Tourist Country

 

Today on The Grand

Smile for today ~

"You gentlemen date back one hundred thousand years.  You oughta be wearing leopard skins and carrying clubs.  Politics! Business! What is so masculine about a conversation that a woman can't enter into?"
~ Lesley Benedict (Elizabeth Taylor) in Giant, 1956.

"You know, if it weren't for two things you'd be a terrific dancer.
What's that?
Your feet."
~ Gracie (Gracie Allen) and George (George Burns) in A Damsel in Distress, 1937.

"I tell you, it's a whole different sex."
~ Jerry/Daphne (Jack Lemmon) in women's clothes in Some Like it Hot, 1959.

[VideoHound's Movie LaughLines, Visible Ink Press, 1996.]

THE STORY OF A STONE

There is a stone in the blue fields of midnight,
And finally the stone is its own story; the stone
                   will always tell you nothing about itself.

What lives inside the stone?
                                           Miracles, strange light.

The stone is a superior star;  it invents itself,
                    makes history, pursues itself down
The same hill forever, or just lies there being
A stone.

~excerpt from poem, THE T.E.LAWRENCE POEMS,
by Gwendolyn MacEwen, Mosiac Press, 1982. Canadian poet 1942 - 1987

[Shadowmaker: The Life and Times of Gwendolyn Macewen. A video of Toronto writers including Margaret Atwood discussing the poet.]

 

Historic Mount Olivet

 

~ Heritage Grand River ~  Cayuga ~

 

 

 

 

~ ORIENTATION REQUIRED ~ 

 

 

 



Sunday Morning ~

...at the ballpark.

"...While our sports shall be seen
   On the Echoing Green.

Old John with white hair,
   Does laugh away care,
Sitting under the oak,
   Among the old folk.
They laugh at our play,
   And soon they shall say:
Such, such were the joys
   When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth-time were seen
   On the Echoing Green."

~ William Blake (1757 - 1827) English poet, The Echoing Green