gleans + 1xORA + 1xlagniappe at 9:00 AM MT, 5/3
What caused a generation to switch from LSD to today's party drug of choice?
They're proven congestion busters, not an experiment.
Nongovernmental organizations in Afghanistan are under increasing danger from the Taliban.
today's Ordinbary Reading Assignment
Wonderful Today: The Autobiography of Pattie Boyd by Patti Boyd and Penny Junor (Paperback - 26 Jun 2008)
Synopsis
Pattie Boyd was the Queen of the sixties and beyond! a drop-dead gorgeous model, photographer, and the inspiration for the timeless love songs 'Something', 'Layla' and 'Wonderful Tonight'. Her story is one of drama, struggle and, ultimately, affirmation, but her struggles (against addiction, tragedy, infertility) were lived with two of the twentieth-century's greatest musical icons: her husbands George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Now, after 40 years, she tells her extraordinary story. From growing up in Kenya in a privileged but broken home, becoming a sixties supermodel, working with Bailey and Ozzie Clarke, and meeting the Beatles, to marriage with George and then Eric, to the accidents and brushes with tragedy -- her own and Eric's -- this is a mesmerising human story, played out among some of the most iconic and charismatic figures of the late twentieth century.
Pattie Boyd was the Queen of the sixties and beyond! a drop-dead gorgeous model, photographer, and the inspiration for the timeless love songs 'Something', 'Layla' and 'Wonderful Tonight'. Her story is one of drama, struggle and, ultimately, affirmation, but her struggles (against addiction, tragedy, infertility) were lived with two of the twentieth-century's greatest musical icons: her husbands George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Now, after 40 years, she tells her extraordinary story. From growing up in Kenya in a privileged but broken home, becoming a sixties supermodel, working with Bailey and Ozzie Clarke, and meeting the Beatles, to marriage with George and then Eric, to the accidents and brushes with tragedy -- her own and Eric's -- this is a mesmerising human story, played out among some of the most iconic and charismatic figures of the late twentieth century.
lagniappe
Now that no one looking
by Adam Kirsch
Now that no one looking at the night-
Sky blanked by leakage from electric lamps
And headlights prowling through the parking lot
Could recognize the Babylonian dance
That once held every gazer; now that spoons
And scales, and swordsmen battling with beasts
Have decomposed into a few stars strewn
Illegibly across an empty space,
Maybe the old unfalsifiable
Predictions and extrapolated spheres
No longer need to be an obstacle
To hearing what it is the stars declare:
That there are things created of a size
We can't and weren't meant to understand,
As fish know nothing of the sun that writes
Its bright glyphs on the black waves overhead.
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