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This video has a lot of things going for it.  And I am on top of it.

Probably because I decided to take a walk and not watch football.  But, in any case, back to the video.  It has:

Beautiful video of animals

Awesome music with Sarah Brightman

And African women singing in the chorus.

I am in heaven.  You might enjoy it too.

There’s a very basic difference between a television and a computer screen.   The latter allows you to interact.  It  challenges you to think and possibly even to create something.  It can make you a more creative person if you let it.  And it involves you with the entire world!

You can communicate with people all over this creation.

Isn’t this amazing?   How can television compare with this?

Deliver me back to nature.

Deliver me from my passive nature and my television.

But I’m still not sure I can pass up the playoffs and the Super Bowl.

, originally uploaded by Davidlind.

Your blogging friend has been asked to do the photos for a Visitor’s Guide published by the Chamber of Commerce in this area.

How about that?  And it’s a perfect time of year to take some photos of the outdoors with the leaves just starting to seriously turn different colors.

This publication will go out to thousands of people in the area and it will include a bio of the photographer. So I will be taking a lot of photos in the next few weeks. And there should be some photos of Heaven being published soon because that’s where I will be.

This has also got me thinking about publishing a book of poems and photos using Amazon.com. I’m a little late for this Christmas but we will see.

First things first and the Visitors Guide.

I will let you know how it goes.

Also a new edition of Wordpress has come out today.  It offers a couple of security fixes so it’s probably a good idea to “get er done”.   And prior to that . . . Today would be a good day to BACK UP the blog.  In fact I am going to do it right now and suggest you might want to do it too.

As I sit here in Richmond, Virginia I wonder about you.  Where are you writing from?  And what is it like where you live?  Recently I was struck by an image of an Angel who seemed to be writing her blog from heaven.  And then I discovered she actually wrote from a tough neighborhood in LA.  My angel.  You can find her comments around here.

Where do you write from?  What is it like?  Here in Richmond, Virginia  we have a lot of historic stuff from the past three hundred years.  And it’s a pretty conservative place.  But some of you live in areas that have held western civilization for thousands of years.  And some of you as we discovered in the recent Olympic games are beyond our western civilization in time and place.   It’s a whole other order of things!

And that is pretty fascinating to me as I sit here looking out the window.  Here is what i see from my window.  What do you see from yours?  Send me a photo and i will post it here.  I am imagining what you see.  But it is not coming in so clearly.  Set me straight.

What do you see out your window?  What kind of world is just beyond the place where you dream at night?  Do you see the moon?  Here is what I see. . .

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It’s midweek boys and girls.  And here we are still pursuing our dreams!  I hope.  Some of us are just trying to survive and that’s not nearly as much fun.   My heartfelt condolences to those of us who are doing that.

I used to do that back in the late 1970′2 and early 80’s.   I was in my late 20’s and early 30’s back then.  Can you remember a time in your life that was particularly difficult?  Did you ever just look around at people passing and ENVY  *ALL* of them?

You just knew that they all had a much better life than you did.

I used to do that in some of my weaker moments.   And then I used to meditate during other  times.  I remember meditating one time for about three hours.  And after about that length of time I suddenly realized I wasn’t breathing anymore.  I was in some kind of pure energy state. It was a pretty amazing experience.  I was engulfed in blissful happiness.   And then, of course, I started breathing again.  The realization brought me back to earth.   But it was meditation that helped me make some good decisions and survive those times.  I also managed to care for two small children who are now happy and fully functional adults.  We will be going up to see my daughter in October.

She lives in Leesburg, Virginia.  For those of you who don’t know Virginia  Leesburg is a wealthy suburb of Washington DC.    When my precious daughter  was a little girl she had psoriasis that just took over her body.  It got in her scalp.  It was awful.   I used to take her down to MCV to see this really cool doctor.  He would make her laugh with his wide eyed stares.   And then he would prescribe all these steroids and tar-based ointments.

And then we would go back to our humble little apartment and pray they would work.

But my daughter is a lovely grown woman now with three beautiful children and a wonderful husband who has an office overlooking the White House. And the coolest thing about him is that when he walks in the door after work around six pm he is laughing and ready to be with his wife and children.

Life is very funny sometimes.   I hope I can learn to meditate  again and maybe even stop breathing for awhile.   I’m pretty sure that is the way to samadhi.  Or heaven for those of us who are not familiar with that term.

I hope I can find the way back there before I die.

God really did take care of us during those times.  And he still does even if I don’t try and visit with Him the way I used to do.

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Do you visit with Him?  Does he take care of you?

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