Friday would have been Jacques Cousteau's 100th birthday

[Autumn Colors]

John Denver's "Calypso" with images that just make me well up with tears now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl7aM3nCqC0

[qnr]

1. I hear they're going to relaunch the Calypso too. n/t

[Catherina]

2. I'm glad he's not here to see this

President John F. Kennedy is presenting Jacques Cousteau with The National Geographic Society's special gold medal.

The other gentleman is Dr. Melville Bell Gorsvenor, President and editor of National Geographic.

April 19, 1961, Rose Garden, White House

[Mind_your_head]

3. Thank you for the reminder of 'better/friendlier' days

Calypso
John Denver

To sail on a dream on a crystal clear ocean,
to ride on the crest of a wild raging storm
To work in the service of life and living,
in search of the answers of questions unknown
To be part of the movement and part of the growing,
part of beginning to understand,

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

Hi dee ay-ee ooo doo-dle oh
oo do do do do do doo-dle ay yee
doo-dle ay ee

Like the dolphin who guides you, you bring us beside you
To light up the darkness and show us the way
For though we are strangers in your silent world
To live on the land we must learn from the sea
To be true as the tide and free as a wind swell
Joyful and loving in letting it be

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

Hi dee ay-ee ooo doo-dle oh
oo do do do do do doo-dle ay yee
doo-dle ay ee

he dee Ay-ee
Hi dee oh ooo
hi dee ayee
hi dee oh ooo

[Mind_your_head]

4. Ya....we have to get a canes & walkers march on DC

The 'boomers' last "hurrah"

Fire on me, Kent! Oh noes......