22 • February 2016 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. Catch a Bouquet
caught staring at their iphones/ ipads/tablets, a very individual task? A fi ne Valentine bouquet goes
to Professor Sherry Turkle, the author known as “a tech- nological philosopher” the Rockefeller Mauze Professor of Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT. Her 1984 book, “T e Second Self: Com- puters and the Human Spirit” describes computers are more than “tools” but are part of our social and psychological lives. A prolifi c author, I highly
recommend Turkle’s “Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other.” Being a lover of music—in all genres— a February 10th, 89th birthday bouquet is for that grand opera diva Leontyne Price, who so ably charmed great maestros like Herbert von Karajan and Leonard Bernstein, while gain- ing world-wide fame. In popu-
lar music spheres, hope you did not miss the cyberbouquets that Carole King and Aretha Franklin exchanged during the latest Kennedy Center
Honors
evening. You can see that for free on YouTube and it is surely exciting. A stun-
ningly grand
pop stan- dard is still the recording of George David Weiss’ and Bob T iele’s 1967 “What a Wonderful World” sung by the great jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong in his inimitably gruff , gravelly, unforgettable style…with a big smile. And some lines of that are my Val- entine bouquet for you. Makes me feel like smiling and tearing up every time I hear it. Proba-
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bly because I think he could be singing about and to Sonoma County! “I see trees of green, red roses
too./I see them bloom, for me and you./ And I think to my- self, what a wonderful world./
I see
skies of blue, and clouds of white. /T e bright blessed day, the dark sacred night./ And I think to my- self, what a wonderful world./ T e colors of
the rainbow,/ So pretty in the sky./ Are also on the faces, of people go-
ing by,/ I see friends shaking hands, saying, “How do you do?”/T ey’re really saying, “I love you.”/I hear babies cry, I watch them grow,/T ey’ll learn much more, T an I’ll ever know./And I think to myself, What a wonderful world./ Yes, I think to myself, What a won- derful world./--Oh yeah!” Less sentiment by far was
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expressed by Plato who wrote: “Love is a grave mental dis- ease!” And in modern times, Aerosmith, who wrote “Fall- ing in love is so hard on the knees!” But, if you are search- ing for scorchingly beautiful, passionate verses to quote to your love, check up on Ricardo Eliecer Neſt ali Reyes Basoalto, better known as Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet, diplomat, politician, who was called by Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Neruda. T e greatest poet of the 20th Cen- tury in any language!” An exile from his home country, which he amply described when he re- ceived the Nobel Prize for Lit in 1971, Neruda, in 1952, stayed in a friend’s villa in Capri. A charming fi lm depicting that time resulted in “Il Postino.” (Neruda’s young mailman gets lessons in writing some lines of poetry to his love.)
“Love one another” remains the best greeting! ~ Ellie
JOKES & Humor # 8
Mr. and Mrs. Brown had two sons. One was named Mind
Your Own Business & the other was named Trouble. One day the two boys decided to play hide and seek. Trouble hid while Mind Your Own Business count- ed to one hundred. Mind Your Own Business began looking for his brother behind garbage cans and bushes. Then he started looking in and under cars until a police man approached him and asked, “What are you do- ing?” “Playing a game,” the boy replied. “What is your name?” the offi cer questioned. “Mind Your Own Business.” Furious the policeman inquired, “Are you looking for trouble?!” The boy replied, “Why, yes.”
Weird Facts & Fun Trivia -8
In it’s 1897 catalog, Sears Roebuck & Co. advertised a celery nerve tonic for sale.
Heinz was a marketing and advertising pioneer. His com- pany had the largest commer- cial exhibit at the 1893 Chi-
cago World’s Fair, and in 1900 erected the fi rst electric sign in New York, a 40 foot pickle!
In 1952, Mr. Potato Head was born, consisting entirely of parts, consumers had to supplly the potato. Mr. Potato Head was the fi rst toy to be advertised on network television. Mrs. Potato Head appeared in 1953, and in 1964 the Potato Heads begin to come with plastic bodies included.
California discovered the com- mercial potential of raisins quite by accident. In 1873, a freak hot spell withered the grapes on the vine. One enterprising San Fran- cisco grocer advertised these shriveled grapes as “Peruvian Delicacies” and the rest is histo- ry. California is now the world’s leading producer of raisins.
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.” ~ C.G. Jung
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