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Octo Observations: Let’s Start Fresh!

When we all woke up on January 1, 2021, a feeling of positivity and hope filled our hearts….or at least it did mine. To say “goodbye” to traumatic 2020, with its devastating outbreak of Covid, its fractious election, and its seemingly unending isolation from loved ones was a good feeling.

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Stream Selected Films of Ralph Feinnes

Quiz Show 1994 Based on Richard N. Goodwin’s 1988 memoir Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties. Produced and Directed by Robert Redford. When the popularity of Herb Stemple’s (John Turturo), successive winner of the popular quiz show Twenty -One wanes, producers Dan Enright (David Paymer) and Albert Freedman (Hank

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Shop Local (NYC) Valentine Flowers

Send flowers to HIM this year, mom, gran, sister, friend. Flowers help. You can pick up roses at a local bodega OR… Bouquets     clockwise Bouqs.com Heartfelt: Tulips and Irises. At $59.00, $74.00, or $89.00 Daydream: A pink mix of pompon, snapdragons, roses, and minicarnations. $49.00, $64.00, or $79.00 Happy Heart:

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The Western World – A Glimpse of Authentic Ireland (1905)

In 1905, The Manchester Guardian sent playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore John Millington Synge (Playboy of the Western World), and artist Jack Butler Yeats (brother of W.B. Yeats) to travel a month in Connemara, Ireland, and report in 12 articles on distress in what was called “the congestive district.”

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Hats

Face it, head and hands feel the cold more than anywhere else. Be prepared and in style. Classic Poms & 2   clockwise Saks Fifth Faux Fur Pom-Pom Ribbed Cashmere Beanie: Rib-knit cashmere beanie receives a fluffy finish in the form of a faux fur pom pom. Sale $87.50 Alpaca Melia

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Stream Selected Films of Debbie Reynolds

Singin’ in the Rain 1952 Directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly. Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. If you haven’t seen it, you can’t legitimately call yourself a movie fan. Silent film star, Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) has been successively paired on the screen with Lena Lamont (Jean Hagen).

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On Beckett – Challenging and Silly

Originally presented by Irish Repertory Theatre in 2018, this piece can be streamed January 31, February 5, 10 and 20 “You may love this language, you may not, but as the Irish people say, we’re not here together long.” Bill Irwin is besotted with Samuel Beckett. Disclaiming scholarly (I’d contest

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Octo Observations: Let’s Start Fresh!

When we all woke up on January 1, 2021, a feeling of positivity and hope filled our hearts….or at least it did mine. To say “goodbye” to traumatic 2020, with its devastating outbreak of Covid, its fractious election, and its seemingly unending isolation from loved ones was a good feeling. Thankfully, the life-saving corona virus vaccines were developed in record time and began to be distributed. We felt as if we could celebrate the new

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Stream Selected Films of Ralph Feinnes

Quiz Show 1994 Based on Richard N. Goodwin’s 1988 memoir Remembering America: A Voice From the Sixties. Produced and Directed by Robert Redford. When the popularity of Herb Stemple’s (John Turturo), successive winner of the popular quiz show Twenty -One wanes, producers Dan Enright (David Paymer) and Albert Freedman (Hank Azaria) jump at the chance to replace him with Columbia University Professor Charles Van Doren (Ralph Feinnes), a patrician, blue-eyed boy. (Stemple is promised a

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Shop Local (NYC) Valentine Flowers

Send flowers to HIM this year, mom, gran, sister, friend. Flowers help. You can pick up roses at a local bodega OR… Bouquets     clockwise Bouqs.com Heartfelt: Tulips and Irises. At $59.00, $74.00, or $89.00 Daydream: A pink mix of pompon, snapdragons, roses, and minicarnations. $49.00, $64.00, or $79.00 Happy Heart: Red, pink, yellow roses with greenery. $54.00, $69.00, or $84.00 Scott’s Flowers Blush: pink with touches of white novelty flowers. Types of flowers used will

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The Western World – A Glimpse of Authentic Ireland (1905)

In 1905, The Manchester Guardian sent playwright, poet, writer, collector of folklore John Millington Synge (Playboy of the Western World), and artist Jack Butler Yeats (brother of W.B. Yeats) to travel a month in Connemara, Ireland, and report in 12 articles on distress in what was called “the congestive district.” The Congestive District Board was formed to alleviate poverty in the western counties addressing “overcrowding, poverty, relief work, emigration, and immigration; agriculture, fisheries and domestic

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Hats

Face it, head and hands feel the cold more than anywhere else. Be prepared and in style. Classic Poms & 2   clockwise Saks Fifth Faux Fur Pom-Pom Ribbed Cashmere Beanie: Rib-knit cashmere beanie receives a fluffy finish in the form of a faux fur pom pom. Sale $87.50 Alpaca Melia Hat by Simply Natural: 9.5″ L x 8″ W. Embroidered floral detail. Pom pom top. Light weight yet warm. $49.99  Saks Fifth Fox Fur Pom-Pom

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Morning Motivation – Keep Going! Tips to Stay Motivated

It’s a few weeks into the new year and some of you may be thinking you want to stop your new weight loss challenge, new exercise regimen, or new side business you launched.  We have all heard “you can do anything that you put your mind to.” But what about when your mind is working against you? How do you keep going then? We all have days when we want to drop out and move

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Stream Selected Films of Debbie Reynolds

Singin’ in the Rain 1952 Directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly. Screenplay by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. If you haven’t seen it, you can’t legitimately call yourself a movie fan. Silent film star, Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) has been successively paired on the screen with Lena Lamont (Jean Hagen). Fans think they’re an item. Actually, she makes his skin crawl. (Wait until you hear that voice!) One evening, escaping a crowd, Don meets Kathy

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On Beckett – Challenging and Silly

Originally presented by Irish Repertory Theatre in 2018, this piece can be streamed January 31, February 5, 10 and 20 “You may love this language, you may not, but as the Irish people say, we’re not here together long.” Bill Irwin is besotted with Samuel Beckett. Disclaiming scholarly (I’d contest this) or biographical bent, he’s delved deep into the author’s work and is “haunted” by it. Irwin has repeatedly tackled/inhabited the obscure material in equal

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