“Sensual pleasures have the fleeting
brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has
the tranquillity of a lovely sunset.”
Ann Landers
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Category Archives: January
Keep Moving Forward
“You may not control all the events that happen to you,
but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”
Maya Angelou
Happy New Year.
Day one of 2016. New Years Day has always been a springboard for most of my life changing new beginnings. But as we all know from experience, it’s not easy to keep those resolutions. I think this 20th Century proverb I found pretty much sums it up:
Your New Years resolution
Resolve to renew
All your old resolves.
And add a few
That are new.
Resolve to keep them
As long as you can.
What more can a
Poor man do.
Weeks before New Years Eve, I began making my list of goals for the new year. I reviewed my list from 2015 and was happy that I did reach some of my goals. However, the goals that I didn’t reach, have now moved to the top of my 2016 goal list.
As I prepared and pondered over my Goals for the Year, I happen to read a post from a fellow blogger, Erika Kind that inspired me. Erika wrote about how our past does not define our future. She wrote about . . . how the experience you made in the past is not the experience that lies in the future.
Never believe that whatever happened in the past is direction for the future.
When I read this post, a light went off in my head. Her writing rang so true to what I wanted to work on for the coming year. Not only to work on, but to make it my mantra. To learn not only to let go of the past, also to learn from the past. And most importantly, no matter what happens to keep moving forward.
Shine On
Happy Birthday Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born January 27, 1756 and died on December 5, 1791
He was the most prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He began composing and performing before European royalty at the age of five. Composing over 600 works of music, he is among the most enduring and popular of the classical composers.
Happy Birthday Mozart.
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Cloudy With a Chance of Rain
“When I was in the hospital they gave me apple juice every morning,
even after I told them I didn’t like it. I had to get even.
One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube.
The nurse held it up and said, ‘It’s a little cloudy.’
I took the tube from her and said,
‘Let me run it through again,’
and drank it. The nurse fainted.”
Alan King
The clouds are high as ones eye can see
Spanning the width of the never ending sea
I can feel the pressure in every part of me
Pressure building
Waiting for the rain
I don’t need the weather man
To tell me about the precipitation
I can feel it and see it that’s all I need
Telling each part of me
That it’s cloudy with a chance of rain
That it’s cloudy with a chance of rain
By: J R
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Funny Girl
Funny Girl Album Cover from 1965 Broadway Show
One of my all time favorite musicals “Funny Girl” was on television the other night. I was just a kid when my parents brought this Broadway hit album home in 1965. It didn’t take me long before I had every lyric of every song memorized.
“Funny Girl” became a huge hit, not only as a Broadway Musical but also as a movie. I was too young to see the Broadway version, but I was the first in line at the movie theater with my friends when it was released in September 1968.
I can remember sitting in the movie theater singing along with Streisand as she sang each and every song. My friends were blown away that I knew all the lyrics. Especially since I hadn’t told them I knew all the music. I just thought every kid knew the lyrics. Guess I was wrong.
To my surprise, when I watched the movie the other day, all the lyrics came back to me. How is it I can’t remember what I made for breakfast two days ago, but start playing the music from “Funny Girl” and I start singing along without missing a note or lyric. Guess I’m just a funny girl.
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