life safari 7/15/08

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKE M.

Good morning ! No rain for a couple of days. I just started the sprinklers in the front flower beds. I usually water every morning but ran out of time to do so yesterday. Yesterday I was on a quest to find a Brenda Lee CD. I am so grateful for Amazon. After going to search several music/book stores, no one had an album. I did, however decide to buy some other oldies I found in my search:
Kay Starr (Wheel of Fortune) one of my favorites by her
Rosemary Clooney
Kate Smith - she was once so very popular
Connie Francis - always one of my favorite singers. What a tragic life situation . A man who could not control his animalistic urge robbed millions of people of a gem ! Shame on you.
I get haunted by songs that I hear from time to time. Losing You is one of those. It was the background music in a show the other evening. I can not rest until I have it in my library so that I can play it as often as I wish.

I am Grateful and Thankful...

for another day of life
for wonderful memories as a kid of watching the Lucky Strike Hour where I heard the most amazing songs and singers (Many other variety shows of the 50's)
the job I have and the hours I work. I have come to appreciate even the late nights
that I have now completed watering everything - sweet
for a childhood and adolescence filled with great music and food - I was fortunate to eat at some of the best restaurants Houston had to offer in the 50's through the 70's
for my Faith today
for a religion that I love and enjoy living
to be sober, clean and smoke-free. It blows my mind to realize that November is only 4 months away
that AA led me to wonderful new ways of life
that had it not been for the years in AA I would not be experiencing this wonderful life !
Thank you people of AA and Lambda Center
Thank YOU Lord !