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Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts) Mon Jan 5, 2015, 12:49 AM Jan 2015

Why? Because my first grandchild...

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Why? Because my first grandchild... (Original Post) Xipe Totec Jan 2015 OP

Congratulations to you on the birth of your first grandchild, my dear Xipe Totec! CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2015 #1

Thanks! - You know it! Xipe Totec Jan 2015 #3

All men will become brothers Under thy gentle wing. elleng Jan 2015 #2

Mazel Tov! MannyGoldstein Jan 2015 #4

Yup! The second movement is really something else altogether. longship Jan 2015 #6

Perfect. Thanks! Xipe Totec Jan 2015 #9

Congratulations! Happy Grand-Parenting. Live and Learn Jan 2015 #5

Congratulations! You're in for a lot of fun. Arkansas Granny Jan 2015 #7

Congratulations to your family! femmocrat Jan 2015 #8

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,641 posts)

1. Congratulations to you on the birth of your first grandchild, my dear Xipe Totec!

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:06 AM

Jan 2015

I trust the mother and child are doing well...

It is a scary and exciting time!

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)

3. Thanks! - You know it!

Reply to CaliforniaPeggy (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:32 AM

Jan 2015

elleng

(130,976 posts)

2. All men will become brothers Under thy gentle wing.

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 01:11 AM

Jan 2015

Be embraced, Millions!
This kiss for all the world!
Brothers!, above the starry canopy
A loving father must dwell.

Joy, beautiful spark of Gods!,
Daughter of Elysium,
Joy, beatiful spark of Gods!.

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)

4. Mazel Tov!

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 03:20 AM

Jan 2015

(We have a 15 year old. Definitely the second movement! As it would be performed by a clutch of meth-addled honey badgers.)

longship

(40,416 posts)

6. Yup! The second movement is really something else altogether.

Reply to MannyGoldstein (Reply #4)

Mon Jan 5, 2015, 03:50 AM

Jan 2015

Sometimes a composer will go to a place unvisited before. Beethoven's Ninth is one of those works. And he was nearly deaf when he wrote it.

The classical music realm is full of such events.

Another fave of mine: Bach's Goldberg Variations. Especially Glenn Gould's 1955 recording. It also truly goes to a place hitherto unvisited.