tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post7400666322182244828..comments2024-03-28T03:19:00.918-04:00Comments on The Butler and Bagman Chronicles: My Grandfather -- Part 2 of 4Bagman and Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06760203276065466927noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-74798533341327875592009-12-03T05:59:18.477-04:002009-12-03T05:59:18.477-04:00Agree with Barry. And all of the above. What else ...Agree with Barry. And all of the above. What else can I say except that can not wait for the next chapter.Si's bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10175544032803867701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-30104436923762550452009-12-02T22:02:21.148-04:002009-12-02T22:02:21.148-04:00Mark I'm speechless. This is truly and excepti...Mark I'm speechless. This is truly and exceptional post about an exceptional man. I'm very impressed.Barryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13824632356834631279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-15006476153134167712009-12-02T17:30:53.937-04:002009-12-02T17:30:53.937-04:00What an amazing man.....and I love you too :)What an amazing man.....and I love you too :)Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00816138640432897870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-51754350459190637642009-12-02T15:15:49.730-04:002009-12-02T15:15:49.730-04:00Your Grandee was also a great philosopher, by just...Your Grandee was also a great philosopher, by just living his life he was able to impart that not only to you, but to all of us as well - thank-you for sharing him with us!J9https://www.blogger.com/profile/03910637383968387023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-37676839972348465412009-12-02T13:12:57.183-04:002009-12-02T13:12:57.183-04:00What an amazing and inspiring many your grandfathe...What an amazing and inspiring many your grandfather was! How wonderful that you were able to know him so well and to remember him so well! That is indeed a wonderful legacy!<br /><br />Thanks for sharing your memories with us!<br /><br />SylviaSylvia Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05484577678585907669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-11307426009360342332009-12-02T12:34:59.085-04:002009-12-02T12:34:59.085-04:00You're a lucky man to have known your grandfat...You're a lucky man to have known your grandfather and to remember him so well. What a legacy!Rosaria Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133147851332084180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-33205226642521132432009-12-02T10:54:29.271-04:002009-12-02T10:54:29.271-04:00Good morning B&B,
Reading about your Grandfat...Good morning B&B,<br /><br />Reading about your Grandfather is both inspiring and encouraging. I've said that, "<b>investing one's life in another is a good gift</b>"; <i>your Grandfather exemplifies that.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://underovr.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">U</a>underOvr (aka The U)https://www.blogger.com/profile/09241293702725984736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-82606687269371607642009-12-02T10:25:12.392-04:002009-12-02T10:25:12.392-04:00There are so many clues here to tell me how much G...There are so many clues here to tell me how much Grandee valued learning and made certain you valued learning too. Every child should be raised with such values.... "you can be passionately interested in anything you choose" (complete with demonstrations). I was trying to decide if you kept a picture of your Grandee's sketchbook or you have (amazingly) actually kept the sketchbook.=D I love the sketch... his work is so similar to Sargeant's. Tree trunks are not brown nor skies blue. The more blended colors you add, the more harmonious the over all composition. Your Grandee used the rules for color composition as a metaphor for life. It is wonderful that you not only had the gift of Grandee's brilliance, but also the gift that your own grey matter was well enough developed to incorporate his brilliance into your own thinking, Mark. You are a well blended composition! All these gems of creative thought passed on through generations.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03241402645242821612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-58863491542297005852009-12-02T09:45:19.626-04:002009-12-02T09:45:19.626-04:00The first paragraph in Ruth's comment has dist...The first paragraph in Ruth's comment has distracted me for a moment - so beautifully expressed!!<br /><br />Your Grandee was an incredibly wise man - way ahead of his time. What a precious legacy you carry from him.<br /><br />It was a tragedy to lose your mother at such an early age, but what a gift to be raised by such a free thinker.Bonnie Zieman, M.Ed.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00282469017360136275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-34130053550923257052009-12-02T08:34:23.450-04:002009-12-02T08:34:23.450-04:00I think your Grandee is God. If I were religious, ...I think your Grandee is God. If I were religious, I would start a religion of Grandee-anity. I think I just received Enlightenment. <br /><br />The photos are so precious.<br /><br />This one: “There is life after death but it is not what you think or like anything you could imagine, so don’t try. But it’s nothing to fear.”<br /><br /> . . . reminded me of this I read this morning:<br /><br />Fernando Pessoa, A Shrug of the Shoulders <br /><br /><i>We generally give to our ideas about the unknown the color of our notions about what we do know: If we call death a sleep it's because it has the appearance of sleep; if we call death a new life, it's because it seems different from life. We build our beliefs and hopes out of these small misunderstandings with reality and live off husks of bread we call cakes, the way poor children play at being happy.<br /><br />But that's how all life is; at least that's how the particular way of life generally known as civilization is. Civilization consists in giving an inappropriate name to something and then dreaming what results from that. And in fact the false name and the true dream do create a new reality. The object really does become other, because we have made it so. We manufacture realities. We use the raw materials we always used but the form lent it by art effectively prevents it from remaining the same. A table made out of pinewood is a pinetree but it is also a table. We sit down at the table not at the pinetree. ...</i><br /><br />An excerpt from "The Book of Disquiet," written in the 1920's, first published in 1982 by Atica in Lisbon.Ruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14204074161539605133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-29384652877154166102009-12-02T08:02:45.799-04:002009-12-02T08:02:45.799-04:00I'm definitely getting to like your grandfathe...I'm definitely getting to like your grandfather.<br /><br />And I especially like that he knew that where American words/spellings come from is Noah Webster's imagination ;)Rachel Cotterillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08969719330048416996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-10910913733926004252009-12-02T07:46:28.565-04:002009-12-02T07:46:28.565-04:00outstanding post! thanks for sharing Grandee'...outstanding post! thanks for sharing Grandee's wisdom with the rest of us.<br />~AMAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10433907044785046226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-63252390037736782152009-12-02T07:41:41.499-04:002009-12-02T07:41:41.499-04:00truisms,
"Sometimes the greatest thing you c...truisms, <br />"Sometimes the greatest thing you can give someone is to let them give you something." <br />I always thought that true friends are the ones that call you when in need - as well as are there for you when you need.... almost impossible to find this level of friend. A secret.... Camillo gives, what he thinks I need, sometimes what is needed. but never lets me give.... this leaves me with a sense of being helpless or needy.... for 3 days he is limping... when I say what is going on it is bravely - nothing...<br />on to the next....GingerVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16501023251788210094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-945783876327380823.post-91587940596327671902009-12-02T07:30:03.828-04:002009-12-02T07:30:03.828-04:00This is wonderful. I wish I could have known him....This is wonderful. I wish I could have known him. He raised you with such rich wisdom. All children should have a 'parent' like this to guide them. It is also to your credit that you remember all the wise things he told you.Taborhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257045780724471840noreply@blogger.com