“Strob,” Vivo Sonhando (Jobim)
Cicero’s blindness
But the study of human nature tells us, and all experience, that men are unable to fathom their own desires, and fail to govern themselves by the wisdom which is at their fingers’ ends. The retiring Prime-minister cannot but hanker after the seals and the ribbons and the titles of office, even though his soul be able to rise above considerations of emolument, and there will creep into a man’s mind an idea that, though reform of abuses from other sources may be impossible, if he were there once more the evil could at least be mitigated, might possibly be cured. So it was during this period of his life with Cicero.
Giro
A friend and an Internet sweetheart is back, I learned yesterday, telling the story of her life in a new blog (with yet a new alias!) on a new love. When I began following her, hardship and disappointment were constant themes. But this blog is the blog of a happy person. Several years into her exile from a lively capital city to Chile’s quiet south, that’s a remarkable thing.
Feminine aside
mosaic tile, the little black dress of the bathroom
A way of putting it that would never, ever have occurred to me. From Remodelista (which I glance through faithfully every day via email subscription), yesterday’s ‘roundup of baths with black tile flooring’.
Say what? [2]
Into the kitchen
I recommend a look at less-than-month-old blog ‘me local’. Katy’s a young woman from the little PCA church near D.C. that I attended for some years. Right out of culinary studies, she’s gone off to Dublin to get her start in fine restauranting — and she’s writing her experiences delightfully.
Young musician
Sungha Jung
Lovely recent Youtube offering by 12-year-old Korean Sungha Jung, unschooled guitar wunderkind. How I would love to meet this kid, say a word of thanks, and ask for his autograph! This strange exposure to all the web-wide world of one gifted young person’s pure devotion to discovery of music in the most common, readily shared-in fashion of our time really is something to be glad in, I think. He’s not only gifted, he seems to have become, whether he knows it or not, sort of a gift.
Say what? [2]
Anniversary
Mr Thompson likes to remember Mozart on this day (as do others), and I’m inclined to follow his example.
Cecilia Bartoli & Bryn Terfel