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Quote of the Day
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life,
and the only way to be truly satisfied is
to do what you believe is great work.
And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.
If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.
Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement speech, June 2005
Tweet of the Day
The idea that Trump is anti-establishment must be the biggest fairy tale Bill Clinton ever heard. How did Trump get $2B in free publicity?— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 2, 2017
Trump has been appointing GOP veteran lawmakers and party officials, Wall St. banksters, consulting with Kissinger and other swamp creatures— Ronald Guillemette (@raguillem) January 2, 2017
Image of the Day
A Little Too Strident and Partisan But Basically Accurate
Snowflakes Beyond a White Christmas
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Musical Interlude: Christmas Favorites
Dan Fogelberg, "Same Auld Lang Syne". I think this song got so much airplay in the early 80's that some of my old Catholic Newman lady friends at UH loathed hearing it. I think in the past I mentioned the real story behind the song. Jill Anderson was Dan Fogelberg's high school sweetheart. They ended up going to different colleges and eventually broke up when he left Illinois to pursue his music career. Then years later (around 1975), they were home for the holidays and ran into each other purely by accident on coincidental errands for their respective family holiday celebrations. Jill says there were 2 factual inaccuracies in the song: her eyes are green, not blue (which is easier to rhyme), and her then husband was not an architect but a PE teacher (but Dan didn't know and probably just made it up with artistic license). The song came out after she had already divorced her fellow teacher; she refused to comment on the very personal lyric "she would have liked to say she loved (her husband) but didn't want to lie" I still rate it among the best autobiographical songs I've ever heard (along with Neil Diamond's "Brooklyn Roads").
With my next miscellany post , I'll resume my Cher retrospective..
