Pretties

And here are a couple of recommendations.

Pretty song

I had What About Brian on the other night as I lay on the couch working on the computer. My ears caught sound of a song that I knew immediately that I was about to be in love with.

I googled a few of the lyrics and found the song. It's new to me, but it's an old song. It's called "Tomorrow Is a Long Time" and in iTunes there are tons of versions by people like Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley and Joan Baez. The one I heard on the show was by Nickel Creek. You can listen to a little snippet of it here, and you can hear the whole song from this NPR page after listening to a short commentary about the band.

I don't even think that What About Brian is a good show, but the scene that had the song was one when a mom/wife watches the dad/husband out of the window while he plays with their three young daughers on a pier. The husband and wife are getting a divorce, and they are struggling with whether or not to let the youngest daughter have an operation to try to restore her hearing. The woman gets so moved watching her estranged husband with the daughter that the tears well up and fall while this song plays in the background. Then my tears welled up and fell. And they have every time that I've listened to this song since. And believe me. It's been a lot of times.

I think that you should download the song immediately, but if you want to watch it in the context of the scene, you can find the episode here. (If you skip to Section 3 and then scroll to about 15:20 of that section, you can find it without watching the whole show.) It will be annoying because you'll have to watch an ad at the beginning of the section, but it really is a lovely scene.

Pretty clothes

I like this stuff. I'm particularly fond of the toddler t-shirts. But I'd kind of like one of everything.