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The "figa" is Brazil's good luck charm. It is a clenched fist with the thumb extended between the second and third finger. A "figa" can only be given as a gift, you cannot buy one for yourself. Once you are given a "figa" it stores up all the luck you haven’t used, however you cannot break or lose it for if you do your luck supply will be lost. "Figas" are made in different sizes and out of different kinds of materials.
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck is the man who is there when the good luck comes. - Robert Collier
May good luck be your friend in whatever you do and may trouble be always a stranger to you. - Irish Blessing
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. - Garrison Keillor
Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck. - Dallai Lama XIV
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"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose." Garrison Keillor.
I've been waiting a long time to do something suitable with a photo of this wonderful cat that I encountered in a small harbour in Elba - now everything has come together, and I've done it.
Many thanks to my good contact Rosina for the links to the quotations, and also to Sabinche for perhaps unknowingly making me aware of the existence of poladroids.
Sometimes when I look through the camera lens, a certain combination of sunlight and shadow makes me think of the painter Edward Hopper, whose work I love. It happened again yesterday as I took this shot of the Legion Hall in Bloomfield, Iowa.
This morning’s Writer’s Almanac tells me: “It's the birthday of painter Edward Hopper, who lived and worked in the same New York City apartment from 1913 until 1967, and who once said, ‘Maybe I am slightly inhuman. ... All I ever wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.’ “
All I can say is - Edward, I completely understand.
“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”
Garrison Keillor
Mickey’s Diner is one of only four remaining dining cars of it’s kind still in operation. Produced by the Jerry O'Mahony Co. of Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1937 serial # 1067, 2,000 of these cars were pre-fabricated by the company and shipped to cities across the United States prior to WWII.
Open 24 hours a day since it’s opening, Mickey's has been featured in many motion pictures, including A Prairie Home Companion. The Diner is located at 7th & Sibley in downtown St. Paul.
Audience assembles at Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, for June 19, 2010 live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion. Blossom is the summer home of the Cleveland Orchestra.
This little village of ice fishing houses is on the Androscoggin River. A train bridge is in the distance and used by the Downeaster. I heard this poem read this morning by Garrison Keillor on his daily The Writer's Almanac show. The much ballyhooed blizzard that was due to arrive this past weekend did not. I guess it blew out to the Gulf of Maine. The photo is just an excuse for the poem.
The Blizzard
by Phillis Levin
Now that the worst is over, they predict
Something messy and difficult, though not
Life-threatening. Clearly we needed
To stock up on water and candles, making
Tureens of soup and things that keep
When electricity fails and phone lines fall.
Igloos rise on air conditioners, gargoyles
Fly and icicles shatter. Frozen runways,
Lines in markets, and paralyzed avenues
Verify every fear. But there is warmth
In this sudden desire to sleep,
To surrender to our common condition
With joy, watching hours of news
Devoted to weather. People finally stop
To talk to each other—the neighbors
We didn’t know were always here.
Today they are ready for business,
Armed with a new vocabulary,
Casting their saga in phrases as severe
As last night’s snow: damage assessment,
Evacuation, emergency management,
The shift of the wind matters again,
And we are so simple, so happy to hear
The scrape of a shovel next door.
“The Blizzard” by Phillis Levin from Mercury. © Penguin, 2001. Reprinted with permission.
This is the outside of the building that houses Nina's coffee shop and the original Garrison Keillor bookstore, Common Good Books. It's also one of my favorite buildings in the Twin Cities. I think it's because it reminds me of every building in New York and Chicago. I wish we had more of these old buildings around Minnesota.
Garrison Keillor, Portland Zoo, Portland, OR.
Garrison Keillor, at Portland tonight on his 'The America the Beautiful' tour. This, he said, would be his last. This is our third time hearing him live. He is surely one of a kind. Well, that's the news from Portland, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.
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Who knew! that "the old lady in Dubuque" ... turned out to be none other than a British born lady named Tina Brown, who was the first woman editor of this American cultural icon.
Hey, who knew ?
I recently completed reading this fascinating history of THE NEW YORKER magazine, lovingly written by Ben Yagoda, and I learned a lot, about Modern American Literature, from the Lost Generation gang to David Remnick current New Yorker's editions, in the process.
Always Trust your friendly baker:
I also learned from "the old lady in Dubuque" (pp. 39-40) that daring and novel ideas, in publishing, do succeed, and can rise as fast as highly active yeast. It was Raoul Fleischmann, from the General Baking Company family (pp. 32-33), who, in the summer of 1924, backed Harold Ross and Jane Grant own's $20,000.00 savings, with an initial $25,000.00 investment, in cash, to start THE NEW YORKER. Hence, Raoul Fleischmann, and his heirs, were Publishers of THE NEW YORKER from 1924 to 1985, when S.I. Newhouse, of Advance Publications, bought the property. (pp. 408-409)
So I recommend reading this volume with a 10/10 star rating !!
jacket Illustration by Harry Bliss
www.amazon.com/About-Town-Yorker-World-Made/dp/0306810239...
(496 pages, DA CAPO PRESS, 2001, ISBN-10: 0306810239)
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"On this date in 1863, Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was four and a half months after the devastating battle, and it was a foggy, cold morning. Lincoln arrived about 10 a.m. Around noon, the sun came out as the crowds gathered on a hill overlooking the battlefield. A military band played, a local preacher offered a long prayer, and the headlining orator, Edward Everett, spoke for more than two hours. Everett described the Battle of Gettysburg in great detail, and he brought the audience to tears more than once. When Everett finished, Lincoln spoke.
Now considered one of the greatest speeches in American history, the Gettysburg Address ran for just over two minutes, fewer than 300 words, and only 10 sentences. It was so brief, in fact, that many of the 15,000 people that attended the ceremony didn’t even realize that the president had spoken, because a photographer setting up his camera had momentarily distracted them. The next day, Everett told Lincoln, 'I wish that I could flatter myself that I had come as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.'"
www.garrisonkeillor.com/radio/twa-the-writers-almanac-for...
Text of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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“Instinct is the nose of the mind.”
~ anon ~
“It takes little talent
to see what lies under one's nose,
a good deal to know
in what direction to point that organ.”
~ W. H. Auden ~
“What lies behind us
and what lies before us
are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
“When I lay my head on the pillow at night
I can say I was a decent person today.
That's when I feel beautiful.”
~ Drew Barrymore ~
“The highlight of my childhood
was making my brother laugh so hard
that food came out of his nose.”
~ Garrison Keillor ~
"It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming."
~ Quote by Garrison Keillor whose birthday is today, August 7, born in 1942. One thing we loved to do when we lived in the states was listen to NPR (National Public Radio). Garrison Keillor has a show called Prairie Home Companion which is entertaining.
This window is in the house called White Haven, where US Grant's wife was born. Now a part of a new National Park in St. Louis, MO.
For the bookshelf biography.
This is installment two of a slowly growing bookshelf series. The original thought behind it was that if you photographed a shelf of your books, it would tell a lot about you. Does it?
This one is rearranged to make sure there were no duplicates with the other photo. They get shifted around often. Still, there is one repeated here.
I rambled on about this more than a year ago in the blog.
It was a small town like any other small town, a place where people walked in without knocking and answered each other's telephones, a place where every Christmas people decorated their houses with lights and went door to door caroling and got candle wax down the fronts of their coats. And then one year, something happened. Evergreens turned brown. Bluejays tried to fly south. When the choir sang the Hallelujah Chorus, the audience did not stand up. And people thought, "Maybe we're not getting enough ketchup." So they put ketchup on their Christmas turkey, and pretty soon, everything was back to normal. Paperboys started whistling again. There were snowball fights. People got out their toboggans and went sliding even though it was perfectly flat.
From: Ketchup Advisory Board Sketch, A Prairie Home Companion, by Garrison Keillor, December 21, 1996.
Taken at the Irvine In-N-Out.
My precious 6-year old granddaughter recently had her first art exhibit at her school in Michigan! I was honored with her piece, with permission to play some more. Decided I would design a set of greeting cards for Miss Ellie, so hopefully she'll continue in the age old art of thank you note writing, one of my favorite things to send and receive!
“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”
~ Garrison Keillor ~
“This day and your life ... are God's gift to you, so give thanks and be joyful always!"
~ anon ~
Happy SUNday, Everyone!
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I spent a big chunk of my life in Minnesota, and it is where I say I am from when people ask. My friend Bonnie gives me a Minnesota-themed book every Christmas, and I have a special shelf in my library where I display them all.