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  • The new Wizard of Oz

    Tomorrow’s Halloween-
    will your kids be safe?!

    I love you!!

  • Loving the colors and the brisk air, although it’s supposed to be 62 tomorrow.
    Just finished my lunch, now I’m ready to write.

    Limp on, sad heart
    may you go away
    and place the happiness
    on this very day

    No more woeful nights
    lying sleepless
    in tornado of covers
    appearing loveless

    Love is within
    love is to share
    whether you wish to
    or it’s done on a dare.

    What’s that old quote by Lincoln?

    A man is as happy as he makes up his mind to be.
    I love that, and it’s so true.  We keep looking for happiness elsewhere-
    in other people and things, but it’s always right inside us!

    Look within and find your happiness-
    it’s so worthwhile.

    Physically, I’m getting better-feel pretty good, too.

    I love you!!

  • I
    endorse
    Barack
    Obama.

  • Hope you enjoyed these?  I love Maxine–I see being somewhat like her when I am that old!
    Feisty and carefree.

    Things are ok here–seem to be a little out of breath at times, but the heart is strong.

    May you get hugged today and told you’re a beautiful person,
    if not, ASK for it!!

    I love you!!

  • I woke at 5 am this morning-couldn’t sleep anymore.
    (Maybe because I went to bed so early).

    I love the gentle quietness of this time,
    it’s comforting.

    As I smoke my damn cigarette,
    I think of where I might be, in a few years.

    I wore a dress yesterday,
    been a long time.

    Waited outside in the cool wind
    to get a cat’s distemper shot.

    The sun was shining
    and some trees were gold and orange.

    Many people lined up
    with assorted cats and dogs.

    There was Humane Society discount
    at this church.

    Physical therapy
    might loosen up my neck and back
    (If the doc says I can have it!)

    It will be 62 here today, got to like it.
    Cats play and fight

    Watch CBS Sunday Morning at 8 (CST)
    It’s a good show, has lots of variety.

    So ends this saga…

    I love you!!

  • My headaches were related to my sinusitis.  I
    very rarely get migraines, but the last one was awful.
    I got put on 2 new medicines (now I’m up to 13 meds) that seem to help.

    Been really busy with housework today; my brand new housecleaner is coming
    on Monday for 3 hours-have a lot she can do, that I am not capable of doing.

    Going to be 73 here today–beautiful, and warmer than normal.

    Why do I love my cats?  They offer unconditional love, and are very smart in
    detecting one’s feelings.
    Morgan, especially, seems to know when I’m down, but Milee is catching on. 

    Here’s some music for you!

    Poi Dog Pondering
    Poi Dog Pondering
    1989

    The one-of-a-kind world-beat folk-rock
    outfit Poi Dog Pondering first came into being in Waikiki, Hawaii, though
    it’s since made both Austin, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois, home at different
    times. With a fluctuating lineup that sometimes swells to a dozen members,
    each contributing to the ensemble’s incredible multi-instrumental sound, Poi
    Dog Pondering comes off like a wandering Gypsy caravan—easy-going,
    loose-limbed, good-humored, and always on the move. With a history that now
    stretches back more than two decades, the group has a long discography under
    their multicolored belt, but the best place to start remains exactly where
    the band began, with its self-titled 1989 debut. Actually a compilation of
    two earlier, independently released EPs, Poi Dog Pondering presents
    the band at its most friendly and immediate.

    Centered on main man Frank Orrall’s lightly humorous, always good-natured
    songwriting, Poi Dog Pondering produces an upbeat folk-rock sound that
    incorporates world-music influences with the unassuming grace of a seasoned
    backpacker. “Living With the Dreaming Body” opens the disc with a sailing
    tin whistle and fast-strummed acoustic guitar. “Robin’s in the metaphysical
    section,” Orrall sings over the band’s funky folk groove, “She’s sprawled
    out along the carpet floor.” The song utilizes an unusual structure for such
    appealing pop-rock, traveling from casual, off-the-cuff lyrical observations
    to swinging instrumental passages and back again. Another highlight (and
    original EP title track), “Circle Around the Sun,” features wailing horns,
    clacking percussion, and rumbling bass. Here Orrall’s half-spoken verse
    gives way to a beautiful, lifting chorus, bolstered by lovely male-female
    harmonies.

    The band’s Hawaiian heritage comes across on several tracks, granting the
    album a laid-back tropical vibe. Perhaps the most striking example is on the
    appropriately titled “Aloha Honolulu,” a jumping, retro swing that even
    sounds like it’s been piped through a 1940s transistor set. The brass
    section brings the song to life with squawking, bopping horns, which cross
    each other just as the sound of waves lapping at the sandy shore rises in
    the mix. Throughout Poi Dog Pondering, the band delivers this kind of
    highly enjoyable, low-key music: the sound of gifted musicians having a gay
    old time and passing along the joy to all who will listen.



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    What are your plans for this day? 
    Anything exciting?

    I love you!!

  • RETRACTION!

    I should have checked with snopes.com first, before I did yesterday’s post!
    He has a valid birth certificate.
    I apologize for this misinformation.

    Laurie

    I am not a racist!

  • Sing with the flatterer
    of the air
    Drift with the
    motion
    of the wind

    Move fast,
    move slow
    wiggle to
    and fro

    Inhale the ground’s
    fresh scent
    Feel the lower sun’s
    fresh rays

    Feel plopped on
    feel brushed against
    feel blown around
    feel touched

    What is it we speak of?
    What is the subject?
    Why Autumn of course
    With her fresh colorful leaves!

    ©

    Some food for thought
     


    Elder’s Meditation of the Day – October 6

    “Lots of people hardly ever feel real
    soil under their feet, see plants grow except in flower pots, or get fare
    enough beyond the street light to catch the enchantment of a night sky
    studded with stars. When people live far from scenes of the Great Spirit’s
    making, it’s easy for them to forget His laws.”
    –Tatanga Mani (Walking Buffalo), STONEY
    Nature is life’s greatest teacher. The natural laws are hidden in nature.
    Hidden are solutions to everyday problems such as conflict resolution, how
    to forgive, lessons about differences, how to manage organizations, how to
    think. Hidden are feelings. You can look at something and you will feel
    it. At night, have you ever looked at the sky when there are no clouds? As
    you look at all the stars, your heart will become very joyful. You will
    walk away feeling joyful and peaceful. We need to visit nature so we can
    see and feel these things.

    My
    Creator, let me learn nature’s lessons.



    Elder’s Meditation of the Day – October 6
    “Lots of people hardly ever feel real soil under their feet, see
    plants grow except in flower pots, or get fare enough beyond the street
    light to catch the enchantment of a night sky studded with stars. When
    people live far from scenes of the Great Spirit’s making, it’s easy for
    them to forget His laws.”

    –Tatanga Mani (Walking Buffalo), STONEY
    Nature is life’s greatest teacher. The natural laws are hidden in nature.
    Hidden are solutions to everyday problems such as conflict resolution, how
    to forgive, lessons about differences, how to manage organizations, how to
    think. Hidden are feelings. You can look at something and you will feel
    it. At night, have you ever looked at the sky when there are no clouds? As
    you look at all the stars, your heart will become very joyful. You will
    walk away feeling joyful and peaceful. We need to visit nature so we can
    see and feel these things.

    My Creator, let me learn nature’s
    lessons.

     


    Fill them with your desires, the changes you want to make, or dreams!!
     


    Healing Angel
    Patrick Bernard
    2007

    With his smoldering French vocals purring
    over shimmering soundscapes of harp, tamboura, guitar, flute, violin, and
    angelic chorus, Patrick Bernard knows how to put listeners in a relaxed
    and tranquil mood. He’s been devoted to making healing music since he was
    a child and seems to bring several lifetimes of knowledge and karmic grace
    to Ange de Guerison (or Healing Angel). From the opening
    track’s warming cascades of harp glissandos and spine-awakening tamboura
    notes to the final rushing melodic climax of chimes, vocals, and windy
    synths, you know you are in capable hands. Whether or not you believe in
    angels, you will believe in Bernard and his use of “quantum resonance” to
    align your listening body to the movements of the spheres through heavenly
    music. His spiritual vibe knows no borderlines; monks and singers on the
    album come from all sides of the globe.

    The liner notes call Ange de Guerison a “65-minute quantum prayer
    of love and healing,” and if this doesn’t do it, nothing well. “Angel of
    Love” is a languidly tinkling collection of chimes, slide guitar, and
    Chinese flute over which Bernard croons like a Gallic chanson singer
    mourning a lost love while out on a frozen Tibetan lake, the northern
    lights coming over the glacier tips. Each angel in Bernard’s flock gets a
    song: love, sky, light, healing, the universe, and so on.

    You might not be able to understand the French with which he woos the
    universe, but it hardly matters; the universe understands perfectly, and
    it passes the message onto you. Beginning with the quietude of “Angel of
    the Earth,” the amour Bernard feels slowly increases until the peaceful
    bliss is gradually heightened to the melancholy bliss of the duet “Angel
    of the Inverse.” Here Bernard croons with a female vocalist over sweeping
    vocal winds, harp strums, Chinese erhu violins, wooden flutes, and those
    glistening harps, building to cathartic crescendos that gradually ebb and
    flow back to stillness. A place where delirious Gallic passion meets
    sublime spiritual stillness, Bernard’s beautiful Ange de Guerison
    is the answer to our quantum prayers.

     




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  • “Ange du Couer”


  • “Ange D’Amour”


  • “Ange de L’Univers”




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    YOU make your day special
    it isn’t just handed to you!

    I love you!!

  • No heat yet in this darned apartment!  We’re
    getting lows in the 40′s, plus some 30′s, and it gets cold in here!
    I told the manager that I called a tenant advocacy place and was told that the
    code for St Louis Park is as
    follows:

    Sect 15-319

    “From September 1st through June 1st, a temperature of 68 degrees must be
    maintained.”

    That must be hard for them to understand, because the answer I got was, ‘Well,
    we’ll have to check the boiler
    and maybe (?!) turn the heat on.  This pisses me off!  I know already that the
    owner is very cheap, and he’ll try to get away with anything! 

    OK, so I griped.  Something needs to be done-other people are cold, too. 
    Granted, our highs have been in the 60′s, bit cools down at night.  ‘Nuff
    said?

    Feel like posting some fall color pictures.  I love fall, just don’t like the
    season that comes after it!  I’m acquainted with a guy whose family moved to
    Virginia-to avoid the snow-wish I could do something like that.  Anyways, here
    we go:

     



     



     




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    Thought I had more, will need to look further!

    Boy, people are sure coming down on smokers!  Even the maintenance man gave me
    a tough time today.
    Smoker’s have rights, and those rights are being taken away.  Seems to me the
    government is getting into too much of our private lives.  We have rights,
    quit taking them away!

    Need to run to friend’s for some chit-chat; glad to find out she’s not
    contagious, as she’s been sick.
    Gonna drag my Coke on over there…

    I love you!!

  • How sad, another one gone…

    I love you!!