More birthdays missed

Rough week -- hospital stay, family travails. To catch up:

July 11: American humorist/essayist E. B. White was born July 11, 1899. He wrote:

"Our idea of a cultured person is a person who doesn't want to live in a community of cultured persons."



July 12: Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12, 1817. He wrote in Walden:

"I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors."



July 13: Julius Caesar born in 100 BC.

"So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable." -- Aldous Huxley.

July 14: Gerald Ford was born July 14, 1913.

"Gerry Ford was a nice guy, but he played too much football with his helmet off." -- Lyndon B. Johnson.

July 15: Rembrandt was born on this day in 1606.

"That which probably hears more stupidities than anything else in the world is a painting in a museum." -- Jules de Goncourt.

Aye, aye, Captain

The Boy Clubs of America was founded today in 1906.

"Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture." -- Epicurus.