I thought your last avatar was a picture of the real you--and it certainly wasn't what
I'd call nondescript!
My skin condition got worse than it should have, because I made the wrong choices in the early stages. Now it is going well, just takes patience.
cyphercat wrote:I thought your last avatar was a picture of the real you--and it certainly wasn't what
I'd call nondescript!
hehe, You have to take everything what I say and do on this board with a grain of salt.
I do tend to be a bit of a joker.
Take for example the avatar that I'm currently using. :wink:
edgarblythe wrote:My skin condition got worse than it should have, because I made the wrong choices in the early stages. Now it is going well, just takes patience.
Oh, okay. Either way I hope it improves and doesn't get aggravated.
Eeeeeeeek!
That new av gave me a turn, Reyn. Please, please, bring back the Beave! This guy's scary.
Hmm, calling it a night. Maybe I'll work on it tomorrow.
Until then.........mhahaha!
(You really don't know who this is? I'm feeling old...ish.)
That avatar is Edward G Robinson, one of my alltime favorite actors.
I knew you'd know!
It's looks like the younger generation are having problems with identification.
The two Edgars...... :wink:
Edward G Robinson was a wonderful actor, until he was blackballed by McCarthyism. When he was allowed to work again, the parts he got were not too good for the most part, beginning with The Ten Commandments. He was good in Soylent Green. Any others, I can't recall.
edgarblythe wrote:It was tough. I had a patch of skin cancer on my calf treated and it made me feel feverish. But, my knee joint did seem better.
Let's hope it stays better, edgar! And I do hope no further treatment is required.
(The things actually
happening in peoples' lives as they send off light-hearted, jovial posts!
)
What's that Auden poem about the mare scratching its innocent behind while a tragedy happens nearby?
one of my favourite poems edgar
Musée des Beaux Arts
by W. H. Auden
About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along;
How when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting
For the miraculous birth, there always must be
Children who did not specially want it to happen, skating
On a pond at the edge of the wood:
They never forgot
That even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course
Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot
Where the dogs go on with their doggy life and the torturer's horse
Scratches its innocent behind on a tree.
In Brueghel's Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
Thanks, djjd. I didn't have time to look it up.
here's some good advice
Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)
Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of '99
If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be
it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by
scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable
than my own meandering
experience
I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth; oh nevermind; you will not
understand the power and beauty of your youth until they have faded.
But trust me, in 20 years you'll look back at photos of yourself and
recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before
you and how fabulous you really looked
.You're not as fat as you
imagine.
Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing everyday that scares you
Sing
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, don't put up with
people who are reckless with yours.
Floss
Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes
you're behind
the race is long, and in the end, it's only with
yourself.
Remember the compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you
succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters, throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch
Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your
life
the most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they
wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year
olds I know still don't.
Get plenty of calcium.
Be kind to your knees, you'll miss them when they're gone.
Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't, maybe you'll have children,maybe
you won't, maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky
chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary
what ever you do, don't
congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either - your
choices are half chance, so are everybody else's. Enjoy your body,
use it every way you can
don't be afraid of it, or what other people
think of it, it's the greatest instrument you'll ever
own..
Dance
even if you have nowhere to do it but in your own living room.
Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.
Do NOT read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents, you never know when they'll be gone for
good.
Be nice to your siblings; they are the best link to your past and the
people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you
should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and
lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you
knew when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard; live
in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths, prices will rise, politicians will
philander, you too will get old, and when you do you'll fantasize
that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were
noble and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund,
maybe you have a wealthy spouse; but you never know when either one
might run out.
Don't mess too much with your hair, or by the time you're 40, it will
look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but, be patient with those who
supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia, dispensing it is a way of
fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the
ugly parts and recycling it for more than
it's worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen
this particular stanza seems to illustrate msolga's point
Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as
effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that
never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4pm
on some idle Tuesday.
edgarblythe wrote:Thanks, djjd. I didn't have time to look it up.
the poem and painting are a part of nicholas roeg's film "the man who fell to earth", an interesting look at the human condition and alienation
alienation?
I was alienated once. Felt like a bug crawling in the cracks. It was another world to the one I'm in now.
Hey, how are you swell guys tonight?
I'm thinking of you two. :wink:
TV time here......
msolga, you will always be in our hearts.
