More sun .. plants are loving it. Corn is now 81" high!
"I know nothing about art." Michael Miller, CEO and Director of the Delaware Art Museum.
01. *Immigrant Kids .. Missed Opportunity
Reverend William Thomas, pastor of the Hereford United Methodist Church, in his religious column today chastises Carroll County for missing a "Christian" opportunity to hold some of the immigrant kids. (Perhaps the Commissioners were too busy writing their meeting opening prayers.)
02. Other United Methodists Activity
The Johnsville United Methodist Church had its "Peach and Pickle Festival and Yard Sale today. Do those two foods mix well? Sounds good to me.
03. Perry is indicted
Texas Governor, Rick Perry, has been indicted by a Grand Jury for "abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant." Abuse is a first degree felony which could result in lots of jail time. Coercion is a 3rd degree felony, which could result in up to 10 years in jail.
04. Maryland Sewage Collection
More than 3 million gallons of raw (but diluted) sewage spilled into the Patapsco River and Jones Falls during and after Tuesday's massive rain downpour.
What happens to this sewage? Does it get mixed with the other water in Chesapeake Bay? Does it stay sewage as it gets to the ocean?
05. FBI Story.. maybe
Tim Gunn was interviewed on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me this week, and he had a story to tell:
His father worked for the FBI, and one day took 9 year old Tim and his 7 year old sister to work with him. At one point, Tim's father asked the kids if they would like to meet Vivian Vance, Lucille Ball's TV sidekick. The kids liked that TV show and yelled: "Sure!"
Ms Vance was in FBI Director J Edgar Hoover's office, and met the kids there and was very charming to them.
Nine years later, the kids were recalling the visit with Ms Vance, and Tim wondered why J. Edgar wasn't in the room with Ms Vance, and how a TV star could get into FBI headquarters. A friendly FBI friend checked the sign-in records and other visitor logs for that day, and could find no record of any Ms Vance ever being in the FBI office.
06. Relate to World Events
Chinese Proverb: "He who rides a tiger can never get off."
07. Donut Heaven
Westminster, Maryland policemen are spending 30 hours on top of the local Dunkin' Donut Shop to raise money for Special Olympics. Our police department has a good relationship with the city's population. some of our policemen are retired from the Baltimore Streets and enjoy the peacefulness and law abiding spirit of a small town.
08. 911 Memorial
If you go to New York to see the 911 site, remember, New York is not the most friendly restroom city in the world. However, things are changing somewhat in that regard. Trinity Episcopal church at the foot of Wall Street and its nearby satellite Chapel, St. Paul's now have restrooms that are open to the public, and well cared for.
By the way, the Episcopal parish that includes Trinity and St. Paul's is quite rich. It has real estate holdings estimated at $3 billion and an annual income of over $193 million! So.. what do they do with all that money... around $150,000 is used to keep those rest rooms in good shape.. and they also hand out brown bag lunches to the homeless. What about all the millions??
09. A Famous Soprano Passes
Licia Albanese died Friday at the age of 105. She sang in more than 400 productions of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
She was a Puccini specialist, and was a perfect Butterfly and also Mimi. She was hailed as a notable Tosca, Violetta in LaTraviata, and Liu in Turandot. She was an expert at "expiring" on stage, as in La Boheme, La Traviata, Manon Lescaut, and Madame Butterfly. She was known to have gargantuan disputes with Met Manager, Rudolf Bing.
10. Surprize!
Loud screams and hammering was heard as a shipping container from Belgium was being unloaded at a London dock. Inside were 35 people, one of whom was dead. Nobody understood their languages, so it is not known where they were from.
11. Bad books?
Garrison Keillor was interviewed this week by the New York Times and I found the last questions interesting:
NYT: "Disappointing, overrated, just not good: What book did you feel you were supposed to like, and didn't? Do you remember the last book you put down without finishing?"
GK: "'Winesburg, Ohio,' by Sherwood Anderson, is pretty dreadful, and it inspired a lot of bad books about sensitive adolescent males needing to flee the philistines in their hometowns. As for putting books down without finishing them, I do that all the time. When you pass 70, you are no longer obligated to finish what you've started, not a book, not a meal, not even a sentence."
12. Freud in Paris and Vienna
Vivian Gornick reviewing Becoming Freud by Adam Phillips, writes "... (Freud) received a medical degree in 1882 and went to Paris in 1885 to study with the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, who was treating hysteria with hypnosis."
(Doctor Charcot's name was applied to a problem my late wife had: Charcot Joint.. where small bones in the foot were breaking down. His name was also applied to the condition that Elaine Lottes has, called Charcot Marie Tooth. CMT.. Doctors Marie and Tooth collaborated with Doctor Charcot.)
Later, he set up private practice in Vienna.
The Key: "Freud formulated the idea that many neuroses originated in traumatic experiences that had occurred in the past and, too painful to be lived with, had remained hidden from our conscious selves. He concluded that there was an unconscious wherein reside a huge amount of information about ourselves, that if brought to light, would relive us of our mental distress."
Important books by Freud that I have not read and don't have enough life left to read:
The Interpretation of Dreams
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
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