Happy St. Paddy's Day 2009

[puppetmaker]

My father was a co-author on a book about lasers. I will always remember a drawing he did to show the difference between coherent and incoherent light. The coherent light showed a bunch of stick figures marching in the St. Paddy’s day parade before the bars opened in nice straight lines. Incoherent light are a bunch of stick figures meandering around aimlessly in the St. Paddy day parade after the bars opened. I don’t think that is how it went into the final book but that is how I remember the difference between coherent and incoherent light for the rest of my life.

I am proud of my Irish heritage. I am equally proud of my Polish heritage. I am also proud that in America it is possible for someone to have more than one heritage. I think of my ancestors and what they did to get to this country so that I could be here now and it is rather amazing.

In school I learned at an early age that you wore green on St. Paddy’s day or you got pinched. So I made it a point to wear green until High School and then I avoided wearing green on St. Paddy’s day with the reasoning that I was ½ Irish therefore I didn’t need to wear green. This morning I dressed Caroline in a green shirt and explained what it was for. She sighed and agreed to wear the shirt to avoid the pinch.

I am grateful that I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day at a local Irish Pub. Éirinn go Brách.

Comments

[queenanthai.livejournal.com]

Say, I meant to ask - do you have relatives in Illinois? My co-host has the same last name as your maiden name. :)

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

I don't think so but I am not sure.

O'Shea is like Smith in parts of Ireland esp. Clare and Cork.

[artnouveauho.livejournal.com]

That clip never fails to cheer me up. Happy St Patrick's day!

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

And the same to you.

[readinggeek451]

Thanks for that clip. I needed that.

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

It is the only version of Danny Boy I will listen to anymore.

[readinggeek451]

I'm not sure I've ever heard Danny Boy all the way through for real. I seem to remember hearing that the tune is actually something else, that I do know, but I sure couldn't tell from that clip.

I love Beaker's falsetto-soprano. The boy could sing opera! Who knew?