Enjoy a sense of peace by being that sense of peace. Allow your life to embody the calmness and serenity of the peaceful person you truly are.

Flag Counter started April 3, 2008

In 1997 Mom and I drove around northern California looking at many of the different places I’ve lived in my life. Some of them I remembered, others were just stories I’d heard many times. One of the things we wanted to do was find the house in Eureka we lived in when I started kindergarten in 1963. We had a photo of me in the driveway of our house (looking across the street), and we knew the address. Well, the street had been renamed, so then we just drove up and down looking for the houses across the street in the photo. Finally we found it! Mom took my photo in almost the same spot (we didn’t want to get as close in their driveway as the original shot was taken!) as that photo many years ago.

Richard and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary with two days of fishing at Bennett Spring. I caught more fish than usual, and Richard had some of his best fishing ever! We had a room with a mini-kitchen and cooked a major feast of fresh fish! Life is great!

Richard catching a fish!

I tried some different settings for this watershot and then tinkered with it in Photoshop.

I’ll lend you a child for a little time
a child of mine, God said.
For you to love the while he lives
and mourn for when he’s dead.

It may be six or seven years
or twenty-two or three.
But will you till I call him back
take care of him for me?

He’ll bring his charms to gladden you
and shall his stay be brief.
You’ll have his lovely memories
as solace for your grief.

I cannot promise he will stay
since all from earth return.
But there are lessons taught down there
I want this child to learn.

I’ve looked the wide world over
in my search for teachers true,
And from the throngs that crowd life’s lane
I have selected you.

Now will you give him all your love,
nor think the labor vain,
Nor hate me when I come to call
to take him back again?

I fancied that I heard them say,
“Dear Lord, thy will be done,”
For all the joy thy child will bring
the risk of grief we’ll run.

We’ll shelter him with tenderness.
we’ll love him while we may.
And for the happiness we’ve known,
forever grateful stay.

But shall the angels call for him
much sooner than we’ve planned,
We’ll brave the bitter grief that comes
and try to understand.

by Edgar A. Guest

Here’s your chance to vote on my photos for the other Categories I’m entered in! Again, 1 means icky and 5 means great!

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Thanks to everyone who voted on the first round! These 6 photos are the only ones who had any votes of “5″, and they are in no particular order as to how many votes of “5″ they received. Let’s find out the winner!

Could you rank them from 1 to 6 with 1 your least favorite and 6 your most favorite?

And, the promised gift is that I’ve linked the 8 x 10 jpg file of the photo below each one. You can right click the link and choose to save to your computer and then you will have it. In order to print it at a print shop, you might need a permission letter from me, which is at the bottom of this post. Or you can print it out on your own printer with no copyright problems!

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