Te Deum, I sing..."It Was 7+ Wonderful Series!"

The visual metaphors of elevators and doors rife within this AMC series were never lost on me; they represented not only life's inevitable ups and downs, but the promise of second chances (as well as the nascent potential so very implicit to the central precept of "chance" itself).

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"When a man walks into a room, he brings his whole life with him. He has a million reasons for being anywhere, just ask him. If you listen, he'll tell you how he got there. How he forgot where he was going, and that he woke up. If you listen, he'll tell you about the time he thought he was an angel or dreamt of being perfect. And then he'll smile with wisdom, content that he realized the world isn't perfect. We are flawed, because we want so much more. We're ruined, because we get these things, and wish for what we had".

Yes, simply astonish ourselves!

Thank you to the show's creator and occasional director/writer, Matt Weiner, for his efforts in making it all happen. I also echo the sentiments of many when expressing how much I will miss this series...(sigh).

In closing, I've chosen the one song that sort of wraps up the collective sentiment of the many fans who bid adieu while taking in the very last installment of MadMen over a month ago...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsJPDYWOMdg

P.S. Why do those annoying ads have to constantly pre-empt songs????

C.P., MUST'VE HAD A BRAIN-FREEZE

TO HAVE FORGOTTEN

YOUR B'DAY TRIBUTE !!!

WE CELEBRATE *50*

(AND THEN SOME)

Sincerely,

'L'

TO OUR RYAN CHRISTOPHER...on 6-24-2015

MUCH LOVE, NOW AND ALWAYS;

MOM and DAD...

Lara, J.J., Jim, Richard and Robbie

REMEMBER: With age comes wisdom!

and many happy returns...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7soNPnsebPs

(time will surely tell, trust me!)

IN SUMMER, WHEN THE DAY HAS FLED:

A June Night - Poem by Emma Lazarus

Ten o'clock: the broken moon

Hangs not yet a half hour high,

Yellow as a shield of brass,

In the dewy air of June,

Poised between the vaulted sky

And the ocean's liquid glass.

Earth lies in the shadow still;

Low black bushes, trees, and lawn

Night's ambrosial dews absorb;

Through the foliage creeps a thrill,

Whispering of yon spectral dawn

And the hidden climbing orb.

Higher, higher, gathering light,

Veiling with a golden gauze

All the trembling atmosphere,

See, the ray-less disk grows white!

Hark, the glittering billows pause!

Faint, far sounds possess the ear.

Elves on such a night as this

Spin their rings upon the grass;

On the beach the water-fay

Greets her lover with a kiss;

Through the air swift spirits pass,

 Laugh, caress, and float away.

Shut thy lids and thou shalt see

Angel faces wreathed with light,

Mystic forms long vanished hence.

Ah, too fine, too rare, they be

For the grosser mortal sight,

And they foil our waking sense.

Yet we feel them floating near,

Know that we are not alone,

Though our open eyes behold

Nothing save the moon's bright sphere,

In the vacant heavens shown,

And the ocean's path of gold. 

June Nights -

Poem by Victor Marie Hugo

 

In summer, when day has fled,

The plain covered with flowers, pours out

From far away, an intoxicating scent;

Eyes shut, ears half open to noises,

We only half sleep in a transparent slumber.

The stars are purer, the shade seems pleasanter;
A hazy half-day colours the eternal dome;
And the sweet pale dawn awaiting her hour
Seems to wander all night at the bottom of the sky.

5-Letter Men: that's what I'd say...

TWO DIFFERENT MEN for upcoming discussion;

FIVE 'SIMPLE, ORDINARY LETTERS' TO EACH NAME:

In spite of his inauspicious upbringing, "a Sicilian boy born into indisputable poverty", some would opine that Mr. Capra truly represented the ultimate personification of the American dream. As proof of this, he would go on to receive a life-time achievement award in 1982. Capra’s films were said to be his "love letters" to an idealized America – a cinematic landscape of his own invention. Some of his more memorable quotes remain these:

That's what I'd say

             www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rggldf1c6c