If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord.
Nathan Phillips
McIntosh, Florida
17 miles north of Ocala (US 441) on Orange Lake (check out the fishing https://stepoutside.org/mcintosh-fl/fishing/ )
Population: 2000 census was 453
A small hilly town with some interesting Victorian homes and it’s located in Florida’s Horse breeding area. https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/things-to-do/florida-tours/ocala-horse-farms-florida.html
Home of the McIntosh 1890’s Festival: this year on
Saturday, October 26, 2019, 8 AM to 5 PM! http://friendsofmcintosh.org/
Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.
Michael Mann
I use to be a fanatical decorator for Halloween—and this is some of my front yard….Nothing too fancy—a lot of stuff I put together myself.
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Celery Seed
While it has long been used in cooking it has been long used as a diuretic (increasing urine output)
Celery seed is also used for:
- Treating arthritis and gout
- Helping reduce muscle spasms
- Calming the nerves
- Reducing inflammation
- Lowering blood pressure
But: there are not studies that support these.
According to an online article by the
Penn State Hershey Medical Center; It has been found to work well as a mosquito repellent.
There have been some studies on animals that suggest it may help lower blood pressure and cholesterol as well as protect the liver from being damaged by high doses of acetaminophen (Tylenol)—-but no tests have been done on humans that verify these finding for us.
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
This is Florida
“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.”
Sombrero Reef Lighthouse
The lighthouse is the tallest of the Florida Keys reef lighthouses at 142′ and is a favorite spot for fishermen and divers. Mooring buoys protect the delicate coral reef from anchor damage>
To learn all about it click here: http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=701
“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
1955 Evening ensemble by Bonnie Cashin
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The whole world is about three drinks behind.
Humphrey Bogart
I was at lunch at the WInter Park Village–at Bar Louie —just across the street from the movie theater—when I said something about a book my friend was reading about Lauren Bacall and the sweet young thing had no idea who she was so I told her I’d provide some information for her on the lady and her equally famous husband.
Bogart is the elder of the two—a movie star that never had to starve on his way up the ladder of success
Humphrey Bogart was born on December 25, 1899, in New York City. He began his career on Broadway in the 1920s. This led to B-movie parts in 1930s Hollywood.Bogart’s turning point came in the 1940s, with his legendary roles in The Maltese Falcon (view a clip) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kk3Xvw7jn0
and Casablanca. (and one for this movie as well) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEWaqUVac3M
and go here for more info on Boggie: https://www.biography.com/actor/humphrey-bogart
I was never gaga over Boggie, but he did do those B&W movies so well as the dark morose hero
Lauren Bacall, original name Betty Joan Perske, (born September 16, 1924, New York, New York, U.S.—died August 12, 2014, New York, New York), American actress known for her portrayals of provocative women who hid their soft core underneath a layer of hard-edged pragmatism. Cast in Hawks’s To Have and Have Not (1944) as the leggy sardonic beauty who gives Humphrey Bogart a famous lesson in whistling, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30DSfAA0brs
the 19-year-old Bacall was an overnight sensation.
Find out more here: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lauren-Bacall
They also made the Big Sleep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjJlBnfyiI4
Dark Passage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLdP36wZyRU
and my favorite Key Largo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS2EyXIWjNw
Well that should be enough to let you know if you’re interested or not my dear.
A woman isn’t complete without a man. But where do you find a man – a real man – these days?
Lauren Bacall
Frank McCloud (Humphrey’s Bogart’s character Key Largo):
You don’t like it, do you Rocco, the storm? Show it your gun, why don’t you? If it doesn’t stop, shoot it.
I don’t do nostalgia. The phrase ‘the good old days’ never passes my lips. Nicholas Haslam
Green Bank Art Center
5382 Potomac Highland Trail
Green Bank, W.V 24944
304-456-4747
https://www.pocahontascountywv.com/souvenirs/green-bank-art-center
Located between the National Radio Astronomy Observatory and the ever-popular Cass Scenic Railroad, and near some of the area’s finest old churches and farmhouses, the Green Bank Artisans Gallery provides a cozy, inviting space for visitors to browse at their leisure and learn more about their purchases from its friendly artisan-clerks.
The good old days are now.
Tom Clancy
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Unknown
Life is a song – sing it. Life is a game – play it. Life is a challenge – meet it. Life is a dream – realize it. Life is a sacrifice – offer it. Life is love – enjoy it.
Sai Baba
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Vampire Craze
It might surprise you to note that we of the 20th and now 21st Century didn’t invent crazes for thing—we also didn’t invent vampires and in 1819 John William Polidori , the gentleman above (NO HE WASN’T A VAMPIRE) did start a crazy. He was an English writer and doctor who wrote a short story called “The Vampyre” and it is credited for two things–the first Modern vampire story to be printed and the birth of the French Poetic Vampire phase.
The French in fact, in the next two years after this piece was penned produced at least French play on the blood sucking genre. Even a few poets got into the act including Theophile Gautier (who was better known for his vampire stories)
Les Taches James
But there are yellow bruises on my body
And violet stains
Though no white vampire come with lips blood crimsoned
To suck my blood.
Oh and as for Dr. Polidori he was by the way Lord Bryan’s personal physician and according to the British Library London: “and stayed with him at the Villa Diodati in Switzerland during the summer of 1816. This was the period in which Percy and Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont were staying nearby, and when, having read Fantasmagoriana (a collection of ghostly tales), the group challenged each other to compose ghost stories.”
He didn’t get along with Bryon very well but he did develop a Friendship, if not more with Mary Shlley and during this entire time he kept a diary. He had orginally been commissioned by Byron’s publisher to keep a journal on the author’s time in Europe but this didn’t work out due to their disagreements. He did however keep a diary on his own.
After he took his own life on August 24, 1821 in London,
where he had been born 26 years earlier. At his death the diary went to his sister who eventually took the good parts out—which she referred to as ‘peccant [sinful] passages’. While she destroyed the original, the transcribed version is now held at the British Library.
and for more on the development of the modern vampire: https://publicdomainreview.org/2014/10/16/the-poet-the-physician-and-the-birth-of-the-modern-vampire/
Read more about the book and author: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-vampyre-by-john-polidori
And what about the 19th c bad boy Lord Byron: https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/lord-byron-19thcentury-bad-boy
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
Ross Perot
I’m just living in the moment, trying to win every game. That’s all I’m focused on.
Kawhi Leonard
