On June 22, 2007, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J.Hynes received the Senior Umbrella Network of Brooklyn Power Of One Award, at a luncheon honoring him, held at Kingsborough Community College.
SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Hollywood's starmakers always are on the lookout for
a fresh new face and they found one in Mae Laborde, albeit of the wrinkled
variety.
Today I had the great pleasure to meet a kind and gracious elderly musician. I attended a Gotham Networking Luncheon. Mr. Thomas was a guest. Once a trombonist
with Dizzy Gillespie’s big band in the 1940s, he first recorded and
performed his own heartfelt and idiosyncratic songs in New York in the
60s and at age 91, he still has an unwavering belief in the possibilities of life.
An inspiration.
i seem to recognize your face
haunting, familiar, yet i can't seem to place it
cannot find the candle of thought to light your name
lifetimes are catching up with me
all these changes taking place, i wish i'd seen the place
ON Wednesday afternoons in Washington Heights, the search is not
necessarily for love, or even companionship. The search is simply for a
partner who can rumba or waltz.
When an old woman died in the geriatric unit of a small
hospital in Dundee Scotland, it was believed she had nothing left of any value.
While the nurses were going through her meager possessions, they found this
poem. This little old Scottish lady, with nothing left to give to the world,
left more than most could wish to bequeath.