Observations Over the Past Few Weeks

A Few Observations

Over the Past Few Weeks

I hope they give us two weeks notice before sending us back out into the real world. 

I think we'll all need the time to become ourselves again. 

And by "ourselves" I mean lose 10 pounds, cut our hair and get used to not drinking at 9:00 a.m.

New monthly budget:  

Gas............... $0.00

Entertainment  $0.00

Clothes...........  $0.00

Groceries......... $2,799

Breaking News:  

Wearing a mask inside your home is now highly recommended.  

Not so  much to stop COVID-19, but to stop eating.

Low maintenance chicks are having their moment right now.  

We don't have nails to file and paint, roots to dye, eyelashes to re-mink, and are thrilled not to have to get dressed every day.  

I have been training for this moment my entire life!

When this quarantine is over, let's not tell some people.

I stepped on my scale this morning.  It said: 

"Please practice social distancing. Only one person at a time on scale."

Not to brag, but I haven't been late to anything in over 6 weeks.

It may take a village to raise a child but I swear its going to take a vineyard to home school one.

I wanted zombies and anarchy.  

Instead we got working from home and toilet paper shortages. 
Worst Apocalypse. Ever.

You know those car commercials where there's only vehicle on the road 

- doesn't seem so unrealistic these days...

They can open things up next month, 

I'm staying in until July to see what happens to you all first.

Day 37:  

The garbage man placed an AA flyer on my recycling bin.

The spread of Covid-19 is based on two things:
1. How dense the population is.
2. How dense the population is.

Appropriate analogy: 

"The curve is flattening so we can start lifting restrictions now” 

 =  "The parachute has slowed our rate of descent, so we can take it off now".

People keep asking: 

"Is corona-virus REALLY all that serious?"  

Listen y'all, the churches and casinos are closed.  

When heaven and hell agree on the same thing it's probably pretty serious.

Never in a million years could I have imagined I would go up to a bank teller wearing a mask and ask for money.

Home school Day 1:  

I'm trying to figure out how I can get this kid transferred out of my class.

Okay, the schools are closed.  

So do we drop the kids off at the teacher's house or what?

Putting a drink in each room of my house today and calling it a pub crawl.
 
For the second part of this quarantine do we have to stay with the same family or will they relocate us?  

Asking for myself ...

Corona-virus has turned us all into dogs.  

We wander around the house looking for food.  

We get told "No" if we get too close to strangers and we get really excited about going for walks and car rides.

The dumbest thing I've ever bought was a 2020 planner...
 

I was in a long line at 7:45 am today at the grocery store that opened at 8:00 for seniors only.  A young man came from the parking lot and tried to cut in at the front of the line, but an old lady beat him back into the parking lot with her cane.

He returned and tried to cut in again but an old man punched him in the gut, then kicked him to the ground and rolled him away.

As he approached the line for the 3rd time he said, "If you don't let me unlock the door, you'll never get in there." 

 

Enjoy your day!

You don't have anything else to do.

NYC’s Statues of Women 🌷Decked out in Flowers

Fearless Girl & NYC’s Statues of Women

Are Decked out in Flowers

By Clayton Guse

There are more than 100 historical statues across New York City, but only five of them are of women. 

On Thursday, that painfully small group of public pieces (plus the iconic Fearless Girl) got an extra set of flair.

To commemorate International Women’s Day, Old Navy adorned the statues with robust floral installations. 

For just one day, passersby can snap photos with Gertrude Stein (Bryant Park) Joan of Arc (93rd St and Riverside Drive), Eleanor Roosevelt (72 Street and Riverside Drive), Harriet Tubman (122nd Street and Frederick Douglass Blvd), Golda Meir (Broadway and 39th Street) and the now-permanent Fearless Girl (8 Broadway at Trinity Place), all decked out with flowery arrangements. 

The brand also announced on Thursday that it will be donating $25,000 to the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Fund, which aims to create a monument to women’s suffrage in Central Park. Currently, all 23 of the historical statues in the park honor men, which is pretty baffling until you remember the long, terrible, oppressive history of the American patriarchy. 

Gawk at images of the decorated statues below, and continue celebrating International Women’s Day at events across town. 

Fearless Girl, 8 Broadway at Trinity Place

Joan of Arc, 93rd Street and Riverside Drive

Eleanor Roosevelt, 72nd Street and Riverside Drive

Harriet Tubman, 122nd Street and Frederick Douglas Blvd

Gertrude Stein, Bryant Park

Golda Meir, Broadway and 39th Street

 Photograph: Courtesy Old Navy

• Fearless Girl, 8 Broadway at Trinity Place
• Gertrude Stein, Bryant Park
• Golda Meir, Broadway and 39th Street
• Harriet Tubman, 122nd Street and Frederick Douglas Blvd
• Joan of Arc, 93rd Street and Riverside Drive
• Eleanor Roosevelt, 72nd Street and Riverside Drive

Bach 💃to the Barre 🕺 Staying Home

Bach to the Barre!

Staying Home with TSO musicians

& National Ballet of Canada dancers

Bach to the Barre! 
A charming and funny view of what #StayingHome looks like for dancers and musicians, created by long-time friends Timothy Dawson (TSO Double Bass) and Guillaume Côté & Heather Ogden, Principal Dancers at the National Ballet of Canada. 

Manhattan🗽 in Bloom 💐With Floral 🌼Pop-ups

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Manhattan in Bloom

With Floral Pop-ups All Over The City

Posted by newyorkrag on June 11, 2019

Today, LEAF – a city-wide festival of Flowers, with all the grit, energy and vitality New York has to offer – announced its launch in Manhattan in June 2020.

To celebrate the announcement, LEAF brings a riot of color across the city with #NYFlowerWeek, blooming on Tuesday, June 11 and Wednesday, June 12, 2019. Featuring a series of official pop-up floral installations against some of Manhattan’s most iconic statues and plazas, New Yorkers will be able to come together and enjoy the beauty of nature.

Renowned New York-based florist and creator of the Flower Flash ™, Lewis Miller of Lewis Miller Design, has designed the centerpiece installation for #NYFlowerWeek, adorning Rockefeller Center’s iconic ‘Atlas’ statue with an elaborate floral garland. New York-based floral designer Kelsea Olivia Gaynor of East Oliva, a female-led floral and creative styling agency, will curate two of the official installations featured across Manhattan.

“Today, the world of Floriculture is in full bloom. In a city with an abundance of great floral design and designers, I am so pleased to present LEAF, a city-wide festival of Flowers,” said Moira Breslin, Founder of LEAF. “An opportunity for all New Yorkers to come together and enjoy the beauty of nature.”

“The Flower Flash was born out of a need to give back and do good. I love bringing Nature into such a gritty, urban environment and surprising unknowing New Yorkers with a geyser of fresh cut flowers bursting out of a New York City litter bin. Seasons are vanishing. Nature’s bounty and unbridled beauty is a luxury that everyone should be able to appreciate and enjoy. I am thrilled to partner with LEAF to quite literally bring Manhattan to full bloom. My hope is to reach a larger audience with my Flower Flashes and produce a positive emotional response through flowers,” said Lewis Miller, renowned Florist of Lewis Miller Design and creator of the Flower Flash.

Participating partners and locations where New Yorkers can partake in official #NYFlowerWeek activity include:

• Plaza de Las Americas – 175th Street and Broadway – Designed by Cape Lily
• La Ligne – 996 Madison Avenue – In support of Lewis Miller Design and the launch of LEAF, La Ligne will be giving away Lewis Miller hand-tied baby bouquets with purchase – while supplies last! – and offering a limited edition, floral painted pochette. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to The Central Park Conservancy. One night only: Tuesday, June 11 from 4-7PM.
• Atlas at Rockefeller Center – 630 Fifth Avenue – Designed by Lewis Miller, Lewis Miller Design
• The Flatiron Plaza – Intersection of 23rd Street, Fifth Avenue, and Broadway – Designed by East Olivia
• FlowerSchool New York – 213 West 14th Street – Designed by Calvert Crary, Executive Director of FlowerSchool New York
• Alamo at Astor Place – 149-179 East 8th Street – Designed by Lewis Miller, Lewis Miller Design
• Aesop Nolita – 232 Elizabeth Street – Designed by Aesop Nolita
• ‘Crosby the Cat’ Botero Sculpture at Crosby Street Hotel – 79 Crosby Street – Designed by Lewis Miller, Lewis Miller Design
• Crosby Street Hotel x Lewis Miller Design Afternoon Tea – 79 Crosby Street – A collection of floral-inspired pastries celebrating the launch of LEAF, a festival of flowers coming to New York in June 2020.
• Joe’s Jeans – 83 Mercer Street – Designed by B Floral: Design and Production
• LEAF will be held in Manhattan in June 2020 and feature a series of ticketed programs to include floral arranging workshops, pop up gardens and installations, epicurean experiences and more. For more information, please visit www.leafflowershow.com or follow along on Instagram at @leafflowershow #leafflowerfestival.

Lewis Miller
Here's How The Florist 

Behind New York's Flower Flash

Built His Business

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Growing up, Lewis Miller loved the way flowers brought a room to life. After working at a private golf course pulling weeds, Miller pursued his love of floristry first locally, then by moving to New York City to start his own company, Lewis Miller Design. In this installment of Forbes' Here's How, Miller describes his journey as an entrepreneur, and how he created the iconic Flower Flash.

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This Florist Secretly

Plants Flower Arrangements Around NYC

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A flower designer for the rich sneaks around New York City before sunrise, masking the smell of trash with the sweet scent of flower bouquets– recycled from exclusive events for the wealthy and repurposed for the masse to enjoy– in what he calls a "flower flash."

VICE News follows Lewis of Lewis Miller Design, on his biggest flower flash yet, in Harlem.

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Forbes visits NYC's Flower District

To get a peek inside the World of Wholesale Flowers

Through NYC-based Floral Design Firm, Ovando

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 The Power of Flowers

Lewis Miller 🌹 TEDx 🌹Charlottesville

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Flowers are this planet’s greatest showmen. Floral designer, Lewis Miller shares with us their universal appeal and recounts his personal connection to these ephemeral stunners and how he got the nickname The Banksy of Floral Design. Born and raised in California farm country, Lewis Miller developed a respect for nature at a very young age. When he was 18 years old, he moved to Seattle where he studied horticulture and landscape design. After seven years of successfully pursuing his interest in design, flowers and event planning, Lewis moved to New York City in 2000 where he worked for one of the city’s top floral boutiques.

In March 2002, Lewis launched his own company: LMD New York, Lewis Miller Design. It quickly became one of the premiere floral design houses in New York City. Miller's clients include the world's leading industry professionals in fashion, design, photography, art direction and architecture. Clients include Bulgari, Carolina Herrera, Richard Meier, Mayor Bloomberg, and JP Morgan Chase, just to name a few.  With over a decade of experience, LMD has grown into one of the most sought after and well-respected multi-event production houses in the world. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.

• Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
• Manhattan in Bloom With Floral Pop-ups All Over The City  https://newyorkrag.com/2019/06/11/manhattan-in-bloom-with-floral-pop-ups-all-over-the-city
• https://lewismillerdesign.com/flower-flash

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FLOWER FLASH MOB

NYC

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We flower bombed Union Square.

We gave out roses - for no reason.

We shared fleeting connections - a practice in love without attachment.

And put a wheel of love in motion. ❤️

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Ray Charles 🎷Hit the Road Jack ♫ Et al

Ray Charles

Hit The Road Jack

Ray Charles -Hit The Road Jack (classicos70a90s) from Luis Neto on Vimeo.

Writer: Percy Mayfield

Producer: Sid Feller

Released: Sept. '61, ABC-Paramount  - No. 1 - 11 weeks;

Hit the Road Jack" is a song written by the rhythm and blues artist Percy Mayfield and first recorded in 1960 as an a cappella demo sent to Art Rupe. It became famous after it was recorded by the singer-songwriter-pianist Ray Charles with The Raelettes vocalist Margie Hendrix.

Charles's recording hit number one for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, beginning on Monday, October 9, 1961. "Hit the Road Jack" won a Grammy award for Best Rhythm and Blues Recording. The song was number one on the R&B Sides chart for five weeks, thereby becoming Charles's sixth number-one on that chart. The song is ranked number 387 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".

Charles asked Mayfield, a one-time R&B hitmaker whose performing career was curtailed by a car accident in 1952, if he had any songs for Charles to record. 

Mayfield offered up "Hit the Road Jack." 

The snarling female vocal was provided by Margie Hendricks of the Raelettes. 

Hendricks' affair with Charles produced a son in 1959; Charles fired her from the Raelettes in 1964.

♫ Hit the Road Jack  ♫ Ray Charles, Ray ♫

[Intro]
[Chorus]
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back No more no more no more no more
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back  No more
What'd you say?
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back  No more no more no more no more
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back   No more
[Verse 1]
Old woman old woman, oh you treat me so mean You're the meanest old woman that I've ever seen
I guess if you say so  I'll have to pack my things and go (that's right)
[Chorus]
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back   No more no more no more no more
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back   No more
What'd you say?
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back   No more no more no more no more
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back  No more
[Verse 2]
Now baby, listen baby, don't you treat me this way  Cause I'll be back on my feet some day
Don't care if you do, cause it's understood   You ain't got no money, you just a no good
Well I guess if you say so  I'll have to pack my things and go (that's right)
[Chorus]
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back  No more no more no more no more
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back   No more
What'd you say?
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back  No more no more no more no more
Hit the road Jack and don't cha come back   No more
[Outro]
Well, (don'cha come back no more)
Uh, what'd you say? (don'cha come back no more)
I didn't understand you (don'cha come back no more)
You can't mean that (don'cha come back no more)
Oh, now baby please (don'cha come back no more)
What you're trying to do to me (don'cha come back no more)

Throttle
🎷 Hit The Road Jack 🎷

Throttle does it again, spreading some sweet disco vibes on this classic sample! The young Australian producer quickly created his own distinctive sound, which contains danceable beats with a flavor of disco.

Hit The Road Jack is destined to groove up the crowds with its joyous saxophone🎷 delicious piano chords and soulful vocals. Great tune! 

Like this track? 

Download on Beatport or add it to your favorite Spotify / Apple Music playlist by clicking HERE: https://throttle.lnk.to/HitTheRoadJack!YT

♫ Wolfgang Lohr & Maskarade ♫  
Hit the Road Jack
Electro Swing Remix

Stream & Download: https://bit.ly/WL-HitTheRoadJack

 Hit the Road Jack

Cover ~Lyrics~

Sweet Sisters

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♫ Hit the road Jack  ♫ 

Rosie , Frenchy and Shirley Sweet are walking in the footsteps of the legendary Andrews Sisters, bringing back the swing with a modern groove.
Of course, we respect Ray Charles and his great version of this song!

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https://paulcpw.blogspot.com/2017/08/sweet-sisters-hit-road-jack.html

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Ray Charles

Hit the Road Jack

~Lyrics~