Toni Tennille has written a new memoir. Everything you ever wanted to know about Captain & Tennille included, ---if you even know what the words "Captain & Tennille" mean, you wee babies!! (Oh my gosh, I'm getting old.) "In my prime I was a damn good singer," remembers Tennille. Yup, she did her part for sure. Enjoy classic Seventies'ness below.
The Los Angeles Dodgers are winners! (So far. This season. Two games in.) Yahoo! Monday night, they beat the San Diego Padres 15-0, with "the most runs the Dodgers have scored on Opening Day since 1983 ..." All is well in the universe. news
Principle in the type: "I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What
kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that,
and it didn't mean anything? What then?”Neil Gaiman
Phil Collins and his third wife Orianne Cevey are set to remarry. "Love was never completely gone," says Cevey. "The separation
was the wrong decision . . . We are meant for each other." (Possible wedding day tune?) story
Principle in the type: “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle."I really hate this expression. I bet fish
would totally want bicycles.”Meg Cabot
To this week's Birthday Boy - sorry about your heartaches, and thanks for sharing your talent! Are artist's 'needier' than say, engineers? I don't know. Van Gogh had his share of anguish that's for sure. Let's take care of ourselves and others. Enjoy the vid.
Principle in the type: "There is beauty all around." Lyric.
Attention: Will the line for those exasperated by politically correct mumbo-jumbo please form down the middle! This morning's newspaper headline, "Alleged 'unstable' man ends hijacking" mademe crazy! Let's go ahead and call folk who play around with blowing up planes--for real or pretend--unstable,okay?? Own it, people!
Principle in the type: "The mostcourageous act is
still to think for yourself.Aloud." Coco Chanel
Alright everybody. Let's just pull ourselves together. If a chocolate Easter egg was developed to be called a chocolate Easter egg, it can be called a chocolate Easter egg. "Chocolate manufacturers in the U.K. have removed the word "Easter" from the holiday egg candy . . . " (Cadbury -- we're talking to you!) Yellow can be yellow, Easter can be Easter, the desert can be the desert, Passover can be Passover, veils can be veils, and so on and so on. news
Principle in the type: "Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that
space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and
our freedom.” Viktor E. Frank
The funny side of politics? Oh Please!! It's a nightmare right now! .... wait a second. Here's something that might make you chuckle. Take a load off from the presidential race, and enjoy:
(And below? A little theory on opposites, and competition.)
Principle in the type: "Various schools of thought about forest management have
been followed through the years . . . a test plot was selected for a practice
known as release thinning.Foresters identified what they felt were
potentially the largest and healthiest young trees in the test plot, and then
they cut and pruned out the less-promising trees and the competing
undergrowth.The supposition was that by
removing much of the competition for water, sunlight, and soil nutrients, the
chosen trees would be released to
grow and develop in extraordinary ways. . . . After some years it became
obvious that just the opposite was occurring.Once freed from competition, the chosen trees became complacent.Instead of stretching upward toward the
light, they slowed their vertical growth, put out many lower limbs that
eventually became useless when the canopy closed, and became fatter.None of the trees in the test plot compared
in size or vitality to the trees that had to compete and overcome opposition in
order to survive and thrive."Marlin K. Jensen
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