Dappled Things

GLORY be to God for dappled things…

Month: January, 2006

A Little Uke

This is just a little something I had to pass along to my musician friends out there. If you haven’t heard of Jake Shimabukuro, maybe you should check him out. I keep thinking… just four strings! Amazing. You can watch him play here and here. There’s also a nice interview of him here. Enjoy!

Sweetness

One Week Old As some of you may remember, we had a dog named Maggie who was very old and tired. We adopted her from a local shelter after being told that she was about two years old and was just overweight. Unfortunately, Maggie turned out to be closer to twelve years old and very, [...]

Two Things

I found this meme over at Quiet Life and thought it sounded fun. I have been sitting on my “Seven Things” post for a while. This one seemed a bit more manageable for the likes of me. I used to have a page devoted to “One Hundred Things About Me”. It was an ongoing project. [...]

Tommy Can You Hear Me?

Aw, Pete, don’t ruin it for me. The little bit of joy I got over the holidays came from my husband’s kind gift of a new iPod. After placing it into its “force field of protection”, uploading my CDs to it and slipping it into its own cute, little sock, I happily went about listening [...]

Finding Hope

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, no matter how it turns out. ~ Disturbing the Peace, by Vaclav Havel I like this quote. I will never be an optimist, but I do have hope. [...]