The third act opens . . .

It's Tew's day . . .

Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. – Ansel Adams

Joyce Vance quickly posted re: Harris/Biden and coming events on her blog Civil Discourse.

Joe Biden has demonstrated what it means to put the country first. – Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from an American.

Alison Krauss turns 53 today. The bluegrass/country/pop aficianado was born on this day in 1971 Champaign, Illinois. She and Robert Plant are on tour together this year.

“(You say it best) When you say nothing at all.” – Alison Kraus (without her violin).

Today is the birth date of Raymond Chandler, born in 1888 Chicago. The patron saint of Los Angeles noir and perhaps the most famous crime fiction writer of all time, Chandler was the author of The Big Sleep and creator of the hard-boiled detective Philip Marlow.

· The French have a phrase for it, and they are always right. To say goodbye is to die a little.

· Guns never settle anything. They are just a fast curtain to a bad second act.

· Until you guys own your own souls you don’t own mine.

– Raymond Chandler (as Philip Marlow)