Lo, the Winter Is Past...

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Our lives have seasons, passages of change we endure or enjoy.  One season, we dance gracefully through; the next season, we crawl or braille our way slowly, excruciatingly.  I've been in a long winter, punctuated now and then with hints of spring.

Just a quick word of encouragement to you, my reading friend, and for myself, too:  

Falling Headlong Into Another World...

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If I'm a Jane Austen fan, it's as an admiring bystander of the language, customs, and history of the Regency/Napoleonic era more so than as a Janeite or romantic.  So, as I flipped the pages of Cindy Jones' book, My Jane Austen Summer, trying to decide whether or not to add it to my already lofty stack of books, I was braced to bolt and run at the first sign of words like swoon or limpid or cerulean orbs.  I needn't have worried.  I was hijacked and hooked anyway -- how'd that happen?

A Lazy Sunday Afternoon...

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Friends, I hope your Sunday was a blissful balance of tension, joy, good news & uncertainty, friendship affirmed and strangers-becoming-friends.  Wind in our faces, waves lapping at the skiff, hot, fragrant coffee in the thermos, indulging our wanderlust along newly-discovered roads.

Today, I learned a beloved friend is cancer-free and has a new four-legged companion, "Angel" by name and nature, a black and tan dog of unknown breed.  All this, plus an extraordinarily beautiful day, part autumn and part spring.  Life is Good, even when you've more questions than answers.

See you on the patio!

Our Steamy New QR Code ;-)

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Our thanks to QRilize.com, currently in Beta, for designing an easy, yet elegant, tool for generating QR codes.  Did I mention QRilize is free, but you must register to save your files.  QRilize, you rock!

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Follow the Love!

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Your Nonprofit: Ready for Take-Off or About to Crash & Burn?

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To All Our Friends & Colleagues, Near & Far....

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Happy Christmas & Merry New Year! 

أجمل التهاني بمناسبة الميلاد و حلول السنة الجديدة

Buon Natale e felice anno nuovo! 

¡Feliz Navidad y próspero año nuevo!

חג מולד שמח ושנה טובה

Fröhliche Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr! 

สุขสันต์วันคริสต์มาส และสวัสดีปีใหม่ 

С наступающим Новым Годом ~ С Рождеством Христовым 

Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hauʻoli Makahiki Hou!

BTW, Gitanajava Productions also designed and decorated the tree portrayed in this screensaver -- that's enough 3" tied-them-ourselves-bows and strategically placed candy canes to cover an 8' foot tree from top to bottom and all around, with no bare spots.

Make Yourself Merry!

I was looking for something evergreen, but phresh, to kick off my Christmas.  Thanks to friends at Google-Plus, I found just what I wanted, Sean Quigley's Little Drummer Boy.

You'll like this video so much, you'll want to own a copy -- buy Sean's work at www.cdbaby.com/seanquigley.  Follow him at Twitter, too -- @SeanQuigley204.  This guy is good.

The Coffeehouse Blues

Gitanajava = Gypsy Loves Coffee

(The original Rajah Coffee label was designed by Henri Meunier, 1897,

find it at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rajah-coffee-ad-1897-henri-meunier.jpg)

(This post was originally written, published, and distributed under the title The Coffee Canticle in December 2008.  Although the coffeehouse in question has long since passed on to the celestial heights, the thoughts and sentiments about what remain the same.)


Starbucks #6262, alias Lower Greenville Starbucks, officially closed 2 PM, Friday 19th December 2008.  Even before the farewell party ended at 6 PM, the guerrillas from Starbucks HQ arrived.  While the corpus delicti was still warm, they began taping sheets of brown butcher paper across the windows:  pulling the shroud tight.


When is a cup of coffee more than a cup of coffee?  What recombinant DNA transforms a mere java joint into a legend?