Back to School During the US Open = Awful

(More back to school comics at Our Classroom Blog)

The US Open at Flushing Meadows and school starting the same week. Not very fair for me, not very fair at all… Just when I wanted to spend the whole week watching tennis on TV and go over there to Queens a couple times to follow my fellow Argentine players (Go Del Potro!) and maybe my fave for the women - Kim Clijsters, I’m called to that first week of post-summer work. For my last day of freedom today I’ll watch tennis all day long and visit my favorite blogs…

My US Open Expert Predictions

Men’s Final :

Federer beats Del Potro (picture) in 4 sets.

Women’s Final

Safina beats Venus Williams in 2 sets.

Upsets – Nadal and Serena are losing before the Quarterfinals… Bold, very bold.

Love Mid-20th Century Style - September 1940

As I continue my Summer project of cataloguing the beautiful love and family of my grandparents, I came upon this new letter from my grandfather Antonio to my grandma that I wanted to share, and her telegram response. In 1940, a few years before Harvard and their first visit to the US they would have been in their late teens/early twenties.

Antonio Gomariz, September 2^nd, 1940

“Debo tenerte pronto”

No puedo vivir sin ti.

Mi Corazon esta triste cuando tu estas lejos.

Te amo.

Mi Corazon late furiosamente cuando te ve y es incapaz de mover la sangre de mis venas cuando estas lejos de el.

La unica cosa que me agrada aparte de ti es recordarte!

“I must have you soon”

I cannot live without you.

My heart is sad when you’re far.

I love you.

My heart beats furiously when it sees you and is unable to even move the blood within my veins when you’re far from it.

The only thing I love aside from you is remembering you!

________________________

Ethel Barres, September 6^th, 1940 (Via Telegram)

Mi alma:

Recordandote paso deliciosas horas.

Pues horas y horas es lo que estas conmigo

Te adoro negro mio entranablemente; con alma y razon.

Tu amor es lo mas preciado y precioso de mi vida interior.

Recordarte es para mi dulzura y dicha.

My soul:

I spend delicious hours remembering you,

Hours upon hours you are with me here,

I adore you my endearing, enduring love: with soul and reason

Your love is that most precious and prized within me.

Remembering you is sweetness and sanity.

Remembering Ted Kennedy Part II

Anonymous Response to 'Remembering Ted Kennedy' Post,

"There was another side to the late senator. You have covered his commendable efforts in the Senate. Let us not forget that he was suspended from Harvard for two years for cheating, was directly responsible for the death of one beautiful young woman, and lived the wild frat boy life in DC while married to Joan.

To many of us Irish Americans he fit the drunken Irish Rover stereotype for far too long. Also, his enthusiastic embrace of abortion - which he saw as Liberal dogma - was and is perhaps the greatest betrayal of his Catholic faith one could imagine (and this is beyond the Harvard, Chappaquiddick, and late-night party boy incidents),
On balance, those of us who are familiar with the Kennedy's place him fourth of the family male quartet...well behind Joe Jr (the best), Jack, and Bobby. And of course, his life pales as compared to Eunice.

So, remember the good work of the late dissipated senator but remember the bad deeds as well. We could have had more good if he could have restrained himself from the bad."

The New York Times yesterday, did an excellent job balancing Kennedy's obit between the 'good' and the 'bad' but I feel that highlighting the negative immediately after a public figure passes is almost more self-serving and sensationalistic than fair and balanced. I do agree though that this comment makes some excellent points other than the comparison to his brothers that I feel is unfair to begin with, and debatable beyond.

Thanks for the comment and balance!