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Here is a clip of Rachel (Lea Michele) singing a heartbreaking rendition of Adele's cover of a Bob Dylan diddy, "Make You Feel My Love". Sooooooo sad.
What else happened this week?...
Geez, I can't believe it's Friday again already. Not sure where the days went, but they went.
Homecoming is tomorrow, and the boys are both going. One is looking forward to it and the other is a bit reluctant to have anything to do with it. I, however, will be very excited to be that annoying creature that follows them around taking pictures before they go. I remember how much I hated that, but I love looking back at those photos. Hopefully, they will too, someday.
Homecoming is tomorrow, and the boys are both going. One is looking forward to it and the other is a bit reluctant to have anything to do with it. I, however, will be very excited to be that annoying creature that follows them around taking pictures before they go. I remember how much I hated that, but I love looking back at those photos. Hopefully, they will too, someday.
So....when we started talking about Homecoming several weeks back, Liam had a date, and Riley was going stag. Now it's just the opposite. Liam's date turned out to be a miserable flake (don't get me started) and broke things off four days after she said yes, and Riley got propositioned yesterday by one of his 'friends' while they were working on a float for the parade. Very funny. Have spent the better part of yesterday and today running back and forth to the mall to pick up clothes for this sacred event, as they were just to busy to actually shop with me. No worries, all sorted.
In other devastating news this week, one of Riley's good friends on the wrestling team at school was killed by a drunk driver in a horrific car accident this past weekend. All of the kids at school have taken it very hard, as this particular guy, Frank, was loved by all who met him. Again, soooooo sad.
At which point, I turn to ask... if there really is a God, where the Hell was he when this kid's life was being ripped away from him? And how could the person responsible just get up and walk away. Devastating. Guess we really don't want to go here, as my thoughts on God as someone who watches over us are fairly well known. What a bunch of bullocks. My bigger question?? How does a parent EVER recover from the loss of a child? How could they? I would have to be locked up for my remaining days, probably just a blubbering mess in a straight jacket until the end of time.
Enough of that depressing topic.
How about some good news? 82-year-old Alice Munro, the Canadian author famous for her mastery of the short story, has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. You go, Girl! 82!!!
A blurb from the Daily Beast today about Ms. Munro...
Her short tales are always finely tuned, filled with psychological realism, swerving on a moment of epiphany that makes her the heir to Chekhov—indeed she is often considered the Canadian Chekhov—and James Joyce’s The Dubliners. She has never written a novel, but her stories are often deeper wells than many thousand-page novels. Her characters are small-town Canadian women struggling with strained relationships and moral dilemmas, and Munro penetrates those characters’ extraordinary private histories in moments of crises—she can portray the full span of a turbulent life through an event or two. Munro’s “reputation is like a good address,” the critic James Wood famously said. “Nobody bothers anymore to judge her goodness.” The latest Nobel makes her acclaim pretty much universal. She also won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009, and judges said, “To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before.”
Though I haven't had the pleasure of reading any of her short stories, I just found her most recent collection, Dear Life: Stories, on Amazon for $7.99 (50% off...the Kindle edition). Gonna put it on my wish list.
In more good news, Utah is re-opening it's National Parks, effective as early as today. The Governor of Utah had to send Washington DC a check for $1.67 million to make it happen, but the state-funded cash infusion will get the parks up and running. State officials estimate that tourism revenues for the state are around $100 million for the month of October alone. That's a lot of moolah.
The National Park Service agreed to reopen Canyonlands, Natural Bridges and Glen Canyon, along with Zion, Capitol Reef, Arches and Bryce Canyon national parks, and Cedar Breaks National Monument. I actually took a trip after college through many of thoses parks. AH-MAZING!!!! Not to be missed. Just thinking about all the people who had planned vacations through that beautiful part of the country...beyond ridiculous, the whole shutdown thing. And that's all I have to say about that.
Enough of that depressing topic.
How about some good news? 82-year-old Alice Munro, the Canadian author famous for her mastery of the short story, has won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. You go, Girl! 82!!!
A blurb from the Daily Beast today about Ms. Munro...
Her short tales are always finely tuned, filled with psychological realism, swerving on a moment of epiphany that makes her the heir to Chekhov—indeed she is often considered the Canadian Chekhov—and James Joyce’s The Dubliners. She has never written a novel, but her stories are often deeper wells than many thousand-page novels. Her characters are small-town Canadian women struggling with strained relationships and moral dilemmas, and Munro penetrates those characters’ extraordinary private histories in moments of crises—she can portray the full span of a turbulent life through an event or two. Munro’s “reputation is like a good address,” the critic James Wood famously said. “Nobody bothers anymore to judge her goodness.” The latest Nobel makes her acclaim pretty much universal. She also won the Man Booker International Prize in 2009, and judges said, “To read Alice Munro is to learn something every time that you never thought of before.”
Though I haven't had the pleasure of reading any of her short stories, I just found her most recent collection, Dear Life: Stories, on Amazon for $7.99 (50% off...the Kindle edition). Gonna put it on my wish list.
In more good news, Utah is re-opening it's National Parks, effective as early as today. The Governor of Utah had to send Washington DC a check for $1.67 million to make it happen, but the state-funded cash infusion will get the parks up and running. State officials estimate that tourism revenues for the state are around $100 million for the month of October alone. That's a lot of moolah.
The National Park Service agreed to reopen Canyonlands, Natural Bridges and Glen Canyon, along with Zion, Capitol Reef, Arches and Bryce Canyon national parks, and Cedar Breaks National Monument. I actually took a trip after college through many of thoses parks. AH-MAZING!!!! Not to be missed. Just thinking about all the people who had planned vacations through that beautiful part of the country...beyond ridiculous, the whole shutdown thing. And that's all I have to say about that.
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