one thing today

  I am watching a documentary about Robert Kennedy.  He seemed to be a very good man, more emotional and introspective than his most famous brother. One year, he promised Ethel an extra special birthday  party and present. He placed a man dressed in tails with a big bow across his face at her feet. She removed the bow and danced with Gene Kelly.  

  Actor Andrew Garfield is very grateful for the time he had with his dying mother. He read her poetry and after each one - he’d ask her “again, another or quiet.” He says he has “borrowed grief” for all the people who did not have the same opportunity as he had - to be with their mother at the end of her life in a rich way.  

 

  ... there is an old expression, "zou go." It means "running dog" to describe a lackey or yes man--a dog unerringly faithful to its master, in the hope of being fed scraps.

  There are two Honeymooners every Saturday night at midnight. They soothe me. I only have to use maybe a quarter of my brain. They make me remember my fathers laugh. I love Norton in particular, especially if he dances the Huckelbuck. The four of them are one hundred per cent predictable and kinda fool me into thinking that nothing changes, that life stays the same, which isn't true - but for an hour each week - tv defies fact.