I read things that strike me as interesting and save them for reasons I am not fully sure about. I have no message for you from them, but here’s a collection of a few of them. • Marriage In the Television series The Kominsky Method, staring Michael Douglas and Alan Arkin, Arkin’s character delivers a talk about his wife at her funeral. It is beautiful and a total summary of my feelings about my wife Lita. Here’s what he says:…
"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles, or gives me any best places! And ain't I a woman?" Sojourner Truth 1851 Sojourner Truth was one of ten or twelve children Born in 1797 to slaves captured in African on the Gold Coast. She changed her name from Isavella Baumfree to Sojourner Truth in…
From Robert Service The Cremation of Sam McGee "A promise made is a debt unpaid" Never be intimidated: "Always remember …..Goliath was a 40 point favorite over David." Shug Jordan / football coach Auburn View from age 76 years: William Holden's character says in the movie Network "It's all suddenly closer to the end than to the begining and death is suddenly a perceptible thing to me with definable features " Will Rogers "Everything is funny as long as it…
Here are some quotes from the National Catholic Reporter (http://ncronline.org/) for April 12th: "How could a guy who is so good on poverty questions, dignity of labor, rejection of torture, be so unnuanced from a Catholic perspective on these fundamental life issues?" Notre Dame Professor Scott Applesby So, that's still no reason for all the yelling about an invitation to the President to speak at Notre Dame. No said he was being invited to give a lecture on theology. He is,…
The Seattle Times (9/30) reports that U.S. Coach Greg Ryan dropped goal keeper Hope Solo, former Washington Husky standout from Richland, from the team for today’s Women World Cup third place match against Norway. On the previous Thursday, the coach had decided to have Briana Scurry play instead of Solor during the semi final match against Brazil. After Brazil defeated the U.S. team 4-0 & Scurry failed to block key goals Solor was quoted as saying about the coach playing…
Parade Magazine (R) reports Allison Fisher, the women’s pro billard’s champ, has the nickname "The dutchess of doom" because of the fear her opponents have of her skill. Good for her in what has been a man’s world. I can think of some women trial lawyers this nickname would apply to as well for the very same reason.
In the classic 1949 movie The Third Man staring Joseph Cotton and Orsen Wells, Wells says to Cotton "In Italy under the Borgias, they had warefare, terror, murder, bloodshed – but, they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock" Struggle can be beneficial as the oft quoted statement of Friedrich Nietzsche "what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger" says.
