Pancho Villa’s dying words, spoken to a journalist after he was shot by assassins in 1923: “Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something.”
Month: August 2013
Quote
How agreeable it is to do nothing all day and to rest afterwards. – French saying quoted in letter from Patrick Leigh Fermor to Deborah Devonshire, 1970.
Book Love
Back in May, our daughter Lauren, three year-old granddaughter Bella, and I were browsing in a Barnes & Noble bookstore one evening. After a while, Bella came up to me, handed me a book, and said, “Grandpa, this book WANTS me!” I replied, “I know EXACTLY how that feels.” And of course I bought the …
Their Mamas Know They’re Handsome
Red-winged blackbirds are the most common visitor we have at our feeders, but paradoxically I rarely post about them. We were visited by a gaggle of red-winged fledgelings a few days ago that inspired me to write this. For those of you who don’t live in North America and/or aren’t familiar with the species I’ll …
Two Dixons and a Rungius
Last Sunday, Connie and I went to the Denver Art Museum to see their knock-out Navajo textile special exhibit called Red, White and Bold. It puts together the best 19th century rugs from the collections of the Art Museum, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and the University of Colorado Museum. Runs through September 22 …