Diva series: Easter Parade or love in action

In celebration of the day. La Garland and Mr. Astaire:




Apparently the tradition continues. Who knew?

Andy's planning to have some kind of spinach-stuffed matzo for our Christmas dinner. I didn't get a toddle in yesterday, so I'd better head out there soon before it gets too hot. Near 60F forecast for later today.

I also wanted to point you to today's On Being episode, an interview with John Lewis, a civil rights pioneer & now House of Representatives member. The episode is called "On the art and discipline of non-violence".

Here's an excerpt:

"I wanted to believe, and I did believe, that things would get better. But later I discovered, I guess, that you have to have this sense of faith that what you're moving toward is already done. It's already happened. . .

It's the power to believe that you can see, that you visualize, that sense of community, that sense of family, that sense of one house. . .

And you live that you're already there, that you're already in that community, part of that sense of one family, one house. If you visualize it, if you can even have faith that it's there, for you it is already there. . .

First of all, you have to grow. It's just not something that is natural. You have to be taught the way of peace, the way of love, the way of nonviolence. And in the religious sense, in the moral sense, you can say in the bosom of every human being, there is a spark of the divine. . .

I think all of us in life, not just in the Western world, but all over the world, we need to come to that point. We need to evolve to that plane, to that level where we're not ashamed to say to someone, "I love you, I'm sorry, Pardon me, Will you please forgive me? Excuse me." What is it? Have we lost something? Can we be just human and say I love you? I think so — so many occasions we think of love as being romantic and all of that, but just love because it's good in itself, just love living creatures."