Candida, a minister's wife

Saw "A Minister's Wife" at Lincoln Center.  It's a musical adaptation of Shaw's "Candida".  I had seen "Candida" many years ago with Edward Herrmann, Austin Pendelton and Blythe Danner and enjoyed it immensely.  This adaptation did not have the wit and lightness of the production I saw.  So I was not impressed
Tao Te Ching.     
" People are born soft and supple;
dead, they are stiff and hard.
Plants are tender and pliant;
dead, they are brittle and dry.

Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
is a disciple of death.
Whoever is soft and yielding
is a disciple of life.

The hard and stiff will be broken.
The soft and supple will prevail."

The New Yorker in "Holy Matrimony" writes about the royal wedding.  Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a fan of the monarchy or aristocrats.  However, many people all around the world will be watching the ceremony this Friday, and they'll dream that they're a part of it all.  The New Yorker mentions that the Queen this past Christmas canceled the staff Christmas party because of "the difficult economic circumstances facing this country".  She is the head of the Church of England but Jesus will have to fore go his birthday party.  Well, actually, just the staff.  According to The New Yorker the royal wedding "will cost British taxpayers an estimated twenty million pounds."  About $30,000,000.  I wonder what that staff Christmas party would have cost.  Oh, oh my back is stiffening.  Tao, Jim, Tao.