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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:00:31 -0800

So, I realize that with those last two posts I went straight from Halloween into Christmas so here is the obligatory Thanksgiving Day post. Have a piece of pumpkin pie. on. a. cupcake. *grin*

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:48:55 -0800

Have you seen THIS wonderful collaboration of Stumblers? Up next, a reading of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". Still one spot open as of this writing!
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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:41:47 -0800

Last week, I stopped by the Dia de los Muertos celebration at school. They handed out adorable sugar skulls much like these...I love 'em!

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:15:06 -0800

"The Fiddler"

Marc Chagall

Truly a timeless and universal theme, Wikipedia explains this metaphor for life, captured in Marc Chagall's painting of "The Fiddler"

"The musical's title stems from a painting by Marc Chagall, one of many surreal paintings he created of Eastern European Jewish life, often including a fiddler. The Fiddler is a metaphor for survival, through tradition and joyfulness, in a life of uncertainty and imbalance."

I watched the local HS theatre production of this show last night. I think it's been twenty years (at least) since I saw the film. Watching it now as an adult, a parent, and through the eyes of life experience, it made me laugh, made me cry, but most of all, it made me appreciative of life....all of it.

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Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:45:36 -0700

Come Little Children
I'll Take Thee Away, Into A Land
Of Enchantment

Come Little Children
The Time's Come To Play
Here In My Garden
Of Magic

Follow Sweet Children
I'll Show Thee The Way
Through All The Pain And
The Sorrows

Weep Not Poor Children
For Life Is This Way
Murdering Beauty And
Passions

Hush Now Dear Children
It Must Be This Way
To Weary Of Life And
Deceptions

Rest Now My Children
For Soon We'll Away
into The Calm And
The Quiet

~ Edgar Allen Poe OR John Debney (debated)

A melancholy witch's call to entice or lure poor innocents into the dark side. At least, that is how Disney chose to include it in one of my all time favorite Halloween movies, Hocus Pocus. For years my little chickadee and I would snuggle together and enjoy some hot cocoa with marshmallows and watch this movie together. The first clip is the poem; the second is a rousing rendition of the classic: "I Put a Spell On You"...love Bette!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt0tnVR9Dr8

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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:20:42 -0700

I like to tell my mom that she warped me as a young girl. It all goes back to one Halloween party forty or so years ago when she brainstormed costumes for my sister and I. We were each to go as Cinderella, with one ingenious twist: Our costumes were Cinderella, before and after. My sister, blonde and blue eyed, was dressed as the "after" Cinderella, the one who had been transformed into a princess by the fairy godmother. My sister had a shiny tiara resting in her curls and wore a pretty party dress while home fashioned "glass" slippers adorned her feet.

I, brunette and pale child that I was, was awarded the role of the "before" Cinderella, the one who wore rags and had coal smeared on her face. To add insult to injury, my sister and I were bound together by a ribbon, so that everyone could see that we were costumed as a pair.

I did manage to salvage my self esteem somehow, and actually my mom called it right. I am soooo not a fairy princess, and I believe that time spent in ashes is character building. However, I do pull the story out from time to time to tease my mom a bit. I am still waiting for a chance to try on that glass slipper, though. **

**sarcasm, I think...maybe... :)

***THIS is my favorite Cinderella story.

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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:51:48 -0700

I know I haven't blogged much here lately...sorry, folks! School has taken all my time, energy, and creativity lately. But I miss it here and will contribute when I can! I still love to visit blogs, thumb up sites, share pages, and send notes during down time, but it's about all I have the brain cells for after a long day.
I hope you all will bear with me, but if you want to unsubscribe, etc..please feel free to do so. I'd love it though if people would keep sharing or drop a note now and then, or come visit me on Twitter where I have been known to write a very short line or two!

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Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:38:05 -0700

The Sunken Cemetery; Camiguin Island, Philippines

"Lying 20 feet underwater in front of barrio Bonbon, Camiguin Island lies the Sunken Cemetery, the remains of the past volcano eruption. Coral encrusted tombstones can still be explored by snorkelers and scuba divers."

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Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:25:28 -0700

"Anythin' for a quiet life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse"

~Charles Dickens

Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse Sunset, Mt Desert Island, Maine

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Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:49:55 -0700

Now shall I walk
or shall I ride?
"Ride," Pleasure said:
"Walk," Joy replied.
~W.H. Davies

Gorgeous photo found on the delicious pages of Lanfears-Lair, who found it on the pages of Analepsis.