Vacation

So because I've heard from some folks that they are waiting on my pics from our vacation.. I thought i'd better upload .. I do have a great defense--i've been bed ridden with the flu.. and it is so good to be better.

I saw my Grandmother in Miami.....I hung out with our friends....I spent alot of time with my special 3 year old friend Olivia reading books, swimming and playing fake video games and listening to Jay and Doug re-hash their ultra important fantasy football draft... It was a great vacae (as my friend Lauren calls it)... but all too short of course but when is time away not???

so click on the flickr.com link at the bottom right of the page to see the pics...enjoy
NAE

taize community

Refusing to look back,
And joyful with infinite gratitude,
Never fear to rise to meet the dawn
Praising ,blessing and singing:
Christ your Lord.

~The life profession of the Taize Community

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VACATION

going on vacation --
I will have pictures to share when I get back..

ciao

we can all sleep well now

Life just got a little easier now that we know what to call him--I can now go on vacation....
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) We've all seen the sign: "Welcome to our OOL. Notice there is no 'P' in it? Please keep it that way." Well, Sean Combs would also like to avoid the "P." The former P. Diddy -- previously known as Puffy and Puff Daddy - wants to drop the "P" so his fans can chant his name more easily. "I felt like the 'P' was getting between me and my fans and now we're closer," the initial-free rap mogul tells the "Today Show" on Tuesday (Aug. 16). "During concerts, half the crowd is saying 'P. Diddy' - half the crowd is chanting 'Diddy'--now everybody can just chant 'DiddyNaturally, a christening type of celebration is in order. He'll test his new moniker's succinctness when he hosts the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday, Aug. 28.
"To be honest, the unveiling of Diddy, you gonna see that at the [VMAs]," he tells MTV News. "You gonna see that in the entrance. You gonna see that swagger. You gonna see how I'm gonna navigate you through the journey. I'm gonna play my position, my role. The artists are gonna play their role. We're gonna have an incredible, incredible party."
Combs, 35, initially changed his name from Puff Daddy to P. Diddy in order to make a "fresh start" after being acquitted on gun charges. But now, in his own words, "It's the era of Diddy."
When Diddy isn't thinking up new titles for himself, he's in court battling his ex, Misa Hylton-Brim, over child support payments and settling a lawsuit with Random House over memoirs that he failed to write.

even with a crust

Even with a Crust
Dorothy Day

We cannot love God unless we love each other. We know him in the breaking of bread, and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone anymore. Heaven is a banquet, and life is a banquet too - even with a crust - where there is companionship. We have all known loneliness, and we have learned that the only solution is love, and that love comes with community.

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music acts goes it alone

Music acts 'go it alone'
Growing number of artists are going independent

NEW YORK (AP) -- In 2000,
the Churchills thought they had it made.
The New York-based pop band had landed a major-label record deal and were fixed up with producer Mark Hart, former keyboardist
with the seminal Australian
band Crowded House.
Hart and the band booked a posh recording studio and the label, Universal,
gave them a near-limitless budget.

They recorded with only the finest guitars and ate gourmet lunches -- all charged to the album expense account. Three months later, they had spent $270,000 and the record was finished.

But strangely, nothing seemed to be happening. "It felt like we were nobody's priority," said Churchills bassist-vocalist Bart Schoudel. "We would stop by the label's marketing department, and they would say, 'Oh, you guys made a great record and I think the critics are going to love it." continue