5-12-09-- tuesday congrats to my youngest daughter's rowing team at smith college: they will be competing in the ncaa rowing championship races! good luck to you!! click here for more info “there are plenty of teams in every sport that have great players and never win titles. most of the time, those players aren't willing to sacrifice for the greater good of the team. the funny thing is, in the end, their unwillingness to sacrifice only makes individual goals more difficult to achieve. one thing I believe to the fullest is that if you think and achieve as a team, the individual accolades will take care of themselves. talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.” -- michael jordan
5-8-09-- thursday
bad hair day for baileyboy !
"a person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. he taught me to appreciate the simple things - a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight..."
-- john grogan, marley and me5-1-09-- thursday
in memory of kristy- a vivacious, compassionate, articulate, young mother and my dear friend who fought a brave battle with cancer and passed into the spiritual realms wednesday.
"deep peace of the running wave to you.
deep peace of the flowing air to you.
deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
deep peace of the shining stars to you.
deep peace of the infinite peace to you."
-- adapted from - under a dark star by fiona macleod4-26-09-- saturday
went on the greenhomes tour. this is a "high efficiency, zoned-bypass air conditioning system" the house also has radiant heat concrete floors with solar water heater, roof garden, high efficiency windows, and 12" thick spray foam insulation... not looking to buy, just for some ideas...
"home wasn't built in a day."
-- jane ace4-17-09-- friday
long-time friends reconnecting after many years apart
"it takes a long time to grow an old friend."
-- john leonard
the fellow on the right is jim lauderdale, a well-respected musician here for a local music festival:: http://www.jimlauderdale.com/ and on the left is henry walker, a teacher at the carolina friends school4-10-09-- friday art after dark at the ackland art museum-- live music and screening of the documentary film "mountain top removal" -- for more info on the evening click here "music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." -- berthold auerbach
4-6-09-- monday
and the tar heels won the ncaa national championship!! I watched on my little b&w tv- seen here after the win is tyler hansbrough and ty lawson- an amazingly powrful duo and wonderful to watch on the court!
for a cool time lapse of the post-game celebration on franklin street- click here:
http://www.dailytarheel.com/sports/m-basketball-tar-heels-win-fifth-national-title-1.16460193-31-09-- tuesday
"the same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day and dances in rhythmic measure. it is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into the numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumulteous waves of flowers."
-- rabindranath tagore3-27-09-- Friday At an auction to raise funds to restore the Chapel Hill murals- Ernest Dollar, Director of Preservation Society of Chapel Hill - www.chapelhillpreservation.com- and Michael Brown, mural artist. Already two murals have been restored. To see my gallery documenting the city's murals, click here "Little by little, one travels far." -- J. R. R. Tolkien