A list in progress... please feel free to share your own global gastro-phenomenal destination recommendations!

__ La Tupina in Bordeaux, France

__ Dhabba in Glasgow, Scotland

__ Pizzeria Caravanserraglio in Ragusa, Italy

Looking forward to hot chocolate with Bailey's, snow angels, snow boards, and hot springs... two days 'til the mountain... *happy*

“We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can’t do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it.”
— Chögyam Trungpa

... she is said to have a bit of a crush on Dr Sagan. ;-)

Check out Symphony of Science for more info and free downloads of this song and A Glorious Dawn. Many props to Jack White for putting A Glorious Dawn out on his label... and rock on, John Boswell!

I am sick - boooooo!!!! Right before vacation! >< Not happy.

Oh yeaaahhhhhh, it's Clare's BIRTHDAY!!!! :-D Happy birthday to you!!! I hope it was fabulous!

It's almost 3am... don't geese sleep? It's a raucous, honking party outside!

What's up with loneliness?

I had a five minute visit with a reader today. She looked at my hands and then had me cut the deck once, quickly looked, then again, quickly looked... then told me in her old woman Ukraikian accent to quit my job and move to France for 8 weeks. Well then.

This song is sorta sad to me... but I like her voice. Pretty but sad.



Daniel, when I first saw you
I knew that you had a flame in your heart
And under wild blue skies
Marlboro ruby skies
I found a home in your eyes
And we'd never be apart

And when the fires came
The smell of cinders and rain
Perfumed almost everything
We laughed and laughed and laughed

And in the golden blue
Car you took me to
The darkest place you knew
And set fire to my heart

When I run in the dark
Daniel
Into a place that's vast
Daniel
Under a sheet of rain in my heart
Daniel
I dream of home

But in a goodbye bed
With my arms around your neck
Into our mouths our tears crept
Just kids in the eye of the storm
And as my house spun round
My dreams pulled me up from the ground
Forever to search for the flame
For home again
For home again

Ahhhh... my vacation has been fabulous so far. Sleeping in, dancing, yoga, exploring the Como Zoo and Conservatory, time with family and friends, amazing weather, and bubbly by the lake... mmmm... :-)

Best F-book and real life friends ever. So lucky to know you all. Thanks you guys... even just taking a few minutes out of your busy days to drop a caring line. Thanks. *mwaaa!*

It's been raining all day... the lake is finally getting a chance to fill back up... it's been so low.

It was a long day today. Worked from 1:15p to 10:15p. I've got so much to do. Work stresses me out.

Been thinking about how I haven't done yoga in... hmmm... about a year. I'm talking a class... not the few down dogs I've managed on the back porch. Wondering when I'll get back into it. Maybe it's a break I've needed... maybe not. I hope I get back into myself, soon... I haven't felt centered in a long time, and I miss it. Where am I? I had a dream awhile back that my ancestors were talking about me and saying if I went to far into the swamp that I might never be able to get back out... I don't want to be lost in the swamp... where the heck am I?

Rain rain rain... good for sleeping... too bad I can't sleep all day tomorrow... so much to do. I'm really looking forward to feeling my feet under me and taking my vacation time before October. Maybe I'll get some yoga in. It's too bad a week goes so fast... I could use two.

G'night.

Still nights like this are beautiful. The leaves look like they're sleeping, and the lake's a perfect mirror.

Sic gorgiamus allos subjectatos nunc...

We gladly feast on those who would subdue us.

;-p

These songs are awesome to hoop to! I really enjoy this group. I hope to see them in person some day! :-)

Crow, for some reason I thought of you while making this post... thought you might appreciate the tall, lanky, middle drummer from the vid... he's got a great groove! ;-)

"My Angel, my all, my other self,

Just a few words today, and that in pencil.  Yours.  Only tomorrow will I know for certain where I am to stay.  A worthless waste of time and such.  Why this deep sorrow?  If we could be united, we would feel this pain no longer. Where I am, you are with me, too.  Soon we shall live together, and what a life it will be.

The journey was dreadful.  I did not arrive here until 4 in the morning.  At the last stop they warned me against traveling at night and tried to frighten me about a forest, but that only tempted me.  The coach had to go and break down on such a terrible road for no reason, just a country road.  And now I am held up completely, but I have found another, and we will surely see each other soon.  Today, I hope.  I have to see you.  However much you love me, I love you more.  Never hide yourself from me.

While still in my bed, my thoughts turn to you my immortal beloved, some of them happy, some sad.  Waiting to see whether fate will hear us.  I can live only completely with you or not at all.  Yes, it must be.  I must go to sleep now.  Be calm, love.  Today, yesterday, what longing with tears for you.  You, you're my life, my everything.  Farewell then, go on loving me. 

Ever yours, ever mine, forever."

-Immortal Beloved [love letter from Beethoven]

"Because he shut himself off the world, they called him hostile. They said he was unfeeling and called him callous, but he was not hard of heart. It is the finest blades that are most easily blunted, bent, or broken. He withdrew from his fellow man after he had given them everything and had received nothing in return. He lived alone because he found no second self. Thus he was, thus he died, thus he will live for all time."
-Opening lines from the movie Immortal Beloved

Il mio cuore rimarrà impenetrabile perché non posso sopportare ulteriori sofferenze.

Are you kidding me with this?!?!  I've got to go.

4 hours in to a 7 hour sitting. I love it so far! Much detailing, defining, and coloring to come. I LOVE the speckling of the birds so far... and they're so sweet. They will have more definition in the end.

Who wants some Rock-n-Roll?? Happy me! :-)

Yay!! I'm updating from my bed, and it's so cool! ;-) I got a new monitor... it's a 23 inch flatscreen.... and a wireless keyboard! :-) So now my tower is back in action! I'd just been using my laptop... but yay!! Movie watching from bed on a big, crisp screen is always an enjoyable thing to do on a low key night in. Happy me!! :-)