Theater: the Original Interactive Media

I want to give the audience a hint of a scene. No more than that. Give them too much and they won't contribute anything themselves. Give them just a suggestion and you get them working with you. That's what gives the theater meaning: when it becomes a social act.

~ Orson Welles ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

"Please--ma'am--the cat has put her kittens--in--your--bonnet!"

Such a breach of discipline had never been known before in our prim household, where there was a place for everything, and everything had a place.

My mother pushed her spectacles on to her forehead, and, looking severely at Ann, said: "Which one, Ann? My summer bonnet, or--my winter bonnet?"

"The one with the fur lining, ma'am."

"And a most comfortable bonnet to live in, I'm sure!" replied my mother sarcastically, as much as to say that she wished all cats had such a choice under the circumstances. "Another cat would have chosen the one with the lace and the violets, out of sheer perverseness. But there--I knew I could depend on a cat which had been trained in my house."

~ Charles Morley from "Peter: A Cat O' One Tail" ~

Photo by CRASH:candy.

Read!

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

~ Margaret Fuller ~


Image courtesy Library of Congress.

Poetry Friday

...I was to learn that Mama had an articulate theory about reading poetry aloud to children, a theory not surprising for she was a pianist. It did not matter, she was convinced, if we could not understand all the words. We could enjoy the beautiful sound of them.

~ Helen Ferris ~

Author As Princess

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

~ C. S. Forester ~

(Note: the poor man must have been bruised something awful--he wrote more than 50 books! --KK)

On Being a Princess

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be.

~ Princess Diana ~

This From a Mother of Nine

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

~ Queen Victoria ~

Preservation Week

More than 4.8 Billion Artifacts are held in public trust by more than 30,000 archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, scientific research collections, and archaeological repositories in the United States. 1.3 billion of these items are at risk of being lost.

~ American Library Association Preservation Week Fact Sheet ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

I'm surrounded by morons.

~ Henri ~

Nature

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

~ Frank Lloyd Wright ~

Carol M. Highsmith photo of Wright's Church of the Holy Cross courtesy Library of Congress.

Poetry Friday

The important thing about writing is the rewriting. In order to make a poem look unworked, you have to work a lot.

~ Kay Ryan ~

He's Right!

All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

~ Richard Avedon ~

An Excellent Track Record!

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

~ Harriet Tubman ~





Photo courtesy Library of Congress.

Tofu

Tofu can be used as a high-protein meat substitute, as well as a denture adhesive or tile grout.

~ Dave Barry ~

Photo by jazzijava.

It's What's Inside...

    O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side!

~ William Shakespeare from Measure for Measure ~

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Even Jenny, the ship's cat as part of the crew, had immediately found herself a comfortable corner; she varied her usual Christmas routine on previous ships by presenting Titanic with a litter of kittens in April.

~ Violet C. Jessop ~

True Of So Many Things!

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

~ Edgar Degas ~

"Waiting" courtesy J. Paul Getty Museum.

Poetry Friday

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

~ Robert Frost ~

So Is "Pizza"

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

~ Charles Dickens ~

Photo of Moroccan chicken with prunes by Mongiesama.

Pruning--Not Just For Trees

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

~ Henri Matisse ~

So Sad

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

~ Isaac Asimov ~

Princely Advice!

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

~ Arthur Schopenhauer ~

Photo by -Jeffrey-.

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Easter greetings to all cats and their people! --KK

Postcard courtesy riptheskill.

Interesting Advice

Poetry Friday

The basic line in any good verse is cadenced...building it around the natural breath structures of speech.

~ Kenneth Rexroth ~

And Yet the U.S. Refuses to Get Behind It!

Green technologies--going green--is bigger than the Internet. It could be the biggest economic opportunity of the 21st century.

~ John Doerr ~





Photo by Steve Abraham.

Eggsactly!

Q: Why did the chicken lay her egg on a axe?
A: She wanted to hachet.

~ Anonymous ~

Photo courtesy Library of Congress.

Great Expectations

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.

~ Charles Dickens ~

Literature About Chickens?

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

~ E. B. White ~


Photo courtesy Skokie Public Library.

Sunday's Kat Kwote

Cats

When I grow up, I plan to keep
eleven cats, and let them sleep
on any bedspread that they wish,
and feed them people's tuna fish.

~ Maxine Kumin ~

Photo by Tom Clifton.