Hope everyone has a blessed and happy holiday season, with your friends and family all around you. And may you have a healthy, prosperous year in 2010!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Hope you spend lots of quality time with those special people in your life. We'll be with my brother and my son's families for Thanksgiving..We're having beautiful weather here in Texas...

On October 5, 2005, my mom gave up her courageous battle with lung cancer. I want to honor her by telling you a little bit about my mom. First of all, she taught her children to love everyone unconditionally and to accept people just as they are. Secondly, she taught us how to appreciate the simple things in life...And she never spoke a critical word of anyone...My mom could sing, dance, play the piano, and brighten your day!! She always knew what to say when you needed a lift. She never complained or gave in to self pity no matter the terrible suffering she faced. I'd like to dedicate this poem to her:

Do not stand at my grave and weep
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet bird in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there, I did not die!

Mary Frye, 1932


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CAN"T GET ENOUGH OF YOU....Looks like my blues station is maxed out now! Next time I download a blues artist here on the click, I''ll start a new station.......I've started a new jazz station because my jazz station was maxed out! When I first joined SC I added touches of classical and acoustic to that station, along with all kinds of jazz ~ it makes a great mix & I'm leaving it that way ~ but I've reached the max! Thanks to you all for sharing your amazing talents and expanding my horizons as a listener.......