Abuelita believes this song starts her day off better than anything else.
Walela sings it in Cherokee and I listen to it when I must find calm. Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, January 16, 2009
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Grandma grows tired of the evil around her, in all of its manifestations.
She believes that she will speak about only one right here and now. Abuelita believes that the world is full of people who need to learn much more about each other. It is why I host foreign college students, to make them family to my grandchildren. This need to educate manifested itself last year in... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, January 2, 2009
100 Names of Death cards
My sister brought me a deck of cards with only 50 names of death on them, but they will have to do for now. She gave them to me this evening. My other sister has more for me, but forgot to give them to me tonight. In Mexico, rather than call death to you, or whatever, you call death by its other... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Pax Vobiscum, y'all
Pas, Peace, pax, eirene, shalom, salaam, Vrede, Paix, Pau, Mir, Pås, Heddwch, Frieden, Rahu, Bake, Fred, Rauha, Pâs שלום, Béke, Pace, Damai, Friður, Taika, Мир, Vrede, Pokój, Amani, Thak, Fridde, Paci, Mier, Paqja, Barış, Påye, Hòa bình, Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
22 Gospel songs of Amazing Grace...a cd.
I played the cd for my hosted grandson, Jeoung Do's, visiting parents. It has Amazing Grace and Everything is Beautiful and You Light Up My Life and May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You and Nearer My God to Thee, and He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, etc. on it. Willie Nelson to Mahalia... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Grandma believes that the Virgen de Guadalupe from the Corona Market
in Guadalajara is the best Christmas present so far. My sister brought me a Virgen printed upon hard poster board and then its edges were perforated to allow small lights to be pressed through the holes. Red outside edge lights, green center circle edge lights and then yellow next to the Virgen's... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Grandma believes that you must let go of old resentments or they will
Grandma believes that you must let go of old resentments or they will eat at your innards forever and a day. Every time I hear certain names mentioned even casually, resentments return and I am not really like that. Hate that in myself and wish that those names had no more power, these many, many... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
I believe that America is getting capitalistically mean, how about you?
I believe that our nation is getting chubby and I wonder, as does Dr. Weil, whether obese people should be charged more for their insurance (read his article linked here) as they cost more in actual health visits. Or is this just another mean thing that we do to each other nowadays, in the name of... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, November 3, 2008
I believe in civilized dialogue...where can I find some?
America needs to learn this art once again............people discussed politics all the time in my town when I was a kid and there was little to NO animosity involved. They discussed religious beliefs like a normal conversation, not screaming at each other from radically opposite points of disgust.... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Whether you believe in this God or others, this song is wonderful.
I don't think of it so much as a religious song, but as a transformational song. The song says>>>>>> I saw the error of my ways, hurting humanity, and decided to become another man, another person. His song shows that change, radical change is possible and that it comes from self examination,... Sign in to see full entry.