Garden Of Your Mind

The Everything and Nothing Meme - Her majesty, the doyen of Bloggingham is once more asking intrusive questions.  To provide your answers, please visit her at the castle, swim the moat, thrust a battering ram against the gates, and try to avoid time out in the dungeon.

1. I would like to know: Is it possible to do everything and nothing at the same time?  

It's right up there with one hand clapping - Very very Zen


2. If the definition of everything is all that exists, then which piece of all does not exist for you? - 

Actually I try to avoid reality as much as possible so everything is nothing ... back to very very zen.


3. Oscar Wilde said, "I can resist everything except temptation." What is your irresistible temptation? - 

Bread pudding with brandy sauce and the zone I enter into when eating it - very very zen


4. Good scholars are always those people who question everything. What is the one thing you will never question? - 

Why I am me - Didn't have anything to do with it and prefer not to question being very very zen


5. Nothingness is the state of being nothing. If you could live in a nothing state, what state would that be? 

Probably New York City close to Urban Zen


6. When is the last time you had a fantastic conversation with someone and said nothing at all? 

Last night while talking to myself - it was definitely very very zen.

7. Albert Einstein wrote, "There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle."  Which philosophy do you prefer? - 

Everything is definitely a miracle and very very zen.

A Great Party

A Dress Remembered

I am not a fashionista by any stretch of anyone's imagination.  Still there have been outfits fondly remembered if only because they were associated with family or emotional events in my life.  One of the dresses with the greatest impact gets echoed today:  A Coronation and A Jubilee.  It was loosely based on the Beefeater costume and purchased for one simple purpose:  To wear the day Elizabeth was crowned a queen.

To this day I remember it.  Black and red on top with tiny crowns in silver decorative buttons down the front and grey and white flared skirt on the bottom.  Who bought it:  My Scotland born father.  Who saw that I wore it:  My opinionated aunt.  Where was it worn:  Two places June 2, 1953 the day of the coronation and July 1953 to watch the film of that coronation in a tiny backwater theater in Chowchilla, CA.  (You can see a remastered copy of that film by clicking on the link.)

Just in case I ever do meet her majesty, I do know how to do a full court curtsy though that is frowned upon these days and I might never get up again.  Today, we begin the celebrations for a great queen who has been on the throne for 60 years - a feat only echoed by Victoria.  Great Britain has always been fortunate with her queens.  You would think by now they would just stick with the ladies rather than wasting history on the men.

As a resulting hopeless anglophile who not only follows British and family icons, TV, movies, and former possessions such as Australia and Zimbabwe where my Scottish ancestors wandered, I shall be glued to BBC America, Hello Mag and every other British site I can find throughout the weekend, for a great day to celebrate a great woman.

So there you have it.  Sixty years later.  I remember a dress and I remember the woman who was the reason I remember it.  We have both survived and for the most part done well.  I hope her majesty has a wonderful day.