Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Happiness is Enrico Caruso singing Verdi, Rigoletto: Act III: La donna é mobile

 


Woman is flighty.
Like a feather in the wind,
she changes in voice
and in thought.

Always a lovely,
pretty face,
in tears or in laughter,
it is untrue.

Refrain
Woman is fickle.
Like a feather in the wind,
she changes her words
and her thoughts!

Always miserable
is he who trusts her,
he who confides in her
his unwary heart!

Yet one never feels
fully happy
who from that bosom
does not drink love!

Refrain
Woman is fickle.
Like a feather in the wind,
she changes her words,
and her thoughts!

Sunday, September 11, 2022

Happiness is grape season


 Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne,
In thy vats our cares be drown'd.

-- William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, Act 2, Scene 7

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Apples harvested too early can taste like the soil


 

 The cyder at first is very luscious, but if ground more early, it is more racy.

-- John Mortimer (c.1656-1736), The Whole Art of Husbandry

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Happiness is 15 minutes of solar noon sunlight


  For most white people, a half-hour in the summer sun in a bathing suit can initiate the release of 50,000 IU (1.25 mg) vitamin D into the circulation within 24 hours of exposure; this same amount of exposure yields 20,000–30,000 IU in tanned individuals and 8,000–10,000 IU in dark-skinned people. ... spending a few minutes outdoors (3–15 minutes for whites and 15–30 minutes for blacks) when the sun is highest in the sky, with 40% of the skin area exposed.
 

Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Friday, August 12, 2022

Happiness is neither poverty nor riches


Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, "Who is the LORD?" or lest I be poor, and steal, and profane the name of my God.

-- Proverbs 30:8f.

Friday, July 29, 2022

Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Happiness is the clear head of the morning


 As soon as Phoebus' rays inspect us,
First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.

-- Matthew Prior

Monday, July 11, 2022

Happiness is belly-timber


 The strength of every other member
Is founded on your belly-timber.

-- Matthew Prior

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Happiness is fourteen miles to the Cumberland Gap

 

 

Lay down, Boys, and take a little nap, Lay down, Boys, and take a little nap, Lay down, Boys, and take a little nap, Fourteen miles to the Cumberland Gap.

Cumberland Gap with its cliffs and rocks Home of the panther, bear and fox. The first white man in Cumberland Gap, Was a Doctor Walker, an English chap.

Friday, June 24, 2022

Happiness is the most important difference between your smart phone and your dumb phone


 With the smart phone you can butt-dial a conference call and piss-off multiple people all at once instead of annoying just one person by mistake.

Friday, June 17, 2022

Happiness is having a pulse!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nyuk, nyuk.

Prove thy servants, I beseech thee, ten days; and let them give us pulse to eat, and water to drink. ... And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh than all the children which did eat the portion of the king's meat. 

-- Daniel 1:12, 15