"Summer arrives with a length of lights and summer blows away and quietly gets swallowed by a wave.."

http://youtube.com/watch?v=D1TXtveRqJ4
Summersong by The Decemberists.
Quite the Major League Baseball All-Star game last night. The game played at historic Yankee Stadium was one for the history books and not just because this is the last year of Yankee Stadium. The pre-game ceremony featured a great collection of living legends, Aaron, Mays, and McCovey among others. Along with players from my generation like Boggs, Molitor, Eckersly, Gwynn, and Ripken Jr. After all the festivities that seemed to last forever, came the game. The game did last forever, almost 5 hours to and 15 innings. The American League finally won 4-3 after many dramatic close calls throughout extra innings. Both teams were down to their final pitchers and it was looking like what was a great game could end up being a fiasco, but it got saved. The All-Star managers need to do a better job of managing their pitchers, especially the Starters, Roy Halladay throw 9 pitches in only 1 inning, he could have easily thrown another one. Also I think the starting lineups should actually be inserted at the end of the game. It would have been nice to see the "stars" at the end of the game and not the "good" players. Poor Dan Uggla of Florida, he made 3 errors and look scared to death out there.
"I sit and wait, does an angel contemplate my fate? and do they know, the places where we go, when we´re grey and old...."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sQxZztI7264
Angels by Robbie Williams.
The following is from The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence.
"Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this way and that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunk of costume jewelry. Saint John of Patmos can keep his sequined heaven, or share it with Mr. Tory, for all I care, and spend eternity in fingering the gems and telling each other gleefully they're worth a fortune."
My friend Jeff and I had dinner at Prince Albert's (the best diner in London) after which our conversation turned deep, as they usually do. Many of the them end up at the same opinion as the quote above, heaven is a simply high priced imaginary place that no one can be certain really exists, like any God.
I liked the article below comparing Economics and love.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/business/13every.html?em&ex=1216353600&en=7bd9ffd7ca313b8f&ei=5087%0A
It is a very hot summer day today, close to 40 Celsius with the humidity and the plan tonight is to play tennis. We are brilliant. Maybe we will get that thunderstorm.
jr.