Nia notes Mara’s smile peeking around the postcard before removing a full jar of water from their keyboard. “Must — you — flirt — with — disaster?” “C’mohhhhn!” Thalia protests. “Composition con-nehhh-ct — ih-caaaaa-shun! A lighthouse, a beach, ahhhhnd reeeeeeeeel H₂O!”
The Sound of Music’s songs were firmly installed in my sentimental jukebox from seeing the movie, with Julie Andrews, on my senior class trip to Washington, D.C. “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?” also comes to mind.
I didn’t see The Sound of Music unti I was in high school or college. My friend, who had seen it many times, suggested we watch it… and so we did… in the living room of her childhood home… with her parents.
The movie was playing on tv the Sunday evening when my contractions kicked in. I think I might have been en route to the hospital before the movie finished. 😂
Yes! Many great songs.
Last night I started watching All the Light We Cannot See on Netflix. It is very good.
Thanks as always Gail for today’s new rabbit hole! You well know I search to learn more from time to time. 🤔
Without spoiling the story for others, I’ll only say the Rimbaud’s life affirms your recent words advising we take the whole of a person’s life in order to properly assess who they were. The
revelation of Sir Isaac Newton’s other interests far outside gravitation illustrates this well.
Oooooh! I have found myself deliciously entangled in a ball of yarn titled ‘finite and infinite games’ by James Carse. This is not a relaxing read. In fact yesterday I found myself so enthusiastically agitated that I had to put the book down and walk away.
This relates to your comment because the author is discussing how words and metaphors are only “stand-ins” for reality.,
The only “truth” including in science is change!?
Anything we try to lock into an expectation and/or label is not free to become what it might be?
I’m starting to grasp what Billy Pilgrim may have felt when he became “unstuck in time.” (Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five novel) Today’s watercolor seems to be a tableau of parts of your life. Not just current elements. Mara? The guitar? The beach or shoreline? And of course let me not overlook the lighthouse itself.
Cal’s seemingly fatalistic “All’s well that ends well!” could have been stated, “All’s well that starts well.” Nia might even agree, an a limited basis of course, with this alternate wording. 🤷🏽
After further consideration, I believe the quote by Vick Hope, that LoveLetterist included, actually set the tone for today’s foray into past, present, and future. Future? She may want to take guitar lessons. Or go shopping for a new laptop? 🤷🏽
A note from LoveLetterist:
How our brains work is an endless source of joy and wonder.
Today's post comes with a side-dish lyric from The Sound of Music:
Nothing comes from nothing
nothing ever could...
So somewhere in my youth or childhood
I must have done something good
"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will." ~Arthur Rimbaud
Deb will sing that to me, although she changes it to first person plural — because she means us finding each other! 💚
The two of you are a lighthouse!
The Sound of Music’s songs were firmly installed in my sentimental jukebox from seeing the movie, with Julie Andrews, on my senior class trip to Washington, D.C. “How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?” also comes to mind.
I didn’t see The Sound of Music unti I was in high school or college. My friend, who had seen it many times, suggested we watch it… and so we did… in the living room of her childhood home… with her parents.
The movie was playing on tv the Sunday evening when my contractions kicked in. I think I might have been en route to the hospital before the movie finished. 😂
Yes! Many great songs.
Last night I started watching All the Light We Cannot See on Netflix. It is very good.
Thanks as always Gail for today’s new rabbit hole! You well know I search to learn more from time to time. 🤔
Without spoiling the story for others, I’ll only say the Rimbaud’s life affirms your recent words advising we take the whole of a person’s life in order to properly assess who they were. The
revelation of Sir Isaac Newton’s other interests far outside gravitation illustrates this well.
Fascinating!
Oooooh! I have found myself deliciously entangled in a ball of yarn titled ‘finite and infinite games’ by James Carse. This is not a relaxing read. In fact yesterday I found myself so enthusiastically agitated that I had to put the book down and walk away.
This relates to your comment because the author is discussing how words and metaphors are only “stand-ins” for reality.,
The only “truth” including in science is change!?
Anything we try to lock into an expectation and/or label is not free to become what it might be?
V. Fascinating!
Yes, like the name “Vick” for example right?
Vick is a guys name right?
Or is it?
Maybe we should ask Victoria or perhaps George instead? Hmmm? 🤔
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/george-eliot-reclaim-her-name-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
I believe I have quoted George Eliot here on 3mm... and had no idea it's a pen name.
I recently watched The Wife on Netflix -- about a wife who wrote novels that were published under her husband's name.
Check out the trailer if you have a minute:
https://www.netflix.com/title/80244471?s=i&trkid=254567369
I’m starting to grasp what Billy Pilgrim may have felt when he became “unstuck in time.” (Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five novel) Today’s watercolor seems to be a tableau of parts of your life. Not just current elements. Mara? The guitar? The beach or shoreline? And of course let me not overlook the lighthouse itself.
Cal’s seemingly fatalistic “All’s well that ends well!” could have been stated, “All’s well that starts well.” Nia might even agree, an a limited basis of course, with this alternate wording. 🤷🏽
After further consideration, I believe the quote by Vick Hope, that LoveLetterist included, actually set the tone for today’s foray into past, present, and future. Future? She may want to take guitar lessons. Or go shopping for a new laptop? 🤷🏽
I don't know where the guitar came from?! It just showed up with the Mac. I've often wondered if it's a default image?
Ahhhh! "In a beginning..." All's well that starts well.
Not unlike the stuff that bubbles up in my mind! 😊