This is the order of what I found on my facebook first thing this morning:
[a link] OregonLive : FBI thwarts terrorist bombing attempt at Portland holiday tree lighting, authorities say...
[a friend's comment...] What a wonderful world. So blessed, give thanks!
To go with a link to Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole singing Somewhere over the Rainbow*
[another friend's status update] "So shines a good deed in a weary world."
That last is Willy Wonka, after Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act 5, Scene I, and the complete Shakespeare quote is:
Portia:
"That light we see is burning in my hall.
How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
Naughty being apparently a biblical reference--Philippians 2:15: "That ye may be blameless, and pure, & the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middes of a naughtie and crooked nation, among whome ye shine as lights in the worlde." (the Bible in the article is stated as 1570 Genevan.)
In the context of the three random things my three different friends chose to post, I like "weary."
*[i don't watch tv so the kamakawiwoʻole song hasn't been ruined for me by being used on shows and commercials.]
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The poetry of trying to balance such juxtapositions! Weary, indeed, but it seems that the act of identifying and sharing the feelings such images generate can give energy. The power of words! Thanks.
ReplyDeleteyou are so right, shirley! nicely put. :)
ReplyDeleteI also loved the journey from the bombing attempt to the Kamakawikawiwo'le song..(how the hell did you spell that??)
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