I have watched the ending of love repeatedly throughout my life.  Friends who have reached the parting of ways. It’s a sad thing to watch.  I myself have been there, many years ago.  Many of you know, I long for a second chance; not only for the right love to come along but also for the wisdom to know how to treat her when she does arrive.  At my age, when she does arrive, I understand that she’s going to be bruised too, for obviously she’s not coming from the mist of ‘happily ever after…’

And this is my muse tonight.  This is to the dear heart out there that, someday, will be the dear heart laying next to me – greeting sunrises together.  I didn’t follow in my dad’s footsteps in which he kept a single woman close, happy and loved her entire life and I cannot go back and do it now.  But now, I finally realized how he did it and I can do it for you.  I can; celebrate you.  If you will let me…

LET ME CELEBRATE

©2009 Robert C Burnham

Let me celebrate you

Let me walk with you hand-in-hand

Let me listen to your words of love

Let me try to understand

Let me watch your gracious walk

Let me be silent while I do

Let me cherish sweet euphoria

In the very essence that is you

Let me celebrate your life

Let me smell your fragranced hair

Let me share in all your troubles

Let me comfort you with care

Let me never subjugate your being

Let me always lift you up

Let me be content to fly beneath

And to never, ever, have enough

~ ~ ~

Now for some of the Grand Canyon Pictures:

First I have to say I've waited 40 years to be able to see this beauty and I was almost moved to tears when I saw my first sight of the Great Wonder of the Grand Canyon.

We arrived at Eagle Point it received it's name from a formation that looks like an eagle in flight. The Hualapai Nation had dancers and if you chose to you could walk out over a glass observation deck.  We decided to keep our feet firmly on the ground!

Here is the eagle with outstretched wings:

The views were just incredible

I was afraid to get toooooo close to the edge

oopse I caught my shadow :)

And my husband

Another view of Eagle Point

the "Sky Walk" observation deck - said to be 2 1/2 feet thick glass - not for me thanks!

This was a peek view at the Colorado River as we were driving out to the Western Rim

And then the Joshua Tree Forrest that we drove through on the way out as well

The Hualapai Village was beautiful

I was too tall to live in this building

Georgia O'Keefe would have loved this one...

the daughter sang while her parents danced ... she had an amazing voice

There was an exquisite feather head-dress for sale in the gift shop for over $400.00

I bought some jewelry for myself and two daughters for Christmas and then found a dream catcher for my son (hopefully it will catch all his nightmares!)

Stay tuned for our second stop - Guano Point

ComSa

ComSa sat next to Lord Vorn's chair. As a very small dog, he was rare, and thus popular. He had only had one run in with a bigger dog being a bully. Pulling the tablecloth off a table to dump a large tureen of hot soup onto the big lout had solved that problem. Like most bullies, Snarler was a a coward.

An attempt on Snarler's part to enlist help in punishing ComSa had don the bigger dog no good. None of the other dogs liked him at all.

Tweety

Finally! Queen Ruth had a last left the room. Tweety lifted the latch of the cage and flew to one of the rafters, then over to the curtain over the door. As it opened, he slid through, unseen, and flew to a rafter over the throne.

What a relief to see Sharle, and ComSa come through the door. He flew to my shoulder. "Thank Heavens, Queen Ruth had me in a cage, I had to wait hours till she left the room so I could open the cage."

Con and Teggy entered from the main hall. That put five of the six together.

I halted at Tweety's words. "What a place, first some Lord tries to OWN ComSa, then Tweety gets caged!"

I turned to  look at Lady Waldra, then turned my attention to the burly, light brown haired man on the throne.

"You put one of my best friends in a cage, and one of your Knights tries to own ComSa?"

"Please give me one good reason why I should even listen to whatever you want?"

"Friends with dog and canary?" KIng Barl stared at Sharle in shock.

"Good Lord of Light, what a backward place!" "What do you want, and why should I care what you want?" Sharle grunted.

"You and your strange choice of friends are in this castle, and whatever happens here will happen to you too!" King Barl shouted. "You Ankloi can be as high and mighty as you like elsewhere, but I rule this castle."

"Bah, some king, what with Queen Ruth sleeping with Sir Valach, and your vizier almost forcing himself upon poor Princess Sheima." Con snorted.

"Get back to your kitchen cook, and leave matters that over your head to your betters!" The vizier ordered imperiously.

Con smiled, then slowly turned his way, and drew Ebony Thrust out of his sheath, which set the sword squealing eagerly.

Everyone backed up giving us a very wide space.

The entire Multiverse knows that sword's voice.

"A'Clusk, by the Gods of Time, the old fool's insulted Connan A'Clusk!"  A man shouted over the shocked gasps.

"You -- your no cook!" Sprazel turned very pale. "I never said I was." Con answered mildly.

Turning his back on Sprazel, who instantly tried to pull a knife, which I kicked out of his hand, amused. He really was an idiot. Two of the guards grabbed him, and held him.

Con turned to shake his head at him, then looked up at the king on the over sized dais.

"Well, your 'so called' majesty?"

"Theives and ghosts roam the halls below, start with them!" King Barl blurted.

"Who leads them?" Teggy asked from Con's shoulder."How should I know, you are the heroes, go find out!"

"What kind of king are you?" I laughed out loud. Garl must have written us a comedy.

To be continued.

Sharon Pribble

A Meeting Between Time, An Object, A Moment And You #4 in the series - Page 49
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Those where the years when I just wanted to leave. There was a world to see but I was still in school and I was sure that the rest of the world was spinning around while I rotted away in a little lower class suburb in West Michigan figuring out what everything was about and where I fit into it. It was around this time that I discovered painting, writing and Tropic of Cancer. There are moments in your life when the timing of discovery could not be more perfect. As if a meeting had been arranged by someone between time, an object, a moment and you and it comes together and moves you through your current place in life. I drank in Tropic of Cancer in a few days and then started it right over and read it again in a few days. I still have the original copy that I read way back then. Somehow, over the years, the first 10 pages have gone missing, the covers is ripped and thumbsucked and as I skimmed through the remaining pages and randomly sampled paragraphs and sentences, I decided that I am going to work on turning the rest of the pages of this same book into my own work of art as a tip of that hat to those days and these words and here it continues with page 49. So, with that here is #4 of the series and it will be complete when there are no more pages left...Enjoy!
 

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I forgot to take screenies of my progress on day 17 and 18, but I did screenie my progress report which shows my word counts, so it's all good.

So! Day 17 and 18 came and went with little difficulty. Day 19 was a bit harder in that I got to the medical bits and got somewhat sidetracked finding some excellent research that backed the plausibility of my plot - which I didn't really need, but liked seeing just the same. It made it a bit harder to make my goal - which was to WIN by 12am on the 19th.

I'm pleased to report that I DID win on yesterday the 19th despite feeling sick at the end of the day! This is my fourth and earliest win ever. Prior to that my earliest win was about 3 days early. I still estimate I need another 10-20,000 words and I'll continue writing until the 30th. I can't collect my winner's goodies yet as the verifier isn't working just yet (how strange. I beat the verifier!) but as soon as it opens up I'll scramble this up and upload it for the official purple bar winner's status.

Here's my progress report to show progress made on all three days.

And here's my profile with the GREEN winner's bar. :) Yay! I'll see you all at the winner's line! :)

By midnight on day 20 you should have a total of at least 33,340 words to finish by the 30th.

TOUCHING ETERNITY

©2009 Robert C Burnham

- inspired by love –

Touching Eternity

Never-ending skies

Sparkling diamonds

Cascading from her eyes

Touching Eternity

More than cheap thrill

She looks at me

And time stands still

Angels Sing

Forever starts

At the joining

Of our hearts

Touching Eternity

My lady!  What a gift

Her love encompasses

And through the hourglass sifts.

              ~

Em's strings vibrate in her Mind
The Melody of
The Music is
The Magic and
The Memory
Of Em-agery

Em is over the Event Horizon
But is only dead to those who watched
Her go over
Em is alive in the hole
And can feel her Memories
Flash outside and around her

Safe and intact
To come out the other side
As a new and Em-proved Model
Whose Memories
And everything else 
Started with an Em

Em is the Maker of
The Mother who sees
The Mystery and
The Magnetism to
The Membrane of
The Matrix

A legendary woman once devoured

men's flesh between her teeth.

Forsaken and weary, she prayed

to discover love's miracle.

Years spent chasing dreams

like an obsessed dog chases its tail

until the greatest magic of all 

materialized in her life.

Love both healed and convinced her

that she deserved indulgence.

A handsome, considerate man

fell in love with her.

Tomorrow non-existent in his eyes.

Lives driven by passion, 

heart's song resounded in the sea.

Loyal and steadfast, he nurtured her

through the best and worst times.

Unconditional acceptance of her flaws

aroused desire beyond this realm.

Respectful adoration allowed independence,

yet they rarely parted.

His generosity and their friendship

kindled excitement even into the mundane.

He became the answer to her woes.

Born to give her heart to him-forever.

We went to Vegas ...

I got to check off two more items on my want to do list: See/drive over the Hoover Dam and See the Grand Canyon.

I'll start post with the Hoover Dam:

 As we entered the area we could see the construction of the new road and bridge

soon you will no longer be able to drive across the

Hoover Dam.  I was very happy that we made our visit when we did so that we could drive across the bridge.

It was quite an amazing site!

My first view of the Hoover Dam from the bus window

It really is so much more amazing than I had imagined

 We saw the Dam before driving on to the Grand Canyon so it was too dark for pictures on the way back.

Stay tuned for pictures from our day at the Grand Canyon - I'll post them in three parts since we visited Eagle Point, Guano Point and the Hualapai Ranch on the Western Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Happy Friday everyone!  I hope all have a very blessed and happy weekend!  Always know that you, yes you have every possible resource you need to have a spectacular day!  Full of memories to cherish, and playback whenever you need them. If you can read this or have this read to you then you are at the very edge ofdiscovering pure joy!

Ok so what do I mean by that?  How can I be so sure?  What do I mean by every possible resource?  One at a time lets cover it.

Every possible resource ~ your alive, you have the ability to think and the ability to interact with others. The ability to take action.

Sounds simple enough right..... It is!

Many times we want and desire more than we have and we forget to focus on what we already have.

A couple of quotes I like that fit well into this discussion..... Here they are.....

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”  quoted by Albert Einstien

and

"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."  quoted by Robert Fulghum Author

We all have the resources, even if all that is open to us is our thoughts, we can overcome just about any obstacle put before us.

So many times we look for what we don't have, what we don't possess.

We have much more than we ever need.

All roads whether easy or difficult start with our thoughts and actions. All roads in our lives have no end they continue with us at the lead.

So as we flow into Friday understand this simple statement.

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.  Believe in yourself, understand that no matter what there is 'THE' answer to overcome any obstacle. 'THE' answer lies within ourselves. The reflection in the mirror has the ability we just need to tap into it.

A while back I shared this video called "Dream Big" I wanted to share it again.  I hope you enjoy and I hope you bookmark and listen to again. You may never know when the next time you hear it inspires your next action.

Enjoy.....

May all your dreams be big!

May all your days be filled with smiles!

May you always strive to make a difference with another!

When you dream ..... Dream Big!

Till next time..... Always Smile...Always Dream Big and always share that smile....

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