Joy Is My Goal: Out of Town Sky watch

Friday, September 26, 2008

Out of Town Sky watch

I am on a wonderful trip for many purposes of which I will write later but today here is a pic at my College Alma Mater (& hubby's) we visited today --Lots of Wonderful Memories --- isn't it so pretty here.

15 comments:

Baruch said...: It does indeed look like a beautiful place. Thanks for sharing and happy SWF!; 2:50 AM
Digital Polaroids said...: Beautifully framed sky!; 2:51 AM
Anonymous said...: Spectacular scenery - an uplifting location for learning.; 3:13 AM
SandyCarlson said...: What a beautiful, rugged place! Can't wait to hear about your travels, Marcia. God bless.; 3:40 AM
Laura ~Peach~ said...: lovely!; 6:27 AM
Carver said...: That's a gorgeous shot. Simply beautiful.; 9:20 AM
Jim said...: Hi JimG, you went to a school in a very pretty place. With a hundred guesses I'll bet I could figure out why you left.

Thanks for posting (and blogging) on the road. Mrs. Jim and I do that when we can, we always take a couple of laptops along.

Probably will have to post ahead myself come the end of October. We will be overnighting at a hotel in Huehuetenango, Guatelala, for a week.

Since we don't know what hotel yet, there's only a 20-80 chance of having WiFi. Last year there were three on-line computers in the lobby. I could just barely report in with my three minutes [:-)].

We are helping out at an orphanage there, about ten (or so) will be on a 'mission trip' and will spend out days with the kids or tools to make things better for them.

Anyway, thanks for peeking in on my reflection pond in the bend of the creek and for leaving your nice comment.
..; 10:50 AM
Craver Vii said...: Are those trees pointing to heaven? It sure looks like it. :-); 11:45 AM
DeniseinVA said...: Oh my what a beautiful scenic photo.; 1:56 PM
Louise said...: Yes, it IS so pretty there! Wonderful scenery and terrific capture!; 2:06 PM
Catherine said...: Those cyprès always remind me Tuscany in Italy.
This place looks so nice. Have a pleasant trip.; 3:36 PM
Leslie: said...: Looks like Arizona??? Glad you're having a great visit. :D; 5:22 PM
Leedra said...: I agree it is pretty here.; 9:33 PM
Arija said...: Lovely crisp sky to frame the Cypressus.; 5:50 AM
Mary said...: That IS beautifully framed!!; 11:21 PM

"A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world." --Paul Dudley White

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"Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired." - George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian

Poem: “Welcome to Holland” by Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this…
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.
After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, “Welcome To Holland”.
“Holland?!?” you say, “What do you mean “Holland”??? I signed up for Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy. All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy”
But there’s been a change in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It’s just a different place.
So you must go and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.
It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around…and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills…Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy…and they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say “Yes that’s where I was supposed to go. That’s what I had planned”.
And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away…because the loss of that dream is a very significant loss.
But…if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things…about Holland.

Joy Is My Goal

Friday, September 26, 2008

Out of Town Sky watch

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