I'm jumping in on day 3 of the 30 days of photographs hosted by Ziva and MikeWJ, however my participation in this challenge will be sketchy. For today I did find this squirrely thing that was definitely "above my head", which is completely different from being "over my head".
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle
We continue today with another quote from an ancient philosopher. Aristotle was a student of Plato, who was taught by Socrates, and together with them, he was one of the most important founding figures of Western philosophy.
In recent generations we have heard the term "finding ourselves" among the young. This may be more than just a hollow excuse for poor behavior, but growing individuals struggling to understand themselves and find their way in a world of new experiences and opportunities. There are choices and decisions to be made. Wisdom is, therefore, not an age, but an understanding of self.
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And now for the moment you have all been waiting for...Drumroll please!
This is a photograph taken at Reynolda Gardens that inspired the name of this blog. While you sometimes see them here, the blog isn't about roses or rainbows, but about life and what goes on in my head. This is expressed through fiction and poetry, through pictures, through the antics of my cats, and thoughts and questions that come up through every day living.
Thank you for joining me in my journey over the last three years, and as we look ahead to what life holds in store.
While it's no secret that we enjoy a nice wine, and have traveled many miles to taste the fruit of the vine, we only traveled as far as our local wine shop for this delicious Grüner Veltliner from Austria.
This food-friendly white wine from the Skeleton label is bottled, not in the standard 750ml bottle - but a full liter, and instead of the traditional cork or screw cap, as is becoming more popular, this wine had a pop top like soda bottles used to have.
We really enjoyed this, and as you can see it was quite a hit with Sophie, too.
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The late afternoon sun perfectly illuminated this ivy leaf. In thinking about this picture and the story it could tell, I remembered this little ditty from my childhood.
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey.
A kiddley divey too, wouldn't you?
And that prompted me to look deeper into this silly song. It was written back in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston, based on this English nursery rhyme.
Mares eat oats
And does eat oats
And little lambs eat ivy
A kid'll eat ivy, too
Wouldn't you?
It seems that Drake's daughter came home singing "Cowzy tweet and sowzy tweet and liddle sharksy doisters." Which translates to "cows eat wheat and sows eat wheat and little sharks eat oysters". This gave Drake the idea to write a silly song.
However, at that time no one wanted to publish a silly song. Finally he pitched it to his friend Al Trace, who liked it and performed it with his band the Silly Symphonists. After this, it was a huge hit for Merry Macs in this 1944 recording.
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