Not talking clinically depressed here; just downcast, gloomy, pensive
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Commentary
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Sadness.
Rampant.
Affecting every one of us.
Not talking clinically depressed here; just downcast, gloomy, pensive.
What to do when someone close to us, living with us, is this sad?
Nothing different.
Depend on who we are, the environment we have created to permeate the victim with the assurance and love she needs to come out of it.
Although we may cut her some slack in terms of expectation: her behavior is almost inevitably going to be somewhat erratic, displeasing.
We might need to be more tolerant, accepting.
Temporarily, we will lose our amiable dinner partner or walking buddy.
It’s normal, isn’t it?
Sadness.
Rampant.
We’re in a warm stretch with a minimum of rain.
What fun!
Let’s enjoy this weather, each day of it.
The hours are ticking away and if we don’t make the most of our time another day will soon click past.
Unnoticed.
Unappreciated.
Tick Tock.
In clock language:
Enjoy today.
Enjoy the week.
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Postings Count, Weather Brief, and Dinner
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Our 411th consecutive posting, committed to 5,000.
After 411 posts we’re at the 8.22 percentile of our commitment, the commitment a different way of marking the passage of time.
Time is 4.01am.
On Wednesday, Boston’s temperature will reach a high of 63* with a feels-like of 63* under sunny skies.
What a deal.
Dinner tonight is Chicken Cacciatore.
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Question of the Day:
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Who was Raymond Chandler?
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Tip
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
From Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep:
“A long pier railed by white two by fours stretched seaward from the arch.”
More succinct a writer does not get.
Laughter is a visual expression of a number of positive emotional states, such as joy, mirth, happiness, relief.
Workers laughing in a clothing factory
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-T0425-0005 / Sindermann, Jürgen / CC-BY-SA 3.0
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Chuckle of the Day:
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
My wife and I have reached a decision that we do not want children.
If anybody does please just send me your contact details and we can drop them off tomorrow.
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One Picture Briefly
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
The Annunciation is an oil-on-oak panel painting attributed to the Early Netherlandish painter Hans Memling.
Completed c. 1482, it was partially transferred to canvas in the 1920s.
The panel shows Mary in a domestic interior with two attendant angels; Gabriel is dressed in ecclesiastical robes, while a dove representing the Holy Spirit hovers above Mary.
According to art historian Maryan Ainsworth, the work is a "startlingly original image, rich in connotations for the viewer or worshiper".
The painting is held in the Robert Lehman collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Answer to the Question of the Day:
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an American-British novelist and screenwriter.
In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the Great Depression.
His first short story, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot", was published in 1933 in Black Mask, a popular pulp magazine.
His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939.
In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime (an eighth, in progress at the time of his death, was completed by Robert B. Parker).
All but Playback have been made into motion pictures, some more than once. In the year before his death, he was elected president of the Mystery Writers of America.
Chandler had an immense stylistic influence on American popular literature. He is considered to be a founder of the hard-boiled school of detective fiction, along with Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain and other Black Mask writers.
The protagonist of his novels, Philip Marlowe, like Hammett's Sam Spade, is considered by some to be synonymous with "private detective".
Both were played in films by Humphrey Bogart, whom many consider to be the quintessential Marlowe.
At least three of Chandler's novels have been regarded as masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The Little Sister (1949), and The Long Goodbye (1953).
The Long Goodbye was praised in an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, published more than twenty years earlier, to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery".
Chandler's reputation has grown in recent years.
Sad songs they say so much.
An Elton John CD is right in here.
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Good Morning on this Wednesday, the twenty-second day of May, 2019
Our commentary suggests maintaining a warm environment and exercising patience when dealing with a sad loved one.
We posted the weather report and calendar, and tracked the number of postings.
We posted a tip: an excellent sentence by Raymond Chandler, and did a One Pic post of a painting.
We posted a chuckle in a new format and presented a brief bio on Mr. Chandler.
And now? Gotta go.
Che vuoi? Le pocketbook?
See you soon.
Your love.