Dreams And Imagination

     

Tucson Weather Today

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While contemplating the subject of idle dreamers (wool-gatherers) and their possibly close relationship with active imaginations, I found myself composing the following sentence which could someday become an aphorism of sorts.

"Dreams are but remnants of daytime's active imaginings."


The Lord and Lady of the manor are home now and I will be heading back into Tucson a little later this morning. Back to the ol' routine.

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Did You Know . . .?

A 1997 comedy movie titled Trojan Wars made only $309 in ticket sales. Its total production cost was 15 million dollars.

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On this day in 44 B.C. Julius Caesar, the "dictator for life" of the Roman Empire, was murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall next to Pompey's Theatre. The conspiracy against Caesar encompassed as many as sixty noblemen, including Caesar's own protege, Marcus Brutus.

Servilius Casca struck the first blow, hitting Caesar in the neck and drawing blood. The other senators all joined in, stabbing him repeatedly about the head. Marcus Brutus wounded Caesar in the groin and Caesar is said to have remarked in Greek, "You, too, my child?"

Two years later Cassius and Brutus committed suicide.

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WORD FOR TODAY

pileated
adjective
1.  Botany: Having a pileus.
2.  Having a crest covering the pileum. Used of a bird.

pileated - Etymologically means "capped," like a mushroom, but now refers to a bird with a crest on the top of the head from the bill to the nape.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Andrew Jackson

(Mar 15, 1767 - June 8, 1845)

Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States (1829–1837). Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend (1814), and the British at the Battle of New Orleans (1815).

Kimberly Jayne "Kim" Raver

(born March 15, 1969)

Kim Raver is an American actress. She is best known for television roles as Kim Zambrano on Third Watch, Audrey Raines on 24 and Teddy Altman on Grey's Anatomy.

Judd Hirsch

(born March 15, 1935)

Judd Hirsch is an American actor known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi, John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John, and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs. He is also well known for his roles in films such as Independence Day (1996), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Ordinary People (1980).

Caitlin Elizabeth Wachs

pronounced wax; 

(born March 15, 1989)

Caitlin Wachs is an American actress who has acted in several films and TV series. She appeared alongside Ally Walker and Robert Davi in Profiler, and played the president's daughter, Rebecca Calloway, on the series Commander in Chief.

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"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
--Albert Einstein

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