a new day.....

yesterday was a dark day.......
influenced by over-the-counter-drugs.......
today.....a lighter day....celebrating....bubble baths and hot wassail, bo Bice's new CD. and the anticipation of "goin' to town".
so, when you're feelin' blue, remember this:
tomorrow's a brand new day!!!!

rambling thoughts from one influenced by antihistamines....

How is it that one can feel so........lost, in the midst of a sea of people coming and going.......dancing in a symphony of movement that seems to propel them nowhere...........they are ever blissful and blinded in the shades of grey that have enveloped them and, somehow, do not realize that just beyond the grey is the most beautiful, brilliant, clarion of purity......
..........the masses are so drawn to the symphony, yet, I have no use for it.
I refuse to settle for the dreary when at my fingertips are available such treasures that I cannot fathom......abundances so rich......
I feel rich and I feel poor.
I feel weak and I feel strong.
I feel joy and I feel utter despair.
I feel love and I feel disappointment.
I wear my humanity on my heart so that no one sees me, the real me, and so, no one knows that I am not part of the dance, that symphony of grey.
No one knows my despair.......save one......the One who knows all things.....the One who wraps His loving arms around me and whispers in my ear the things that I need to hear.....only He knows.......only He knows.......
Funny, to me, how perfectly sucessful one can exsist in the grey from the inside looking out, but, from the outside looking in is not a picture of success, at all, but it is, instead, the very picture of hell......

learning about WW2....

The girls and I have been studying World War 2 and they are really enjoying seeing our history unfold before their very eyes and I have really enjoyed re-learning about this pivotal event.
One of the ways that I have taught about this war is through movies.....we LOVE movies and I thought: there are some great movies about WW2, what a great way to see it and learn about it, so, we have watched some great videos and will watch Tora, Tora, Tora!: a great movie about Pearl Harbour.
I want to show them "The Big Red One", "Midway", "Patton", and of course, "Saving Private Ryan", which will be very difficult for me, if you know me at all, you'll know why.....
I loved showing them, "Fat Man and Little Boy", the story of the race for the atom bomb.
My dad worked out at Hanford during this time and he has an original copy of the memo sent to the Hanford workers after the war telling them of their part in the nuclear program that helped to end the war, signed by Oppenhiemer himself and the general over-seeing the Manhattan Project.
We will also deal with the Holocaust....."Shindler's List" and I am really looking forward to sharing with them "The Hiding Place" which is the story of Corrie Tenboom and her family's plight in the death camps.
History has always fascinated me in that we can see and understand where we came from, and knowing that helps us to understand where we are going.