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Capsule (Full commentary found immediately below Lead Picture):
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Who says our school years are a thing of the past?
School ye shall always have with ye.
Persimmon.
Photograph credit: Frank Schulenburg
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Lead Picture (Story below in Thumbnail section)
Saturday, August 17, 2019
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Commentary
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Who says our school years are a thing of the past?
School ye shall always have with ye.
At least he doesn’t have a runny nose.
My daughter will be home next week, in time for me to drive her back to Swarthmore, PA where she is a rising junior.
And I ask myself: when has my life NOT been driven or controlled by the academic year?
From ages four to twenty-four, finishing law school, and my wife, two more years getting her doctorate.
That’s 22 years.
That next year our eldest started school, a skein of education for our three boys that lasted about 25 more years.
Age fifty-one, me.
Then came daughter Katherine, now age 20, with eighteen years in school if pre-school can count.
Add it up and it’s a total of 67 years and counting during which my work and vacation, waking and sleeping and in-between, were dominated by the ring of that school bell.
And I’m not counting that my cousin Lauren is staying in Katherine’s room while she’s completing her degree work, 1 year down, 4 months to go.
A thing of the past?
Hardly.
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News re: existentialautotrip
Saturday, August 17, 2019
My friend and guide, Howard D, after praising much of the video, rightfully points out the video just recorded, the first of the "Hey, Dom! How're doing?" series, lacks the touch of lightness that makes it easier to deal with life issues.
My first time out.
Worried about remembering the 101 details that go into a good recording.
Must redo and be more careful with the second go-round.
My thanks to Howard and apologies to all.
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A “Hey, Dom! How’re you?” video.
This series taken from the Commentaries section of the blog, existentialautotrip
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Door Closing
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Thursday’s Dinner posted on
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Today we had a sushi dinner.
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We love getting mail.
Contact me at domcapossela@hotmail.com
Saturday, August 17, 2019
What happens in the barn stays in the barn
Art and photo: Tommie Toner
From So Carolina, Tommie T has just finished a painting.
She says:
Wet on the easel. Hope you are well and loving every minute we have left!
Love,
Tommie
Web Meister responds: Absolutely wonderful! Feels like it’ll tell us a story whatever our mood.
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Chuckle of the day:
Saturday, August 17, 2019
The Titanic with a lisp?
Unthinkable.
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Today’s Thumbnail
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Diospyros kaki, also known as the persimmon or the Oriental persimmon, is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Diospyros.
The persimmon is a sweet, slightly tangy fruit with a soft to occasionally fibrous texture.
Although its first botanical description was not published until 1780, D. kaki is among the oldest cultivated plants, having been in use in China for more than 2000 years.
In some rural Chinese communities, the fruit is seen as having a great mystical power that can be harnessed to cure headaches, back pains and foot ache.
The species shown in the Lead Picture, native to China, is deciduous, with broad, stiff leaves. Cultivation extended first to other parts of East Asia, including Japan, where it is very popular.
It was later introduced to California and southern Europe in the 19th century and later to Brazil in the 1890s.
Like a number of other deciduous plants, Forsythia flowers during the leafless season.
Yousen assumed (based on copyright claims).
Own work assumed (based on copyright claims).
In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.
Generally, the term deciduous means "the dropping of a part that is no longer needed" and the "falling away [of a part] after its purpose is finished".
In plants, it is the result of natural processes.
"Deciduous" has a similar meaning when referring to animal parts, such as deciduous antlers in deer, deciduous teeth (baby teeth) in some mammals (including humans); or decidua, the uterine lining that sheds off after birth.
A tip o' the hat (U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, 1924
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Acknowledgements
Saturday, August 17, 2019
Thanks to Tommie T for her mail and picture.
And to Howard D for his unique perspectives and continuing directions on the video production.
And to the Microsoft team at the Prudential Center for their unflagging availability to help with a constant flow of technological problems.
And to 61+ jokes for providing the material for today’s chuckle.
Always thanks to Wikipedia, the Lead and the Thumbnail sections of the Blog very often shaped from stories taken from that amazing website. They are truly worthy of public support.
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Good Morning on this Saturday, the seventeenth day of August, 2019
Love collecting fallen fall leaves.
And drying them.
But they make a mess in my bag.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.