Why...Oh Why

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Generational Difference":

"Whites were not kept white with bleach. They were boiled in washing soda and bleached on the drying green."
When I was a child, whites were kept white with "laundry blueing." A "Dolly Blue" was tossed intothe water and it did its magic. There is no comparison in my opinion; other methods leave whites looking yellow. I used to be able to buy blueing most recently at Weston Produce but since it has closed I have not been able to find it. Current detergent products such as Oxiclean just don't cut it; they contain chemicals that are toxic to the environment. Blueing is non-toxic.
Sometimes, what's old is new.... and may often be better.

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I thought blueing went into the rinse water. It didn't actually keep whites white, It added a tinge of blue. I've used it. Shopper's Drug Mart may be a good place to look. Or Hey...Mike Evans Hardware store on Yonge Street.

On a related topic; I have recently decided to stop ironing.

I saw a young woman in a doctor's office wearing pants like a pair I own. They were cotton so their appearance would have been improved by ironing and a crease. But they weren't. I doubt they made a bad impression. Not on me. It was a long wait. I had nothing else to think about.

I thought, she's right. What does it matter? Another way to cut down on the expense of hydro.

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I posted negative comments about Norman Jewison yesterday because I wanted to ask;

What does personal behaviour have to do with genius.

Rabbie Burns was said to be a profligate. Did it take from his art or was it part of who he was? He died at thirty-nine.

Pierre Trudeau was not a canny politician. Without his determination and focus, could he have brought home the Constitution and created the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Excellent legislators went down to defeat because of it. Was that the price that had to be paid for Canada to gain her independence and become a just society.

Would it have happened had he been concerned about immediate consequences?

It didn't happen before Trudeau and hasn't since.

When Frank Sinatra died,I felt sadness. A light went out and the world became a colder,darker place.

Somebody said; He was a nasty piece of work, you know.

I said:

No,I do not know. Even if it's true,why should it matter?

I will still sit in my car,after arrival, to hear the end of a Sinatra rendition.

He lifted my spirit. He touched my soul. I will be forever grateful.

I could fill pages with names,famous and otherwise,whose work makes a difference.

The point is; why do we seem to need to qualify and withhold credit for excellence when we are its obvious beneficiaries.