Chancedance Chronicles'Perhaps the poet whose verses gladden us was sad and solitary, and the musician a melancholic dreamer...What they give us is no longer their darkness, their suffering or fears, but a drop of pure light, eternal cheerfulness...' --Herman Hesse, Magister
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Feature of the Week: Wings of Change Lyric of the Week Can you remember my name As I flow through your life A thousand oceans I have flown And cold spirits of ice All my life I am the echo of your past Perfect Strangers~Deep Purple
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11/25/11 Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! I
hope your Holiday went well and that you all have much to be
thankful for. This Thanksgiving I'm thankful that my mom was
recently declared cancer-free, my dear sister-in-law had a
successful kidney transplant and that hubby and I have good jobs as
we head into the Christmas season and New Year. We are looking
forward to an upcoming vacation to Mazatlan in less than 2 weeks and
then planning to visit my mom in the spring or early summer. I'm
also about to take a mosaic class, something I've wanted to do for a
long time but couldn't find locally. Now my request to the universe
has been answered by the
Mandarin Gallery in Lakewood, WA. I'm very excited to see what
the next few weeks and the new year bring! Also, I have a very
important birthday to note: 10/2/11 Looks like my visits here are getting further and further apart. Summer arrived so late it was barely here and now it is already gone and Halloween decorations have replaced flowers in my yard. We managed to get a lot of riding in on the sunny days we had but the Harley is now stowed again, probably until December when we'll ride for kids on the various Toy Runs around here every year. Last year we did a big one in Olympia with one of the BFC kids riding in front. BFC stands for Bikers Fighting Cancer, and sadly, that precious young lady who rode so proudly at the front of the line won't be there this year. She did not live through the summer. Her short life was well-lived however, and she left a legacy behind in hopes that future kids wouldn't have to suffer as she did. Her name is Rhema Butler and she co-founded an organization called Rhema's Reality that raises money for Children's Cancer Research. Please take a moment to donate if you can at Rhema's Reality Facebook page. Life is shifting around our house now as we plan for hunting season, pumpkin carving and a Halloween Party. It was a busy summer, but fall brings a different kind of busy with time flying by in a different way. Over the summer I took a watercolor painting class. Now I'm trying to use what I learned and get together enough paintings for a show while also painting headstones for 2 Halloween parties. The current play at Lakewood Playhouse is Something Wicked This Way Comes and the title seems fitting for an October show. We're seeing it next weekend. I also got a Kindle this summer, a gift from my sweet and thoughtful husband. I am liking it a lot more than I thought I would so want to share two links to free books with you. One is at Amazon Kindle's site, the Top 100 Free Books and the other is the Project Gutenberg site. Happy reading! 6/16/11 Holy crap! I can't believe it's been almost 3 months since I updated here. I assure you it's not due to laziness but to the opposite. I've been working my tail off between work, the theater, painting class and running around. New Orleans was awesome and we can't wait to go back! Click here for the report and photos. The watercolor painting class was fun and I learned a lot. I've given most of the pictures away so there's none for me to post but I will paint more so keep watching. My most recent project was to paint a bunch of signs for Lakewood Playhouse's current production of Sweeney Todd. The show is absolutely amazing so don't miss it!. Click here for details or to buy tickets. This update's Lyric is a lost classic that I happened to hear drift in from the TV last night where it was used in the sound track of a movie. I'm glad for that because it's a real gem! Anybody remember Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson? 3/30/11 Added a few more poems and stories in the Rhymes, Dreamscapes and Prose sections. 3/24/11 My first clump of daffs is finally blooming and my tulips are setting buds despite the slower than usual arrival of spring. I did have one day last weekend nice enough for some weeding and garden-prepping and have about a dozen little seedlings in my office window waiting to be placed outside in their new homes soon. The tricky part this time of year is not to do it too soon. I've still had to scrape some pretty nasty ice off my car windows this week. Meanwhile, a check on the weather.com temperature map shows me that it's already 80 in New Orleans so I am getting very excited for our trip there next month over Easter weekend. That's right, Troy and I are scratching one thing off our bucket list and going to eat hardy and laissez les bon temps roulez in New Orleans! We're staying in the French Quarter a block away from Bourbon Street and plan to visit Voodoo Harley, the cemetery and as many eating establishments as we can fit in. We hope to squeeze in a boat ride through the bayous but not sure if it fits as we only have 4 days. We got a good deal on the trip too, air and hotel for both of us for a little over $800. Somewhere in all this I'm also trying to fit a watercolor painting class into my budget, but the conflict with the vacation and needing to replace my cell phone before we go is a little challenging. Still, these are great problems to have considering how much worse so many others have it and indeed, we were way worse off this time last year so I can't complain if I have to take the class later instead of starting in 3 weeks. 3/2/11 Spring is slowly working its way past the gray skies of winter with hints of green and sunny days that tease with brightness but lack any heat yet. It was showing a little more in earnest the weekend before last down in Oregon when we went for our annual Presidents Day getaway. One of the reasons we like to go there in late February when our daffodils are barely poking their leaves out up here in Washington, they are already blooming further south in Oregon. I took some photos and got some inspiration for some art while away and hope to do some painting very soon. Until that's ready, below are a few photos from our trip. More are on my facebook page:
2/6/11 Rage
against the dying of the light. Rage
against death, cancer, despotic rulers and psycho killers. Weep for
the deaths of the weak, the innocent and the oppressed. Evil wins
when good men do nothing. This has been a hard week. Riots and
unrest in Egypt, murderous rampages all over, cancer returning to
children in my BFC circle, and the death of another, only 3 years
old, in the wee hours of this morning. It's easy to give in to
despair and the sickening sense of helplessness. So I say again,
RAGE against the dying of the light! Love each other. Give money to
disease research until cures are found. Help one another. Cry if you
must, but keep on trying to be a source of help and kindness. Don't
know where to begin? Here are some links to see how others are
helping:
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