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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting 
before you get tired.  

~ Jules Renard ~

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Patience is the companion of wisdom.  

~ St. Augustine ~

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Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.  

~ Author Unknown ~

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Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power 
to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur 
the very mountains.  

~ Henry Ward Beecher ~

Happy Easter!

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Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter
That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.  

~ Bertran de Born ~

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It is the hour to rend thy chains,
The blossom time of souls.  

~ Katherine Lee Bates ~

Les Adorables...

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Flowers always make people better, happier, 
and more helpful; they are sunshine, food 
and medicine for the soul.
~ Luther Burbank ~

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.  

~ Hans Hofmann, Introduction to the Bootstrap, 1993 ~

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It's spring fever.  That is what the name of it is.  And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!  

~ Mark Twain ~

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Freedom is that instant between 
when someone tells you to do something and
when you decide how to respond.  

~ Jeffrey Borenstein ~

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El secreto de sus ojos / The Secret In Their Eyes / In ihren Augen

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Strange how a teapot can represent at the same time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of company.  

~ Author Unknown  ~

On the Big Screen...

Panique au village

Just brilliant! So funny. Go see it!

Les Nouvelles...

Yakov Kreizberg dead

Conductor Yakov Kreizberg, music director of the Monte Carlo Philharmonic, died March 15 after a long illness. He was only 51 years old.

The Russian-born musician, who emigrated to the U.S, in 1976, was surrounded by his wife and two children at his home in Monte Carlo at the time of his death, according to his manager Linda Marks.

Along with his post in Monte Carlo, Kreizberg was chief conductor of the Netherlands Philharmonic and Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. He had led most of the world's great orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. He also held positions with the England's Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna Symphony and the Komische Opera in Berlin. 

The Monte Carlo Philharmonic's musicians and board posted a note on the orchestra's web site noting that Kreizberg "succeeded in establishing profound musical and human ties with the musicians. His stamp has been indelibly left on all who came into contact with him and especially the public through his memorable concerts." 

Kreizberg, like his brother, the conductor Semyon Bychkov, was born in St. Petersburg. He studied conducting privately before emigrating to the U.S, in 1976, where he landed fellowships at Tanglewood, studying with Leonard Bernstein, and at the Los Angeles Institute with Michael Tilson Thomas.  

Kreizberg won first prize at the 1986 Leopold Stokowski Conducting Competition in New York. He conducted his final concert, an all Russian program with the Netherlands Philharmonic, on Feb. 14, 2011.  

He made a number of critically praised recordings of music from Johann Strauss, Jr. and Mozart to Franz Schmidt and Dmitri Shostakovich on the Pentatone label. Copyright 2011 National Public Radio. To see more, visit npr.org. 

From March 16, 2011, By Thomas Huizenga

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If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more 
actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. 

~ Don Herold ~