On the same Saturday afternoon that I took this other, heavily populated photo of Worldwide Plaza in Manhattan, I snapped this
other shot of the most prominent feature in the plaza: this sculpture.
“Tribute bands ranging from Lead Zeppole to Bjorn 2
Run now account for 3.5% of. America's GDP, employing 2.5 million musicians and
twice that number of stage hands, sound engineers and roadies. Working in a
top-flight tribute band is so profitable that musicians graduating from
prestigious music schools routinely join bands with names like Coldplague,
Flock of Seconals and Gladys Night and the Pups.” —Joe Queenan, “With a Little
Help From My Hordes of Imitators,” The
Wall Street Journal, June 3-4, 2017
“When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies
on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to
find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to
others—not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to
show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong
condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected
in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one.” — C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952)
I took a picture of this flower last weekend at the
duck pond in Saddle River County Park in Ridgewood, NJ.
Shemp
(played by Shemp Howard): (to the patient) “Are you comfortable?”
“Words form the thread on which we hang our
experiences.” —English novelist/essayist Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), Collected Essays (1959)
