Anthony Quinn Celebrates The Life Of Stephen Daddario When Stephen's Family Visits Shortly After Stephen's Sad & Untimely Death : Cheers Stephen, Will & Susan : I Raise My Glass, I Toast You!

/// ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... It's been awhile since Stephen passed away and I still think about him each day and certaily each week when he does not pass by the store to say : " TONY! How's By You !?! " ... and we launch into our back-and-forth / ping-pong ball conversation that has the ball often on the table and with sometime it bouncing off and necessary for either Stephen or me to go off in search of it. A metaphor for our communication, our lives, our mutual respect for one another. One of us always brought the ball back and put it into play. We were in many ways a support system for one another, or at least that's how I am coming to see our many wonderful years of seeing each other regularly, starting when Stephen would come in with his mother and then, after she passed away, on his own. ... ... ... ... ( These pictures, some of them show Cleveland Park , our Northwest neighborhood that Stephen knew well and often walked to do his shopping. Cheers. ... ... ... ... I will post some at all times of the day, though I often would see Stephen as I would start my day, often after I arrived at work and was busy in the office typing and updating stories, links, our Facebook store page at : Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits, or working on displays and showing our wines off to full effect to better sell them. Stephen would stop and look and pick up bottles and often have questions for me about them. he was quite observant and curious. We discussed many , many bottles of wine at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits ( 3423 Connecticut Avenue N.W. Washington D.C. 20008 tel : 202-363-4265 , anthony.quinn@clevelandparkwines.com . Feel free to contact me if Stephen was a friend and you would like to talk about him. ALSO : Feel free to write in in our COMMENT section below and stories, anecdotes, feelings, whatever you might be willing to share with us all that miss him dearly now. He passed away way to soon ... ... ... ... ... HtAIO4rj0tQ/UW6r1yhD4jI/AAAAAAAAth0/9OpgkDnQrjM/s320/P1440887.JPG" /> ... ... ... . ... ..... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... This is just my start with the photos, I will keep adding them and the text will follow. Hope you enjoy for the moment the stories these pictures tell on their own without words. Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... /// ... /// ... /// Here are some of the colorized pictures that Stephen would send me like Grace Kelly to celebrate my birthday and Ann Sheridan, too : Enjoy! Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn Thursday, June 27th, 2013 @ 11:35PM. /// The above one is of Grace Kelly, and this one below is of Ann Sheridan. Stephen would always send me lots of Marilyn Monroe, but I liked these, too very much. Great colorizations by Stephen. Thanks Stephen! TONY /// I have to put here a colorized picture that Stephen sent me of Marilyn Monroe : what am I thinking?!? It will bot be complete without this! Cheers, TONY ///

Heard Yet Another Woman Say Yesterday : " What Do I / We Need Men For?! " : I Add Now : " I Never Hear Men Ask That Question In That Way Or Tone Or Manner, If At All

I have to say that hearing that statement made by women often these days : " What do we need men for? What are men good for? Why do we need men anyway ?! " - hearing any version of these is insulting and mean and makes me cringe and wonder why women can be so mean? .... ... I never hear men say anything like that and I am almost sixty years old now and have been alive awhile and have heard plenty in my years. I admit I do not like to hear mean things and gossip which so often turns into being self-serving more than anything. I often turn away, stop listening, even walk away sometimes. ... ... ... ... I took this picture in Cleveland Park Northwest, Washington D.C. during one of our recent snow storms and liked the image so have included it here. Cheers. ... ... I also heard some women discussing the development, intelligence and the maturity of girls versus boys and I have no problem with that as long as it is meant simply as a way of better helping each child, male or female to cope and advance and to better fit into his or her environment and make the most of it and his or her talents, strengths, promise as it is different for each child. I do not like comparisons between children or the two sexes, especially if is not impartial and meant in a positive way to a better understanding and an appreciation of the two sexes and how, in fact they are dependent upon the other and that the only thing that matters is to love and appreciate one another and not ultimately arrive at a stage when one says in exasperation, frustration and without really thinking what the effect of one's statement and words : " What do we/ I need men for ?" may have on the boys or men that are present at the time these words are uttered. ... ... ... ... As I said already , I have never heard men ask the question or questions of what do they need women for? That is not to say that there is never any " women bashing " by men. There is, and I am not pleased for it when there is. I am also not pleased with myself when I have spoken unkindly of the opposite sex. I love the opposite sex and respect them as equals. We each have something invaluable to bring to the table. We each need one another. We each cannot exist without one another. We each need to learn to love one another, be accepting, be supportive and be there for one another more : doing what we can for the other as often as possible because life is demanding and it's marvelous when I get home after a long day and am both happy to be going home and say to my wife how happy I am to be home and to be with her doing whatever it is ( doesn't really matter to me as long as I am with her ) together. ... .... Don't get me wrong : I am not a saint and know it and have plenty to apologize for and plenty to be thankful for ; things that I get from being around both sexes that helps me to curb the negative in me and focus on the positive. Cheers, Anthony ( TONY ) Quinn