I all really want to say about the quote above is, “ditto”. I hope all of us are using our talents to create good things in some way or another. All the best to you as the adventures of the new year begin.
Neil Gaiman is a marvelous writer. You can check out his website here.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 170,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 7 days for that many people to see it.
Every Christmas Eve my family has a talent show of sorts. Everyone has to do something. You can tell a story, sing a song, do magic tricks, or whatever you want, but everyone is required to participate. This year, I wrote a new song and put a simple sideshow together. It really got me in the Christmas spirit, so I thought I’d post it. I hope you like it even though Christmas is over and there are only hours left till 2011 is a thing of the past. Hopefully this song is a good reminder to keep Christmas in our hearts all year round.
I watched a fabulous documentary ”A Life Among Whales” today. You can check it out here: http://www.alifeamongwhales.com/see-the-film. I was really inspired. The whale songs really got to me. They are hauntingly beautiful. I am so grateful for the miraculous world we live in, and as humans it’s imperative that we step up and protect it.
Here’s a sample of a whale song.Enjoy!
I woke up late this morning, rushed to get ready, and jumped in my car without waiting for the heater to banish the morning chill. As I waited at a stoplight, I could see my breath in the air and I was very grateful for the warm air beginning to come through my car’s heating vents. I casually looked out my window and saw a homeless man sitting on a bench. He had a small cart of belongings beside him, and he was much colder than I was. He was very striking with a long grey beard and a crinkled face.
As I was watching him, a thirty something year old man hopped out of a car beside him. He walked up to the homeless man with a smile, shook his hand, and gave him a hot meal from a fast food place. The gratitude shining in the old man’s face is something that I won’t easily forget. The young man drove away feeling happy at the chance he had to help another human being. He’ll never know about the difference he made in the life of someone he didn’t even know was watching.
I wanted to send a thank you out into the void today to that good samaritan. He and others like him are the everyday heroes that are truly inspiring. By following their example we can all make a difference in this world one person at a time.
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
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