Happy Birthday Yo Yo Ma!

Yo Yo Ma, amazing cellist - Born Oct 7, 1955 - France

"Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians."

... Henry Rollins, American musician, writer, journalist, actor, artist, and activist

Unborn children =1....Murderers=0

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Nuit Blanche sucks!

Nuit Blanche - midnight - University and Queen St. - Toronto

What a waste of my time!

• A woman inside a office tower lobby rowing a canoe while surrounded by billowing sheets of plastic! 
• Another 'art installation' that was nothing more than blatant propoganda for an oil company!
• Another installation that consisted of a raised platform on which someone read poetry while surrounded by light tubes!

Nuit Blanche was nothing but an excuse for a street party complete with drunken 20 year olds, noise, bumper-to-bumper traffic and dozens of overpaid cops struggling vainly to control the crowd.

The lovely bridal party

Toronto - in the rain - bride and bride's maids pose for a photo

 "There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends."

....Homer, 8th Century B.C., author of the Iliad and the Odyssey and perhaps the greatest of the Greek epic poets

"Send in the clowns.. There ought to be clowns"

Cirque du Soleil - Toronto

First attested in English 14th century, the word circus derives from Latin circus,^[1] which is the romanization of the Greek κίρκος (kirkos), itself a metathesis of the Homeric Greek κρίκος(krikos), meaning "circle" or "ring".^[2] 

In the book De Spectaculis early Christian writer Tertullian claimed that the first circus games were staged by the goddess Circe in honor of her father Helios, the Sun God. This claim accords well with the fact that many Roman games were indeed dedicated to the Sun God.

.... Wikipedia

The 9 most important days of my life

Mark Twain once said, "The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

Four of my five children

Two of my four grandchildren 

For me Mr. Twain, there were 9 days that "told me why".

For once I agree with Hitler

 

Toronto Star - Today

"Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it" ~Adolph Hitler