I am posting this video for a July 4th message, because it is a celebration that we can have in the USA. Maybe we can still have them where a few thousand people can gather in a city park for a summer evening of music and celebration of live and living and all that goes with it.
This bittersweet song by Simon and Garfunkel about They’ve All Gone To Look For America is thought provoking at best. It is not patriotic, or is it? Is it about freedom? Perhaps tomorrow I will post Ray Charles in here. Nobody sings better than Ray Charles.
I am sure you might disagree, but that is the great thing about living in America. We can have our own opinion.
MAXINE FOR PRESIDENT! VERY ELOQUENTLY PUT………..DON’T YOU THINK?
Maxine on ‘Driver Safety’ ‘I can’t use the cell phone in the car. I have to keep my hands free for making gestures.’
…… Maxine on ‘Housework, ‘I do my housework in the nude. It gives me an incentive to clean the mirrors as quickly as possible.’
Maxine on ‘Lawn Care’ The key to a nice-looking lawn is a good mower. I recommend one who is muscular and shirtless.’
Maxine on ‘The Perfect Man’ ‘All I’m looking for is a guy who’ll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.’
Maxine on ‘Technology Revolution ‘My idea of rebooting is kicking somebody in the butt twice.’
Maxine on ‘Aging’ ‘Take every birthday with a grain of salt. This works much better if the salt accompanies a Margarita.’
‘I’M TELLING YOU. SHE’S THE PERFECT CANDIDATE.’
The only two things we do with greater frequency in middle age are urinate and attend funerals .
The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.
To err is human, to forgive: highly unlikely.
Do you realize that in about 40 years, we’ll have millions of old ladies running around with tattoos and pierced navels? (Now that’s scary!)
Money can’t buy happiness–but somehow it’s more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than a Kia.
After a certain age, if you don’t wake up aching somewhere…you may be dead.
There’s no one better for the job. MAXINE HAS MY VOTE.
This was from an email I received. Well I think Maxine is honest. That is more then we can say for most who are in politics.
On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just
inside the cemetery fence. One day, two boys climbed over the fence,
filled up a bucketful of nuts, sat down by the tree out of sight, and began dividing the nuts.
‘One for you, one for me One for you, one for me,’ said one boy. While
they were doing this several nuts dropped and rolled down toward the fence.
Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle. As he passed, he
thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery. He slowed down to
investigate. Sure enough, he heard,
‘One for you, one for me. One for
you, one for me.’
He just knew what it was. He jumped back on his bike and rode off. Just
around the bend he met an old man with a cane, hobbling along.
‘Come here quick,’ said the boy, ‘you won’t believe what I heard! Satan
and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up the souls.’
The man said, ‘Beat it kid, can’t you see it’s hard for me to walk.’ When
the boy insisted though, the man hobbled slowly to the cemetery.
Standing by the fence they heard, ‘One for you, one for me. One for you,
one for me.’
The old man whispered, ‘Boy, you’ve been tellin’ me the truth.? Let’s see if we can see the Lord.’
Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet were still unable to see anything. The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of
the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of the Lord.
At last they heard, ‘One for you, one for me. That’s all. Now let’s go get those nuts by the fence and we’ll be done.’
They say the old man made it back to town a full 5 minutes ahead of the kid on the bike!
I grew up at the beach. One of my friends had a small sailboat and we used to sail around the bay in Long Beach, CA in it. When I graduated from high school I used some of my graduation present money to get a 14 foot sail boat and then we sailed out around the oil islands and where ever the wind would take us outside of the bay.
Several nights as the sun set the wind would die and I would end up being towed back to where I kept my boat. That was embarrassing. You just can’t beat the feeling of wind power, until it stops. It is great that people show mercy on girls paddling a sailboat. Also never be too proud not to accept a helping hand.
I still sail when I can but I kayak, too. That is just as peaceful. I read Mark Twain’s book, Roughing It , when I was in high school. I have reread it twice since then. That is such a fun book. You can live life through his experiences. One part I always think about is his description of Lake Tahoe, and floating out in the lake in a canoe and just staring into the water. I have not done that at Lake Tahoe, but I have spent several hours at a nearby lake doing that very same thing, and following the fishes. It is so much fun to be as still as possible and watch the fishes doing fish stuff. Can fish be curious? Did you ever think of that?
Here is a video I ran across and it is such a great mood. It captures the feeling of Sailing as does the song by Christopher Cross. I hope you take 4 minutes out of your busy life to enjoy it.
Today I was looking for some friendship poems to give to some of the people I work with. I was looking for something that was a little different and something that I did not have to write myself. Plus it was fun to see what other people were doing. I did not want a greeting card type of poem either.
I found this site by doing a google search and I enjoyed the content here including the friendship poems. The selections were easy to read and fun. While I am not going to copy the poems here I will leave the link to their site so you can visit the poems.
If you like the poems there leave a comment to let them know, too.
If you like to Beta Test then you might like ZenZuu. What is ZenZuu? It is going to be difficult for me to explain but it is a Social Networking site where you can make some friends from all over the world. Right now it is in Beta testing, but the people there are pretty friendly.
Since it is a Social Networking site in Beta right now things are not all functioning that well on the site. I have been able to upload pictures and videos, add friends, send comments, and make a group, but they all seem like they could use improvement.
One reason to join now is that ZenZuu is going to have a revenue sharing plan! It is going to be like MySpace definitely. However it is going to be MySpace for people who would like to make a little cash for their efforts. I have no idea what the income potential is, but their ideas seem good to me. It is a great place for entrepreneurs or people who want to make friends around the world.
Here is my profile link if you want to visit my site and see what it is like. I even have a join through me button on my profile, so that would be great to have you use it!
Today is a celebration where I work. You might say it is for Human Rights because it is the high school class graduation ceremony tonight where I teach. YAY. I wonder at the possiblities each graduate has before them as they go forth into the world. Now is the time when they are no longer required by law to be anywhere at any time (other than curfew violations).
Some of my students want to go into the Military, some former students already have. I almost burst into tears when they come back to visit me in their dress uniforms. They look so grown up and have changed from students who I was hoping I would inspire into young men and women who have chosen to serve our country as best they can. They join the military because they want to help people. They do not really want to go to fight in a war, but they want to help the people who suffer as a result of the war, or as a result of the reason for the war.
Sometimes it is difficult to speak of Human Rights without it getting political or violating someone’s opinion of what is Right and what is Wrong.
Life on planet Earth is not ideal. It is difficult to face that thousands of people still suffer with malnutrition and hunger daily. Why should this still be happening? Can’t we end this? It has been going on forever it seems. Will it ever end?
Now we have devestation in China and in the country, or area, that was known as Burma. Thousands have died in an instant. Plus the diseases and the effects from the Cyclone and the Earthquake are going to be horrible.
Each year those of us more fortunate get called on to help those of us less fortunate. While some of us will continue to act as if nothing is wrong there are still several of us who will donate what we can to help.
I am lucky that I get to see the generousity of people where I work. We donate pennies for patients and fill shopping carts up with food to give to homeless shelters. People donate DVDs to soldiers in Veteran’s Hospitals so they have some relief from the day to day boredom. I have others who volunteer at homeless shelters.
Since we have a day to think about the wide area of Human Rights, maybe more and more people will become aware. Maybe a few more people will take time or some money to support a worthy cause to help someone’s life become a bit better. I hope we see Helping Humans become a more popular cause in the next year.
Trackbacks are supposed to be a way to get one blog to interact with another blog. Well I am seeing if I can figure out what they are and how to use them because then when I get something great to add to this blog I can just trackback to it or have them trackback to me. LOL…yes it all sounds confusing to me and I consider myself to be a bit of a blogging expert.
Ok now that you know even the experts spend hours learning so they can teach others I hope you will think no less of me.
Here is a trackback link to my friend Alex Sysoef’s comments on social networking. I will speak more of this institution later because when you are looking for support there is often strength in the right social network group. It does not have to be all about finding someone to date either. There can be more to it than that.
Ok well I am not sure how to do this at all. If anyone knows how to set them up please leave me a comment. In the meantime I will experiment here.
I see that when you add your post to a free word press blog you are able to add trackbacks, so I am going to trackback to two links.
We were talking about the band The B52’s today. Someone who is 18 and lives in Puerto Rico and me, and oldie but a goodie from California, USA. Wow that was fun going to YouTube and listening to just some pure fun music. If you ever need to cheer someone up send them this link so they can hear the Lobster Song. Rock Lobster.
Well I could not add it to this blog, but if you want to listen to it and see the total nostalgic look I recommend it. You are sure to smile. Here is the link to where I have it posted.
