Tuesday, August 22. William Shakespeare's Thought For The Day:

[Aristus]

"Thou art the grave where buried love doth live"

Sonnet XXXI, Line 9.

[miss_american_pie]

1. Oh that's perfect

and perfectly sad. :hi:

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. that is beautiful

and it is only one of the reasons he is loved and revered

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Aristus..........

Oh boy, you nearly made me tear up this morning.........

How sad........and how beautiful as well........

Thank you for this.......it's refreshing to have a non-political one from time to time......

:hug:

[Aristus]

4. I kind of thought today's was gonna be good.

At the same time, I was dismayed while looking for an image of Casey Sheehan's grave to find a lot of freeperish talk out there regarding Cindy Sheehan and the lack of a headstone at the site. As if it was anybody's business but her's.

Stiil, when I was found this quote yesterday, I got really excited to post it; especially since I wasn't too happy with the quote for Monday.

Good to see y'all. :hi:

[u4ic]

5. May they rest in peace

:( :cry:

[Aristus]

6. Kick for the evening crowd.

:kick:

[VelmaD]

7. hey hey

'sup?

[Aristus]

8. Hi, Vel.

How are you feeling today, sweetie?

[VelmaD]

9. Was home sick all day...

woke up with a wretched sinus headache and my head still hurts a bit. *grump*

[Aristus]

14. I'm sorry, Velma.

Here's a cyber-ibuprofen for you. *

And a hug. :hug:

[VelmaD]

15. Mmmmmmm...

'Ristus hugs. :)

I'm figuring I'll get to bed early tonight and hopefully I'll wake up all better tomorrow.

[Aristus]

17. Okay.

Sleep tight, sweetheart. :*

[VelmaD]

18. thanks darlin'

nighty night

[LadyoftheRabbits]

10. Dulce et decorum est

Very sweet and fitting :) :hug:

[Aristus]

11. Wow, lelapin! A poetry fan!

DULCE ET DECORUM EST

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering,choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

13. Probably one of...

my all time favourites. :hug:

[txwhitedove]

12. Beautiful. Thank you, Aristus.

[Aristus]

16. Thank you, txwhitedove.

:hi:

[Aristus]

19. One last kick.

Then into the journal.

:kick:

[Shine]

20. Hi Aristus!

You'll be happily amused to know we took the kids to see the Shakespeare Santa Cruz production of "As You Like It" over the weekend and it was great! LOL funny....That Will was a clever, clever guy....

:hi:

[Aristus]

21. Did the kids like it?

Did they get it? Seeing Shakespeare in performance is the best way to get "in" to his plays. I remember teachers in high school droning on and on over "Julius Caesar" and "MacBeth"till we all just about fell asleep.

Then I saw a production of "The Merry Wives Of Windsor" at the Seattle Rep., and Shakespeare just came alive for me. I fell in love with it, and it brightens my life to this day.

Even the colossal demolition derby that is the Tragedy of King Lear has that life-affirming reconciliation between Lear and Cordelia. Her love and forgiveness have a transformative power that surmount their heart-breaking deaths at the end of the play.

[Shine]

22. Well,a lot of it went over the head of my 9 yr old dtr, but my 12 yr old

son seemed to get into it. The "fancy, old-fashioned" language threw them a bit. It was their very first time we'd ever taken them to see a Shakespeare play. It helped that I had downloaded a brief synopsis from the web to help explain, beforehand, what the story was all about. That was very useful.

The Shakespeare Santa Cruz Festival is celebrating its 25th season this year, so, coincidentally, they also performed "King Lear", along with George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion". http://www.shakespearesantacruz.org/
My hubby and I saw "Pygmalion" on Saturday night on our own and we took the kids to the very cool outdoor festival glen to see "As You Like It" on Sunday afternoon. You'd love the ambience, I'm sure. It's a beautiful stage, set among a gorgeous redwood grove, nestled up on the UC Santa Cruz campus. People pack in their picnics, bring bottles of wine...it's quite the scene. I truthfully think the kids enjoyed the picnic action more than anything else! LOL!