3401d3c59b59"><button aria-controls="username-popover-8136fc4d-19fc-48f6-8a30-05d268af4706" class="BaseButton-root-464189d43068742128bd39653c671d89 coral coral-username coral-comment-username" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) !important; appearance: none; background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-style: none; border-width: initial; cursor: pointer; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: var(--size-spacing-xs); margin-top: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" type="button"><span class="Username-root-c00565d265d60c03a8fd24001a836d2b FeaturedCommentContainer-username-e3c4e4c4ea9f1d47dceacdd2b1bed9c0" color="var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)" style="font-weight: 700; line-height: 1; margin-left: 4px; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: small;">Richard M Owens</span></span></button></div></div></article><article aria-labelledby="featuredComment-c003563d-e220-4ede-8a1d-a15e9895ef9e-label" class="coral coral-featuredComment FeaturedCommentContainer-root-9c933c9822cf1d283308b8586d310191" data-testid="featuredComment-c003563d-e220-4ede-8a1d-a15e9895ef9e" style="--palette-primary-100: none; --spacing-3: var(--size-spacing-lg); background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid var(--color-ui-gray-lighter); border-image: initial; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--palette-text-900); display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 0px 16px;"><div class="Box-root-acb8bd0953d79380f99868ba1e9c06f2 HorizontalGutter-root-42028c0a7886c844bb9f01763cc43000 HorizontalGutter-full-680598106a6954360bcd94b9d3839ca7" style="border: 0px; order: -1; padding: 0px;"><div class="HTMLContent-root-5770ce4668399900d87c06ad10ba71a5 htmlContent-root-fe3506b39eaecd1a685ceda5e1292c4d FeaturedCommentContainer-body-49589b8a3ac0ad980ba688bd2cf9ba49 coral coral-content coral-featuredComment-content" style="color: var(--color-ui-gray-darkest); font-weight: var(--font-weight-primary-regular); line-height: 1.45; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div>Public service molds an individual, we should return to the model where everyone serves at least 2 years.<br /></div><div>Thank you for a lifetime of service President Carter.</div></div></div></article></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div></div></div>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-10602576410346033122023-01-22T17:44:00.002-05:002023-01-22T17:44:35.074-05:00Winter Holidays 2022-2023<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Winter kept us warm: First, a visit from Joe to see and celebrate the opening in Atlanta of <i style="font-weight: bold;">Eternal Daughter, </i>the film in which Joe stars with Tilda Swinton. A ghost story set in Wales, we had the extra ambiance of seeing the film upstairs at the Plaza Theater. </div><p></p></blockquote><p>Then, Darryl and I drove to Highlands, NC and Rabun Gap, Ga for the holidays. We stayed in a suite until the temperature fell to 2 below 0 and a pipe burst in our building. We were asked to move to a nice cottage with inadequate heat, but a delightful fireplace. The Dillards also granted us a free Christmas dinner for two. We did make an earlier visit to Highlands for brunch at the delicious Blue Bike Café. </p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdgYakbIq99R-K67JvUBiyLd9JvhjVq6eYwfVzrYK7lVNpc6StSGiurYEP0D-Jn1fX74ZSArHD_PIacFpvb6-k7GpMCSjaHnHyl4E6VJ_dFA_YLWHTI-rgz4_uiH8XoM90HlBITw0gHmWyYDe2cnVvoOmnuaaP-voUkcedKFevU3AMZq-JGA/s1080/Eternal%20Daughter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="1080" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdgYakbIq99R-K67JvUBiyLd9JvhjVq6eYwfVzrYK7lVNpc6StSGiurYEP0D-Jn1fX74ZSArHD_PIacFpvb6-k7GpMCSjaHnHyl4E6VJ_dFA_YLWHTI-rgz4_uiH8XoM90HlBITw0gHmWyYDe2cnVvoOmnuaaP-voUkcedKFevU3AMZq-JGA/s320/Eternal%20Daughter.jpg" width="320" /> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdgYakbIq99R-K67JvUBiyLd9JvhjVq6eYwfVzrYK7lVNpc6StSGiurYEP0D-Jn1fX74ZSArHD_PIacFpvb6-k7GpMCSjaHnHyl4E6VJ_dFA_YLWHTI-rgz4_uiH8XoM90HlBITw0gHmWyYDe2cnVvoOmnuaaP-voUkcedKFevU3AMZq-JGA/s1080/Eternal%20Daughter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;">At the Plaza for the Opening of Eternal Daughter.</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFJyw39K4PDiVyj6nhdmMlXU2xhHMWEOTy1yi9zA0VrNcinvT2KuWV5o7YJGEfCfSjlPy-bQOWkYoBQMS3AH9anTNJcOPCRfoczUvTEY2GIBK3MZ2HbXLaGAN5g-fyb7_A_Eh8-zWFN9X8OhkHlwxQm22YWuvM02wh_z_hYV6SxcNGnO-bbg/s1080/bbcafesloth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFJyw39K4PDiVyj6nhdmMlXU2xhHMWEOTy1yi9zA0VrNcinvT2KuWV5o7YJGEfCfSjlPy-bQOWkYoBQMS3AH9anTNJcOPCRfoczUvTEY2GIBK3MZ2HbXLaGAN5g-fyb7_A_Eh8-zWFN9X8OhkHlwxQm22YWuvM02wh_z_hYV6SxcNGnO-bbg/s320/bbcafesloth.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Sloth on a bike.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Cinema Santa and Joe</span></b></p><p><br /></p>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-33855212812228573882023-01-22T16:55:00.020-05:002023-09-06T07:57:28.267-04:00Mycenae<p> </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFOj4OTECZhnilW1SPHmlqSFTtJWth52ddY3wJ0cw-z4EWYrCY9MlqjACNe1rq4BlpK0LXHN3PxrT5CWE_H9Ec1YTWIegq6Wo0wbmcILxUQwVQdVT8GMheALz1KxrFUw6ZPLdgdNNrBIojkmzkaj1T6Pb4Mjn96ZCqqiesTNo8ORvpPP7fFdNd/s1783/Lions_Gate_detail.jpg" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1783" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFOj4OTECZhnilW1SPHmlqSFTtJWth52ddY3wJ0cw-z4EWYrCY9MlqjACNe1rq4BlpK0LXHN3PxrT5CWE_H9Ec1YTWIegq6Wo0wbmcILxUQwVQdVT8GMheALz1KxrFUw6ZPLdgdNNrBIojkmzkaj1T6Pb4Mjn96ZCqqiesTNo8ORvpPP7fFdNd/s320/Lions_Gate_detail.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><li><div aria-label="Comment by Jack Miller 57 minutes ago" class="x1n2onr6 x4uap5 x18d9i69 x1swvt13 x1iorvi4 x78zum5 x1q0g3np x1a2a7pz" role="article" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; outline: none; padding: 4px 0px 0px 16px; position: relative;" tabindex="-1"><div class="x1r8uery x1iyjqo2 x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1pi30zi" style="flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; padding-right: 16px;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><u><div class="x1rg5ohu xv55zj0 x1vvkbs xxymvpz" style="display: inline-block; max-width: calc(100% - 26px); overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="x3nfvp2 x1n2onr6 xxymvpz xh8yej3" style="display: inline-flex; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 404px;"><div class="xdl72j9 x1iyjqo2 xs83m0k xeuugli xh8yej3" style="flex: 1 1 auto; min-width: 0px; width: 404px;"><div class="x1tlxs6b x1g8br2z x1gn5b1j x230xth x9f619 xzsf02u x1rg5ohu xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x193iq5w x1mzt3pk x1n2onr6 xeaf4i8 x13faqbe xmjcpbm" style="border-radius: 18px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x1y1aw1k xn6708d xwib8y2 x1ye3gou" style="padding: 8px 12px;"><div class="x1lliihq xjkvuk6 x1iorvi4" style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-top: 4px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en" style="display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto">The art of Mycenae reminds me of the visit my brother and I made to this wind-swept ruin half a century ago:</div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></u></span></div></div></li></ul><div><span style="color: #073763; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; 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font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> "The rough city ascends over mounds, beginning at the Lions' Gate, a monolith of rock boulders worthy of Hercules or the Cyclops. Desolation <span><a style="cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>is blown over this city by timeless winds that whip at the entrances to tombs, court ways, and the remains of grand palace rooms. I sense the spirits of kings watching the spectacle of terrain stretching toward Argos..."</span></div></li><li><div aria-label="Comment by Jack Miller 36 minutes ago" class="x1n2onr6 x1iorvi4 x4uap5 x18d9i69 x1swvt13 x78zum5 x1q0g3np x1a2a7pz" role="article" style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; outline: none; padding: 4px 0px 0px 16px; position: relative;" tabindex="-1"><div class="x1r8uery x1iyjqo2 x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1pi30zi" style="flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; padding-right: 16px;"><div><div class="x1rg5ohu xv55zj0 x1vvkbs xxymvpz" style="display: inline-block; max-width: calc(100% - 26px); overflow-wrap: break-word; vertical-align: middle;"><div class="x3nfvp2 x1n2onr6 xxymvpz xh8yej3" style="display: inline-flex; position: relative; vertical-align: middle; width: 404px;"><div class="xdl72j9 x1iyjqo2 xs83m0k xeuugli xh8yej3" style="flex: 1 1 auto; min-width: 0px; width: 404px;"><div class="x1tlxs6b x1g8br2z x1gn5b1j x230xth x9f619 xzsf02u x1rg5ohu xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x193iq5w x1mzt3pk x1n2onr6 xeaf4i8 x13faqbe xmjcpbm" style="border-radius: 18px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x1y1aw1k xn6708d xwib8y2 x1ye3gou" style="padding: 8px 12px;"><div class="x1lliihq xjkvuk6 x1iorvi4" style="padding-bottom: 4px; padding-top: 4px;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en" style="display: block; line-height: 1.3333; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xdj266r" style="margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The Journal goes on to compare my experience of Mycenae with that of Henry Miller:</span></span></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></li><li><div dir="auto"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span> " Like Miller, I also entered the Treasury of Atreus--<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atreus"> Atreus</a> who served his foe his children for dinner. Atreus received thereby the curse that brought horror to his <a style="cursor: pointer;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>own children. It was in this vast, domed room that Miller had a revelation; he grew aware of the value of a living spirit, of the sanctity of Nature and Humanity. It was the brutality and cruelty of the kings of Mycenae, that led him to discard materialism, the lust for power and possessions. It was the loss of wisdom and of the psyche that were the true curse upon Atreus and his descendants." </span></div></li></ul><div><span style="color: #073763; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #073763; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">Treasury of Atreus:</span></div><div><span style="color: #073763; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/aegean-art1/mycenaean/v/treasury-of-atreus">https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/ancient-art-civilizations/aegean-art1/mycenaean/v/treasury-of-atreus</a></span></div><div><span style="color: #073763; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #073763; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #073763; font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-1575864058336266882022-12-17T09:18:00.006-05:002022-12-17T09:32:03.476-05:00Thanksgiving, 2022<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL2jVADTDncWgPge2m7TT9eOIfgvJ8UEy4GJJImL8uwyvaINFRlOYzQwqfWarTaJAd9haDAmqyKW0eutVgzmgIweGfGmCtG-sIjrEgeWiLnPF_3jHRs7cvX-CfVYj326PyeIKemFuV3WV-Ffgiox_VcS7eZ4TdLsLyAcDsJT2IQkob9PWQ3Q/s1280/fount.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL2jVADTDncWgPge2m7TT9eOIfgvJ8UEy4GJJImL8uwyvaINFRlOYzQwqfWarTaJAd9haDAmqyKW0eutVgzmgIweGfGmCtG-sIjrEgeWiLnPF_3jHRs7cvX-CfVYj326PyeIKemFuV3WV-Ffgiox_VcS7eZ4TdLsLyAcDsJT2IQkob9PWQ3Q/s320/fount.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;">For Thanksgiving week, Darryl and I joined John for his birthday on the 22d. Maggie and Jocelin joined us in the city and at Tybee for feasts and comradery, as did Starr.</span></span></b><div><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> A good time was had by all of us. 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Always worth remembering. Here in Druid Hills it is raining and chill. Darryl and I dined at the Colonnade: with a touch of nostalgia, good drinks, and great food. </span></b></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #003366; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 15.6px; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">Day of the Dead</h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #003366; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9190012818893019255" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #003366; font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 5px;"><br /><span face=""Trebuchet MS", sans-serif" style="color: #6a6a6a; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Dia de los Muertos Revisited</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyo5gphURTCbTqgsIwV8cOZogW-0c49OZHaqUxdZNUlel43B7C71jP3pm_1Gfv2o3wm9YB0Y1mxL1nxB33FqA4M3vzhvIOiR1RcMCMX_bgbu1z29Nj-7l12VWB2Z3IY1_V5AP/s1600/skull+peyote2.jpg" style="background: transparent; color: #400058; font-weight: bold; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyo5gphURTCbTqgsIwV8cOZogW-0c49OZHaqUxdZNUlel43B7C71jP3pm_1Gfv2o3wm9YB0Y1mxL1nxB33FqA4M3vzhvIOiR1RcMCMX_bgbu1z29Nj-7l12VWB2Z3IY1_V5AP/s320/skull+peyote2.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block;" width="320" /></a></div><div><b><span style="color: #e69138;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">Huichol Skull with Peyote </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">I summon up remembrance of things past..."</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span style="color: #20124d; text-align: left;">N</span><span style="color: #20124d; text-align: left;">ow is a time, traditionally, to honor the dead, especially our family and those we have loved. Naturally, I think of my parents both of whom suffered long, dreadful ends to their lives. I think of my two grandmothers to whom I was so close, whose affection warmed my heart and both of whom helped create the values I've held since childhood. Fond memories arise of my husband Darryl's grandmother, Aunt Edna, and his mother. I think too of my friends' loved ones and parents, especially life-long friend Lee Killian's parents who were always sweet and kind to me, and of Lee's uncles. I think of Julian Baird of San Francisco, my first gay lover, who invited me to San Francisco many times, with whom I lived for several months on Russian Hill. There are many other cherished friends now hid in death's dateless night, in the words of WS.</span><br /><span style="color: #20124d; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg097Siew3ClkIRVFEuwg2AtQpAgSmqexGchsmmzua5vWwmIOwfSFBFNmVGg0-K6Vp6uNMi4N64SRkyOpY5S3M6uUa4h__POIvsXB5SYrhEvHxXA1hMyxHPABmqIdQSPIShLKnl/s1600/Julian+Baird.jpg" style="background: transparent; clear: left; color: #400058; float: left; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg097Siew3ClkIRVFEuwg2AtQpAgSmqexGchsmmzua5vWwmIOwfSFBFNmVGg0-K6Vp6uNMi4N64SRkyOpY5S3M6uUa4h__POIvsXB5SYrhEvHxXA1hMyxHPABmqIdQSPIShLKnl/s320/Julian+Baird.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block;" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #20124d; text-align: left;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div></div><div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">As The Day of the Dead and All Saints' Day arrive, my thoughts and emotions go back exactly thirty years. My closest friend, my kindred spirit, from 1969 until 1986 was murdered that October. His mother and family had his body taken back to Tulsa to be buried there, and they flew his companion and myself in their private plane to Tulsa. I recall it all as if yesterday, the flight, seeing Jim's mother, my primal scream, and seeing people masked with images of death everywhere we went in Tulsa. It was surreal and I had no idea what to do. I just let others lead me around. I gave a ring I wore that I bought in Mexico with Jim to be placed in his casket. His mother introduced me to her friends at the funeral as "like a son to Jim." </span></span></div></div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span><span style="color: #20124d;">Jim was the first person with whom I visited Mexico in 1971. We returned two more times and we both kept journals of our rich and powerful experiences throughout the country. We both lived at Johnny Mercer's home on Moon River and Jim completed his book on Keats and Yeats there. By our last trip together to Mexico, when Jim spent a year teaching there, I was already studying D.H. Lawrence for my Master's thesis and degree at Tulane, the university where we both earned our doctorates. When I moved from New Orleans back to Savannah, we held readings aloud </span><span style="color: #20124d;">of Proust, </span><span style="color: #20124d;">with a few friends, in the garden courtyard of my apartment on Oglethorpe Ave. In the early 1980s we alternated teaching the same course in Philosophy at Armstrong-Atlantic University in Savannah.</span><br /><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #20124d;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">It was through Jim that I met Jake. Jim wrote a series of poems to Jake. In 1976 Jake and I became fast friends as we traveled together to New Orleans and a year later in '77 to San Francisco and Big Sur. We drove cross country and had intimate experiences that Jake called "enterprises of great pith and moment" (WS again). Later we both studied law and moved to Atlanta to attend Law School and work together in the Law Library of Ga. State University.</span></span></div></div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span style="color: #20124d;">On the day of Jim's funeral on November 1, 1986, after the service and a gathering of the family, I flew back to Atlanta to attend Jake's wedding. Thus the surreal play of Thanatos and Eros in my disoriented psyche that day. Festivities of the Day of the Dead, of </span><span style="color: #20124d;">Día</span><span style="color: #20124d;"> de </span><span style="color: #20124d;">Muertos, always conjure that day for me. And on the day itself, and those leading up to it, I dance in memory with them both, Jim and Jake. I feel their spirits around me and praise those remarkable years we shared together. </span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></div></div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWpY1ebm8RRAdcgy9Od9nEvTykYEGeyMVuXVuBFYRiBvcTBlKoQ8v82pWIcV9Jq9tPnARxpmmmfOOQAVFGULv9g66Pvodg_pj4CmNM7kWtuG2YlU7Fzu7ct3qmysxlD2ldnMQy/s1600/jiminsav.jpg" style="background: transparent; clear: left; color: #400058; float: left; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWpY1ebm8RRAdcgy9Od9nEvTykYEGeyMVuXVuBFYRiBvcTBlKoQ8v82pWIcV9Jq9tPnARxpmmmfOOQAVFGULv9g66Pvodg_pj4CmNM7kWtuG2YlU7Fzu7ct3qmysxlD2ldnMQy/s320/jiminsav.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block;" width="301" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: orange;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="color: #783f04;">James Land Jones</span></div></div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif" style="color: #783f04;">Jake Waldrop</span></div><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVGbj3NHobzVlaffvr-tfbi2-iKHbFH_djFZ2sTWq6DoDbag63WCvRpJLxhWnnczrcynmHe9AKhH595Cx1x3JIcKN4Pd-in6yR1OKF0aD7ryfGK_0YuWbMaidm_ddW_yt9ssajT0FTFD3ec1yxhIixrCp7ahV0upsUon7cJ-hxFkLenPhhFg/s960/jakeoysterbar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="674" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVGbj3NHobzVlaffvr-tfbi2-iKHbFH_djFZ2sTWq6DoDbag63WCvRpJLxhWnnczrcynmHe9AKhH595Cx1x3JIcKN4Pd-in6yR1OKF0aD7ryfGK_0YuWbMaidm_ddW_yt9ssajT0FTFD3ec1yxhIixrCp7ahV0upsUon7cJ-hxFkLenPhhFg/s320/jakeoysterbar.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><span style="color: #20124d;"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div></div><br />Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-40446277968489956872022-07-28T00:16:00.001-04:002022-07-28T14:35:37.092-04:00Happy Birthday, Darryl<p> </p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>July 28, 2022</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Darryl and I began our relationship 32 years ago. We bought the townhouse we are living in 30 years ago. We celebrated our relationship 22 years ago with a civil union in Vermont, and marriage on Cape Cod in 2004. Georgia recognized our marriage 7 years ago in 2015 with a constitutional ruling by the Supreme Court. We wait to see if the Senate will codify and make that marriage secure, as the House of Representatives did. </span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Here are a few glimpses of our time together, at home and overseas, as well as an article Darryl published that is worth our reading. </span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVo4iUuP4qGJ71Jv3fqP3-51wv44El48vpvcvD6ebcXzMcH-lviYBWgx-5ENQekU4ZgKVQyxTBn1JtwPbmjP8zjJb7zF-5_K67OAUvcDp35QB-2BmGZOz8QU17qR5q1O4J3ixzDbRhO-i8AqPgJC38Dk7ctGDNvw2Sjm5e9XXz7Uz-4Fsoug/s2429/jackdar3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2289" data-original-width="2429" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVo4iUuP4qGJ71Jv3fqP3-51wv44El48vpvcvD6ebcXzMcH-lviYBWgx-5ENQekU4ZgKVQyxTBn1JtwPbmjP8zjJb7zF-5_K67OAUvcDp35QB-2BmGZOz8QU17qR5q1O4J3ixzDbRhO-i8AqPgJC38Dk7ctGDNvw2Sjm5e9XXz7Uz-4Fsoug/s320/jackdar3.jpg" width="320" /></a><br /><span style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Our Civil Union in Vermont. </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /></span></b></div><b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh__23oFL10tJSjCoYjBUG7GKoGlcrXW9n-Rb52FqfAuC2f83SasGqNRWcP1Iu7YYEHa3Iny_inMbE953kN11jMoepjW1jfOvLoJPMgZcsivNh_yEZsEToIyfkP_72OPpCpX3xOAeSUC4ZdeybGSDMtULIw4t2683roKrhFf83RynX6MvwQ1g/s336/tux.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="336" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh__23oFL10tJSjCoYjBUG7GKoGlcrXW9n-Rb52FqfAuC2f83SasGqNRWcP1Iu7YYEHa3Iny_inMbE953kN11jMoepjW1jfOvLoJPMgZcsivNh_yEZsEToIyfkP_72OPpCpX3xOAeSUC4ZdeybGSDMtULIw4t2683roKrhFf83RynX6MvwQ1g/s320/tux.jpg" width="286" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Copenhagen.</b></span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdrNfib7vSZIrbQcfRdcLlcbwPU0o9S9pHHF_dIp1QgvaqEyLXTUak5ez0OAx914mrNZxToG6xaTBL2Vk0B7FZ2cx_EKjxxvtM-v3NryJJDiPHtlRCNd85DQZcYw0j55Ws-xfcns65gHD052xWPgmCLbi5fw_7HIb-cvPc7ybKhROUL58uxA/s545/alaska.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="545" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdrNfib7vSZIrbQcfRdcLlcbwPU0o9S9pHHF_dIp1QgvaqEyLXTUak5ez0OAx914mrNZxToG6xaTBL2Vk0B7FZ2cx_EKjxxvtM-v3NryJJDiPHtlRCNd85DQZcYw0j55Ws-xfcns65gHD052xWPgmCLbi5fw_7HIb-cvPc7ybKhROUL58uxA/w479-h319/alaska.jpg" width="479" /></a></div><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: trebuchet; 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With Dar and Geri.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF_z5vCj1BEv0wPzymXnXkHJ1MNLEXiek6V1VvxK2tz9DBOa0zUMkIlkheKo-qiQo5C9CwnQtTGuOQN47aJbKlNY8qzk_Eo_Jb_OdAzF1OiGJvNZquA5wnacPhV49PrjwnTkJBNhnMwbqWfYy2os9l53xhF814azp2I9EsMl5mX1MTu5V4VQ/s730/darbryce1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="730" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF_z5vCj1BEv0wPzymXnXkHJ1MNLEXiek6V1VvxK2tz9DBOa0zUMkIlkheKo-qiQo5C9CwnQtTGuOQN47aJbKlNY8qzk_Eo_Jb_OdAzF1OiGJvNZquA5wnacPhV49PrjwnTkJBNhnMwbqWfYy2os9l53xhF814azp2I9EsMl5mX1MTu5V4VQ/w417-h314/darbryce1.jpg" width="417" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Bryce Canyon</b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVWlpNU3SC0J-XeJfotOYCMkven7I4Xe_q9NlfbVV5xRC8RKVgmXjTN5w6TWY525z-_nNdMLaM6JeMavWyagdq3P0ZCUQQ8HjQ1W2U1PHnLoJ9JD0pUsQBJRzErsTmt7V2wcVGckaP2vNz5lwi1CuDMZTetp4ozGtqn06_Pw0yg_VZfN96w/s720/darhome.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>With the Killians in Charlotte</b></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIDHj-8ISnnf8t01Jx9VOsbFTS0rcafaWi6L0Jiw9y-Za5xPbU2RrlDAebWpe8wbdZaBcXnPmIxCuH0KkZuAFDTplgNWzgTYW8u1i6Iv3PI5AFXLYEd0kkbC2gtE9RLtjLIwFP_lgvvsSM_mPDk36ycqekL0Hjoqe395IzmNCd56dRnEyMKg/s300/amybab2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="300" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIDHj-8ISnnf8t01Jx9VOsbFTS0rcafaWi6L0Jiw9y-Za5xPbU2RrlDAebWpe8wbdZaBcXnPmIxCuH0KkZuAFDTplgNWzgTYW8u1i6Iv3PI5AFXLYEd0kkbC2gtE9RLtjLIwFP_lgvvsSM_mPDk36ycqekL0Hjoqe395IzmNCd56dRnEyMKg/w354-h265/amybab2.jpg" width="354" /></a></div><b><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">In Paris with Amy and Lucy<br /></span></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="620" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbWUvHGNBuq8zWL6HS65-vHpZwsrrLQDgPeiCg15op9otHuZnhafrny-vL6rBh1i0ASWCgQybknMEY5YbuBKWEYN3mexO7JvQn51MHFLAcUyX6WwXJoCAjv1C_8-OkWMlEG5h9MG7X3Do-vER5F0Nbyk5jsobdQXd1-a8Hh0GruuEx6uq8kg/s320/darkeywest1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #073763;">Key West</span><br /></span><br /></b><p></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAV6rXKnLXCILgcBZooSmH9D34oiLAtd5drwrjGbKxUkipVWqfp3tTWeqIxm0vtCgNS2hFQHJGTr6FUVU4WvtnayhcaI8xVZUKUY8O6cxe8JdK2_N_8h-u61NMooWVfyT4AK-7Kv9Itt6K5ua_l_4VAZRPe2HBNXswb69WCAJffkHfRfv1rg/s512/dar25.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="363" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAV6rXKnLXCILgcBZooSmH9D34oiLAtd5drwrjGbKxUkipVWqfp3tTWeqIxm0vtCgNS2hFQHJGTr6FUVU4WvtnayhcaI8xVZUKUY8O6cxe8JdK2_N_8h-u61NMooWVfyT4AK-7Kv9Itt6K5ua_l_4VAZRPe2HBNXswb69WCAJffkHfRfv1rg/w322-h454/dar25.jpg" width="322" /></a></p><p><b>Fighting for Marriage Equality, Atlanta.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="781" data-original-width="960" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJwsjrjU4_JdQMui_PqSta4VB63DM8crvA_soNp_ga2mhRGeML6NUIPhBNEBeKxk3pV_CH5pexw2wEPaY2-kCZpkzcd9JimTvGQB36Xq6vSSXqbk60sM8R6-AAkbKnxQitD75VKI580-K4a9f3T8LUQcuiL4Sdifet1PyKYnoMrTwuKOhjQ/w365-h297/uscape.jpg" width="365" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Darryl and I in Provincetown.</b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Last but not least is an award-winning article Darryl published a few decades ago which is dear to my brain:</span></b><p></p><p><span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://www.whsc.emory.edu/_pubs/em/1995spring/alz.html">http://www.whsc.emory.edu/_pubs/em/1995spring/alz.html</a></b></span></p><p><b><span style="color: #660000; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>Thanks, Darryl. Happy Birthday.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="color: #20124d; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-39971062943556293392022-07-22T10:25:00.008-04:002022-07-22T10:49:53.552-04:00State of the Country and the Planet<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPqgSih2mLNu192iIizrLKTaCxANnGbTQpB5IqbjM6Zr8DnzSqbZp0JkYusSOi4UxcG2BZB95ud8VnOtYUg8SzJmC9Xt8nqiF42MqvVeO64hbueHrGde90l6WFR_tuZ8_b7aIv7vCkhN9OaU83WS92pC4NA6-iC8eDz_SDX8cYWJq6tWQhg/s1024/hearings.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTPqgSih2mLNu192iIizrLKTaCxANnGbTQpB5IqbjM6Zr8DnzSqbZp0JkYusSOi4UxcG2BZB95ud8VnOtYUg8SzJmC9Xt8nqiF42MqvVeO64hbueHrGde90l6WFR_tuZ8_b7aIv7vCkhN9OaU83WS92pC4NA6-iC8eDz_SDX8cYWJq6tWQhg/s320/hearings.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">First, I have to praise the skill and intelligence that have gone into the Eight Congressional Hearings about January 6, 2021, the planning and the aftermath, all of which I watched. If there is nobility and good conscience left in the USA, it was on display in the clear, rational presentations and statements of the Committee. The witnesses detailed the lawlessness and the motives of a corrupt and evil former President. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">One cannot listen to these hearings without realizing how Trump's corruption has spread throughout his party and how it has damaged the Supreme Court. Civil rights of women, minorities, and gays are all now under threat. The Roe overturn is but one of countless rulings to come that aim to set the clock back a century or two. Trump began a growing cancer of racism and intolerance we may never eradicate.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">He also set the country back regarding the exponentially worsening Climate Crisis. As the American people ignore the horrors of floods, fires, drought, and devastating storms, all predicted, the entire world pays the price with melting glaciers, extinction of species, human suffering, unbearable heat. The heat wave in Europe has already killed thousands. In social media, Americans post pictures of their food, drinks, and pets. Can Democracy survive such indifference and ignorance? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">New York Times summary of last night's hearing:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/jan-6-hearing-takeaways-trump.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/jan-6-hearing-takeaways-trump.html</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Jack</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13398697.post-85241607330722685412022-07-20T16:16:00.003-04:002022-07-20T16:29:01.799-04:00Riding the Blue Ridge Parkway, again.<p> </p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b>We were all exhilarated by our stay on Mt. Pisgah this July. Dar and I also enjoyed a few days in Rabun Gap at the Dillard House. Here are photos of Trails we hiked, the waterfall river, and dinner at the Inn with Starr, Lee and Karen, Steve, and Darryl & me. I've included the delightful pool at the Dillard house which I had to myself 3 of the 4 days I swam there.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidcwQTlahHXIR0jMhKVeFlC9HOn0-vz6Dh_B8rpaiK_ihIReI6wX2KssN-ZoZiMqVEpCyGqta7vI9fM34wpPJc9TKp8XUorAf8cFeRGrGDO-3_yYiP_FlqFD9_lIl_emwXLBP6Oy2O5U_fmBiLbq1-C2gryVJF-_k7dYBd5FXnqCmnH5ILqg/s4608/blueridge22.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidcwQTlahHXIR0jMhKVeFlC9HOn0-vz6Dh_B8rpaiK_ihIReI6wX2KssN-ZoZiMqVEpCyGqta7vI9fM34wpPJc9TKp8XUorAf8cFeRGrGDO-3_yYiP_FlqFD9_lIl_emwXLBP6Oy2O5U_fmBiLbq1-C2gryVJF-_k7dYBd5FXnqCmnH5ILqg/s320/blueridge22.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0PdLcksbrE6-o8RUp82NMPHRqjRe245GiQvMtck0MRwEhzIQvKninzXWRTc6dnS8tkNPUNTEZXoA28Q0PLT8AztIyFp91qQksTiqmjcBjujWjptm0wAsBwtnXS6duG5Lr9GJAeionlccQTmm0xXOGhQN8n66UBAnyx3Q9Q5Kbld-YjCo9zw/s320/pooldillard22.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>We've lived a good portion of our lives in these mountains. Check it out:</b></span><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipN_wmPs0J8S1oQJi-uxKPj_mFfiFg--1QgmR6rH">https://photos.google.com/album/AF1QipN_wmPs0J8S1oQJi-uxKPj_mFfiFg--1QgmR6rH</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div></div>Jack Millerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03391684586938039176noreply@blogger.com0