My artwork is not beautiful, but it is heartfelt...
I love Irish coffee! It is basically strong very strongly brewed dark or espresso coffee, heavy cream, powdered cinnamon, and Irish whiskey. This bottle Of Jameson Irish Whiskey has been sitting in my liquor cabinet for quite a while because I am reluctant to finish it and recycle this bottle. I suppose I could buy a new bottle of Jameson and decant the contents into this bottle. I learned to decant when I worked in a tavern...
I did it!! Turns out I can still decant..:))
This Jameson Irish Whiskey label ( a juxtaposition of two photos, shot from different angles,) is In Loving Memory of My Parents - Saul Bressel, Esquire and Josephine Bramson Bressel:
Reminiscences: Amongst my Mom's closest childhood friends were the children of Irish immigrants who came to New York a generation before her parents and grandparents did.
The Father of her dear dear friend, Edna Burns (she married Wally Coffey and became Edna Burns Coffey (^_^)), was a ward boss on the Lower East side of Manhattan. He got Mom appointed to her first job after Teachers Training School as a teacher in a school in Brooklyn, NY. This was during The Great Depression! Josephine taught the first grade and she never had a student fail to learn to read in 30 years of teaching!! The principal in Staten Island where she taught after marrying my Dad, would ask her to teach any child who it was discovered couldn't actually read from other teachers. She taught them on her lunch hour. Amazingly, this group of older children were all successful in learning to read too!!! Mom said they were all delighted when they could read "Dick And Jane"!
Years later when I was taking my aging parents each week to the supermarket in Staten Island: Each and every time, someone would come up to my Mother and ask if she was Mrs. Bressel. After acknowledging she was, each time the person said "You saved my life or my son's life, or my daughter's life, or my brother's life, or my cousin's life, or my uncle's life, when you taught him/her to read. When this happened each week, I was moved to tears. It happened every time I took them to the Supermarket! And that's the truth!!
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P.S.
I spent a wonderful week in Dublin, Ireland in 1965 or 1966. I visited Robert Briscoe, the Jewish Lord Mayor of Dublin and his family. That's where I first tasted Jamison Irish Whiskey. It is very smooth and mellow, due in part to it being triply distilled. Also, Irish breweries do not use peat in the malting process. Just as the Irish people made the language of England and Shakespeare sing, so they have made fine whisky into another art form...
I could write all night about the accomplishments of the sons and daughters of Ireland. I think it's time for an Irish coffee...;)
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I am quite a fan of all the peoples of the British Isles, including Miss Cecily's ancestors who came to Vermont from Scotland.
- Much of classical physics is based on the, English, Isaac Newton's law of gravitation... (Gravity is the gravitational force of the planet Earth.)
- And, much of modern physics is based on, the Scottish, James Clerk Maxwell's equations.
As the saying goes "The Lord created Maxwell's equations, and there was light" !!
Light itself is an electromagnetic phenomenon, as discovered by James Clerk Maxwell.
Maxwell's equations are a set of partial differential equations that, together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical electrodynamics, classical optics, and electric circuits. These areas of physics are the basis for all electric, optical and radio technologies like power generation, electric motors, wireless communication, cameras, televisions, computers etc. Maxwell's equations describe how electric and magnetic fields are generated by charges, currents and changes of each other. One important consequence of the equations is that fluctuating electric and magnetic fields can propagate at the speed of light, and this electromagnetic radiation manifests itself in manifold ways from radio waves to light and X- or γ-rays. The equations are named after the physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell, who published an early form of the equations between 1861 and 1862, and first proposed that light is an electromagnetic phenomenon.
