I thought this was a slow week for shares. Turns out what I have here is a dog’s breakfast of stuff discovered, reacted to, and would have share on SM. It's rather extensive.
And there is still my personal battle with me. With meaning and purpose and land of nod which is between nothing matters and I don't care.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
So fitting. Ever since I read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in college the line “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons” Has been embedded in me like a parasitic tick.
The page is great. There is an audio link to listen to it. And the actual publication is was published in is there which if you read it gives a great picture of despair surrounding WW I. Go listen join me in celebrating misery.
For I have known them all already, known them all:
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?
And I have known the eyes already, known them all—
The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,
And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?
And how should I presume?
Gerda III
The Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in NYC shared in an email a new Lego Special Edition Set. The Gerda III which is located at Mystic Seaport in CT. It was a work boat in 1943 that smuggled 300 Jews out of Nazi occupied Denmark to Sweden. TIL a story I did not know. A story of guts and compassion.
Prof Galloway
An all time fav of mine Professor Scott Galloway. This is from his site No Mercy/No Malice. This are his predictions for 2024. A terrific read and one that holds so much interesting data and thoughts. Isn't that what we need? Good data. Intelligent thoughts. How unique.
Journaling
This if from PsychCentral "The Benefits of Journaling for Stress Relief" I guess me doing this, trying to write a novel, and my YouTube Channel Love Letters to Donna is journaling. Is my stressed relieved...Meh But I will take it.
Science Fiction at its Best
I just finished the book "Gateway" written by Frederik Pohl. In 1978 it won the Hugo Award for Best Novel, The Locus Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. Only now did I learn that. The novel holds a brilliant insight into death, memory, love, loss, and grief which is going to be shared on my YouTube Channel: Love Letters to Donna.
Cats---Don't laugh
I was invited to a small preview at the Perelman Performing Arts Center recently completed and opened at the 9/11 site. The preview was for CATS "The Jellicle Ball". All new to me. It was genius here is what they said "all new Ballroom and club beats, runway ready choreography, and an edgy eleganza makeover that moves the action from junkyard to runway. Come one, come all, and celebrate the joyous transformation of self at the heart of Cats and Ballroom culture itself."
It is a brilliant idea. Taking "Cats" the musical making them human. Putting them into the Ballroom Scene and voguing. Blew me away and that was five small performances. Who knew! Here is a bit on the ballroom scene.