Mary has recieved her new hearing aids as the old ones did not manage to make the move and probably got thrown out by mistake. She has to get used to the new ones and one of the tricks recommended is for her to read out loud for several minutes each day--this is to train her ear to speech etc. I think that she will read to Cleo and she will become the educated cat. We may introduce her to KOKO and YUM YUM who are the cats in the "Cat Who" book series by Lillian Jackson Braun.. We have been reading her most recent book 'The cat who dropped a Bombshell".
With the coming of the Summer, the Symphony season has closed. The last performance the last of April was "Carmina Burana". This was an outstanding performance and was presented with a choir of 200 voices and three soloists all of whom did an excellent job. The symphony as usual was superb. The English transalation was shown on the side on a small screen. The whole performance was a moving experience. The Motto of the Symphony this year is "Music that moves you" and this certainly did. It is a shame that so much effort goes into such a production and then after one day it is gone. As far as I know they do not make any recordings. The recordings do not "move you" like a live performance. The community theater will be presenting "CATS" in June. I have heard it said that one of the reasons that the muslim world is so backward is that they do not encourage the arts--music, art, etc. Even the prehistoric peoples created rock-art in their caves etc. Bill and Peggy have been having a great time exploring the rock art in the Seminole Canyon area of Texas.
I hve been having a session with some of the residents once a week on the computer trying to get some interest going here at Drury Place.
May is Graduation Month. Our youngest grand child, Corey and our oldest great grand child, Lauren, graduate from High-schol and grandsons Eric and Nick graduate from college. We will go to Corey's graduaion "open house" this afternoon and then tomorrow the graduation ceremony. Then she will be spending the summer working as a life guard and getting ready to go to Kansas University. She will be a 4th generation Jayhawker!
I have been looking over my art supplies and equipment and reading some to refresh on water color painting. I am planning to try to do come painting--will see how it goes. It has been probably 13 or more years since I have tried to paint.
This is Mother's day week end. We may be the only nation which has a special day for Mothers. It is approiate that we do honor the Mothers. The American Indian refered to the earth as Mother earth. We have not been taking the best of care or Mother Earth and Mother nature has not been very happy about it. Mothers are the nurturing force of the world and we learn to be "civilized" at our mother's knee.
The May 2 posting of the BAGHDAD BURNING blog is interesting. You can access it by using the link in the side bar of this blog. She has a different spin on things in Iraq. The Iranian infiltration in Iraq plus the inadequacies of the Iraq governance and police results in the Iranians having 150,000 Americans hostage in Iraq. Another site of interest is INFORMED COMMENT by Juan Cole. the address is www. juancole.com
The political posturing and retoric will be heating up between now and the election. I hope that some concrete improvement will happen in the middle east, but that is probably wishful thinking.
I guess that on that pessimistic note I will close. However, the day is sunny and very pleasant temperture. We will enjoy the day and hope that you all also will have a great day.
HAF AKA HAPPY DOC
The political posturing and retoric will be heating up between now and the election. I hope that some concrete improvement will happen in the middle east, but that is probably wishful thinking.
I guess that on that pessimistic note I will close. However, the day is sunny and very pleasant temperture. We will enjoy the day and hope that you all also will have a great day.
HAF AKA HAPPY DOC
