Merry Christmas

Tis the season.

Our friend and neighbor Sally has made our Christmas. She tries each and every year, but this year she has made a huge wish come true. She went all out to surprise us.......... and someone she doesn't even know. This year Sally wanted to give. Every year she wants to give to us, and we do enjoy her generous gift, but this year she surprised us, really surprised us!

Sally has a nurse come in every couple of days to check in on her, as Sally is eighty one. This year, this nurse, Angel, provided the cause to drive Sal to give to someone that truly needs help, in doing so her desires were fulfilled. Sally got the idea to ask Angel if Angel knew of a family that was not doing so well. A family with kids. Angel did. Another family that Angel visits, another elderly woman, with a daughter who has three children and are very poor. Angel thinks well of them and sees their dismal condition. So Sally volunteers to help with their Christmas. Sally asks Angel to go to the young mother and tell her of her desire. The mother responds graciously and provides a letter explaining that she did not think that her kids would have a very good Christmas this year. Included in the letter is a list of things that her kids would like to receive this Christmas Season, she did this at Sally's request, as Sally would not know what kids would like these days. The list was pretty simple and it gave her a mission to set out to achieve and she did so with gusto! Since Sally no longer drives her car, that task was asked of us. Sally made calls to find the things on the list, made arrangements to buy these things and off we went (mainly Steve since I have been so busy finishing school lately ). Toys, a donated kids bike, a garage sale fishing pole, all the stuff on the list. And Sally's big idea of a gift card from a shoe store, (Steve went in on half of that one and bought some of the toys too). Today we had a gift wrapping party with Sal's nurse, her partner Laura, me and Steve. It was a blast! We all had the time of our lives, picking what we thought each kid would like most and what was appropriate for whom. Steve and the girls did the wrapping, I did the bowing and labeling while Sally watched, glowing so happily.

I don't think I had a better Christmas since I was that young. Fulfilling the dreams of children..... I remember the total excitement I got just before Christmas. I babbled about all the toys I just had to have....my brother and friends spent all of our time on what would be the best that year. The excitement was overwhelming. The tree, the lights, the songs, family and the idea that Santa Claus was coming down our chimney to answer all my dreams. I made sure we had the right homemade chocolate chip cookies laid out for his arrival, two for him and one for all the reindeer, including Rudolph. For this was an ordeal I had learned from my mother. I think it was really important for her to give her kids an American Christmas that she, I'm sure, only dreamed of when she was a little girl of ten kids. My mother was able to make dreams come true for me as a boy.

Now, Thanks to Sally, I somehow feel I contributed to this Holiday too. It's times and deeds like this that make the heart feel so warm and loved. It carries on, lives, is forever remembered, as I see and I know, it will get passed down the line.

Sally gave me the most wonderful gift this year with her heart.
I must not forget, there was an Angel that helped too.

Merry Christmas!

I AM

Contrary to popular belief, I believe and will state that we are not humans on a spiritual journey.......Just the opposite. We are spirit on a human journey. Man made god in his own image. In reality, you must get out of this conceited concept of God's children. See spirit/creation as the 'AM'. Physical existence is the ???????????????????????
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Rock Lobster

Tonight we went to see the B-52s. And boy was it something! It was the first of the UA Presents 2009-2010 season here in Tucson. We subscribe each season, so when Rusty called to order tickets and we needed to requests our seats the woman on the phone mentions that the front row center is available. Excitedly he jumps on it and there we are........in the front row! Rusty tells me that he had seen them five or so times, but I only saw the once before, with him, together with the Pretenders in Concord at the Pavilion. Tonight we danced, hopped and swung our arms all over the place, the whole audience was up on their feet and loving it! They played some of there new stuff and they still have what it takes to get people to buy their recordings and tickets, but when they played Rome, My Own Private Idaho and some of there older classics the crowd took off. Here they go! People went nuts! It is funny to watch as our generation gets up-there and grayer, us old farts rock out! After playing for awhile and everyone is getting tired, they introduce themselves and the other band members, take a long bow and leave the stage, but before they do, Fred Schneider, the remaining male member gives the woman just a few people down from me his drumstick that he uses to beat on a cow bell, she goes wild! The crowd stays standing and screaming for an encore and they do. Back on stage comes Planet Claire and everyone is rocking out, doing the swim and other wild gyrations. Then comes the one we have all been waiting for! ROCK LOBSTER!!! MAN THIS WAS SO COOL! Front row center in this small theater. They were so close to us I could feel their breath, well not really but it was close! After going crazy on Rock Lobster, Fred takes his replacement drumstick and walks over right in front of me, bends down and hands this one to me! The other guitar player comes over and throws out a hand full of his guitar picks and one falls right into my hand. A drumstick, a B-52 guitar pick and a blast! It was an exceptional evening!

Gay and Proud in Bisbee

We just returned from Bisbee. It was the annual Gay Pride Weekend and it was fun, but much smaller this year. Again we stayed at the Sleepy Dog Guesthouse way up on the hill, I think it is third highest house in town. Kody went for his second year and this was Aleah's first, our forth year. They walked with us down the hill into town to see all the people and shop. We bought a very cool colored glass thingy to hang in the window from one of the vendors. Friday night we walked into town ( without the kids ) and got so drunk, we were a mess. So Saturday we were much more low keyed. Bisbee is such a cool little town full of artists, cowboys and cowgirls and just funky people. I love it! I believe it was once the third biggest city west of the Mississippi behind San Francisco and Virginia City. San Francisco was the Gold City, Virginia City was the Silver City and Bisbee was the Copper City with a huge open copper pit right next to town.

It has a old western fill full of tiny little houses clinging to the hillsides with steep narrow roads. People decorate in quite creative ways using any thing they could get their hands on, and it works if you like funky!
Each day we were greeted at this gate by a barking wiener dog. You can almost see him behind the gate in the dark shadows. He was real cute and Aleah barked back. Kody ignored him in his excitement to get to town and be admired by everyone.
There is a copper toilet float embedded in this wall among the colored bottles, broken pottery and mismatched tiles etc. It's pretty fun!