iellie and I meet on Election Day ....@ Cups! Of course!

She is interviewing me for a newspaper story about Mistletoe Markletplace.

And we decided to Viddle :)

I luv her :)

Boreddddddddd out of my mind.... Outta here to pack

Looking forward to the hills of TN for 5 days.......

Daily call from momma :-)

bedtime!!! ;-))))

Messs relaxing with the Debate tonight :-)) meow

I wanna do bad things

Random Act

Recently, I traveled to our Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans, LA for some R&R...just needed to get away.

While there, I stopped off at one of my Mom's favorite places in Long Beach...a local Pawn Shop where we got some of Robbie's "furnishings"...2 reasons for this: Cheap and help local Katrina victims.

As I was in there,  a beautiful Montana Silver bracelet caught my eye....Beautiful!

I decided to purchase....and made chit-chat with owners, husband and wife...cute couple.

A gentleman came in as I was making my purchase and he asked to speak to the husband owner...We will call the gentlemen "Jack"...was having  some problems...Gustav had taken a toll and he was stuggling still of course from Katrina... financially. 

He began to cry. A 50-ish yr old man crying.

I felt awful. Seeing this man's pain.

I told the pawn shop owner/wife..I felt so sorry for him...his pain...she said they knew all their customers personally and that's how they business.

I paid X for my bracelet and then I watched an act of kindness....the husband opened the money drawer, took out an amount of money...and gave it to "Jack".

Jack said "I am good for it"....Owner replied..."I know".

I teared up.....

Our Coast is still struggling from Katrina...family's are stressed, our economy is a mess....and to see a small act of kindness...touched my heart.

Remember your state, your family, your friends on the Coast....the less fortunate....we never never know if we'll be in the same situation.

Sunshine

This is a hard one to write.....Real hard.

I met a beautiful pre-teen girl at UMC several weeks ago named Sunshine....beautiful girl...full of love and life...Gorgeous eyes...and just a pretty soul...

She found out that I was judging American Idol locally, said she wished she could get out of the hospital to tryout...Aimee told her to sing for Judge Dee now...sing for all of us now...and she sang a Rihanna song, "Take A Bow"...it was beautiful...it was....

When I returned to UMC last Thursday...to ask Sunshine to come to the Playroom...Rebecca and I knocked on her door...she was in bed, in her room, not doing well at all......I was so shocked and it hurt to see her like that.....it was painful...her legs were cold....and her breathing labored...and all she could say was that she was tired.....tired.....

As we closed up Playroom Thursday, we all stopped by Sunshine's room...Rebecca, Tara, Aimee Stacie and I to say goodbye to her for the evening.....she was covered in blankets...and labored but she recognized us....we asked if she wanted TV on...anything...she said no...the lights were off...did she want light...door open....no.....just tired.....I rubbed her legs...touched her feet.....rubbed her arm....I knew, I knew, felt it....she was extremely ill......

I told her I would see her this Thursday...told her it was all gonna be OK...I promise.........

I got a call late this afternoon....Sunshine died Saturday.........

I volunteer there every Thursday....I work 3rd floor, the cancer floor and know they are very very sick ill children....but it is all worth it... this is my first kid to lose...... it is hard and hurts......

I will remember that little girl...that angel God has now on his side.....singing...........

DM

The Pecan Tree

Having dinner at Amerigo's, one of my favorite restaurants in Jackson area, get call from K 26 yr old sister mother of Lauryn, my angel....that a tree has fallen in the back yard at Mom's...on the garage near the pool.

Come over now she says.

Eating....will afterwards.....

Well.....folks are on roof, on ladder, K and her husband are holding ropes to the tree won't hit the house....Momma has 10 month old Lauryn in house, past her bedtime BTW......

Momma, holding Lauryn, opens back door and screams...Move her before she gets hurt......everyone is huh, move who....she yells, move her before before she gets hurts......one asks, move who???? Momma yells, move Mary before she gets hurt.....B-in-Law says Mary who......well, there's a statue of Mary in my Mother's garden.....ROFL....and she wanted Mary moved next to the house before any more worked progressed...ROFL....I swear it was the funny damn thing ever.....I mean hello, what about her CHILDREN out there with a massive tree??? Then B-in-Law said, hey what about Joseph...which was not Joseph, but St. Fransis....ROFL!!!!!!!

My family...........and the Pecan tree.....and Mary are safe......ROFL!

thoughts....on the Moon...

Thy shadow, Earth, from Pole to Central Sea,
Now steals along upon the Moon's meek shine
In even monochrome and curving line
Of imperturbable serenity.

How shall I link such sun-cast symmetry
With the torn troubled form I know as thine,
That profile, placid as a brow divine,
With continents of moil and misery?

And can immense Mortality but throw
So small a shade, and Heaven's high human scheme
Be hemmed within the coasts yon arc implies?

Is such the stellar gauge of earthly show,
Nation at war with nation, brains that teem,
Heroes, and women fairer than the skies?

In Three Days

So, I shall see her in three days
And just one night, but nights are short,
Then two long hours, and that is morn.
See how I come, unchanged, unworn!
Feel, where my life broke off from thine,
How fresh the splinters keep and fine---
Only a touch and we combine!

Too long, this time of year, the days!
But nights, at least the nights are short.
As night shows where ger one moon is,
A hand's-breadth of pure light and bliss,
So life's night gives my lady birth
And my eyes hold her! What is worth
The rest of heaven, the rest of earth?

O loaded curls, release your store
Of warmth and scent, as once before
The tingling hair did, lights and darks
Outbreaking into fairy sparks,
When under curl and curl I pried
After the warmth and scent inside,
Thro' lights and darks how manifold---
The dark inspired, the light controlled
As early Art embrowns the gold.

What great fear, should one say, "Three days
"That change the world might change as well
"Your fortune; and if joy delays,
"Be happy that no worse befell!''
What small fear, if another says,
"Three days and one short night beside
"May throw no shadow on your ways;
"But years must teem with change untried,
"With chance not easily defied,
"With an end somewhere undescried.''
No fear!---or if a fear be born
This minute, it dies out in scorn.
Fear? I shall see her in three days
And one night, now the nights are short,
Then just two hours, and that is morn.

Poetry

Swimming

Swimming with Lauryn today...pics on FB...had fun with Kim & Blue

Summer Reading

Reading 2 books...one by Merton and other by Edward's wife...should be interesting.