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22 • UPBEAT TIMES • July 2015


Summer GUIDE #2 SUPERHEROES IN LOVE I’ll Remember


T at! By Jean Wong


ijeanwong.blogspot.com


JOKES & Humor # 7


SANTA ROSA, CA. ~ Artist Series 2015. From the hilltops to the vineyards and back to the Jack London State Park winery ruins, each of these limited run concerts create and intimate and inspiring atmosphere. Transcendence Artist Series performances shine the spot- light on renowned artists as


well as up and coming innova- tors creating groundbreaking and inspiring new work. Superheroes In Love: an eve- ning of song and dance with Broadway’s super couple De- siree and Nicolas Dromard. He hails from the far away land of Canada; she from the palm- tree-swaying lands of Southern


California. They joined forces in NYC to save the world... through song and dance! From Gershwin to Buble and Astaire to Minnelli, this dynamic duo can do it all. Come see the many alter egos of Nicolas Dromard and Desireé Davar as they fi ght musical theatre crime in one spectacular evening. It’s a bird! It’s a plane!


Sonoma County, CA. ~ I’ve never had a great memo- ry. I’ve read hundreds—even thousands of books and yearn to sprinkle social conversa- tions with brilliant tidbits I’ve gleamed from their pages. But this will never happen as I for- get everything I read by the next day.


No, it’s


Broadway’s super-couple Nic & Desi singing, dancing, act- ing, and soaring through love. Website for tickets: www.tran- scendencetheatre.org/artist- series. Date: July 7 & 8 (Tues & Wed) Location:


Paradise


Ridge Winery, 4545 Thomas Lake Harris Dr. Santa Rosa, CA 95403.


Time: 5:30pm


Pre-show Festivities Begin 8:00pm Show Begins Pricing: $75 VIP Table Terrace Seating, $50 Premium Table Terrace Seating, $29 Lawn Seating VIP Info: Includes Govino glass, 2 glasses of wine (Paradise), as well as access to the private VIP area during pre-show fes- tivities.


January 7th through the 29th


Santa Rosa • 2875 Santa Rosa Ave. • 525-0569 www.lazboy.com/santarosa


22 • July 2015 • UPBEAT TIMES


A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters. Cicero


Slights, put downs, and pain- ful times, however, are differ- ent. I don’t need memory cells to


store these devastations.


They just head straight for my heart and are permanently lodged—becoming who I am, and like the ancient mariner, a burdensome sack I must for- ever carry. What makes us forget or re- member? It’s sort of the same conundrum where people only


buy newspapers with


big doomsday headlines. Of course, if you’re in the dentist’s offi ce, you’ll try to recall your happy memories, but by and large our brain—grey in mat- ter— is made of melancholy material. Even the wisest sage will tell you life is suffering and that it is imperative for a baby not to smile, but cry at the moment of his entry into hu- man membership.


Thank goodness, though,


there’s always simmering stew smells, blazing autumn days, gestures of generosity. That’s when a gurgle will run through my synapses, memory kick starts, and decides, “Hmm… not bad…think I’ll remember that.”


It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. -Somerset Maugham


The famous Olympic skier Picabo Street (pronounced Pee-Ka-Boo) wasn’t just an athlete...she was a nurse working at a Intensive Care Unit of a large metropolitan hospital. She was not permitted to answer the hospital telephones. It caused too much confusion when she would answer the phone and say...


“Picabo, I.C.U.”


Dad noticed his 5 year old daughter out in the backyard brushing the family dog’s teeth. When he asked her what in the world she was doing, she replied quickly, “I’m brushing Scotty’s teeth. But don’t Worry, Dad, I’ll put your toothbrush back, like I always have.


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