1. At noon today, Debbie and I attended the Celebration of Life for Dawn Arnhold McLees. The service paid tribute to Dawn's life of faith, love, laughter, creativity, travel, enjoyment, and more. Many of Dawn's friends, including a contingent from the KHS Class of 1973, and members of hers and her husband's family were in attendance to listen to stories, reflections, and music and to see a wide variety of images of Dawn's life displayed in three different videos/slide shows.
Christy composed and clearly and confidently read a "Where I'm From" poem that perfectly and cogently, with vivid specificity, captured the depth and breadth of Dawn's life.
It was perfect.
2. If you work NYTimes crossword puzzles day to day through the week, you know that the Thursday puzzle always is a themed puzzle and often features something unusual. It's never a straight ahead conventional puzzle.
Over the last several years, I've come to dread the Thursday puzzle.
I've groaned at some of them, feeling they were more gimmicky than witty.
But yesterday and today, I decided to make a genuine effort to make peace with the Thursday puzzles.
I went back in the archives and found several Thursday puzzles I hadn't tried to solve yet and focused time and effort and a change in attitude on them.
These Thursday puzzles (I think) always feature one clue, often near the bottom of the Across list of clues, that, once solved, reveals in some direct or indirect way what the theme and often the trick of the puzzle is.
So in these unsolved puzzles, I've been starting the puzzle solving process by going straight to this clue that, once solved, gives the puzzle solver some idea of what the deal is with this puzzle.
It's helping.
My attitude is improving!
3. From time to time, in talking about things and the need to see the big picture, Debbie and I quote Hal Holbrook as Deep Throat in All the President's Men when he admonishes Bob Woodward with the famous line: "You're missing the overall."
Tonight we decided enough with quoting the movie.
Let's watch the last part of it.
We had watched most of it a few months back and tonight we resumed where we'd left off before and, sure enough, we got to watch Woodward and Deep Throat have what the movie presented as their last conversation and confrontation with each other.
We nearly cheered when Deep Throat told Woodward, "You're missing the overall."
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