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We were talking about music from the Baroque era when a co-worker brought this video to my attention:

Here’s the URL for this YouTube video: youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8

Painting by Leslie Killinger (photographed by Kirk Sample)

Our good friend, Laurie Grimshaw Cox, commissioned Leslie Killinger to create this painting as the symbol of the Dhanyata Life Center. And even though the Dhanyata Life Center is no longer in existence, this painting still is, so I wanted to share it with you.

I’ve had the opportunity to get to know Susanna Barlow, author of “What Peace There May Be”, and to read her book. And what a wonderful book! Susanna expressed her story with verbal water colors; she painted with a poetic style that allowed me to imagine what she experienced without having to know all of the details. And even though Susanna wrote about abuses she endured, I felt nothing but love and healing coming from her words. I am of the belief that no one is born into a perfect family and I am grateful to Susanna’s example of love, resolve, strength and forgiveness. What a beautiful display of how a person can choose to respond to circumstances and rise above them! I was truly enriched for having experienced this book! Thank you for sharing your story!

Orbiting The Giant Hairball

For those of you who are learning to deal with a bureaucracy of ANY type, whether at a company, religion, government or whatever, I HIGHLY recommend this book!

READ THE STORY BEFORE YOU WATCH THE VIDEO.

Here’s their story …

In a Chinese modern dance competition on TV, one very unique couple won one of the top prizes. The lady, in her 30’s, was a dancer who had trained since she was a little girl. Later in life, she lost her entire left arm in an accident and fell into a state of depression for a few years. Someone then asked her to coach a Children’s dancing group. From that point on, she realized that she could not forget dancing. She still loved to dance and wanted to dance again. So, she started to do some of her old routines, but having lost her arm, she had also lost her balance. It took a while before she could even make simple turns and spins without falling.

Then she heard of a man in his 20s who had lost a leg in an accident. He had also fallen into the usual denial, depression, and anger type of emotional roller coaster. But she determined to find him and persuade him to dance with her. He had never danced, and to “dance with one leg….are you joking with me? No way!” But, she didn’t give up, and he reluctantly agreed thinking, “I have nothing else to do anyway.”

She started to teach him dancing 101. The two broke up a few times because he had no concept of using muscle, how to control his body, and knew none of the basic things about dancing. When she became frustrated and lost patience with him, he would walk out. Eventually, they came back together and started training seriously. They hired a choreographer to design routines for them. She would fly high (held by him) with both arms (a sleeve for an arm) flying in the air. He could bend horizontally supported by one leg with her leaning on him, etc. In the competition, as you will see, they dance beautifully and they legitimately won the competition.”

During my recent overnight hike to test LifeCaps™ I also got a chance to test a hammock tent. The LifeCaps™ worked beautifully and so did the hammock tents!

The hammock tent I used was one built by Hennessy Hammock. I really liked it and it worked quite well. It was easy to setup and comfortable and relatively easy to get into and out of.

After the hike was over, I found another company that also makes a hammock tent that I really want to try. The company is located in Salt Lake City and is called Clark Jungle Hammock.

A hammock tent is an amazing idea!

As some of you are already aware, our friend, Ben Carter, was injured in an ATV accident on May 24th, 2009 in the Little Sahara Sand Dunes.  Here is a link to the blog where you can go to get updates on how he and his family are doing:

Ben Carter’s Blog

I went on a LifeCaps hiking/camping adventure yesterday with Daryl Stevenett. We started our hike at about 5:00pm with our sleeping bags, hammock tents, LifeCaps and water. No food other than the LifeCaps. Adventurous, you say? Brave, you say? Bold and daring, you say?

Yup!

Cool, huh?

We hiked for about 3 1/2 hours up a pretty steep path to a cool place where we could stretch our hammock tents between some trees.

On the way up, we were able to stop and speak with people about LifeCaps as they were coming down the path. They thought that we were crazy for not taking food with us and they wished us luck.

When I don’t eat on a regular basis, my blood sugar level drops and I typically get headaches, I get shaky, I have low energy and I get to the point where I just shut down. But I didn’t have any of that while I was on this little adventure! I consumed five LifeCaps between 5:00pm on Saturday and 8:00am on Sunday. No headaches, no shakiness, no low energy and I didn’t shut down! AWESOME!

I had regular food at 2:00pm on Saturday before heading out to go on this little adventure and then I ate breakfast at about 9:30am on Sunday after we were back.

LifeCaps really works!

My Mom introduced me to some great music while I was growing up: Opera and Classical. My favorite music to listen to these days was written during the Baroque era by such composers as: Teleman, Albinoni, Vivaldi, Pachelbel, Scarlatti, Handel, Fasch and many others; Vivaldi being my all-time favorite. I like music from other eras and styles as well. Mozart, Beethoven, The Beatles, Yes.

When I was a small child, my favorite record to listen to was what I called “The Clown Record”. It was a recording of the opera, “Pagliacci”. I don’t know who made the recording or who the performers were. Eventually, that record was lost; and as a result of that loss, I forgot about the clown record. Many years later I heard Luciano Pavorotti perform the aria, “Vesti La Giubba”. I recognized it and asked what it was from. I was told that it was from the Opera, “Pagliacci”. My clown record was back!

Here is a recording of Pavarotti performing that aria: Pavarotti Vesti La Giubba – I Pagliacci

Today, while getting ready to go hiking and camping with Daryl Stevenett, I wanted to listen to something fun and interesting: P.D.Q. Bach! Thank you Peter Schickele!

“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men” – Author Unknown