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It's been eighty-four years since The Wizard of Oz opened at the Loews Capital Theater in New York City on August 17, 1939. It wasn't the first attempt to capitalize on the L. Frank Baum novel. In fact, by the time 1939 rolled around, there had been a Broadway musical and at least three silent… Continue reading “We’re off to see the wizard!”
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you--Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People Excellent advice from the man who is probably Northwest Missouri's best-known author and salesman. One of the basic… Continue reading Quote of the Day: On Making–and Keeping–Friends
Few English actors have radiated imperiousness upon command (see what I did there) better than did the late Glenda Jackson. Nevertheless, I found myself charmed by a revelation, in a recent Daily Mail column** written by her son, the journalist Dan Hodges, that Jackson struggled as a gardener, even amongst the flowers that she loved. To wit,… Continue reading “Grow, you buggers, Grow!”
There's a post today, July 7, 2023, on Ricochet written by a member from Cambodia. It's a barnburner. It's not on the main feed yet, but those of you who are members (please sign up, if you're not already) can view it now. When (and it's a matter of "when," not "if"), it's promoted to the… Continue reading The Girl On Your Back–2023
The late Mr. Right was fond of observing the irony, as we neared the close of the first fifth of the twenty-first century, that--in a day and age where it was, for the first time, possible to view on film, and to listen on audio to, almost every single event of note from the preceding… Continue reading Quote of the Day: “Truth is the Daughter of Time”
It’s true that I haven’t been able to find a single source pointing me to the place where the putative author of today’s quote said exactly these words, even in translation (perhaps someone could help me out). But they are widely attributed to St. Augustine, and certainly embody the spirit of his Easter Reflections, an… Continue reading “We are an Easter People, and Alleluia is our song!”–April, 2023
'Fat' is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive,' 'jealous,' 'shallow,' 'vain,' 'boring,' or 'cruel?' Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about… Continue reading Quote of the Day: On Overcoming Girly Insults and Dealing With Compliments of Any Sort
The quote in the title is from As You Like It, but that’s not really the Quote of the Day. April Fool! Today’s actual quote of the day comes from Charles Lamb, who was born in 1775, in London, to a middle-class lawyer’s clerk and his wife, in a house in which he lived in an… Continue reading April 1, 2023: “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool”
Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are part of your history, but not part of your destiny--Steve Maraboli No bloody clue who Steve Maraboli is. But--wait! Am I not part (even of the very advance guard) of the Wikipedia generation? Please allow me to look it up! Hm. Apparently Steve… Continue reading Quote of the Day: On Letting Go
When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still and look around On all the hills I haven’t hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the… Continue reading A Time To Talk–World Poetry Day, March 21, 2023