Weekend bonus shot, 04.09.09
Girl with waterfall, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, CA. Archival image, taken by the beloved, from way back last August. Baba was home with a sick boy. The sister somehow managed to enjoy herself now and then.
Gracias, Mercedes
Mercedes Sosa, Argentine Folk Singer, Is Dead at 74 What a voice, what a heart, what a force of nature. From the New York Times obituary, linked above:Â ”I didn’t choose to sing for people,” Sosa said in a recent interview on Argentine television. ”Life chose me to sing.”
Lest the battle lines and magnitude be not clearly drawn
[Image at right: the Langbehn-Pond family, from Janice Langbehn’s Twitter page. Lisa at left, Janice at right.] I had a Banned Books Week / LGBT families in children’s lit post all queued up and ready for its final powdering, but have to set it aside after reading on Tuesday evening