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Commentary
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
basking in the afterglow of the family get-together/memory-making/death-examining event.
sons dom, studying at Umass for degree in psychology, mino, chair of St Anne’s School in Brooklyn and investor, chris, CMO Microsoft, and daughter kat, rising junior and President of the Student Government at Swarthmore, summer intern at Atlantic magazine.
spouses amanda, real estate office, maura, student of Irish studies, lecturer, leigh, cook, transportation chief, coach, housekeeper.
grandchildren, francesca, getting a Master’s in Creative Writing in Dublin, Ireland, antonia, spending a semester in Chile in pursuit of a biology degree with a public health orientation, Laura, entering seventh grade in a new school, and, unanimously-agreed star of the weekend, grace, high school with an intense interest in dance, whose performance, which we all attended on Sunday stole the show with its richness, complexity, and emotion, and, in absentia, dylan, spending a year in Oxford, his junior year, as part of his degree program at Sarah Lawrence.
connecting as a group.
connecting individually, one on one.
creating moments that will support us when we need a memory.
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Announcement
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Still checking our delivery system.
Still with reason to doubt its efficacy.
Please bear with us.
love you
2. This post is a little short: spent the day traveling Seattle to Boston.
My first day back in Boston, Tuesday, will be another of the poor weather spring days we’ve been plagued with. I missed the warm Sunday and Monday. Bad weather is following me across country and back.
But I’ll try to make peace with the weather, each day of it.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Our 417th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 417 posts we’re at the 8.34 percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Time is 4.01am.
On Tuesday, Boston’s temperature will reach a high of 57* with a feels-like of 57* with rain.
Dinner Sunday Night at Portage Bag Café was fun although the food was average.
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Question of the Day:
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
What is the Allegory of Prudence?
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Chuckle of the Day:
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
A couple came upon a wishing well.
The wife leaned over, made a wish and threw in a penny.
The husband made a wish too, but he leaned over too much, fell into the well, and drowned.
The wife was stunned for a moment but then smiled, "It really works!
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Answer to the Question of the Day:
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
What is the Allegory of Prudence?
The Allegory of Prudence is an oil-on-canvas painting attributed to the Italian painter Titian and his assistants, dated around 1565 to 1570.
It depicts three human heads, representing youth, maturity, and old age, above three animal heads.
Both sets of heads face in different directions, which reflects the concepts of past, present and future. Scholars believe that the first of the three human heads is an elderly Titian, while the other two are his son Orazio Vecellio and his young nephew Marco Vecellio, both of whom lived and worked with him.
A barely visible inscription across the top of the painting, from which the work acquired its present name, reads Ex praeterito praesens prudenter agit, ni futura actione deturpet (Latin for 'From the experience of the past, the present acts prudently, lest it spoil future actions').
The painting is now in the collection of the National Gallery in London.
I used to carry mini-albums of my family.
Now my smart phone is my photo album.
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Good Morning on this Tuesday, the twenty-ninth day of May, 2019
Our commentary talked about a family get together as a way of easing loss.
We posted the weather report and calendar, and tracked the number of our postings.
We posted an announcement that we’ll be testing the delivery system again and that this post will be shorter than most.
We posted another another chuckle and a q and a from Wikipedia on The Allegory of Prudence.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.
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