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Music, Birds & Joy
Yesterday I promised I would send you a video of Liam and me playing at my sister’s Masonic Home. My niece, Jodie, recorded videos and took these pictures. Thanks, Jodie!
Now, as Thanksgiving approaches, we plan to celebrate with dinner out – and then our first opportunity to see a performance of Les Miserables! Thanks to Jodie & Bill… what a wonderful gift!
Have YOU had a chance to see that production?
This afternoon I am sitting and watching the birds find food here in Pennsylvania. I pray with God’s grace, tomorrow we will be looking for birds in our Montana snow. They won’t be these colorful ones… but we’ll be happy with whatever feathered friends we find.
What kinds of birds do you have in your area this time of year?
Happy Thanksgiving to you, my USA friends –
and Happy end of November to you all.
Pray for our safe flight back to Montana, okay?
Headed Back
We are headed back
To my niece, Jodie, and Bill’s place
Kutztown was just great!
We attended Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church with Lisa & Allen this morning.
My favorite was the last hymn. I’d never heard or sung it before. Have you?
The congregation really got into it, clapping and singing enthusiastically. We loved it!! 💕
I hope you’ve had a blessed Sunday, too.
Bye for now. I send my love … and I’ll see ya tomorrow.
Tenacity Defined
Gracie is Tenacity Defined. We all need such role models!
Check her out:
Look and see what an amazing person Gracie is.
I met her her in Ennis, Montana. She and Peter live in our Madison Valley.
And look for her husband, Peter, while you are checking out Gracie.
He is an amazing person, too.
Regardless of our hardships, we CAN survive and thrive.
It takes tenacity – a bucketful of it – like Gracie’s.
And someone’s hand to hold!
Hold on!
Have a good night.
See you tomorrow.
One Kind Word
Kind words are easy
Spoken from a sincere heart
They can change a life
Think of all the words
You might speak to folks today
Do they pass the test?
Are they lily pure?
Is every word uplifting?
You can’t take them back!
Words spoken with love
Can be the perfume of life
Hurtful words just stink!
We have declared November to be the month of kindness and gratitude. Not just kindness to those who are kind to us, but kindness to to everyone and everything. Kindness to ourselves, our neighbors, our pets, the neighbor’s pets, our plants and trees… even kindness to those who hurt us!
Let our words be like the fertilizer that helps others to change and grow.
One kind word might even change a life.
What’s a word you might say today from your sincere heart that will brighten someone’s day? It doesn’t have to be eloquent. It isn’t flattery. It’s just simple and honest.
I love that you are here on JanBeek today. You make my day brighter with your “like” and your comment.
But, you really lift my spirit when you are inspired to take the message to heart – and go out and LIVE a LIFE of LOVE.
Sing along with this beautiful song that reminds us to speak and sing and think and live in the perfume of “Wonderful Words of Life.”
Feed your mind loving words…
“Wonderful words, beautiful words, wonderful words of life”
and then go out and feed others!
See ya later.
Celebrate the World
Sing in the morning
Sing through the troubles of day
Sing in the evening
Sing when you feel sad
Sing experiencing joy
Celebrate the world
Celebrate your life
Celebrate with joyful song
The world sings along!
Grab a mike.
Listen with me – and sing along!
https://youtu.be/koBiXquzmr8
Have a great Thursday night
– a good sleep
– and celebrate the world
and your place in it!
See ya tomorrow.
Purpose of Art Ed
Arts education includes not only the visual arts, but also music, culinary arts, and all forms of creative expression.
The difficulty in auditory performing arts education is that excruciating learning period before clarinets stop squawking and violins stop screeching. Unlike my mother, who couldn’t stand it and sent me and my clarinet out to the shed across the driveway to practice, the teachers can’t send the students outside to learn! At least not all the time!
Those darling violin students that I introduced you to yesterday do not sound (yet) like the YouTube video I posted of beautiful violin virtuosos. God bless the teachers, students, and appreciative audiences who recognize the learning process and love them through the squawks and squeaks!
Support arts education in your schools and in the independent Arts Academies that teach visual and performing arts after school and on weekends. God bless those teachers! Ya gotta love ’em!!
Don’t hide your face and cover your ears.
Don’t send ’em out to the shed!
Ya gotta love ’em!!
