Attitude/Monday Version...

I get to go to my lousy job!

Attitude...

is EVERYTHING!

"I get to go to work today"

instead of

"I have to work today".

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I came across this earlier today...still I am glad for weekends to re-engergize my batteries and when Monday morning's alarm clock rings I will remember this.

Luz de Luz

Originally uploaded by nieve44.

In the stillness of night, a flame burns bright and within the glow of fire
I find silence and
I see my soul and within my soul
I find my own light and the luz from within makes my spirit glow and thus
I am luz de luz.

Fragmented

Cup
Originally uploaded by nieve44.

After being off work for 5 weeks due to medical leave, I returned on the 3rd just in time for registration at the college. The past week was short because of the holiday but nonetheless very stressful. The semester has finally gotten underway and things should be dying down for awhile. The past three weeks were a whirlwind of spins and turns which entailed getting myelf back into the swing of things at work, dealing with remenants of my knee surgery and the continued rehab I have to keep up plus starting a new year. My whole body and brain feel a little like this picture...distorted, contorted and fragmented. Thankfully, last month I had scheduled a massage appointment just for this day knowing that my body would be in need of some TLC. The therapist did notice that my body was very tight, knotted and she spent extra time trying to work out the kinks. Starting to feel like a whole person again. She said that I needed to take care of myself this weekend and spend time healing my spirit. I'm listening to Ottmar right now, finishing up my water and getting ready to take a nap. Afterwards, I will get a work out in, do some reading and catch up on a movie. Day outside is bit on the cool side, cloudy and dreary and perfect for winding down.

Happy 49th Anniversary

Parents Wedding...
Originally uploaded by nieve44.

Today, on January 13th my parents celebrated 49 years of marriage. Thanks mom & dad for your love for one another and your inspiration.

Driving home this evening, it "hit me that ordinary people have extraordinary love and a million little miracles far beneath the stars above". Here's to a river of stars and more miracles in the years to come.

Candy 4 My Soul

Morning Arrival in Goa

Live 2005

courtesy of

Ottmar Liebert.

I could listen to this all night!

Wait, it gets even better

Check out the

Listening Lounge

4 more.

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Also playing on CD

Chris Botti

Mary Chapin-Carpenter

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Time to update my iPod!

Girls Like Me

Girls like me aren’t hard to find

We grow like roses on the vine

We wear our hearts on our sleeves

You probably know a girl like me.

We live alone and in our heads

We eat standing up or in our beds

Guilt and fear merge easily

In the quiet souls of girls like me

And loneliness is like a cold,

Common and no cure we’re told

We take to bed per chance to dream

In the blue light of the TV screen.

Girls like me like summer light

And cold beer on a summer night

And boys who aren’t afraid of what they see

Inside the eyes of girls like me

And hopefulness is like a drug

It makes a girl believe in love

And if somehow you love us back

We think there’s something wrong with that

Girls like me aren’t hard to trust

Your deepest secret’s safe with us

And when it’s time to set you free

You can always count on girls like me

It’s good to know a girl like me

You used to love a girl like me

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words by Mary Chapin-Carpenter from Between Here & Gone. I just bought this CD last week and loving it more and more each time I hear it.

Chico Chulo Rivera, III

Pup
Originally uploaded by nieve44.

Chulo is the first registered dog that I've ever had. He was given to me by a former student who begged me to take him. I didn't want him at first as I wasn't a fan of Chihuahua's at the time. Reluctantly, I took him and now I can't imagine life without him. He's my lil man.
This picture was taken from the back of my dad's truck which used to be his playpen for awhile. His first collar was bought from the cat's section of the pet store.

happy rose bowl

happy rose bowl
Originally uploaded by Fifi LePew.

LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!!!!

GO HORNS!

National Champions 2006!

Thanks to Fifi LePew for pic.

My Heaven

Nothing shatters and nothing breaks

Nothing hurts and nothing aches

We got ourselves one hell of a place in my Heaven

Looking down at the world below

I'm unsure why the fighting shows

Up here we got none of those in my Heaven

There's pools and lakes and hills and mountains

Music, art, lighted fountains

Who need bucks here, no one's countin' in my Heaven

No one works, we all just play

You can pick the weather every day

And if you change your mind, that's okay

In my Heaven Grandma's up here, Grandpa too

In a condo with a to-die-for view

There's presidents and movie stars

You just come as you are

No one's lost and no one's missing

No more parties, just hugs and kissing

And all these stars are just fruition in my Heaven

There's little white lights everywhere

Your childhood dog in Dad's old chair

And more memories than my heart can hold

That leave us singing Field of Gold

There's neighbors, thieves and long lost lovers

Villans, poets, kings and mothers

Up here we forgive each other in my Heaven

For every soul that's down there waiting

Holding on, still hesitating,

We say a pray of levitate in my Heaven

You can look back on your life a lot

It can't matter what you're not

By the time you're here

We're all we've got

In my Heaven.

January 1, 2006.

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words by Mary Chapin-Carpenter.