Dearest  Sirenita:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!!!  I hope that life continues to bring you joy and fulfillment.

I missed your actual day of birth (11-4) but I know you are celebrating today so it’s still timely.  I had never been a member of a social network before and I had… Read full post »

I can't sleep so I am trolling reddit and found this amazing video.  I once saw  Tibetan monks do a mandala at a university performance but this is so much more and so different

"Kseniya Simonova is a Ukrainian artist who just won the "Ukraine's Got Talent" competition. She uses a… Read full post »

ok, I promise to actually write something myself next time instead of copy and pasting but here is one more:

From here: http://www.billionairesforwealthcare.com/

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 Billionaires thank teabaggers for their support

| September 12, 2009 | 

It was… Read full post »

Yes I saw this on Facebook but I wanted to put something up over my last post.  Mike Rowe, Elizabeth Gilbert and Jacqueline Novogratz speak on work.

From:  blog.ted.com

"Most TEDTalks are about work of some kind. It's often creative work, inspired work, work that doesn't feel like work. Bu… Read full post »

This is going viral on the web and I think it is awesome.   I have been unable to determine the author, grammar and spelling is as I found it.

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I AM AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered

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Texas has taken some ribbing lately over comments made by Governor Perry that would have one believe Texas only elects the goofy ones.  Texas has 24 million citizens and we have good and bad in our state just like there is every other place but we really do have a lot/… Read full post »

This past Friday was a beautiful, perfect day so I decided to leave work a couple of hours early so I could get to a local nursery and pick out some of the herbs I was going to plant this weekend.   I ended up at a nursery still in a semi… Read full post »

I do not have a green thumb.  Not only do I not have such a thumb, I do not care for gardening, cleaning up yards or mowing the lawn.  I do these things but not with love in my heart!  I really should live in a condo except I can’t afford… Read full post »

To an OS member who puts community in OS

Hope you have a great day tomorrow!

A quote

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. - Groucho Marx

   A card:

 A song

Maya Lin is returning to Washington DC for the first time in more than 25 years.   Her exhibit titled “Systematic Landscapes” opened at the Corcoran last Saturday and will run until July 12.

Maya describes herself as an architect, an artist and a creator of monuments. &nbs… Read full post »

I know this open call is almost done but I felt strongly Carl Sandburg had to be at this particular party.  His words are still relevant today and his belief in the power of people to go forward no matter the odds is simply yesteryear's "Yes We Can".   These are tough… Read full post »

This is one of my favorites ever.  When I was in Speech and Drama and had to find poems to read in competition I found Nikki Giovanni's "The Women and the Men".  I know this might sound weird but I did not know you could buy this book so I told… Read full post »

I got this in my email and thought I would share.  I do not know anything about it, it was just an email.  Sandra Cisneros was the founder.

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 Normally you must be nominated by a Macondo member to be considered to participate in th… Read full post »

Sometimes when something I have to do sounds hard or complicated I put it off and hope that the need for having to do such a thing goes away. Most of the time these “hard things” are personal.

The lesson I keep being taught but apparently not learning very… Read full post »

I remember the first time I heard Lila Downs on the radio, (pre Frida soundtrack) singing La Llorona and I had to stop the car because I was mesmerized by what I was hearing.  I had never had to stop the car for a song before! I was lucky enough to… Read full post »