As we rest up from the holidays, traveling and the stress, to all a very Happy New Year.
Rest up for 2007; pshew, makes me tired simply thinking about the upcoming election year.
The only question I have is: Are there going to be real issues, or are the people now in office going to be the real issues? Let us ponder on that thought as we anxiously await the filing date of all hopeful politicos!
PEACE ! ! !
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Friday, December 15, 2006
MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY HOLIDAYS
Opening the mail today I discovered a truly delightful Christmas card from a neighbor. Thank you kindly, neighbor. We are trying to get ours' out asap, but with a lot going on inside our family -- well, we'll have to see how far we get. No time for taxpayer meetings, politics, etc.
Meanwhile, please allow me to share these thoughts penned onto this card. It is entitled My Christmas List of Blessings written by Vicki J. Kuyper:
My Christmas List is more than just a way to keep track of the special people God has brought into my life to love.
It's like a treasured scrapbook filled with pleasant memories of all the times God's answered prayer through friends and family.
Every name's a touchstone that leads to a place and time,
where God has used another's heart to reach out and touch mine.
It may have happened years ago or even yesterday,
but every person on my list has changed my life some way.
Through simple conversation, a warm hug or a shared meal,
every person on my list has helped me grow or heal, or laugh or love or learn or smile...The blessings never end as God allows our paths to cross as family and friends.
So please know that this greeting is more than a Christmas wish. It's a "thank you" card to God for putting on my list each and every one whose name I've come to hold so dear...
Those who've shown me Christmas joy each day of the year.
From me and mine to you and yours, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Til after the holidays.......:)
Meanwhile, please allow me to share these thoughts penned onto this card. It is entitled My Christmas List of Blessings written by Vicki J. Kuyper:
"My Christmas List of Blessings"
My Christmas List is more than just a way to keep track of the special people God has brought into my life to love.
It's like a treasured scrapbook filled with pleasant memories of all the times God's answered prayer through friends and family.
Every name's a touchstone that leads to a place and time,
where God has used another's heart to reach out and touch mine.
It may have happened years ago or even yesterday,
but every person on my list has changed my life some way.
Through simple conversation, a warm hug or a shared meal,
every person on my list has helped me grow or heal, or laugh or love or learn or smile...The blessings never end as God allows our paths to cross as family and friends.
So please know that this greeting is more than a Christmas wish. It's a "thank you" card to God for putting on my list each and every one whose name I've come to hold so dear...
Those who've shown me Christmas joy each day of the year.
From me and mine to you and yours, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Til after the holidays.......:)
Saturday, December 02, 2006
E V A N B A Y H F O R P R E S I D E N T
It 'twas good reading the Courier-Journal article about "Bayh will take step toward running for president", by David Espe with the AP today December 2, 2006.
"Elected Indiana's (our) governor in 1988, he was the first Democrat in 20 years to hold that office and -- at 33 -- the younges state chief executive in the United States." Powerful statement and achievement.
Living in Indiana, it was with pride when you read about his political career and accomplishments. One of the sentences "Bayh was often referred to as a "Republicrat" who courted the middle." Hmmmmm. Sounds bi-partisan to me. "His approval rating was 79% in a state (our great state Indiana) that hasn't voted for a Democrat presidential nominee since Lyndon Johnson's 1964 landslide." Powerful sentence; a true sign of what I feel is needed in this great country of ours right now. Working together --what an idea.
Bayh "drew national notice, too, as his tenure as governor neared an end. He was tapped to give the keynote address at the 1996 Democratic National Convention and was elected to the Senate two years later."
This article goes on to state some of the positions he has taken while Senator of the great state of Indiana. Among the ones listed are: Bayh voted against confirmation of Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito; opposed legislation to open a portion of an Artic wildlife refuge to oil drilling (near and dear to my families' heart); and supported and comprehensive immigration bill that included a path to citizenship for millions of men and women in the country illegally. Thank you, Senator. We appreciate those efforts.
The article goes on to talk about Bayh being the son of Birch Bayh, who won three terms in the Senate from Indiana before losing his seat in the Republican landslide of 1980.
"Elected Indiana's (our) governor in 1988, he was the first Democrat in 20 years to hold that office and -- at 33 -- the younges state chief executive in the United States." Powerful statement and achievement.
Living in Indiana, it was with pride when you read about his political career and accomplishments. One of the sentences "Bayh was often referred to as a "Republicrat" who courted the middle." Hmmmmm. Sounds bi-partisan to me. "His approval rating was 79% in a state (our great state Indiana) that hasn't voted for a Democrat presidential nominee since Lyndon Johnson's 1964 landslide." Powerful sentence; a true sign of what I feel is needed in this great country of ours right now. Working together --what an idea.
Bayh "drew national notice, too, as his tenure as governor neared an end. He was tapped to give the keynote address at the 1996 Democratic National Convention and was elected to the Senate two years later."
This article goes on to state some of the positions he has taken while Senator of the great state of Indiana. Among the ones listed are: Bayh voted against confirmation of Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito; opposed legislation to open a portion of an Artic wildlife refuge to oil drilling (near and dear to my families' heart); and supported and comprehensive immigration bill that included a path to citizenship for millions of men and women in the country illegally. Thank you, Senator. We appreciate those efforts.
The article goes on to talk about Bayh being the son of Birch Bayh, who won three terms in the Senate from Indiana before losing his seat in the Republican landslide of 1980.
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