Maryannaville™

I’d like to take this time to commemorate the many men I’ve had in my life. Some were friends and some were lovers yet every one of them were influential in my personal growth albeit good, bad or indifferent. Whenever I mull through the memories that sustain me, I can’t help but be grateful. Furthermore, I’d like to thank Admin at Email Your Boss for her encouragement. The outcome of my planned actions turned out very nicely and set in stone a delightfully bright future. Rumors claim that you can never go home again, however, that isn’t true in this case. I’ve been warmly invited to return home for a visit after 30+ years. I am excited as well as thrilled to be near the home folks again. It’s wonderful to be so lavishly cherished! I’ll languish in those memories for years to come. I’ll also admit that I’m a sentimental ol’wuss. If that’s against the law then call the Police. See if I care.

Therefore, today’s focus is gratitude.

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NOW that David Hicks is back in Australia to serve out the rest of his sentence at Yatala, it is opportune to reflect on the implications of his “trial” for the future of the US military commission process. It is not a pretty picture.
the age.com.au

Originally posted 2007-05-21 21:32:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

The code here at Mville became mucked up a few days ago as you well know especially, if you had visited since October 22nd.  I just noticed the problem today, I’m afraid. When I first saw it, I thought, WTF happened, who did it and how do I fix it?   I’m talking about hours of pondering almost to a state of  emotional upset.  Yet, I was unable to recall what I had been doing until SueBlimely did a bit of investigating. In other words, she caught up with me online better than I can catch up with me both online and offline. She extended a few helpful hints to help jar this gray matter until I was able to recall my error.

Upon backtracking my actions to the 22nd, four days ago, I was able to determine that I had been fussing with the coding then forgot what I was doing or why I was even doing it.  I must have either had a senior moment or it was a side effect of mental pause. I’m still not sure at this point however, it is fixed now thanks to my friend, SueBlimely. Her learned knowledge, her delightful sense of humor and patience are greatly appreciated and greatly enjoyed no matter if it is a WP issue or just kicking it together.  She’s more than proven herself as our good online pal and mate. Furthermore, if it weren’t for her, this joint would still be in the nightmarish state it was in when I discovered earlier today.

By the length of his beard and gray legs on this beast-sized Moose; he must be well over 10 years old.

He is over 8 feet from the top of the shoulder hump and from his head to the top of his antler therefore, if my math serves me here, in measurement, he must be at least 12 feet tall.

This guy is king of the forest, no bear or pack of wolves would dare challenge him by the looks of his rack. The road he’s on is standard width for a dirt road which is 1 & 1/2 cars wide. And as you can visually tell, the old man is one humongous boy!

This old man was strolling along, biding his time near Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada when these photos were taken.

It’s been ages since Maryannaville has formally joined a group of wonderful bloggers who share the same interests, therefore, welcome Music Monday to our list of scheduled posts. Music Monday will be posted every Monday. It feels great to be actively involved with a healthy group of bloggers once again.

This past Saturday, I had the opportunity to call a professor I had during the 80s. He was not only loved by many for his wealth of knowledge, he was also a good friend to many and generously extended his hand in friendship to many. He was indeed a very good friend. My regret is that I had misplaced his phone number and took too long to call. If I had known, I would have joined his wife Jan, his family, and the many students he had throughout the years who were with him the day he passed. I’m sorry for that.

Del Barnett, this song is in honor of your life. It’s called, Come back when you can, by Barcelona.

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I got a pre-declined credit card in the mail.

I ordered a burger at McDonalds and the kid behind the counter asked, “Can you afford fries with that?”

The economy is so bad that CEO’s are now playing miniature golf.

If the bank returns your check marked “Insufficient Funds,” you have to call them to ask if they mean you or them.

Hot Wheels and Matchbox stocks are trading higher than GM.

McDonalds is selling the 1/4 ouncer.

Parents in Beverly Hills fired their nannies and learned their children’s names.

A truckload of Americans got caught sneaking into Mexico.

Dick Cheney took his stockbroker hunting.

Motel Six won’t leave the light on anymore.

The Mafia is laying off judges.

Exxon-Mobil laid off 25 Congressmen.

And finally… Congress says they are looking into this Bernard Madoff scandal.  The guy who made $50 Billion disappear is being investigated by the people who made $1.5 Trillion disappear?

The following video was shot at Japan’s Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium by John Rawlingson. You may purchase Barcelona’s Absolutes album  iTunes.

The tank you see is called the ‘Kuroshio Sea’ holds 7,500-cubic meters (1,981,290 gallons) of water and features the world’s second largest acrylic glass panel, measuring 8.2 meters by 22.5 meters with a thickness of 60 centimeters. Whale sharks and manta rays are kept among many other fish species in the main tank.

Mr. Rawlingson’s activism is about how we must protect our oceans and its inhabitants or soon they will become nothing more than written history.

The ability to lie, steal, cheat, murder, go to war, gossip, go into fits of rage, destroy our world, use words or technology to hurt each other and we believe at the end of all things there is a god who is some how going to make it all right and somehow we are in control of everything, when we are not.

People are in Washington D.C, marching today and they are well within their rights to make a reasonable demand.  They represent all of us in that they too have a right to  equality under canon law that includes gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people.

Although not everyone of us could be at the march, everyone of us should strive to have a world where  personal differences are not an obstacle that blocks the right to have total participation of a civic life, no matter if you’re gay, black, white, or without a god. The law was written to provide equality for everyone whereby we must insure that everyone of us are treated equally.

There are a miserable lot of people who don’t share the same dream and strive hard to withhold minority positions.  Their goal is to make non-heterosexuals second class citizens. Equality isn’t what they want. Therefore, as U.S. citizens, we must take action against them in order to eleviate this unnecessary problem in the U.S. Citizens don’t have to live like a refugee, ever. Tom Petty and Melissa Etheridge sing about it loudly and strongly.

Stand up and apply the US laws equally so that they protect everyone, everywhere.

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The Divine Comedy describes Dante’s journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso), guided first by the Roman poet Virgil and then by Beatrice, the subject of his love and of another of his works, La Vita Nuova. While the vision of Hell, the Inferno, is vivid for modern readers, the theological niceties presented in the other books require a certain amount of patience and knowledge to appreciate. Purgatorio, the most lyrical and human of the three, also has the most poets in it; Paradiso, the most heavily theological, has the most beautiful and ecstatic mystic passages in which Dante tries to describe what he confesses he is unable to convey (e.g., when Dante looks into the face of God: “all’alta fantasia qui mancò possa” – “at this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe,” Paradiso, XXXIII, 142).

Dante wrote the Comedy in a new language he called “Italian”, based on the regional dialect of Tuscany, with some elements of Latin and of the other regional dialects. By creating a poem of epic structure and philosophic purpose, he established that the Italian language was suitable for the highest sort of expression. In French, Italian is nicknamed la langue de Dante. Publishing in the vernacular language marked Dante as one of the first (among others such as Geoffrey Chaucer and Giovanni Boccaccio) to break from standards of publishing in only Latin (the languages of liturgy, history, and scholarship in general). This break allowed more literature to be published for a wider audience – setting the stage for greater levels of literacy in the future.

Readers often cannot understand how such a serious work may be called a “comedy”. In Dante’s time, all serious scholarly works were written in Latin (a tradition that would persist for several hundred years more, until the waning years of the Enlightenment) and works written in any other language were assumed to be more trivial in nature. Furthermore, the word “comedy,” in the classical sense, refers to works which reflect belief in an ordered universe, in which events not only tended towards a happy or “amusing” ending, but an ending influenced by a Providential will that orders all things to an ultimate good. By this meaning of the word, as Dante himself wrote in a letter to Cangrande I della Scala, the progression of the pilgrimage from Hell to Paradise is the paradigmatic expression of comedy, since the work begins with the pilgrim’s moral confusion and ends with the vision of God. [Source: Wikipedia]

Good night, dearheart. Thank you especially for today’s enlightenment infused with class, smiles and vividly shared, heart-warming memories to last at least a lifetime.