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05/02/2008
Editor’s Note: The following comments have been edited for length
Comment to the Question of the Day on May 2
Bonnie Oliver - 5/2/2008 1:48 AM
I would be old enough to read Shakespeare, prepare a family Thanksgiving dinner, see love in the eyes that matter, and understand the Golden Rule is applicable to every living person on this planet.
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Comment to the Question of the Day on May 2
JMK Singer - 5/2/2008 6:32 AM
I am in my thirties somewhere and for the life of me I just can’t understand where that 50-year-old daughter came from.
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Comment to A Friend Stopped By on May 1
Holland Taylor - 5/1/2008 10:59 AM
I never knew these sweet flowers were “officially” associated with luck, happiness and renewal…but that is what they were to me, when I was very little, two or three, and would creep around the Rhododendrons surrounding our house, crouching down with anticipation, to see these darling little dangles of bells poking up from the dark and fragrant earth. They made me happy, and insomuch as a three year old needs reassurance, they made everything all right!
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Comment to the Conversation on May 2
Elizabeth Flynn - 5/2/2008 8:41 AM
News.
News organizations.
Newsworthiness.
Relevance.
Objectivity.
What happened? Where did it all fall apart?
We’ve evolved from substance and fact to sensationalism and opinion. Even weather reporting has been diminished into mostly all hook so that the viewer will hang on for as long as possible. American minds like cattle on a feedlot are being fed on a steady diet of nutrient poor biased and sensationalized news calories meant to encourage us to passively stick around, fatten up and become addicted by swallowing whole the agenda or junk laced “news” being shoved down our throats. The most profitable way to get us fattened up and go gently into the slaughterhouse.
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ASTONISH ME!
I want to say here that I sit up late at night reading our wOw reader responses, but for me, none of them come close to the sizzles we received when asking the question, “What are you reading that you really love?”
Evidently, our friend Whoopi Goldberg’s comments about using her Kindle created a firestorm of interest in that gadget. (I hope the Kindle people sent Whoopi a bottle of champagne.) But all of the responses were so gratifying and the answers, suggestions and comments are compelling.
When the wowOwow idea was first formulated by our leader Joni Evans – my former editor and agent – and when we got together to start this website, I found myself simply stunned at the fun, the erudition, the wisdom, the arguments and all the rest of what went into our beginning. I thought we wOws were a pretty splendid group.
But that admiration is nothing compared with my reaction to our readers. What a bunch of real-life smarties and thinkers. The book recommendations are just splendid and now I have a life list of more books to read. Many I have never heard of before.
As my pet charity is Literacy Partners, which attempts to teach one million illiterate New Yorkers how to read and write at the fifth grade level, I thought I was in the forefront of being well-read.
But, no! I am just amazed at this response so let me give all of you who chimed in a big hand and say that it is wonderful to be “amazed,” or as the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo’s great entrepreneur Diaghilev said to his then protégé Jean Cocteau: “Astonish me!”
And you have.
Thanks, Liz, this is very sweet. The US Dept of Health and Human Services has a webpage, including information about Dolly Parton’s foundation, among others, including resources to supporting child literacy that people might find useful as well: http://www.nccic.acf.hhs.gov/poptopics/bookdist.html
Mugsy, Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to YOUUUUU! Happy Birthday to Youuuuu! Happy Birthday Dear Mugsy! Happy Birthday to YOUUuuuuu!!
Sung to the tune of Battle Hymn chorus: “Glory, glory Hallelujah!”
Happy, happy, happy birth-day!
Happy, happy, happy birth-day!
Happy, happy, happy birth-day!
Our Mugsy marches on!!
BEST, if sung while marching around the room waving the Swedish Flag. Get those knees up, Ladies!
Singing along~~~ and celebrating Mugsy!
Since joining WOWOWOW, I’ve been inspired to read more; and not just the content of these tremedous conversations. I’ve written down several book titles that I might never have considered before. Gotta go to the book store now ………
Thank you!
Ditto! I have also found myself digging through books and papers that I collect to find the perfect reference or quote to post but can’t really remember its exact wording. I look forward to reading what members have to say late every evening just after watching 2 reruns of ‘Sex in the City’ before I go to sleep. How’s that for a combination of bedtime stories? Stimulating to say the least.
So it’s ‘Sex in the City,’ and then ‘Sexy in their Sixties?’ Pleasant dreams!
You got it Mugsy! Not bad for the only ‘sexy’ in my life.
Liz, you are so right, I got out my laptop while my desk computer page was open to the love reading list and just started making a list of things that interested me. The wonderful aspect of it was seeing into people’s hearts through what they read.
As a student of Asian Studies in the 70’s and studying Chinese, my professor sent many of us into China Town to teach children english. I wasn’t very good at it because they seemed to give me all the Vietnamese who didn’t speak any English or Chinese, but it was a great experience to see how hard these children tried and succeeded.
PS Liz - have enjoyed your articles and your bigness of life. Love it. You are a true great dame.
Bravo to this week’s choices!!!!
I had missed Bonnie’s and JMK’s. They are wonderful and I am so glad I got to read them.
Holland, what lovely writing!
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Elizabeth Flynn! Wow! You nailed it.
It always gives me pleasure to read the quotes of the week. They are great. It must be difficult to pick them, from the pages and pages of thoughtful, beautifully written, fiesty, vulnerable, intelligent posts that are all over this site!
Elizabeth F, Holland, J Singer and Bonnie O—thank you for these nuggets of beauty, fun and wisdom. Very delightful to read.