Monday, November 02, 2009
Happy Birthday, George!
Today's the birthdate of another one of my personal heroes, George Bernard Shaw. To celebrate, let me share a couple of apt quotes:
He said, "What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day."
And this: "I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. Life is no "brief candle" for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations."
Small World
When our friend Mister Steve visited us a couple of weeks ago, he joined us for an evening of food, wine and conversation at Clay & Jennifer Primrose's Friday evening salon. Clay, a Stanford alumni a few years ahead of us, and I got talking about our Stanford days. Turns out he was in the same freshman dorm (Larkin) where Mister Steve and I first met. Just for fun, Steve asked Clay what room he'd been assigned to. Yeah, you guessed it -- they spent their freshman years in the same room in the same dorm, three years apart. (That, however is where the coincidences ended; Steve apparently slept in the righthand bed, while Clay had the left.)
