Enough

I like the April 2018 Time cover.  All power to these young people. We baby boomers abandoned them by failing to keep guns out of schools, so they’re now doing what previous generations should have done but didn’t do…. Some background to the Parkland survivors and their movement: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-the-survivors-of-parkland-began-the-never-again-movement

Miles Davis: Lift to the Scaffold theme

Love this piece of music by Miles Davis. Is there any movie that's more perfectly French, Parisian and 1950s than Louis Malle's debut "Lift to the Scaffold" starring the late, great Jeanne Moreau.... early French New Wave/Nouvelle Vague cinema. Wow!

Swaledale Sheep

I fell in love with a flock of Swaledale Sheep during a cattle and sheep auction earlier this month:

Half of British wildlife wiped out since 1970

"Most Britons remain blithely unaware that since the Beatles broke up, we have wiped out half our wildlife." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/26/wildlife-modern-farming-insects-birds

March For Our Lives

Photo: Marge Ishmael

Jazz trumpeters

Wynton Marsalis is probably the greatest living jazz trumpeter. 

"Jazz music is America's past and its potential, summed up and sanctified and accessible to anybody who learns to listen to, feel, and understand it." (Wynton Marsalis)

And the amazing Miles Davis ("So What"):

Paul Ehrlich: Collapse of civilisation is a “near certainty” in next few decades

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/22/collapse-civilisation-near-certain-decades-population-bomb-paul-ehrlich

Paul Ehrlich writing on the Sixth Mass Extinction (2017): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/11/sixth-mass-extinction-habitats-destroy-population

Ice-covered tree

Spring Equinox yesterday but you wouldn't think so at Lake Michigan!

Photo: Marge Ishmael

RIP Stephen Hawking

Two of my favorite Stephen Hawking quotes:

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.”

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Stephen Hawking
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Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Stephen Hawking
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/stephen_hawking_627123

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. Stephen Hawking
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/stephen_hawking_627123

The Shape of Water

Saw this amazing movie yesterday. From master storyteller, Guillermo del Toro, THE SHAPE OF WATER is an "other-worldly" fairy tale and like a beautiful painting.  The main character is a mute woman who works as a janitor in a top secret government facility in 1962. Fairy tale romance, monster flick, cold war espionage thriller rolled into one.