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Based on a post I did about Harper's passing sprung a story for my digital storytelling blog, and this little video...

 

Meant To Be

I was jamming out in my car the other day when The Cave came on, by Mumford and Sons…can I just say I LUUUURRRVE them.  That voice, the upright bass, banjo, acoustic guitar, and the mandolin…oh, the mandolin…what a sound. 

I do love a mandolin.

Onward…I scribbled this down in the car at a light.  I have been meditating on it in the mornings lately.  I've heard it a hundred times, but I really listened to it finally, I love the message and want to remember it when I do stuff each day; how is what I am doing leading me to the life I am meant to live?  If my actions aren’t leading me down that path, why bother?

Flash Mobs

make me cry.

Yes, you read that right.  Why is it everytime I watch a flash mob, I begin to sob?  Okay, not the zombie mob types, but the ones like these.  Any one else feel this way?

 

 

 

And one for the season.

I can't put my finger on it, is it the sheer number of people involved, the comradery, the shock the surprise?  Something about these makes me laugh and cry at the same time.  What do you think about Flash mobs?

 

**  This is what got me thinking about Flash Mobs.

Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear

Yesterday M- and I along with a couple hundred thousand of our closest friends went to the National Mall, the long beautiful stretch of green space between the capital and Washington Monument, for The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. 

We went with the hopes of a beautiful day, a fun event, and maybe, just maybe, something more.  The Rally delivered.  From the best house band around --The Roots, Ozzy, 4 Troops singing a beautiful rendition of the National Anthem, the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, The Mythbusters, John Legend, Jeff Tweedy, Mavis Staples, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kid Rock, Tony Bennett singing 'America the Beautiful', R-2 D-2, Sheryl Crow, Father Guido Sarducci, Anderson Cooper’s Tiny Black T-shirt, and the list goes on, not to mention our hosts Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert.

We weren’t there to say “WE are right, YOU are wrong”.  We were there to say, just because we are different doesn’t mean we can’t respect each other.  To my right stood a couple in their mid seventies, behind us, a young Muslim couple, and around us everything in between, even a robot, Santa Claus, and Elmo were there.  In our little area there were folks from New York, Alaska, Minnesota, Virginia, Maryland and Arkansas.

As much as the media would have you believe the Rally was a total Liberal Love-fest, the Rally wasn’t about partisanship; it was about each demonizing the other.  Yes we will disagree, no we won’t always see eye to eye, but we are in this together, and we are not each others enemies.  It was amazing to be a part of this. I was so proud to be there, to see so many like-minded moderates asking for something often left out of our modern political process—civility, reasonableness, and decency.

--One of the moderate (slightly more liberal than some, but more conservative than others) majority.  JWMG

 

P.S. Thanks National Parks Service and National Park Trust!

 

 

Happy New Year!

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called 'Opportunity' and its first chapter is New Year’s Day." ~ Edith L. Pierce

 

The last day of December...time to think back on all the days of 2009.  Good days, not so good days and awesome days, we had them all.  Over all 2009 was a great year for us!

• spent time with family and friends in the mountains, at the beach, in the hustle and bustle of the city and in a barn...
• celebrated birthdays...
• cheered at a horse race...
• made things...
• colored with my nieces...
• played with our food...
• high-fived each other on our 2 year wedding anniversary...
• completed 2 full semesters and a summer semester...inching me toward my goal...
• celebrated holidays and everyday with the people we love and who love us...
• made new friends...
• changed jobs...(yay)...
• made art in many forms... 

Thanks for all of the great times, and the support during the not so great times!  Happy new year and best wishes in 2010!

2009 in Pictures from Crafty Dayeseye on Vimeo.

Music by George Harrison, "What is Life"