STUFF TO THINK ABOUT

(Elaine had excellent MRI results.  Hoping she'll be back home soon! Kathy helped Elaine talk to me on her phone. Elaine sounded good.)

1.  Artiste?

The Funny Paper reports that a Russian security guard at the Yeltsin Art Center in Ekaterinburg was bored, so he took out his ballpoint pen and added "eyes" to the three blank faces in the painting labeled "Three Figures" by Anna Leporskaya.

(Look at the painting.  Do you agree with me and the gallery guard that the painting would look more interesting if the faces had eyes?)  

2.  Bottom Line Personal Items -  March 2022 

Bloody Smart

The Stanford University School of Medicine has found that "Supermice" blood pumped into "Couch Potato" mice caused the lazy mice to get smarter.

(Could this work for humans?  I worked at the New Bedford, Massachusetts YMCA for a few years and met a lot of "Supermen" who couldn't even tie their shoelaces.  Do not give me any of their blood.)

Sniff, Sniff, Grrrr!

Scientists at the Weizmann Institute in Israel found that "sniffing a baby's scalp makes women aggressive."

(Aha! Now I know why!... Just kidding, dear.)

3.  Lunchtime Musings

Birds

I ate my lunch today while gazing out of our kitchen window.  I saw sparrows and blue jays zooming by, looking for sustenance before an impending storm arrives.

Weather

Another torrential rain storm is predicted and it's barging up the coast.  Lots of rain, and it isn't even April.  The gusty March winds are still with us.

Flora (Goddess of flowering plants)

I can see that our neighbor's daffodils are up and smiling.  Mine are just poking their green leaves above ground.  The neighboring yard receives direct sunlight; our yard has a lot of shade.

My daughter Diane has a super "green thumb" and is getting her flower and vegetable seeds potted and ready for April rains and May sunshine.

A nicer Russian

While I ate my lunch I listened to a CD that came with a recent issue of BBC Music.

The "music" consisted of two of the works of Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971).  The Rite of Spring (1913) and Petruska (1911).  Stravinsky was a leader in modern music.

(IMHO) I would like to see The Rite of Spring ballet because then I would probably like the music more. Perhaps I can find it on You Tube. The (to my mind) thumping and grinding sounds at the beginning remind me of the train ride music in John Adams' opera "Nixon in China."  

I think I have watched the Petruska ballet performed somewhere in my long life.  I do like the music.  Perhaps I'll try You Tube for this ballet too.

4.  My Green Jeep

I just wrote a story about how I obtained the vehicle that once ferried me all over Germany.  I submitted it for publication in Carroll Lutheran Village's award-winning annual "Creative Living."  If they accept it I'll plug it into a blog entry.

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