Friend, our closeness is this:
anywhere you put your foot, feel me
in the firmness under you.

How is it with this love,
I see your world and not you?

From: Rumi ‘The Essential Rumi’ Barks/Moyne

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Austria is in quite a tizzy over their favorite son’s 250th birthday.

Franz Joseph Haydn was reported to have said to Mozart senior:

Before God, and as an honest man I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me, either in person or by name. He has taste and, what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition.

Schuman said of Mozart that “[t]here are things in the world about which nothing can be said, as Mozart’s C Major Symphony (No. 41), much of Shakespeare and pages of Beethoven.” Tchaikovsky called him the “music Christ.”

In his all too brief lifetime, Mozart wrote at least 41 symphonies, 26 string quartets, 10 instrumental quintets, 17 piano sonatas, 42 violin sonatas, 27 piano concertos, 40 divertimenti and serenades, 19 masses, 42 arias, and many songs.

Here is but a sample:
Lodron, Concerto No. 7 in F Major, K252 — Rondo, Tempo de Menuetto [6MB mp3]

SOURCE: Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers of All Times and Their 1,000 Greatest Works (Ballentine Books, 1992), ISBN-0-449-90356-7.

From my e-mail inbox:

A man wanted to get married. He was having trouble choosing among three likely candidates. He gives each woman a present of $5,000 and watches to see what they do with the money.

The first woman does a total makeover. She goes to a fancy beauty salon and gets her hair and makeup done, buys several new outfits and dresses up very nicely for the man. She tells him that she has done this to be more attractive for him because she loves him so much.

The man was impressed.

The second woman goes shopping to buy the man gifts. She gets him a new set of golf clubs, some new gizmos for his computer, and some expensive clothes. As she presents these gifts, she tells him that she has spent all the money on him because she loves him so much.

Again, the man is impressed.

The third woman invests the money in the stock market. She earns several times the $5,000. She gives him back his $5,000 and reinvests the remainder in a joint account. She tells him that she wants to save for their future because she loves him so much.

Obviously, the man was impressed.

The man thought for a long time about what each woman had done with the money he’d given her.

Then, he married the one with the biggest boobs.

Men are like that, you know.