More proofs that life is, after all, a good thing

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Here's what others had to say in response to my Ella Fitzgerald as a proof for the existence of God project:

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From Steve Schenkel, Guitarist, Professor in the Music Department and Electronic and Photographic Media Department, Webster University

• Miles Davis playing the melody to "My Funny Valentine" on the 1964 live recording My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert
• Groucho Marx...
• Dick Van Dyke dancing with animated penguins in Mary Poppins
• The mere existence of coffee

From Jay Howell of Murray, Kentucky:

• Nat King Cole's versions of "Stardust" and "What I'll Do"
• sitting in a darkened movie theater with popcorn in one hand and a cold soda in the other, watching Sherlock, Jr.. (with piano accompanist)
• sitting in a darkened theater--watching any film.
• "I admire your luck, Mr, er. . ." The camera finally reveals Sean Connery; he lights a cigarette and replies with absolutely no warmth: "Bond. James Bond." The "James Bond Theme" fades up on the soundtrack, and we have ourselves a piece of classic cinema. from Dr. No. (1962-the first appearance of James Bond on the movie screen)
• a famous philosopher on the subject of love and relationships--"They're totally irrational and crazy and absurd, but I guess we keep going through them because most of us need the eggs."
• the screenwriting skills of Mahatma Kane Jeeves a.k.a W.C. Fields
• the stateroom scene from A Night at the Opera

From Marit Rokeberg of Stavanger, Norway:

• Mozart's Requiem, "Confutatis," the movement where the strings stay underneath, flowing up and down in a hurried wave while the choir sings long sustained notes above and almost makes you faint from the beauty and divinity of it all.

From Deconstructing Harry, written and directed by Woody Allen:

• In the film, Allen's character, Harry Block, receives a birthday present from his lover, Fay (Elisabeth Shue)--a baseball autographed by the 1951 New York Giants. Block tells her that the home run Bobby Thomson hit that year to win the three-game play-off between the Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers was the closest thing he'd ever seen to proof that God exists.

Albert Einstein

• "It was the occasion when Yehudi Menuhin, the great Jewish violinist, gave a recital at a concert on Beethoven, Bach and Brahms, by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter. Einstein was so overwhelmed that he rushed across the stage into Menuhin's dressing room, and exclaimed, 'Jetzt Weiss ich, dass es einen Gott in Himmel gibt'- 'Now I know that at there is a God in heaven.'" (from "Einstein and God" by Thomas F. Torrance, MBE, founder and former joint editor of the Scottish Journal of Theology

From Don Smith of Annapolis, Maryland:

• Keith Moon's drums on Who's Next?
• P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Bertie Wooster

From Linda DiMeo Lowman of St. Louis, Missouri:

• dark chocolate
• sunshine
• birdsong
• the smell of home-grown roses
• the whisper of my loved one's voice in my ear
• hugs
• waking up wrapped in my two kitties
• everything about Paris
• he Rockies
• the light on the Mediteranean sea off the Costa Blanca

Lisa Hautley of St. Louis, Missouri

• 'Invoked or not Invoked, God is Present', the Latin phrase posted over Carl Jung's doorway.
• sampling a farmstead cheese on a hillside in Switzerland with the maker and his family.

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