“Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.â€
—Casey Stengel, The Official Web Site of Casey Stengel
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“We yearn to love our choices, and our lives, with whole hearts. But to do so is to lie to ourselves about ourselves, to close our eyes and cover our ears like children to the profundity of what we have given up. We cannot have everything. It does not diminish the life one has to face the truth about it. It enlarges it to see it for what it is, to know what it has cost, and to love it anyway.â€
—Will Wilkinson, “Bundles of Oy,†http://www.willwilkinson.net, 7/13/2008
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A recent story on National Public Radio told the story of the kabuki festival of Damine, Japan. For over three centuries this small mountain village has had an unbroken yearly tradition of having their children perform to please the mountain gods.
“Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, the mountain village was jeopardized when someone accidentally chopped down one of the shogun’s trees,” says Hina Takeshita, the 12-year-old star of the closing kabuki play [of the festival].
As news spread that the shogun, a feudal commander, was coming to investigate, the villagers prayed to the gods. They promised to perform kabuki every year if the goddess of mercy could make it snow. A rare June blizzard arrived, thwarting the visit by the shogun’s samurai and saving the village from punishment.
“So we’ve been playing kabuki ever since then,” Hina says.
You can read more about Damine’s festival in this article from National Public Radio. It’s mostly about the growing hardship of staging the festival as the village population shrinks because so many people have migrated to the cities. There are only 10 children left between the ages of 6 and 12.
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.â€
—George Orwell, 1984
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“[The way I work] is like driving a car at night: you never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.â€
—E. L. Doctorow, The Paris Review, Winter 1986, No. 101
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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.
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