I got this from my sister today.  I hope you all enjoy it as I did.

Playing For Change: Song Around the World "Stand By Me"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us-TVg40ExM

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death
--Robert Fulghum

I thought that I was ready to write more, but I guess that I'm not.

I wish you all enough.

Weez

Hi folks...I know it's been a while.  Recovery from the Hair Show, and an onstage haircut that relieved me of almost 8" of hair.  It is a beautiful cut, but I am missing my length a little.  Also had my brother, his wife and daughter visiting, and now my sister and her two kids.  My mom has her first surgery to relieve neuropathy in her hand on ( Read more... )

I'm an idiot.  Thanks to Vocalista and Mental Circles for nudging me.  I knew it had been long, but not nearly THAT long, since I last posted.  Amazingly (and rather sadly) not too much new to report in all that lost time.  I have been follwing everyone and have been thinking good thoughts for several of you.  I imagine you know who you are ( Read more... )

For the Noonoo, who I hope is feeling much less horr-eeee-ble!  Behold the five foot tall snowblowing santa snowglobe in the front yard:


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On March 17th I will be participating in the  SW Florida affiliate of Susan G Komen's first Race For The Cure to support Breast cancer research and awareness.  I am now putting aside all of my discomfort about asking for money  to ask you to consider a donation of any amount...and I do mean any.  Most of you know why this issue is so important to ( Read more... )

I've mentioned before that I work on an island, and I think that I have also mentioned that the 3 1/2 mile causeway onto that island is being replaced.  Last Thursday it was announced that heavy piledriveing and other construction have caused serious crack in the "C" span (closest to the island).  Cracks that are actually inches long, deep and wide ( Read more... )

Boop has long yearned for brightly painted metal geckos for the house.  Because I ask you, what more could a purple and yellow house need?  The answer lies here:

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It has long been a joke in my family that I hate nature.  This is not precisely true.  It's more that I believe that a great deal of nature is very agressive, and is just waiting for the opportunity to bite, stomp, maul, sting, or peck me.  Anyway, this is why they all find it so funny that on Wednesday I saved a turtle.  
We had a whole family from ( Read more... )

..."It's beautiful here," I said.  "It's a perfect place to spend Christmas."

"Christmas?" he asked.  "What is Christmas?"  This was unexpected.  I had forgotten that there were many in the world who had never heard of Christianity.  "Christmas is the birthday of the Christian God, Jesus."  Ratab was perhaps the most curious individual I met in all ( Read more... )