Key West Lou / PRICE OF BANANAS DROP…..WOULD YOU BELIEVE?

I started my morning with the neurophysiotherapy. What a session! Grueling, but good! Good in what I hope it will do for me.

Then to Publix to pick up a few things. I was shocked! The price of something had dropped!

Bananas!

You may think no big deal. I eat one or two a day. So I buy weekly. The price has been a steady $.71 a pound for at least a year. Every week I wait for the price to go up as everything else has. This morning was a shock. The price of one pound of bananas had dropped 10 cents. Now $.61 a pound.

I bought a couple of extra bananas.

My intent this morning was to mention that the price of Campbell soups have shot up dramatically in one year. I drink a lot of soup. What was less then one dollar a can about a year ago, is now $2 plus. Comparing that increase to the banana decrease, the banana decrease should have dropped to $.35 a pound.

A special TV show this evening. Not to be missed. PBS is running a two hour show beginning at 8 pm titled “Leonardo da Vinci.”

God has been good to me in many respects. I have twice viewed da Vinci’s The Last Supper. In Milan at the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Actually, the basement of what was originally a Catholic Church. High ceilings.

Da Vinci painted perhaps his greatest work on a stone wall. The painting process referred to as tempera. The painting is massive: 15 feet x 29 feet.

When The Last Supper is viewed, a lecture accompanies it. So interesting! There is a shade near the Apostle John. Is it Mary Magdalene? She appears to be holding what might be described in the shadow a child. Is it the child of Jesus and Mary? Were they married?

I do not know if these items will be covered on the PBS show. They were covered in the lectures. If so, You are in for a ride!

This is artists’ day.

One of the world’s greatest modern sculpturers died November 17, 1917 at the age of 77. Auguste Rodin.

His “great works” include “The Thinker,” “The Kiss,” and “The Gates of Hell.” I was fortunate to view each more than one time while on loan exhibit from a Paris museum to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

“The Thinker” and “The Kiss” moving. Each in its own sense exotic. The best from my perspective was “The Gates of Hell.” Tiny humans fighting to escape Hell. Pain and suffering distinct in every face. Emotional to view!

I remained in yesterday. Concerned about my back. Laid around doing nothing.

Today may be the same. I did my physio, shopping and some banking. A lot for me in a short period of time. Will probably remain in the rest of the day.

The Titanic continues to hold fascination.

An auction was held this week re the gold pocket watch given to the ship captain who rescued 700 survivors from the Titanic. The watch sold at auction for nearly $2 million. The watch an 18 carat Tiffany one.

It was given by three survivors. One Mrs. John Jacob Astor. Two other wealthy woman joined her in making the gift. All three had been saved by Captain Robert Rostron of the passenger ship Carpathia which hurried to the sinking Titanic scene. It was dark and cold. The Titanic had already sunk. The 700 survivors were huddled in less than adequate clothes in life boats. They would have frozen to death had Captain Rostron not changed course and hurried to them.

Remember “Tom Dooley?” Great music with a great lyric.

In November 1958, the Kingston Trio’s “Tom Dooley” hit #1 on the Billboard pop chart. I recall their singing the song well. I was in my first year of law school at the time.

An example of insanity. Pure and simple.

The 918 people who died in a mass murder suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, this day in 1978. The group was led in their deaths by the cult group Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones. They drank the drink. They drank a poison laced punch. A third who perished were children.

Sick!

This one bothers me. I listen to Morning Joe every morning. I start with the 5 am portion which introduces them at 6. This morning Joe and Mika, with broad smiles, announced they had met friday with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago. They kissed the ring!

Mika said it had been 7 years since they had talked. They both indicated it was time to “bury the hatchet” and “restart communications.”

Actually, they began the process of covering their asses. They have been anti-Trump for years. Trump has sworn to get media figures who were against him as part of his retribution program.

I can’t blame Joe and Mika wanting to protect their business interests. However, something rubs me wrong here.

Received an email from Fran Dixon yesterday. They were in St. Thomas. She said it had been raining and thundering all morning.

Steve and Cindy are back! Missed them!

Steve knocked on my door in the dark of the evening last night. We chatted a while. Great trip!

He said everything I had told him about Greece was true. From Athens to Santorini to Mykonos to other islands. People great! Food terrific! Everything cheap! Except for Mykonos. He was not particularly thrilled with Mykonos. Neither had I been on my 3 visits. A late night young peoples’ town. Everything gets going at 11 in the evening. I was always asleep by then as Steve was. The other thing was tourists were gouged. The only place I ever experienced it in Greece also. Everything higher than high.

Enjoy your day!

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