Goodbye Tony

Tony Curtis, Hollywood Leading Man, Dies at 85, The New York Times, HERE.
Clip from his best film, "Some Like It Hot"...

More on moviefone, Tony Curtis Dead at 85: Remembering His Best Movies, HERE.

I Wait

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I Wait

I wait. You are gone, yet you are yet in my heart and I love you. 

I wait for that time that you return for a forgotten hair from the barren floor having fled to the next station on the rail of life.  Oh, it isn’t that far from here.  I wait, that that train may return not reaching its destination.  I wait, its tracks disappear upon the horizon, its crossings a step in time upon a journey into nowhere. 

I wait, there is no schedule, there is no wail of the distant locomotive.  I wait, it shrieks in my mind even from afar, yet so close it shatters the lifeless mementos, now so cherished, left to torment a hope that is dead. 

 I wait, haplessly hoping fortune smiles upon you and still I wait.  I wait.  Do not return, bruised and broken, crying once again upon my bloodied shoulder, crying once again the words you cried before...

 “I just want to be loved!” 

Do you feel it, did you feel it?  Does the silent love of one abandoned for another reach the soul of the unforgotten?  Unknown to know, there is no light or sound upon the rail, there is but the rail itself as I listen for a single sound pressing my ear upon the  ground. 

I wait.

~ Donald L. Brooks

  

Beach Bubbles

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White Knuckles

Full Moon and Jupiter

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Full Moon and Jupiter, September 23, 2010 photograph by Donald L. Brooks

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When You Wish Upon a Star

Writer: Leigh Harline; Lyrics: Ned Washington

When you wish upon a star

Makes no difference who you are

Anything your heart desires

Will come to you

If your heart is in your dream

No request is too extreme

When you wish upon a star

As dreamers do

Fate is kind

She brings to those who love

The sweet fulfillment of

Their secret longing

Like a bolt out of the blue

Fate steps in and sees you through

When you wish upon a star

Your dreams come true

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Harvest Moon

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The Full Moon-Lick Observatory

The Harvest Moon is the full moon that occurs nearest to the autumnal equinox.  The equinox took place at 11:09 pm yesterday, and the moon will be officially full at this Thursday morning at 5:17am -- this is about as close as you can get! The name "harvest moon" comes from the days before we had electricity. Farmers used the bright light of the full moon around the equinox to continue harvesting their crops.

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