Parrots

This link is amazing. Who would figure that there are wild parrots living in Brooklyn? I have been meaning to post this link for quite a while. I have been obsessing over the TV show Angel and American Idol. This is the first time I have watched either show. I think it is the controversy of the voting that intrigues me the most. From what I have read the voting has been compared to the way wrestling is set up. I did notice how a popular contestant seems to be getting the short stick while others are kept on beyond their ability.
As for Angel, just like Stargate it is the sharp humour that draws me in.
I will be posting more later, but it will be my nephew’s birthday this weekend and I will post birthday pictures on Sunday.

Gems

When I was younger, I would collect quotes, paragraph parts, poetry and what ever else suited my mood or my circumstances at that moment in my life. I would write down the portion of words in either a scrape book or type it on a 2" by 12" roll of paper. Every once in a while I would find the papers and re-read the entire lot of them. I am impressed by original thoughts. It is a rare commodity. I was engaged in the usual chatter at work, making all the right comments that one would expect and I started to say something along the same vein but out of my mouth was a sentence that was thoughtful, original and insightful. This startled both me and my co-worker as it appeared to be a rare gem of words. There was a second of recognition of this and then a new flurry of an exchange of ideas. I'm sure that there are an infinite amount of original thoughts and ideas but it was nice to actually grasp one at the moment it was born.


To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
e e cummings
US poet (1894 - 1962)