If Someone Loves You.....

If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and opening your heart and eyes to things you would have never seen or felt without them.

Autumn Leaves

"The falling leaves drift by the window
The autumn leaves of red and gold....
I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sunburned hands, I used to hold
Since you went away, the days grow long
And soon I'll hear ol' winter's song.
But I miss you most of all my darling,
When autumn leaves start to fall."
- Johnny Mercer, lyrics, Autumn Leaves

Eva Cassidy singing Autumn Leaves....truly haunting!


Eva Cassidy_Fields of Gold

Liberty

Dorothy Says.....

When asked to use the word horticulture during a game of Can-You-Give-Me-A-Sentence, Parker replied:
You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.

All One

Success Means.....

Wait Til' Martin Comes......a spooky tale for Halloween

I tell a similar tale titled "Better Wait Til Martin Comes".
The kids and adults love it!!
This story is from a 1970's record album called "Scary Spooky Stories".
Happy Halloween!

Bicycle! Bicycle! I want to ride my bicycle.....too bad I don't have one

I need to get a bike.
That's it.
Just a random thought.
Well, I have had this random thought quite a few times.
But I may really act on it ....soon...really.
Sooo, I have been looking at bikes 'cause truthfully I haven't been on one in more years than I like to think about.
Naturally, what it looks like is sorta important...to me anyway.
By the way, do you know how much bikes cost???
Hmmmm.....I must be living in a time warp. Or I've never had a decent bike.
Probably both.
Anyhoo, I have been looking around. I like the old fashioned,retro looking ones.
I think they call them cruisers or beach bikes.
And I totally want a "girls" bike.
Here are a few pics of the ones I like.



You will note that they are both orange. My favorite color.
I like the basket and daisy pattern on the second one.



Both bikes are between $200 and $400 dollars.
I need to keep looking.
Lol, I need to just get something and ride it.
Uh..ummm...nevermind.

So whaday'all think????

Love, Laughter, Peace and Blessings!!

Hank Williams...I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry :(

Live Radio Performance....


Same song with the words....


ELVIS!!!!

The Secret of Success in 8 words and 3 minutes....Really!!

Love this!
I think this guy has something here.
Just watch and let me know what you think!
ENJOY!
Psst! If you don't see a pic/vid you will see something that says player 7 or player 8. Just hit one of those and the vid will pop up.

Stop Me If You've Heard This One!

A professional storyteller comes home to a burned down house.

His sobbing and slightly-singed wife is standing outside.

"What happened, honey?" the man asks.

"Oh, John, it was terrible," she weeps. "I was cooking, the phone rang.
It was a booking agent wanting to hire you for an event.
Because I was on the phone, I didn't notice the stove was on fire.
It went up in second. Everything is gone.
I nearly didn't make it out of the house. Poor Fluffy is..."

"Wait! Back up a minute," The man says.
"A booking agent wants to hire me?"

When I read this I thought, "Yep, that's just what I'd be thinking!"
My next thought would be "OMG! My books!"


As you can see, fluffy was found but she was never quite the same.


I got this joke from Mike Miller, Full Contact Storyteller and Professional Silly Person

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and other Paul Newman Films I Like

I am not or was not necessarily a big Paul Newman fan but there are a few films that he did that I have always loved.
The first is one of my all time favorite movies...."Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"....Love it!!!
I can (and have) watch(ed) that movie over and over again.

I also love the scene in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" when Paul rides around on the bike.
And Paul Newman and Robert Redford in "The Sting"....fabulous!

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof


Cliff Scene from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid


Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head, bike scene from Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid


The Sting


Random Clips from Paul Newman Movies

It's My Birthday!!!

It's my birthday and I'll sing if I want to!!!
Yep! Today is my 49th Birthday and I am celebrating with you all!
I know you would have said Happy Birthday had you known ahead of time.
Don't worry about it....I appreciate the thought!
Sooooo...to get us in a birthday mood, I have put up a few birthday vids!!
Ooooo, what fun!! (I know that's what you're thinking)

Happy Biiiiirthday to Meeeee!!!

(Pssst! To Turn off the blog music look to the left and down)

A Traditional Birthday Wish




A Beautiful Jazzy Birthday!!




A Beatle's Birthday Wish




Stevie Wonder's Happy Birthday to You!




Too Cute!

The Storyteller's Creed by Robert Fulghum

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge,
That myth is more potent than history,
That dreams are more powerful than facts,
That hope always triumphs over experience,
That laughter is the only cure for grief,
And I believe that love is stronger than death.

Hope.....

"Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future." * Robert H. Schuller

Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ~Christopher Reeve

Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ~Emily Dickinson

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. ~Anne Lamott

To love means loving the unlovable.
To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable.
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
1874-1936, British Author

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it. ~George Weinberg

Some see a hopeless end, while others see an endless hope.
~Author Unknown

Hope is patience with the lamp lit. ~Tertullian

Check out A Tale of Hope @ The Stories La Tells