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3/23

52 week challenge...

So there's this photographer, A. Hedges - and I have to say she does beautiful work... and she decided to have a 52 week challenge - which intrigues me...

So... on the advice of my friend Jacki, I am doing a 365 day challenge - a photo a day that I have taken that means something to me, or has been important to me.  Working with the camera has been a newer addiction, I like what I see through the lens, am learning that I have a decent eye... and that this is a great source of fun and stress relief.  Walking through the woods, or down near a swamp or out in the snow... they all have such opportunity.  There are past photos and new ones that I have posted here.  I am starting my 365 days now, LOL - not like I EVER do anything the right way!

So, Day one:                                                      3/19/2012

Gwen

3/20 Busy Robin

3/21 Misty Morning

3/22 - New Paltz

whenever I'm alone with you

Long time no post - been ok, not much to say right now - maintaining my life as it is... a little lonely at times.  I have been out on some interesting (read crappy) dates.  Finding out who I am, and what I want is a terribly time consuming issue. 

Whatever.

I am just at the point where I don't know what to say anymore - I believe that staying single is probably the best way for me to go... will help with the trust and faith in men issue. LOL.  We'll   see what happens. 

good day, sunshine...

Weddings wedding everywhere... and not a minute to sleep!

Just Kidding - my little cousin is getting married in two days - wow.  It seems like only yesterday she was sitting in her little Michael Jackson T-shirt on her front porch... I am glad she has found someone that makes her happy, and vice versa...

I'm singing at the wedding.  Can you say petrified?  I can.  I feel it. 

She doesn't like being front and center either, so we have that in common...  BUT.  She will make a stunning bride - and that is what I am looking forward to - knowing that I make part of her day special ( I hope)

So.  Tomorrow night rehearsal - will try to post pics - then Saturday meeting with the string quartet to practice (one and only time) before the wedding. 

Wish me luck!

that our flag was still there...

.  On this 10th anniversary of September 11, I am filled with sadness at the lives lost, yet bolstered by the thought that we as a Nation, are stronger people.  New Yorkers have guts, stubborn natures, and will fight every day for our Independence.
 I found this quote:

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.

~Arthur Schopenhauer

It seems to sum it up.  While we grieve for those lives lost, we can treasure those lives that we have with us now. I am not a praying person... I believe that every religion has its benefit and its detriment, and I believe that we all should have the choice as to what to practice, and what to preach.  I'll leave it with these thoughts...

We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ~John Taylor

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. ~Erich Fromm

and one of my favorites...

It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.
The Declaration of Arbroath

Love to all.

Rolling in the Deep

I love this song... her voice speaks to me, gives me goosebumps.  I feel I've reached the end of the  decision making, and the betrayal.  So, live, laugh and love - give up what is lost, and move onto different places and people.  Others lost and lose far more.  Self respect, morals and dignity.  I got the better end of the deal...

So, rolling in the deep -

There's a fire starting in my heart

Reaching a fever pitch and it's bring me out the dark

Finally I can see you crystal clear

Go ahead and sell me out and I'll lay your ship bare

See how I'll leave, with every piece of you

Don't underestimate the things that I will do

There's a fire starting in my heart

Reaching a fever pitch and it's bring me out the dark

The scars of your love remind me of us

They keep me thinking that we almost had it all

The scars of your love, they leave me breathless

I can't help feeling

We could have had it all

Rolling in the deep

You had my heart inside your hand

And you played it to the beat

Baby, I have no story to be told

But I've heard one of you and I'm gonna make your head burn

Think of me in the depths of your despair

Making a home down there as mine sure won't be shared

The scars of your love remind you of us

They keep me thinking that we almost had it all

The scars of your love, they leave me breathless

I can't help feeling

We could have had it all

Rolling in the deep

You had my heart inside your hand

And you played it to the beat

Could have had it all

Rolling in the deep

You had my heart inside your hand

But you played it with a beating

Throw your soul through every open door

Count your blessings to find what you look for

Turn my sorrow into treasured gold

You pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow

(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me)

We could have had it all

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

We could have had it all

(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me)

It all, it all, it all, it all

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me)

We could have had it all

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

Rolling in the deep

(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me)

You had my heart and soul

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

And you played it to the beat

(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me)

Could have had it all

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

Rolling in the deep

(Now I'm gonna wish you never had met me)

You had my heart and soul in your hand

(Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep)

But you played it, you played it, you played it to the beat