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Sunday, May 12, 2019
Mother’s Day.
The day before, a gorgeous day, lots of sun and temps in the mid-60s.
The streets and parks filled with people.
Big crowds.
Festive feeling.
Indeed, on this auspicious day my friend Cindy basked in a First Communion celebration for her soon-to-be court-approved adoption of her daughter, Vivi.
A lovely ceremony and a lovely time the after-ceremony celebration with friends.
Below left is Vivi looking right at camera.
Center, she turns and recognizes me.
On right, she holds a bouquet we borrowed from another participant.
Below she is returning from the altar having just received her First Communion. “It tasted like cardboard,” she said later.
For some of us who have no mothers, this day a little less festive.
And who have no wives, also a little less festive.
And what about others now so distant a personal message is stilted, but whom, under other times and circumstances might have been in line for a personal message.
The absence of any who might have enriched our lives also sad piece.
Not to mention those women who would like to bear children but cannot for one reason or another.
Today, the weather a tad gloomy.
Despite the weather and the presence of one or more reasons that might diminish the joy of the day, let’s gird ourselves to find a link to share with a woman who would take some pleasure from a personal greeting.
Bringing her cheer will make our own day more cheerful.
After all, today is Mother’s Day.
We’ll have a lot of unsettled coming at us in the coming week.
Let’s not skip a single step because of the weather.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Notice how quietly we’ve topped 400 postings, and 8% of our thirteen year commitment,
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Sunday, May 12, 2019
Our 401th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 401 posts we’re at the 8.02 percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Time is 12.01am.
On Sunday, Boston’s temperature will reach a high of 54* with a feels-like of 52* with clouds and showers.
Next seven days area mixed bag.
Dinner tonight is Turkey Soup.
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Question of the Day:
Who was Plato?
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Sunday, May 12, 2019
Love your notes.
Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
This from daughter Katherine responding to my recent questioning of whether a newly-anointed full-grown woman as per her impressive resume still needs her father, punctuation hers:
YES I STILL NEED YOU!
Don’t tell yourself I don’t!!!!!!
Web Meister Responds: 😊
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Chuckle for Sunday, May 12, 2019
A man and his wife were traveling down the highway when they saw the lights of a patrol car behind them.
When they pulled over, the officer came up to the window and said, "I am going to give you two tickets. One because you were speeding and one because you didn't have your seat belt fastened."
"I did too have my seat belt fastened. I just loosened it when you came up to the car. Ask my wife. She never lies.”
The officer to the man's wife, "I know he didn't have his seatbelt fastened. Isn't that right, lady?"
"Well, officer. I learned a long time ago not to argue with my husband when he's drunk."
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Answer to the Question of the Day: Sunday, May 12, 2019
Plato (423 – 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.
The man.
Plato. Luni marble, copy of the portrait made by Silanion ca. 370 BC for the Academia in Athens.
From the sacred area in Largo Argentina.
Copy of Silanion and one more author
He is widely considered the pivotal figure in the history of Ancient Greek and Western philosophy, along with his teacher, Socrates, and his most famous student, Aristotle.
Plato has also often been cited as one of the founders of Western religion and spirituality.
The so-called Neoplatonism of philosophers like Plotinus and Porphyry influenced Saint Augustine and thus Christianity.
Alfred North Whitehead once noted: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
Plato was the innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy.
Plato also appears to have been the founder of Western political philosophy.
His most famous contribution bears his name, Platonism (also ambiguously called either Platonic realism or Platonic idealism), the doctrine of the Forms known by pure reason to provide a realist solution to the problem of universals.
He is also the namesake of Platonic love and the Platonic solids.
His own most decisive philosophical influences are usually thought to have been along with Socrates, the pre-Socratics Pythagoras, Heraclitus and Parmenides, although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from Plato himself.
Unlike the work of nearly all of his contemporaries, Plato's entire oeuvre is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years.
Although their popularity has fluctuated over the years, the works of Plato have never been without readers since the time they were written.
Here’s the list of women I’m going to contact on Mother’s Day.
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Good Morning on this Sunday, the twelfth day of May, 2019
Our homily talks about Mothers Day, and not permitting negative thoughts to reduce our enjoyment.
We posted the weather and date and tracked the number of postings.
We posted a letter from daughter, Kat, and a chuckle.
The question and answer reminded us of who Plato was.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.