Most of my posts are about pleasant things -- with the occasional rant about things that perturb me!

Monday, June 11, 2012

June 11, 1910


Aye, Calypso, the places you've been to,
     the things that you've shown us,
the stories you tell.
Aye, Calypso, I sing to your spirit,
the men who have served you
so long and so well.

Today would have been explorer, conservationist, and oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau's 102nd birthday.

(I only wish I had taken this photograph.)