good morning good morning good

Good morning, good morning, good morning . . .

After a while you start to smile now you feel cool

Then you decide to take a walk by the old school

Nothing is changed it's still the same

I've got nothing to say but it's OK

THE BEATLES, Good Morning, Good Morning (Lennon/McCartney)

Good morning, good morning, good morning . . .

first day, first grade, new day, grade a

Feeling Good

Birds flying high you know how I feel

Sun in the sky you know how I feel

Breeze driftin' on by you know how I feel

It's a new dawn

It's a new day

It's a new life

For me

And I'm feeling good

hot child in the city

It feels like an oven here in D.C. When you step outside, the heat surrounds you from every direction. This is exactly how Florida felt to me when I first visited my grandmother there many years ago at age fourteen. My first time on a plane all by myself, but I digress. Is this global waming (what's that?) or is typical D.C. humidity right around the corner?


Ice cream vendors everywhere


Hot summer sun on Archives relief sculpture


Crape Myrtle, which seems to have been blooming forever already by my favorite Starbucks

“Talk doesn't cook rice.”

Check out Free Rice, a website where you can improve your vocabulary and hopefully help fill some tummies...

“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”—Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people”—Chinese Proverb

“Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth”—Japanese Proverb

“Talk doesn't cook rice.”—Chinese Proverb

I'm just catching up with my on-line reading and favorite blogs and this post by Martin really resonated.

I truly hope that our current situation is

When the Master governs, the people
are hardly aware that he exists. (Obama's doing such a great job we forget about him, my current state, apart from the occasional motorcade traffic snarl)

rather than

Next best is a leader who is loved (Obama when he first took office, and still in effect for most, if you can tell by the amount of rockstar/god merchandise - for a President! - being sold)

or

Next, one who is feared. (What could have been if Cheney was in charge in name as well as deed, and luckily we dodged)

or

The worst is one who is despised (well, we all know how that one went. Howdy, W...)

p.s. George was always my favorite Beatle, too.