Sometimes...When I watch children play...I see what is right in the world...
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The world of two, four and a half year olds, cousins...We have Christopher Robin here, reminds me of a young Elmer Bernstein in the way he appreciates music and already composes in his own way, dancing around waving his arms to the music...Christopher Robin loves the theme to 'To Kill a Mockingbird' like Mimi. (by Elmer Bernstein). We even had one of the beautiful scores entitled, Boo Who? from the movie, To 'Kill a Mockingbird' played at Batman's mommy and daddy's wedding. It was played as I was walked down the aisle as mother of the bride, we even did congregational singing at the end with a famous hymn...it was surreal. Batman is an extrovert, and has the ability to be an encourager. Once Batman and Christopher were playing a game in the back on a holiday, Christopher Robin's mommy heard Batman say...You can do it Christopher! I tell you, you can do it! Little Batman was so funny this day...I so wish I could have gotten a shot of his feet, he had one rubber boot on one foot and a sandal on the other foot! That is just what he wanted to wear this day our daughter tells me. Little Batman is a hoot. This day, he would have made the perfect children's book illustration, the both of them would have. They cover their sweet little mouths and giggle, like two little cherubs. Mimi had bought them Christmas sticker coloring books from Dollar Tree and it was so cute them holding the books facing each other and giggling covering their mouths...Just so innocent and sweet.
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Christopher Robin and Little Batman having the best time every blowing up balloons! So fun. It doesn't take much for children to have simple fun.
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One recent day, Christopher Robin's daddy had to go to the emergency room with a possible broken ankle and we gladly took Christopher with us this Sunday as our daughter could only handle one of the toddlers at the er understandably. We had just lost our Missy and I turned and looked at this sight in our car...And I saw what was good and right that Sunday. A Blessing.
Sometimes when I see our fur angels, I also see what is good and right in the world...
This is sweet Liesl. She is half Shepherd and half Lab and just a colossal ball of love. Our daughter living at home caught this shot of her on the landing. She was very upset because it had started to rain and Mimi and Popo were not home yet.
She had been laying here for around an hour very upset with the situation I must say...But alas we were soon home.
Liesl now loves to ride in the cart with Popo (Jem). For several years when we first had her she simply would not get into any moving anything. I think she was afraid she would be abandoned again, poor thing. The cart is fun, Jem bought it used from an elderly man who fixes them and resells them. The man was so funny...He had a golf cart in his living room he was working on!
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Sweet Liesl, when you look into her dark brown sweet eyes with those blond eyelashes, you see a beautiful soul, almost human like.
I remember what was good and right in the world when I see this portrait of my parents in a happy time that hung in our living room when I was growing up. The portrait looked lit up one afternoon as I was rather upset one day recently, after our fur angel had passed away and I looked up over the computer and saw this sight...It was as if God whispered a breath of Life shining on the portrait. Very unusual because this normally did not catch this kind of light in the afternoon.
When I see little Elbee, one of our little kitties laying in front of a music station on our television, I smile and appreciate this little fur angel's quiet spirit, it too reminds me of what is good and right in this world. He has bright blue eyes and is a tiny little white cat. Joycie rescued him as he toddled down a busy road one day back when she was single, it looked as if a hawk had dropped him, there were talon marks on his back.
Elbee makes his appearances in interesting places.
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Sweet Elbee. I think he likes pretty vintage music and sometimes Bossa Nova jazz too.
Walks outside are good for clearing our heads and hearts, talking to God. Sometimes I say...I need to get out of my head. This was taken on the day of the partial eclipse and we had just lost Muffie the day before. Do you see the little crescent moon images on the ground?
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A distant shot of Gracie our precious hound dog. I'll have to post more of her at a later time, she's a very sensitive dog as well.
The Holiday and Christmas Season is approaching and this movie is just wonderful to keep things in check.
Meet John Doe (1941) What is there not to love about Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck? ...Who are the Heelots? Watch the movie and find out. This movie speaks multitudes of society, materialism and the beautiful common man. Oh the messages in this movie! There is one part that speaks of that Common Man, Jesus Christ two-thousand years ago... It's interesting, you will see many of the same parallels we see today going on with corruption and power.
Meet John Doe, directed by Frank Capra, one of my all time favorite directors from Bisaquino, Sicily where my Grandpa was from. This girl is half Italian and half German...Imagine that.
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The other day, Jem and I were riding in the car and this song came on...It really touched my heart. In these days of elderly moms and everything else this just really touched my heart.
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Time to go finish up supper, I hope all is well with you sweet Readers and Friends.
...Surely Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the days of my Life... From my most read Psalm these days...Psalm 23.
Let me know how you all are too dear Friends. Signing off from My Forest Cathedral.... ~Amelia
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