What is essential is invisible to the eye

Today is the birthday of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, author of The Little Prince (from The Writer's Almanac). For the entire book online see this site, and note that it reads: "This site is best viewed with the heart."

     "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
     "What is essential is invisible to the eye," the little prince repeated, so that he would be sure to remember.
     "It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important."
     "It is the time I have wasted for my rose--" said the little prince, so that he would be sure to remember.

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Red Sox vs Mariana de la Noche

For the next three nights, the Red Sox-Yankees games will be competing with my telenovela watching. I guess it will be 7-8 pm baseball, 8-9 pm Mariana de la Noche, and 9-? pm baseball. The Sox are 5.5 games behind the Yankees in the standings, so they really need to win at least 2 out of 3 games. Should be interesting - it always is against the Yankees. They'll be playing in NY.

I took my dad to Fenway last Saturday as our belated Father's Day outing. The Sox won the night before 12-1 and won on Sunday 12-3. But Saturday? Lost 9-2. Oh well, we had fun anyway, despite the incredible hassles of getting to the game. I didn't know the Green Line was shut down at Lechmere, where we always park, and we'd have to take a shuttle bus to Government Center then walk up to the T station -- my arthritic, 76-year-old father panting all the way. Then the train we were on stopped for 10 minutes in the dark somewhere. We got to our seats by 2nd inning and, while I was down in the dungeons acquiring a couple of much-needed beers, the Phillies scored twice. The game itself didn't get any better, but the weather was comfortable and there's endless people watching if the game's dull. (Former Governor Mike Dukakis walked by us. I know no Kerry supporter wants to hear that name right now. Anyway, I knew it was a bad sign for the Sox when I saw the Duke at the game. I know, poor guy. Curse worse than the Babe's.)

As always, Fenway was beautiful. Here's the view from our seats on the third base line. If the tickets weren't so damn expensive ($65/seat) I would have bought tickets for more than one game this year. (I could also avoid the public transportation hassles by parking at the ballpark for $40. Cripes.)

Update: 9pm and it's 10-2. Ugly.

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