Once in awhile,
Right in the middle of an ordinary life,
Love gives us a fairy tale.
~ by Anonymous ~



a picture taken by Audrey of the sky in northern Connecticut...

George Carlin

"Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?"

George Carlin


I feel particularly sad that Carlin didn't live to see Bush's incompetent sociopathic ass leave office...he had so many brilliant observations about the sick people who have destroyed our country for the last 8 years...

Model A

Audrey's family is really into the old Model A (1931 Ford) car collecting (partly in respectful memory of her dad who died a few years ago and loved them) and her brother Burt took me for a ride in one of the 3 they have this weekend-here is a shot from the inside...really interesting people.

'may equality live long and prosper'

'STAR TREK' ACTOR SETS DATE

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Former Star Trek actor George Takei was among the first to get a wedding license Tuesday.

He and partner Brad Altman, together for 21 years, plan a ceremony in September.

Takei played Sulu, the helmsman of the Enterprise. Walter Koenig, the actor who played Chekov, will be best man, and Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, will be matron of honor. Leonard Nimoy - Spock - will be a guest.

"It feels glorious," said Takei, 71. "We are legitimately going to be married in California." Takei said the California Supreme Court's ruling allowing same-sex marriage was a victory for equality. "We're all here to give flesh-and-blood reality to that ruling."

Holding the fingers of his left hand in the Star Trek salute, he said, "May equality live long and prosper."

Altman, 54, said, "I'm the happiest guy in California. ... We're just part of the diversity of America." Takei said having the state recognize their relationship and commitment "makes a world of difference. I think I love him more now than I did this morning."

meant to be

--------------------------------------------------------------Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific. ~Aaron Copland

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court quote

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable


Mark Twain

time in Coventry

I was able to meet Audrey's sister and mother yesterday in Coventry, Conn., which was really nice..her mom still lives in a house she and her husband bought in 1961 and is an old folk colonial home clearly from the 1700's sometime...everyone, including me, sat around and played music-Audrey on piano, me on the trumpet, Wendy (her sister, on violin) and Wendy's husband Bill and brother Bert, each on guitars...driving back home this evening I hit a severe thunderstorm in Springfield, but what a nice weekend...Here is Audrey in my apartment a few days before playing piano while I cooked dinner! I did run and get my trumpet when she started playing the Rogers/Hart piece, Where or When, which we both love.

Blessing posing with a lynx

sometimes we are shown what we are

This gentleman, flying up into the air after being hit by a car in Hartford last Thursday, has become the symbol for what our country has become....those of you who have seen the video of the event would see the car drive off quickly, many cars drive around and leave, people going up to voyeuristically look at this paralyzed, helpless man but not trying to help him. Narcissism is defined as a lack of empathy for others.There is nothing more evil than that. Nothing. I hope something shakes our country out of its passivity, its love of warmongering, its materialism and disinterest in the pain, even a joy in the pain, of others. First, we have to get the giggling alcoholic out of the white house.

Audrey playing her mandolin

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

“What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins