invisible, incredible, impossible

(Doris Lee: The Violinist, Woodstock)

"Faith sees the invisible,
Believes the incredible,
And receives the impossible."
- Anonymous

Summer Reading List

Yes. The Miami Herald is a very smart paper indeed.

The Ultimate Guide To Grandmas and Grandpas is on their Summer Reading List (under picture books--they didn't have an "instruction manual/operating manual" heading).

The Handbag Song

it's live! (WARNING: don't let a five year old watch this or you won't ever get your computer back)

clarity and insincerity

Orwell said, "The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns ... instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

And he said, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

George Orwell (1903-1950)