Broken Vow
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Posted:Nov 13, 2007 11:21 pm
Last Updated:Nov 16, 2007 9:01 pm 23097 Views
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Title: Josh Groban - Broken Vow
Tell me his name
I want to know
The way he looks
And where you go
I need to see his face
I need to understand
Why you and I came to an end
Tell me again
I want to hear
Who broke my faith in all these years
Who lays with you at night
When I'm here all alone
Remembering when I was your own
[Chorus:]
I let you go
I let you fly
Why do I keep on asking why
I let you go
Now that I found
A way to keep somehow
More than a broken vow
Tell me the words I never said
Show me the tears you never shed
Give me the touch
That one you promised to be mine
Or has it vanished for all time
[Chorus]
I close my eyes
And dream of you and I
And then I realize
There's more to love than only bitterness and lies
I close my eyes
I'd give away my soul
To hold you once again
And never let this promise end
[Modified Chorus:]
I let you go
I let you fly
Now that I know I’m asking why
I let you go
Now that I found
A way to keep somehow
More than a broken vow
by Josh Groban
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Yellowstone National Park
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Posted:Oct 8, 2007 10:10 pm
Last Updated:Oct 19, 2007 11:37 pm 20664 Views
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I spent a week up in the Northern part of the U.S. at the Yellowstone National Park. The weather is changing there with the leaves turning a glowing golden brown and a layer of snow on tree branches. I highly recommend a visit at least once in your lifetime.
From the Official Yellowstone website-
Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is America's first national park. Located in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, it is home to a large variety of wildlife including grizzly bears, wolves, bison, and elk. Preserved within Yellowstone National Park are Old Faithful and a collection of the world's most extraordinary geysers and hot springs, and the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone.
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"Here I Go Again"
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Posted:Jul 19, 2007 9:37 pm
Last Updated:Aug 29, 2007 10:36 pm 23664 Views
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I don't know where I'm goin
but I sure know where I've been
hanging on the promises in songs of yesterday.
An' I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time
but here I go again, here I go again.
Tho' I keep searching for an answer
I never seem to find what I'm looking for.
Oh Lord, I pray you give me strength to carry on
'cos I know what it means to walk along the lonely street of dreams.
Here I go again on my own
goin' down the only road I've ever known.
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone.
An' I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time.
Just another heart in need of rescue
waiting on love's sweet charity
an' I'm gonna hold on for the rest of my days
'cos I know what it means to walk along the lonely street of dreams.
Here I go again on my own
goin' down the only road I've ever known.
Like a hobo I was born to walk alone.
An' I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time
but here I go again, here I go again,
here I go again, here I go.
An' I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time.
Here I go again on my own
goin' down the only road I've ever known.
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
'cos I know what it means to walk along the lonely street of dreams.
Here I go again on my own
goin' down the only road I've ever known.
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone.
An' I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time
but here I go again, here I go again,
here I go again, here I go,
here I go again
White Snake
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What's Your Description of Love?
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Posted:Jul 18, 2007 7:29 pm
Last Updated:Aug 27, 2007 8:59 pm 21707 Views
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I think one of the best descriptions of love...........
"I want you to get swept away out there. I want you to levitate. I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dirvish...Yeah be deliriously happy or at least leave yourself open to be. I know it's a cornball thing, but love is passion, obsession, someone you can't live without. I say, fall head over heels, find someone you can love like crazy and who'll love you the same way back. How do you find him? Well, you forget your head and you listen to your heart. The truth is, there's no sense living your life without this. To make the journey and not fall deeply in love, well, you haven't lived a life at all. But you have to try, because if you haven't tried, you haven't lived."
From the movie "Meet Joe Black"
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Try and Love Again
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Posted:Jul 5, 2007 7:22 pm
Last Updated:Aug 30, 2007 9:29 pm 23654 Views
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When you're out there on your own
Where your memories can find you.
Like a circle goes around you were lost until you found out
What it all comes down to.
One by one the lonely feelings come.
Day by day they slowly fade away.
Ooh, the look was in her eyes,
You never know what might be found there.
She was dancing right in time and the moves she made so fine
Like the music that surrounds her.
Should I stay or go? I really wanna know.
Would I lose or win if I try and love again?
Oh o-o-o-oh, gonna try and love again.
O-oh o-o-o-oh, I'm gonna try and love again.
O-oh o-o-o-oh gonna try and love.
Right or wrong, what's done is done.
It's only moments that you borrow.
But the thoughts will linger on of the lady and her song
When the sun comes up tomorrow.
Well, it might take years to see through all these tears.
Don't let go, when you find it you will know.
Oh o-o-o-oh, gonna try and love again.
O-oh o-o-o-oh, gonna try and love again.
O-oh o-o-o-oh, gonna try and love again.
O-oh o-o-o-oh O-oh o-o-o-oh sometimes lose, sometimes win,
Sometimes you need a friend
O-oh o-o-o-oh
O-oh o-o-o-oh
Gonna try
Gonna try
Gonna try gonna try gonna try gonna try
Gonna try gonna try gonna try gonna try
Gonna try gonna try gonna try gonna try
Gonna try
Gonna try gonna try gonna try gonna try
Gonna try gonna try gonna try gonna try
Gonna try gonna try gonna try gonna try
Gonna try (fade out
-The Eagles
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Marriage and Happiness?
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Posted:Jul 2, 2007 10:24 am
Last Updated:Aug 30, 2007 9:36 pm 21855 Views
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I thought I would share this recent article on what's important in a marriage.............
NEW YORK - The percentage of Americans who consider "very important" to a successful marriage has dropped sharply since 1990, and more now cite the sharing of household chores as pivotal, according to a sweeping new survey.
The Pew Research Center survey on marriage and parenting found that had fallen to eighth out of nine on a list of factors that people associate with successful marriages – well behind "sharing household chores," "good housing," "adequate income," a "happy sexual relationship" and "faithfulness."
In a 1990 World Values Survey, ranked third in importance among the same items, with 65 percent saying were very important to a good marriage. Just 41 percent said so in the new Pew survey.
Chore-sharing was cited as very important by 62 percent of respondents, up from 47 percent in 1990.
The survey also found that, by a margin of nearly 3-to-1, Americans say the main purpose of marriage is the "mutual happiness and fulfillment" of adults rather than the "bearing and raising of ."
The survey's findings buttress concerns expressed by numerous scholars and family-policy experts, among them Barbara Dafoe Whitehead of Rutgers University's National Marriage Project.
"The popular culture is increasingly oriented to fulfilling the X-rated fantasies and desires of adults," she wrote in a recent report. "-rearing values – sacrifice, stability, dependability, maturity – seem stale and musty by comparison."
Virginia Rutter, a sociology professor at Framingham (Mass.) State College and board member of the Council on Contemporary Families, said the shifting views may be linked in part to America's relative lack of family-friendly workplace policies such as paid leave and subsidized care.
"If we value families ... we need to change the circumstances they live in," she said, citing the challenges faced by young, two-earner couples as they ponder having .
The Pew survey was conducted by telephone from mid-February through mid-March among a random, nationwide sample of 2,020 adults. Its margin of error is 3 percentage points.
Among the scores of questions in the survey, many touched on America's high rate of out-of-wedlock births and of cohabitation outside of marriage. The survey noted that 37 percent of U.S. births in 2005 were to unmarried women, up from 5 percent in 1960, and found that nearly half of all adults in their 30s and 40s had lived with a partner outside of marriage.
According to the survey, 71 percent of Americans say the growth in births to unwed mothers is a "big problem." About the same proportion – 69 percent – said a needs both a mother and a father to grow up happily.
Breaking down the responses, the survey found some predictable patterns – Republicans and older people were more likely to give conservative answers that Democrats and younger adults. But the patterns in regard to race and ethnicity were more complex.
For example, census statistics show that blacks and Hispanic are more likely than whites to bear out of wedlock. Yet according to the survey, these minority groups are more inclined than whites to place a high value on the importance of to a successful marriage.
The survey found that more than 80 percent of white adults have been married, compared with about 70 percent of Hispanics and 54 percent of blacks. Yet blacks were more likely than whites and Hispanics to say that premarital sex is always or almost always morally wrong.
Among those who have ever been married, blacks (38 percent) and whites (34 percent) were more likely than Hispanics (23 percent) to have been divorced.
Delving into one of the nation's most divisive social issues, the survey found that 57 percent of public opposes allowing gays and lesbians to marry. However, opinion was almost evenly divided on support for civil unions that would give same-sex couples many of the same rights as married couples.
Asked about the trend of more same-sex couples raising , 50 percent said this is bad for society, 11 percent said it is good, and 34 percent said it made little difference.
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Yosemite National Park
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Posted:May 24, 2007 8:28 am
Last Updated:Jul 1, 2007 12:23 pm 23656 Views
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I just got back from a fantastic trip to Yosemite National Park. A very beautiful place to visit and enjoy the sites along with hiking trails and camping available.
The History of Yosemite from the Official Website
Native American Indians lived in Yosemite some 4,000 years before the Spanish occupied California and before the California Gold Rush. The Indians were known as the Miwoks--you'll see this word spelled in various ways. Each is correct because the Miwoks had no written language of their own. They established permanent villages near the Merced River and at least 40 camps all over Yosemite Valley. The Miwoks were hunters and traders. They were also seed and plant gatherers. There is some evidence of a "fatal black sickness" or a plague that struck these residents at the beginning of the 18th century. Reportedly, the few survivors left Yosemite and moved to the Eastern Sierra where they were assimilated by other tribes including the Mono Paiutes. One of the offspring of the original Yosemite Miwoks was Tenaya who had heard stories of the incredible beauty and bounty of the Yosemite Valley. Late in life, he visited the former homeland of his tribe. The stories of beauty and bounty were confirmed and he and some 300 other Indians resettled in Yosemite Valley where he became Chief. These Indians lived in harmony until the Gold Rush when territorial feuds between white settlers and native Americans broke out. Following Chief Tenaya's death in 1853, the remaining Yosemite Indians dispersed and Yosemite Valley became a white man's settlement.
Yosemite Valley was first sighted by non-Indians in 1833 by Joseph Rutherford Walker and his group of explorers. Twenty years later, a militia organized to kill Indians entered Yosemite Valley. Soon word spread of the grandeur. Reading about this wonderland in San Francisco newspapers, James Mason Hutchings organized the first tourist party in 1855. Artist Thomas Ayres was on that trip and his sketches helped spread the word all the more. At first, tourists arrived on foot and on horseback. Wagon roads came next. Hutchings operated the first hotel and became Yosemite's first publicist and entrepreneur.
Alas though, there was also a cry that Yosemite's wonders should be preserved. Pioneer conservationists Frederick Law Olmsted (the landscape architect who later designed New York City's Central Park) and I.W. Raymond petitioned Congress for a bill to preserve Yosemite. Such a bill was passed with then President Abraham Lincoln signing the legislation on June 30, 1864. History has since told us this was a landmark event. Never before had any government anywhere set aside a parcel of land for its natural beauty to be preserved for public use for all time. Yosemite had become the first national park in the world! It has also served as a model for the development of other parks and led to what we know today as the National Park Service. Years later, naturalist John Muir and others led the effort to create Yosemite National Park. Such a law establishing the park was enacted on October 1, 1890.
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Naples, Florida
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Posted:Apr 22, 2007 1:30 pm
Last Updated:May 22, 2007 11:45 pm 22488 Views
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I just got back from Naples, Florida where I spent the week for a work related meeting.
Beautiful place, nice homes and resorts, and a great place to visit.
Need to plan another trip sometime in the future but for pleasure and not work.
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"Affairs and Aftermath"
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Posted:Mar 16, 2007 12:06 am
Last Updated:Aug 27, 2007 9:03 pm 23941 Views
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(the following story is true but I changed the names to protect their privacy)
I knew this couple, Charles and Kimberly, they went to the same College with me. They met in school and became boyfriend and girlfriend. You would always see them together in school. Studying, having lunch together, etc. I always envied Charles because Kimberly would do everything for him. She was totally in love with him and you could see it in her eyes when they together. Even peeling his orange during class. She was really amazing and we all thought they were the perfect couple.
After graduation, they married and moved to a small town North of LA. They ran a Pharmacy there together and it became so successful that they opened a second one on the other side of town. Charles went to the new pharmacy and Kimberly stayed at the old pharmacy. They had three girls in about an eight year span. Kimberly actually day cared for her daughters in the pharmacy while working there. She was amazing juggling the girls and keeping up with work at the same time.
Charles worked the other Pharmacy with a female pharmacy technician (Sue). Somewhere along the way he became involved with Sue and began a secret affair. I really don't know when it started but we all found out about it when Kimberly filed for separation in court. It was really ugly because it was a small town and it seemed like everybody knew about it.
Kimberly felt trapped in that town and she could not leave because of the business and also she was taking care of the girls herself. I believed that she probably wanted to go back home to LA with her parents but really could not because of the business
We all found this situation to be too unbelievable and all our friends, Kimberly's Family, and even Charles' family was disgusted, disappointed, and amazed by his behavior.
This situation dragged on for a few years, Kimberly never finalized the divorce, Charles moved in with Sue together but they never got engaged despite Sue's desire to get married to Charles. Eventually, Sue left Charles and they had to close that Pharmacy. She didn't want to be the 'other' woman anymore
Somehow and somewhere, Kimberly let Charles back into her home and allowed him to stay there again.
When I met with them for dinner this week, I was glad to see them but I noticed that Kimberly seemed a little rougher around the edges and not as nice or naive as she once were when we were in school. She didn't seem to have the big smile anymore like she used to.
I really wanted to ask her how could she take Charles back after everything that had happened and also how could she ever trust him?
But I never had the opportunity to ask those questions and we just talked about work and such. We didn't even discuss my divorce. We kept the conversation light and focused on family and work.
I think that she again made a sacrifice to have Charles home to be the Dad for the three girls. I personally think that all this turmoil for the girls growing up couldn't have been too healthy for them either.
They've been back together for about five years now.
I know that most affairs don't end up like this or do they?
Your thoughts?
Russell
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