http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/katray4704/A thinner, transformed version of my long running, U.S. blog - The Beat Goes On. This version will beat on with news commentary, social and political perspective. It will also include journal type postings and photography. Everything appearing within the lens of my thoughts...:) Thank you for reading! Raye hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/katray4704/570669Just gloaming around the Internet, I did a search on my hometown, Evansville, Indiana. Wikipedia has interesting statistics and information about cities; not that I agree with all of it. I surely hope that a gambling casino is not the most popular attraction.. The list of famous people born...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/katray4704/539128Dealing with heart-ache presently..no further earthquakes - loved ones fine, albeit some blinder than usual; the fates are a brew of cruelty and kindness most of our hours, it seems and what choice do we have but to imbue..?.. I shall return soon to answer comments, read and respond. Have lovely...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/katray4704/538795Lowlands, now alight with spring's breath, dream wilderness of mountainous depth or do they desire to escape the hourglass of man's morass and deliquesce into sands wandering beneath rain hues and tear tracing dew...soul of new oceans conceiving, mayhap...Aye, as stratum breaks apart and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/katray4704/538380Some reactions to yesterday's rockin' and rollin' (comments on the local paper's reporting of the quake) people are crazy..:) - Are anyone else's pets acting strangely? The cats are yowling and their tails are all poufed up!) I live in Owensboro, KY and work in E'ville. My cats are still spooked....http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/katray4704/538092Just had an aftershock stronger and lasting longer than the quakes earlier this morning. Now my groaning wall is sporting a crack and local news is reporting gas line problems in several areas. I have a sinking feeling it's gonna be a great day. Hope the power holds.http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/katray4704/538052I had risen about a half hour before pre-dawn birdsong stopped, sitting at my kitchen table waiting for the coffee to brew..The silence was strange, as though the world outside had suddenly changed rhythm and was holding onto an inhale of uncertainty. The exhale began slowly and with an eerie...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/katray4704/537485Great Aunt Mearle journeyed to her reward today. She was 98 and according to the bearer of this sad news, ready for the rest...She always remained a vivid strand of childhood delight in my heart. Auntie adored kids, but not in the typical cheek pinching fashion of many older relatives. Instead,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/katray4704/535875Great excitement locally - Chelsea Clinton appeared at my son's college campus yesterday (Yo, Chelsea, Welcome to Hoosier Daddy; I mean Hoosier Heartland! - an introduction or something like it by the Young Democrat's Club President) to talk about the student loan quagmire and how her mother,...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/katray4704/534619With the advent of my state's importance in the political season, a new climate has opened around me..people are really thinking, questioning, becoming involved, seeking to understand the soul of a change we sense must happen, if we, the human species, are to survive as intended by a greater good...