My first story got into yesterday's paper. I'm not sure if I can get the link to the article to work, but here's the picture I took. This woman is 90 years old. She has sat in church with Ted Kennedy, has invited the Queen of England to tea, has written the history of almost every older family in Astoria, and she remembers it all in detail. Which impresses me.
I'm not impressed with the picture however. Oh well. It can only go up from here, one hopes.
II.
Here's the article link, http://www.dailyastorian.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=398&ArticleID=62239. If it doesn't work, just go to www.dailyastorian.com and scroll down until you see the headline "Hankel reigns as Leahy clan gathers for the Fourth." I feel roughly the same way about the story as I feel about the photo. But we move on.
III.
New Yorker article, information desires to be free. I have no comment. http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/07/06/090706crbo_books_gladwell
IV.
"next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn's early my
country tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?"
He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water
- e.e. cummings
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ReplyDeletesorry I deleted my comment. I was tired and I used the wrong "they're", I couldn't stand for that. Here's the corrected version:
ReplyDeleteI liked the article. Really for 2 reasons. the first, it was well written, the second, I love reading about old people. They're fascinating.