Mr.Piffka's Quotes

Hi, SF! You are probably here today because of the eggplant recipe (somehow). I didn't know Raven's Realm was still active..

Hi! It would be great fun... maybe we could get PaL to meet us, too. Yes, Cowtown = Tacoma (I have no idea why I called it that, except Tacoma used to have that "aroma" problem. )

Tacoma Art Museum is on Pacific Avenue, so is PaL's workplace. The show is still there on Friday... are you thinking you might want to go? Really??? (jumping up & down) They're open on Friday, 10-5pm.

Here's their website -- Tacoma Art Museum.

Yes, let's go! I hope that PaL can meet us too.

Did you know that Tacoma is the birth city of the famous Seattle Friend? Didn't stay there for long though.
It was also my first college town.(UPS) Didn't stay there long for that either. Finished my degree at UW, and somehow became a Seattle area resident since 1962.

BTW, Piffy, in the Frederic G. Kennedy quote, who does it refer to -- the man with the full set of piano-tuning tools?

SF

Born in tacky Tacoma? Yikes! I didn't know that awful secret about our famous SeattleFriend, but I will keep it under wraps!

Meanwhile .....YAAY! How soon do you think you can get down to Tacoma on Friday?

I asked Mr.P about the piano-tuning quote (that was from his grandpa Ted). Mr.P said he didn't think it was about a particular person and couldn't remember where it came from. Ted was from a newspaper family and though he was a teacher & principal, he came naturally to write a lot of philosophical essays and speeches. I think it was from one of those. I looked through the some of the family papers and while I was looking I found a poem by Ted's mother which I'm going to copy for you. I thought you might like it or know somebody who would.

Wherefore? (published March 1897)
There are times, when the violin playing,
With a master's trained hand on the bow,
Or it may be an organ is sounding,
In soft cadences solemn and slow,
Or, perchance, 'tis the voice of a singer,
In a melody gay, light and free,
There will come, in the midst of the music,
A note that is only for me.

Then my soul stands alert on the instant,
'Tis as though by an angel's wing fanned,
Or as one who, exiled in his childhood,
Hears the speech of his own native land.
Tho' all breathless I listen and listen
But to learn what the message may be
It is only a vanishing echo
That is wafted in sweetness to me.
LGK

'Small boys throw rocks at frogs in sport.
Not in sport, but in earnest, frogs die.'
--Theophrastus (attrib.)

LOVELY!

Piffka, I just found this thread and love it!! For now, I don't have anything as literate as Mr. Piffka's quotes--just one that I do try to live by:

"My goal in life is to be the kind of person my dog thinks I am."

Jjorge -- Hello my good Friend, it's been a while! You caught that magic moment and best thought of Louella's poem. You wouldn't believe the mother-lode of poetry I found while searching for the piano-tuning reference; years and years of thoughtful verse! I am amazed and wonder how many other families have poems left to moulder in boxes and letters. We should do another poetry thread!

As for your quote, I have known that saying since I read it as a child and was struck then with pangs of sympathy. It still seems excruciating to be a frog (and rotten to be a bad boy).


Diane! Nice to see you, too. Everytime I look my dogs in the eye, I wish I could live up to their high hopes & expectations. Why can't I?? A Great One!

Today's Quote:

"My current retirement plan is to die at my desk and buy lottery tickets until that happens." - Paul Louis Wellman (1950- )

"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?" - Jack Kerouac (1922-1969)

Hi Piff,

It IS rotten to be a bad boy.

When I was about eight, I was with a friend in a very large park near my home. We thought it was great fun to throw rocks at the wild ducks ...until I hit one. --I hit it in the HEAD!

The POOR duck emitted a squawk and shook and shook its head.
Then was (or seemed to be) ok.

I burst out crying.

It still brings tears to my eyes as I think of it now over fifty years later.


ps
I'm still dropping in on A2K only for a few quick moments a day, having fallen into to the dark hole of home-buying.
(oops! gotta go and pack some more --So much to do, and the movers coming tomorrow!)

Jjorge,

Good luck with the move... kinda hard in that cold weather, I'll bet.

Your story of the duck reminds me of a camp song:

<ahem>
Be kind to your web-footed friends,
For a Duck may be somebody's mother.....

How sweet that you burst out crying. YOU were not a bad boy, just led astray!

I look forward to more poetry soon!
Piffle

"More than 99 percent of all the species that have ever existed are extinct." - John D. Barrow (1952- ), The Artful Universe

" a friend in need, is a pest"

Well darn it, I thought Dys was going to quote his grandfather:

"I wouldn't piss down his throat if his heart was on fire!"

I dearly wish I could have met his grandfather. Dys has all sorts of stories about him.

Diane.... ewwwwwwwwwww.

Here's today's -- kinda creepy... as Bradbury is:

"I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
- Ray Bradbury (1920- )

"Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you." - Jean Rostand (1894-1977)


Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

"This book is not to be doubted." - Quran 1:2

"Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it." - David Lee Roth (1954- )