Sunday, December 13, 2009

Today's the day--yay!
Spent most of yesterday washing and packing. P. and N. called in the morning and were expecting to see the Singapore contingent today. Frank helped me carry the porch furniture into the garage and I ran some last minute errands. A. called to invite me up to decorate their tree and for dinner and I happily accepted. Got there about 4:00 as they were cutting and chopping trees, "chipping" them, and clearing out brush from their large backyard.
As it turned out, A. hadn't gotten the decorations down yet--just as well, as I didn't want to be out too late, although I was sorry I didnt' get to see the little boys. We had a wonderful dinner of puttenesco (I'm sure that's mispelled, but I bet Blogspot doesn't know it, either). A. sauteed shrimp, onions, capers, and diced tomatoes for the sauce, poured it over pasta, and it was delcious. Got home by 7:30 and went to bed even earlier than usual.
Caliornia, here I come!
JUST AN ASIDE: This from a good blog I just discovered called "The Regressive":
"An adolescent asked Mozart how to compose symphonies. Mozart said that because the lad was so young, perhaps he should begin composing ballads. "But," the young man objected, "you wrote symphonies when you were only 10 years old." Mozart replied: "But I didn't have to ask how."
That story may be apocryphal, but it's truer than true. It contains within it the idea, all too prevalent today, it seems, that you can just find some formula to accomplish art or anything else. But so often, you can't--the genius is there or not there and it can't be faked.

26 comments:

Pat said...

Rosemary,
As the younger generation would say in response to your post 'Word' or maybe they say 'Word up'. At any rate, I totally agree.

Do have the best time on your trip....I'll be thinking about you and looking forward to reading all about it.
/pat

Josiah Bounderby said...

Mimi, the quote comes from a recent George Will(yeah, I know..) op-ed in Newsweek:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/225791

which has subsequently been quoted in a bunch of blogs. I found this out by searching for the quote in hope of finding the url for the Regressive-- I gather "the Regressive" didn't mention this.

Mimi said...

Thanks for the info, Josiah--but now that I know it's from George Will--aagh! Oh, well, two and two makes four even if Hitler says so. (That's a quote from one of Herman Wouk's books.)

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