Laugh ur a off - Key and Peele

Joan Rivers maintained that ANY topic or subject could be the subject of a joke - if it's funny.  Check out this video from Key and Peele.  If you dont laff I'll give you a refund.

east/west college bowl; key and peele

Brazilian bum-bums

gisele bundchen

much to discuss  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2425468/Gisele-Bundchen-Today-appearance-reveals-Mariah-Carey-songs-helped-speak-English.html

jpr: when we have no bum-bums then we discuss ideas!

florals

jpr: Okay! Its been about 6 generations since i've seen these everywhere. Same time back when all the wives where pregnant?

Useless Factoid, History of the Handshake

The handshake dates to at least the 5th century BC in Greece.  It was a symbol of peace, showing that neither person was carrying a weapon, as depicted in the relief bove. During the Roman era, the handshake was actually more of an arm grab. It involved grabbing each other’s forearms to check that neither man had a knife hidden up his sleeve. Some say that the shaking gesture of the handshake started in Medieval Europe. Knights would shake the hand of others in an attempt to shake loose any hidden weapons.  The custom is found round the world but is losing popularity in the US, replaced increasing by the fist bump.

Notes from the Other Side

For Mikey

Notes from the Other Side
By Jane Kenyon

 I divested myself of despair
 and fear when I came here.

Now there is no more catching
one's own eye in the mirror.

There are no bad books, no plastic,
no insurance premiums, and of course

no illness. Contrition
does not exist, nor gnashing

of teeth. No one howls as the first
clod of earth hits the casket.

The poor we no longer have with us.
Our calm hearts strike only the hour,

and God, as promised, proves
to be mercy clothed in light.

I originally posted this poem back in 2015 and Mikey loved it. I am grateful for this blog because it was through it we got to know each other. My only regret is that I stopped writing after a few years and we drifted apart.

Baby Foxes

could be in

ur back yard

Peggy Lee....back to ma's time

Mikey

                                   Hail to thee, blithe spirit

Like a Poet hidden

In the light of thought,

Singing hymns unbidden,

Till the world is wrought

To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not:

See you on the flip side, Mike

Thinking of you Mikey

Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened.

Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you,
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just round the corner.

All is well.
Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!
-by-henry-scott-holland

R.I.P Mikey

at 5:50 am. EST a great man made his way to heaven

 Award winning painter, author, great intellect, devastating humorist, Vietnam vet.....most importantly father,  brother.

We are joyous at the end of your suffering now the years to mourn begin

a different flower

Stream daily Latin Mass

https://benedictinesofmary.org/node/2213

Stay Safe

A bit of the old south

Smile and carry on

"Hope Is The Thing With Feathers" by Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chilliest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity
It asked a crumb of me.

Yanina studilina

Jpr: huba huba forget the acting

Flowers in outer space

Zinnia was grown on space station, the first flower to grow and bloom in space.

Little girls with piano

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TaT5pvERgjw


Just like my grand daughters!

It's still Easter

It's still Easter

have a blesssed day

sharp-skinned hawk

A tiny hawk that appears in a blur of motion—and often disappears in a flurry of feathers. That’s the Sharp-shinned Hawk, the smallest hawk in North America and a daring, acrobatic flier. These raptors have distinctive proportions: long legs, short wings, and very long tails, which they use for navigating their deep-woods homes at top speed in pursuit of songbirds and mice. They’re easiest to spot in fall on their southward migration, or occasionally at winter feeders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUyKnDVwsQ8

jpr; one has been about the place crying alarm all day

Its F**king cold mon, cold.

Maati Baani

Love her!  

Flowers in the rain

“The rain to the wind said,
You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.”

― Robert Frost

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LMG8xW2HrAM

The 'rona' got John Pine

You probably don't know the work of poet songwriter John Pine.  You should.  Listen to his lyrics.  Brilliant.  RIP

Today is the celebration of the Buddha's Birthday.

“If you knew what I know about the power of giving you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.”

I always suspected this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJuGwGHZxQU

Hymn from time of St. Paul

For Holy Week sung in chant as originally performed

Ambition?

Putin sings....really!

Che coraggio!

amazing shoplifting

The Andrade Twins

Carmen and Lupita Andrade of New Milford, CT are among the country's very few sets of conjoined twins. They are attached along their chest walls down to their pelvis where their spines meet. They each have two arms, but only a single leg, with Carmen controlling the right and Lupita, the left.  The girls each have a heart, a set of arms, a set of lungs and a stomach, but they share some ribs, a liver, their circulatory system, and their digestive and reproductive systems. Day to day, the twins' dreams and concerns are like those of any teenager. They talk about midterms, school projects that need to be completed, the SATs, friends, getting their learner's permit to drive, practicing the piano. They have a list of colleges they are interested in,

Hope before all

Psalm 91

5 You will not fear the terror of night,
    nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
    nor the plague that destroys at midday.

foul ball!

The event happened on August 17, 1957 during a game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Giants, . Hall of Famer Richie Ashburn  was known for being prolific in hitting foul balls. 

Ashburn hit a foul ball that struck Roth squarely in the face, breaking her nose.  The game was then paused as medics came in to tend to Roth.  As they were carrying her away on a stretcher, play was resumed and Ashburn fouled off the first pitch thrown to him.  This foul subsequently struck Roth as she was being carried off by the medics. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl9lSGOtJNI

An Irishman in 5th day of lock down ---- only the Irish

Cassini's work

This spectacular view, photographed by the space ship  Cassini, shows Saturn's northern hemisphere in 2016. The spacecraft will complete its mission just after the northern summer solstice, having observed long-term changes in the planet's winds, temperatures, clouds, and chemistry.

Warning, F Bombs

Detective montalbano

Itialian series for 11 years beginning in 1999 with 30 episodes on 100 min durations. Takes place in mythical, contemporary Sicilia. Uses mostly Sicilian actors save the major roles. Fascinating look into that culture with English subtitles. Good stuff

Peacock spiders of Australia, stunning

1918 Spanish flu survivors