Virginia Is For Families

Charlotte Church
Play Dream A Dream

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Victory is born  in  the heart. . .

When the night is still
And the sea is calm
Lonely shadow, you call upon me

Lay by my side
Fear not tonight
Lonely shadow, you’ll find a new light

Dream a dream
And see through angel’s eyes
A place where we can fly away

Ride with me upon a shining star,
Above the moonlit sky
We will find Elysium

Hear the nightingale
Sing a lullaby
Lonely shadow, you’ll find a new light

Dawn will be kind,
All will be bright,
Lonely shadow, rise from the darkness

Mark Snow

Play Materia Primoris from The X-Files

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There’s a very thick cloud cover out here this morning.  It’s not raining much but the unrelenting clouds are so thick there is very little daylight.  And my broadband connection is not working either (so I am on the laptop).  Seldom do we have days this dark around here.  They have an eerie quality.

A familiar environment has a different cast.  And it’s quiet too except for the sound of rain hitting the pavement and cars running through small pools of water that have converged everywhere.   There are sodden leaves on the ground.  Trees have thrown up their limbs in despair.

And when the internet stops coming to my house I start assuming it’s not working anywhere.  Throw in a couple of Tivo’d Frontline broadcasts from last evening about the sorry state of the world and I start imagining there has been a major disaster somewhere that has destroyed it.

Maybe today is the day.  Maybe the aliens have landed.

Do you ever have apocaplyptic dreams?

They have huge ships.  One will come over the horizon and be overhead while the back end is still not in sight.   In my dreams we are always running around in little rebel bands trying to shoot them.  But I suppose it’s possible they are already here.  Maybe they have integrated into the population.  Or maybe they live at the bottom of the ocean.

Maybe Santa Clause started out as an alien.  His sleigh was actually a space ship.  He and his brothers and sisters lived underneath the North Pole at the bottom of the ocean.  But he got tired of waiting for the signal to invade.  Eventually his group leader said it would be alright if he went out once a year and visited with the inhabitants of the planet.

But he would have to leave presents in order to distract the humans while he made his getaway and he would be required to wear a red suit  in honor of his ancestors.

Who were from Mars of course.

Maybe.  Who knows?   I’m just adding another layer of  weirdness to a story that is already pretty weird.     There’s  a guy up there at the North Pole who makes toys all year long with his wife and a bunch of elves.   The he loads them on a sleigh that is pulled by flying reindeer.   And he’s a fat, jolly old guy but his preferred method of entering  the home is to jump down the chimney.

It’s all pretty strange.  But then life is strange.   Hopefully the rain will turn to snow at some point and things will start looking a lot nicer outside.  Right now it looks like we are caught in a time warp on Halloween night.

And that’s not the place we want to be.

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.  Please let me know if it goes away.

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.

All my animal friends were over for a party last night and they wanted to play some music.  Then they wanted to make a video.

What can you do?