Virginia Is For Families

I added something to the Men and Women In Love post.  I made it into a kind of poem with music.  I hope that if you already read it you will look at it again.

The World Series game last night provided a perfect opportunity to write a post that allows so many different views.  I hope they will all be expressed.

Controversial is an understatement.  This game offered us a World Series of controversy.  It was great.  It was something we have not seen before.  I really didn’t care who won although I slightly favored the Rays.  But now! Philadelphia must win or it is the greatest World Series Heist of all time.

The weather has plummeted down into the thirties here and we have had lots of rain.  It has been much like it was last night at the game!  Surprise!  I am hoping that all of this will lead the leaves to explode with color this weekend.

Hopefully my Nikon D70 will return soon and participate in the orgy of color.  The Nikon factory certainly contains an introverted bunch of fixers.  I have not heard a word except that they got the parts and they are sorry it is taking so long.

People love to decorate for Halloween.  Only Christmas is more of a decoration scene.  I learned that by reading one of  Evita’s fine posts.

It doesn’t seem like anyone is really interested in my stumbling/linking ideas.  That’s fine.  Like most of my ideas it is here today and gone tomorrow.  This is what makes blogging such a great medium for folks like me.   It is ADHD heaven.

The election craziness will be over soon.  It may be that Democrats need to be at least 12 points ahead in the polls to actually win on election day based on recent history.  Given this fact it is not wise to let Joe Biden go out in public.  He should go visit VP Cheney at the Naval Observatory and explore his new home  underground.

Can you tell I am not a big fan of the VP in waiting?  Oh well.

Whatever happens we will learn much from the experience.  And the world will not come to an end.  There will be the inevitable reaction in a different direction.  And off we will go again.  Will any truly meaningful problems be solved?  I doubt it.

Beth is coming home tomorrow.  I saved the best for last.  I am going to have to tell Charlize Theron she must  pack up and go back to her boyfriend.

It’s not going to be an easy task.  She has learned to like it here.

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, 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.

I was having a bad day when I wrote this poem over a year ago.  It’s the most popular post ever here at Virginia Breeze.   Why is that do you think?  It doesn’t say very much about the quality of this blog.  Does it?   I was thinking about a boss I had a long time ago when I wrote it.  And I was also thinking about someone more recently in my life (unfortunately) who THINKS she is my boss*. So I had a great time doing this and released all the negative feelings and let them go with a laugh. Such a silly poem.  Tickets, please!!

THE BOSS POEM

Dear Boss I wish you well this year

And well upon your way from here.

May soon you land on distant shores

Where they won’t let you pray before

They sacrifice your scrawny butt

And hang your head above a hut

Next to the tribal eating place

Where you are served up after grace.

Because they really love to eat

And you are such a lovely treat.

So here’s a ticket. There’s the boat

Happy hunting you old goat.

You are the prize so don’t delay

Just say goodbye and go away!

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This is a photo from last year about this time. I took it at Maymont Park downtown and thought I would put it up again. Apologies to those who have already seen it. We are still waiting for some autumn color around here. The temperature is supposed to be mid 80’s this afternoon.

It’s a cheerful photo and one that reminds me why I enjoy photography so much.

And photography is important here. I’ve written a little about economics and politics lately but that’s not going to be a regular thing. I don’t know enough about it and it’s kind of depressing as well.

Poetry is important too. The Boss Poem is just a simple little thing and it is being viewed now over three hundred times per day. It’s not StumbleUpon either. It’s search engine traffic and people are apparently concerned about their relationship with their boss.

That’s not surprising. Job concerns have to be high on a great number of lists these days.

Lots of activities may be cut back. But we can all still blog can’t we? We can write prose and poetry. We can take photos and we can offer encouraging comments to each other.

Taking photos is a lot cheaper when you don’t have to develop film. And everyone already has a computer. Maybe dial ups will make a comeback though.

Maybe the photos should be smaller and fewer to the page.

I don’t know. But the weather is terrific and it’s relaxing to run out into nature somewhere and start looking for the beauty wherever she may be.

It’s a recipe for dealing with the emotions that accompany changing times. Document the changing foliage. Take photos of the clouds.

Update// Well this explains all the readers. . .

Boss’s Day (also known as Bosses Day or National Boss Day) is a secular holiday celebrated[citation needed] on October 16 in the United States. It has traditionally been a day for employees to thank their boss for being kind and fair throughout the year. The holiday has been the source of some controversy and criticism in the United States, where it is often mocked as a Hallmark Holiday. Recently, sites like Hallmark have recognized the holiday with a contemporary spin

from Wikipedia