Sun and Sand beckons
I can see it on the rise
Far from wintery winds and snow
Palms and surf will meet my eyes.
Cayo Largo beckons
And hither I flee
But I will think of you
Till I return to thee.
And it is Margaritas in each hand!
Adios Amigos see you in a week!
Judith Baxter at growingyoungereachday.wordpress.com tagged me for Mrs. Sparkly’s Ten Commandments. Now the Commandments part is interesting as it is 10 questions to be answered by the tagee (or is it taggee?) This is probably the most fun award I have seen yet. Then I tag five other bloggers on behalf of Mrs. Sparkly.
I did a search on google for said Mrs. and came upon at least fifty posts from wordpress.com all with a similar title and more than one had the picture to the left. So I borrowed it hoping that this indeed is Mrs. S.
Now for the Q&A!
1. Describe yourself in seven words. Positive Loving Growing Seeking Creative Thoughtful Gentle
2. What keeps you up at night? Thoughts Memories Aspirations Fears Creativity. Sometimes I think it would be wonderful to be able to be awake 24/7 or one of those genius types who sleeps only 3 0r 4 hours but my I do enjoy a good night’s sleep.
3. Whom would you like to be? Sometimes I feel like I am so many people I am not sure there is room for another which there would have to be if I had to include someone else I would like to be. I can’t imagine wanting to be someone else besides what would the motivation be? More - beauty, wealth, success? To be rid of my problems? I guess there is none other I would choose to be like. Now how unimaginative is that?
4. What are you wearing now? Blue jeans, purple sweater, black socks. Nuts when I first read Judith’s post and I saw this question I told myself to be sure to wear something interesting and or delightful. Alas I seldom listen to myself and there is little use in creative false description when the fun part of all this is honesty.
5. What scares you? Way too much scares me. I would have thought at this age I would have overcome fear, that I would be so comfortable in my skin and mind and so wonderously philosophical that nothing would scare me. The biggest thing is fear of failure, fear of not being the best I can be, fear of not grasping the moment. It is this fear which tries to prevent me from trying new things, from completing some things. The good news is that it is a fear that grows less and less each day and some days I actually have it on the run!
6. What are the best and worst things about blogging? This is sort of two sides of the same coin. The best is reading all the wonderful blogs out there and so many leave me with a feeling of awe. The worst is realizing all the talent and fearing I may not measure up and at the same time inspiring me to reach those lofty heights of excellence.
7. What was the last website you looked at? Other than googling Mrs. Sparkly it would be the kitchensgarden.wordpress. com. I feel driven, and yes that is the only word possible to describe this need to read every word Celi has written. I started with her first post and am about half way through. I randomly read posts past and present of all my favs but this is different and I can’t quite explain it. Maybe I will be able to once I finish.
8. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be? Well I am sure if you read all of the above you will know my answer to this one. Why I would be the bravest soul on earth! No Fear!
9. Slankets, yes or no? I’ll bet this is most searched word lately and the answer is a ‘No’
10. Tell us something about the person who tagged you. Now that is pure pleasure. Judith Baxter is an incredible person living in New Zealand who lives truly by her words, ‘I choose how I will spend the rest of my life.’ I don’t think Judith would even recognize the word retirement. She is active, volunteering with Hospice, consulting, treasuring her family and learning every day. I have told her previously I see her as the very classy Jessica J.B. Fletcher although she gives no indication of solving multiple murders on a weekly basis.
Now I must tag five others and have chosen people whose answers most interest me.
Celi at thekitchensgarden.wordpress.com Winsomebella.wordpress.com Joss at crowingcrone.wordpress.com Barbfroman.wordpress.com Colleen at bikecolleenbrown.wordpress.com
Oh I just thought of 5 or 50 more!
*thanks to Photobucket for images!
First..apologies to those who hate iPad presentations…please click in the bottom where it says ‘standard site’ or whatever it says there. Because you see, I missed my window of sleep. You know..the window..where I could drift off to the land of Nod but did not.
Secondly, I seem to be fighting..well actually struggling with a cold..you know, a few sneezes perhaps a little sinus congestion…geez.
I have watched in wonder and awe as folk have described their search terms. Those googled by who knows who receive all these hits based on misinformation.
Shucks I wish mine was that exciting.
Soft Kitty Warm Kitty took top honors and why not. My G2 seems to have outgrown the stage where he snuggles down at the very start of the song but I have to tell you..three versions into the song he is gone..hmm could it be aversion therapy? Funny thing though..it comforts me….sigh
If Snowflakes Fell in Flavours took second…I don’t care where you are from this is the best children’s record ever. I MEAN EVER!
Marie Bottrell and the Memphis Cats website was next.
My search terms are pretty tame I guess although ‘grandma dressed in blue sitting on the loo’ is a little strange.
So I’m thinking this is about right.
Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper oh and me, Donna.
My ‘bar’ days are in the distant past but there still is one place that is more home like than bar like that my friends and I enjoy and that is The Commercial in Maryhill. (I know I have mentioned it previously). It is the ultimate Cheers ‘Sometimes you want to go, Where everybody knows your name and they’re always glad you came.’
This past weekend Paul and Sylvia Weber, owners of the Commercial, hosted Bill Culp and the Memphis Cats who brought along Jeff Giles as Buddy Holly. I had never seen Jeff perform before and he is incredible in the role and lives up to all the hype you can google. He has played Buddy in a number of stage plays of the Buddy Holly Story and when he comes to the stage as Jeff there is a subtle morph to Buddy with the first strum of the guitar.
The show was an anniversary tribute as the previous Friday (Feb 3) was the 53rd anniversary of the death of Buddy, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, J.P. Richardson from a plane crash. With the loss of so much talent at one time the date has been referred to as, ‘The Day The Music Died‘.
The plane trip was a last minute arrangement and the original three passengers were Buddy Holly, Waylon Jennings and Tommy Allsup. Richardson (the Big Bopper) had the flu and asked Waylon for his seat and Ritchie Valens got Tommy’s seat in a coin toss. So much for fate.
All were well represented. Bill Culp is talented in so many ways but when he started The Big Bopper’s Chantilly Lace it was as though he was meant for that song in that moment.
Bruce Tournay, that white knight of song and the keyboard, as you know is a long standing heart throb of mine, and when he sang Ritchie Valen‘s Oh Donna (I had already volunteered to be Donna when no one else in the room claimed the name), he knelt on one knee, held my hand, gazed into my eyes and sang, I was, I was…well…..Actually I was a very unfashionable beet red color due to the embarrassment of the whole thing.
The most fun, almost, next to the above, was when Jeff explained how Snowball dances were conducted way back when, and he had all of the band come off stage to dance with us, and then snowball. (You may have to google that if they were not part of your past!).
It was a wonderful show and if you get a chance to see any of these guys do catch their show.
I antiqued the first photo which was kind of fun!
Our friend Pauline volunteered to sit in a Maria Elena Buddy's wife
The Stage
Mother Nature you trickster
It may be 48 hours rather than a day but…..and here
and today same time of day…
Today Feb 1 2012
Good old wonderful common sense with the perfect twist of wit!
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. – General George Patton.
I’ve been thinking about challenges lately, overcoming challenges, and what success is. What is a successful person? What is success? That got me wondering about how to measure success. There are a multitude of companies out there who make their success by talking about the measurement of success, and really that is all you can do – talk about it. They purport to motivate, help you define your own meaning of success, and as the presentations are paid for by the company you work for, usually to meet the company’s definition of success.
There are all kinds of tools out there to help you measure, to help you know that yes you are or are not successful. I’m thinking that the only way true way is not by measurement of any sort but by feeling. I’m thinking that success is immeasurable.
We, I, look at someone else and say, “That person is successful.” But when you speak to that person, he or she may not perceive being successful. Is success being satisfied with what you have rather than striving for something you do not have? Are we being deceived for the purpose of gain to believe that we must want, that we should strive?
I have always thought of Demi Moore as successful, someone whose work I admire (although I do acknowledge it is easy to confuse the actor with the character). She would say, I think, she is unsuccessful because her want is unsatisfied. How do we know that? She said, “What scares me is that I’m going to ultimately find out at the end of my life that I’m really not loveable.”
Even if you concede that success is something defined by each person the measurement of success is still feeling and not really measurable at all. Suppose your definition is money. Suppose you have eighty percent of the world’s money but are still not satisfied. It is not the acquisition of money, it is the feeling that it is enough.
Yup I’m thinking success is a feeling and no number of charts, written goals or affirmations can define success.
Feel it. Be it. Don’t measure it by someone else’s yard stick.
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