...but because...

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 “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” 

                               ~ Oscar Wilde

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Yep.

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The journey continues...

looking for homes on Realtor dot com 

at 4:07 a.m.

...she's out there somewhere just waiting for us!

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Nice People

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Irena Sendler 1910-2008 A 98 year-old German woman named Irena Sendler recently died. During WWII, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. Irena smuggled Jewish children out; infants in the bottom of the tool box she carried and older children in a burlap sack she carried in the back of her truck. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. 

The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children. She eventually was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families. Most had been killed. She helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted. Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won- for a slide show on Global Warming.

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More Gypsy

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"Every summer we had a circus & I always got to be the fortune teller. All the girls wanted to know if they'd have babies & all the boys wanted to find out about the Cubs. We had one neighbor who'd been in the hospital who asked me if I could tell her when she was going to die & I didn't know what to say so I told her not before her time & then she grabbed my arm & said I was a good boy but that's not what the doctors said & there I was looking in the crystal ball wishing I had more Gypsy and less Norwegian."

 

From Brian Andreas, Story People

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Set Fire to the Rain

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I am in awe of this woman's voice and range.

Aren't you?

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The Project:

Get the house ready to sell.

Sub Projects:

De-junk/De-Clutter and PAINT.

The Stressors:

What piles?

What stuff?

What mess?

What dust?

What dissaray?

What do you mean you can't find the car keys?

 

it will be worth all this work.

it will be worth all this work.

it will be worth all this work.

it will be worth all this work.

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Father's Day

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There are days, not dedicated to Fathers, 

that I miss Norm like crazy.

I miss his smile, his strong hug, 

how he never looked away - always straight into my eyes.

Not a "chatting" type, but would certainly engage

in conversation when invited - and I always invited him.

I would give anything to share a coffee on the deck

and talk to him today.

I think I'll go do that right now.

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This is IT!

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This is it.

Housechores are drudgery!

but it could be FUN if we made a "gathering"

out of it.

This week my house, ok?

Next week yours.

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WOOSH

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do you get just a tad woozy looking at this photo?

The ride would be incredible - if you had great balance

and didn't mind a little "woosh" in your ears!

and another thing about WOOSH:

June CANNOT be half spent - 

I haven't started spring cleaning

nor put one pot of flowers in the ground...

....june cannot be half spent...

woosh.

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“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear
and the blind can see.”

                                                                 — Mark Twain


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Joy Ride

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It's been too long that I've taken the joy ride

down Lombard Street at night.

San Francisco

by Thomas Hawks

epic - in our day...

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1949:

George Orwell's 1984

is published. 

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Gimme Shelter

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 Do you close your eyes, sway or bob your head

in rhythmic waves to the music...

and then watch it again to internalize the 

musical magic from around the world?

Good.

That's supposed to happen when you watch

PLAYING FOR CHANGE

"Playing For Change has produced some great videos over the years, connecting street musicians around the world as they blend their sounds on covers of well-known tunes.
The latest is Gimme Shelter, which Keith Richards and Mick Jagger wrote at the height of the Vietnam War and as the counterculture tilted to the crazy side of things. Four decades later, the song obviously still resonates."

via John Gushue

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