One for the CasaGrotto, and one for the new Bed N’ Breakfast! What shall I name it… I’ll give it some thought. Keep Calm and Carry On. Indeed. 🙂

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After a two-year hiatus, I have decided to lock back in on Mad Men. Having not seen Season 5 I have been looking for it from various places.  Frustrated, I turned to Rogers On Demand to find it.  Not there. I watched a 4 minute capsule about the last season and figured fack it, I’ll just watch season 6 and move on.

Then it struck me.  I don’t need to watch Season 5, I’ve probably just lived it. Mad Men: Indeed.

How do you mark the ’23 hour siege’ of Boston with the capture of the 19 year old terror suspect?  Why you take to the streets, crush beers, chant USA! USA! and say ‘Boston Strong’ ad nauseum.  If you watch this video you will probably conclude that Tom Browkaw’s ‘Greatest Generation’ won’t  have much competition from this current one.

Party on…

Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

Just has a massive ‘a-ha’ moment. Brothers: and spiritual grounding. Discovered recently or for years brothers finding their belief systems… systems that extend beyond themselves.  No longer their own Gods, and the sense of grounding it gives them, the accountability.  Why it works.  Why we all need that. Why I understand that is a piece to this whole rebuild.

Hit me like a ray of sunshine today.  I thought to myself and have been told by my own brother what is needed.  But you really have to find it yourself.  Being accountable to a higher power is about the BEST thing any person can do.  But finding that isn’t easy.  I ask you to think about it… THEY ‘GET’ IT!!  All I have to do is compare respective realities. We see how they are today. I could not have come this far without mine.

Ok I didn’t plan another Pearl Jam song but it came to my head that they sing the song Brother. So in true Dwight Brown fashion I present… Brother. 🙂 🙂

Song popped in my head as I work away today. Figured I would take a picture of the backyard too.

Garbage:  I’m Only Happy When It Rains

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Where would I be without Pearl Jam?  I must send them a heartfelt letter. Understood. Now this band… BANG!! Wow… they just work.

Solitude. Peace. Reflection. The greatest metamorphosis in one’s life requires it..

Yes the days are long, the days are busy and I am tired by the end of them.  But the work/philanthropy focus is positive.  Work works!  Hopefully my child, clients and community will be better for my ongoing efforts. 🙂

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Life and transformations…One can see themselves burning up in another’s personal hades… gets close to the precipice and is eventually saved by that very inferno’s ever lapping flames. Truly ironic. Truly soul changing journey.  Thank you..

Robert Louis Stevenson

Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful,
Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles,
Here I wander in April Cold, grey-headed;

and still to my Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer,
Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant;
Spring, flower-planter in meadows,
Child-conductor in willowy
Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses:
Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity:
O child, happy are children!
She still smiles on their innocence,
She, dear mother in God, fostering violets,
Fills earth full of her scents, voices and violins:
Thus one cunning in music
Wakes old chords in the memory:
Thus fair earth in the Spring leads her performances.
One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal
Green – one more, and my bosom
Feels new life with an ecstasy..