"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
~~ John F. Kennedy
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Awoke today to headline: "impeachment against Trump."
(It's "impeachment of,"
not "impeachment against.")
Articles of impeachment introduced by -- Al Green??!?
The guy with the hit song "Let's Stay Together" 1971, covered by Tina Turner, 1983???
Haha -- different Al Green -- a congressman from Houston, Texas.
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I'm... I'm so
in love with you
Whatever you want to do
Is all right with me --
'Cause you -- make me feel so brand new
And I -- want to spend my life with you
Let me say that since,
baby
Since we've been together
Ooo --
Loving you forever
Is what I -- need --
Let me -- be the one you come running to --
I'll -- never be untrue...
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Reading some of the Jane Austen novel Emma each day can be a kind of sorbet for the mind and soul in today's Current-Events-Climate-Of-Weirdness.
------------------- [excerpt] ------------------------ "...At any rate, it must be better to have only one to please than two."
"Especially when one of those two is such a fanciful, troublesome creature!" said Emma playfully. "That is what you have in your head, I know -- and what you would certainly say if my father were not by."
"I believe it is very true, my dear, indeed," said Mr. Woodhouse, with a sigh. "I am afraid I am sometimes very fanciful and troublesome."
"My dearest papa! You do not think I could mean you, or suppose Mr. Knightley to mean you. What a horrible idea! Oh no! I meant only myself. Mr. Knightley loves to find fault with me, you know -- in a joke -- it is all a joke. We always say what we like to one another."
Mr. Knightley, in fact, was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them: and though this was not particularly agreeable to Emma herself, she knew it would be so much less so to her father, that she would not have him really suspect such a circumstance as her not being thought perfect by every body.
"Emma knows I never flatter her," said Mr. Knightley, but I meant no reflection on any body. Miss Taylor has been used to have two persons to please; she will now have but one. The chances are that she must be a gainer." ------------- [end, Emma excerpt] -----------------
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When I discovered E.F. Benson's "Lucia" novels, at Barnes & Noble in the 1980s (what a gigantically fantastic store it was, new at the time!) their style reminded me of Jane Austen's.
-------------- [excerpt, Queen Lucia] ----------------- "You are too wonderful!" he would say. "How do you find time for everything?"
She rejoined with the apophthegm that made the rounds of Riseholme next day.
"My dear, it is just busy people that have time for everything."
It might be thought that even such activities as have here been indicated would be enough to occupy anyone so busily that he would positively not have time for more, but such was far from being the case with Mrs Lucas.
Just as the painter Rubens amused himself with being the ambassador to the Court of St. James -- a sufficient career in itself for most busy men -- so Mrs Lucas amused herself, in the intervals of her pursuit of Art for Art's sake, with being not only an ambassador but a monarch.
Riseholme might perhaps according to the crude materialism of maps, be included in the kingdom of Great Britain, but in a more real and inward sense it formed a complete kingdom of its own, and its queen was undoubtedly Mrs Lucas, who ruled it with a secure autocracy pleasant to contemplate at a time when thrones were toppling, and imperial crowns whirling like dead leaves down the autumn winds. ----------------- [end, excerpt -- Queen Lucia. 1920] -------------------
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{"Let's Stay Together" -- released November 1971. Songwriters: Al Green, Willie Mitchell, Al Jackson Jr. Producers: Al Green, Willie Mitchell. Label: Hi}
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