Diary: 2011 or Thereabouts
Let the children have a world
Where there is no pain or sorrow
Where they all can live tomorrow
And they share a brighter day
(Dana Winner Song 2009)
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Checking The Latest News Makers
Meanwhile, the big interplay between microcosm and macrocosm keeps spinning round and round in the world, as it always has. Destiny and fate seem to look down over everything. The Wheel of Fortune is spinning without stop in people's lives! Maria Aragon, the 10 year-old phenomenon who had 12 million hits (so far) on her U-tube rendition of Lady Gaga's song, Born This Way, made a guest appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, yesterday. This is just the start of something big for her. On today's show (my birthday Feb. 23rd), Justin Bieber presented Ellen with a lock of his hair so she could auction it off for charity, proceeds going to The Gentle Barn, animal organization. Magazines at the check-out counter in grocery stores have Justin Bieber's face all over the place. He's come such a long way since his first U-tube video that launched him on to the road to fame and fortune. Meanwhile, The National Enquirer, on the other hand, suggests in its headline, it's apparently "The End", for the elderly movie diva, Elizabeth Taylor. There's start-ups and break-ups and "finales" in all these lives. Stories just keep on going and going, replaced by new ones!
Elizabeth Taylor has been married 8 times. I certainly hope there is only one marriage for Prince William and Kate Middleton who are scheduled to tie the knot on April 29, 2011. There have been enough divorces in the royal family. Apparently Fergie is not invited. Experts say that now is the time to update the laws governing royal succession which are some 300 years old. Prince William has said his fiancee Kate Middleton is under no pressure to follow in his mother's footsteps and will "make her own destiny".
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Time Will Take Care Of Everything
In other news, I'm glad that the police have charged that homeless man (caught in a nearby barn) for the murder of my friend, Audrey Gleave over Christmas 2010. It's also reported that Toronto is planning to name a street after Ryan Russell, the police officer killed by another homeless man who drove Russell down with a stolen snow plough, earlier this winter. Congress woman, Gabrielle Giffords, is recovering steadily after being shot in the head in that Tucson massacre. The killer remains in jail, awaiting justice. Who knows how many months all these accused killers will gobble up in the courts at the expense of taxpayers' money? The presidents of Tunisia and Egypt finally resigned and one would hope that those countries will get free elections and amended constitutions this year. Libya is still in an upheaval this very day, with demonstrators killed in the streets by Gadhafi military forces. Will there be any real change with the change of power, if there is a change of power?
I saw a splendid documentary recently, about a naturalist living Alone In The Wilderness in Alaska. Dick Proenneke refurbished a log cabin and lived in the woods for 30 years until he was 82. He filmed his life in the sticks, showing great footage of his survival in -40 degree temperatures in winter and how he trapped wild game. I told Marjorie, "Gadhafi should have built a log cabin and lived out there, instead of killing his own people in Libya."
My hip is still sore from the spill I took on my recent skiing trip with "the boys." The canker on my tongue is still bothering me. My leukemia is slow in its progress, thank goodness, creeping up slowly from a reading of 11.9 in 2003 to 14.9 in 2011. If my math is right (and if a bus doesn't hit me), I have another 7 years to live before I need treatment and who knows, I might go into remission with some bonus years to come? I'm praying that I have some more time to watch the world's dramas unfold. In the meantime, we all still miss Kenny so very much! He's been gone 3 years now. Anwar Knight, "the weather weenie", is still looking good on TV, with no apparent side effects from his cancer treatment over the past year.
I can't follow all these stories to their end because, well, other stories keep popping up all over the place and so on and so forth, so that nothing really ends, does it? But with the few stories that I've been following in my "time portal", stories which seem unfinished, time will finish them all for me. Time will take care of everything.
Percy Bysshe Shelley pictures time as an ocean in an old poem, appropriately entitled "Time". The ocean is made up of human tears, shed because people have suffered and had to endure so much through their life times. The ocean of time gobbles all of us up. Ironically, Shelley drowned in a boating accident in 1822:
Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
(Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Time")
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Famous Last Words
I thought about famous last words again. What would mine be, if I lay dying? There have been some really flippant and strange ones from famous people:
"Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
(When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside)
~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964
What would I say in my final minute? It depends on whether I'd be in a coma or in pain or just plain drugged. Maybe whimsical, from the game show: "Is this your final answer?" Or more aptly, personal: "I love you Marjorie." When I was in the West Lincoln Hospital from a bleeding stomach and I actually felt like I might die, I prayed I would last long enough to tell the night nurse: "Tell Marjorie that I love her."
Bonaparte's dying word was, "Josephine." There's lots of possibilities, all fascinating. What would you say, if you had only one sentence left to give family, friends or the world? Maybe, nothing? I've heard a story about Alexander the Great who was asked by his generals in his dying hour, to which of them would he leave his empire? I think he said, "the strongest." I'm not sure if that caused mighty wars that ripped the empire apart. What would Alexander the Great care at the point of death anyway?
Where there is no pain or sorrow
Where they all can live tomorrow
And they share a brighter day
(Dana Winner Song 2009)
_____________________________
Checking The Latest News Makers
Meanwhile, the big interplay between microcosm and macrocosm keeps spinning round and round in the world, as it always has. Destiny and fate seem to look down over everything. The Wheel of Fortune is spinning without stop in people's lives! Maria Aragon, the 10 year-old phenomenon who had 12 million hits (so far) on her U-tube rendition of Lady Gaga's song, Born This Way, made a guest appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, yesterday. This is just the start of something big for her. On today's show (my birthday Feb. 23rd), Justin Bieber presented Ellen with a lock of his hair so she could auction it off for charity, proceeds going to The Gentle Barn, animal organization. Magazines at the check-out counter in grocery stores have Justin Bieber's face all over the place. He's come such a long way since his first U-tube video that launched him on to the road to fame and fortune. Meanwhile, The National Enquirer, on the other hand, suggests in its headline, it's apparently "The End", for the elderly movie diva, Elizabeth Taylor. There's start-ups and break-ups and "finales" in all these lives. Stories just keep on going and going, replaced by new ones!
Elizabeth Taylor has been married 8 times. I certainly hope there is only one marriage for Prince William and Kate Middleton who are scheduled to tie the knot on April 29, 2011. There have been enough divorces in the royal family. Apparently Fergie is not invited. Experts say that now is the time to update the laws governing royal succession which are some 300 years old. Prince William has said his fiancee Kate Middleton is under no pressure to follow in his mother's footsteps and will "make her own destiny".
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Time Will Take Care Of Everything
In other news, I'm glad that the police have charged that homeless man (caught in a nearby barn) for the murder of my friend, Audrey Gleave over Christmas 2010. It's also reported that Toronto is planning to name a street after Ryan Russell, the police officer killed by another homeless man who drove Russell down with a stolen snow plough, earlier this winter. Congress woman, Gabrielle Giffords, is recovering steadily after being shot in the head in that Tucson massacre. The killer remains in jail, awaiting justice. Who knows how many months all these accused killers will gobble up in the courts at the expense of taxpayers' money? The presidents of Tunisia and Egypt finally resigned and one would hope that those countries will get free elections and amended constitutions this year. Libya is still in an upheaval this very day, with demonstrators killed in the streets by Gadhafi military forces. Will there be any real change with the change of power, if there is a change of power?
I saw a splendid documentary recently, about a naturalist living Alone In The Wilderness in Alaska. Dick Proenneke refurbished a log cabin and lived in the woods for 30 years until he was 82. He filmed his life in the sticks, showing great footage of his survival in -40 degree temperatures in winter and how he trapped wild game. I told Marjorie, "Gadhafi should have built a log cabin and lived out there, instead of killing his own people in Libya."
My hip is still sore from the spill I took on my recent skiing trip with "the boys." The canker on my tongue is still bothering me. My leukemia is slow in its progress, thank goodness, creeping up slowly from a reading of 11.9 in 2003 to 14.9 in 2011. If my math is right (and if a bus doesn't hit me), I have another 7 years to live before I need treatment and who knows, I might go into remission with some bonus years to come? I'm praying that I have some more time to watch the world's dramas unfold. In the meantime, we all still miss Kenny so very much! He's been gone 3 years now. Anwar Knight, "the weather weenie", is still looking good on TV, with no apparent side effects from his cancer treatment over the past year.
I can't follow all these stories to their end because, well, other stories keep popping up all over the place and so on and so forth, so that nothing really ends, does it? But with the few stories that I've been following in my "time portal", stories which seem unfinished, time will finish them all for me. Time will take care of everything.
Percy Bysshe Shelley pictures time as an ocean in an old poem, appropriately entitled "Time". The ocean is made up of human tears, shed because people have suffered and had to endure so much through their life times. The ocean of time gobbles all of us up. Ironically, Shelley drowned in a boating accident in 1822:
Unfathomable Sea! whose waves are years,
Ocean of Time, whose waters of deep woe
Are brackish with the salt of human tears!
(Percy Bysshe Shelley - "Time")
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Famous Last Words
I thought about famous last words again. What would mine be, if I lay dying? There have been some really flippant and strange ones from famous people:
"Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
(When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside)
~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964
What would I say in my final minute? It depends on whether I'd be in a coma or in pain or just plain drugged. Maybe whimsical, from the game show: "Is this your final answer?" Or more aptly, personal: "I love you Marjorie." When I was in the West Lincoln Hospital from a bleeding stomach and I actually felt like I might die, I prayed I would last long enough to tell the night nurse: "Tell Marjorie that I love her."
Bonaparte's dying word was, "Josephine." There's lots of possibilities, all fascinating. What would you say, if you had only one sentence left to give family, friends or the world? Maybe, nothing? I've heard a story about Alexander the Great who was asked by his generals in his dying hour, to which of them would he leave his empire? I think he said, "the strongest." I'm not sure if that caused mighty wars that ripped the empire apart. What would Alexander the Great care at the point of death anyway?
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