What a weird year! Wow. I thank God for it though...
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I love my Lord Jesus Christ, I love life, and I like a wide variety of music. Lets vibeTell them who you really are. They want to know your musical taste too!
sorrowfully, i gave my zune to my stupid friend to borrow and i called him up one day wanting my zune back and he said he lost it but i'm not quite taking hime serious becuz he jokes around a lot. hopefully one day i'll get it back... thanks for checkin' for me.
Yeah man jazz is great! Miles is def one of the best, I am glad you are also a fan! Who else do you like? If you are into like r&b and funk too, you should check out Roy Hargrove, a lot of his stuff is a neat kind of fusion of jazz, soul, etc. His group the RH factor is pretty hot. Also, Cannonball Adderley's cd "Somethin' Else" has a similar feel to Miles and actually Miles plays trumpet on that album. Enjoy your day and its music!
-Jean
WELCOME TO 2009
WORDS OF WISDOM SERIES FOR JANUARY 2009
If I were to say to you, "Old people are...." and then ask you to finish the sentence, how would you fill in the blank? Think about it for a moment.
"Old people are...." What? Fragile? Senile? At death's door? What do you believe about old people? What if I said, "Old people are bright, energetic, active and interesting."
You see, it's really impossible to generalize about so-called old people, any more than we can safely generalize about teenagers or 50-year-olds.
Does aging have to mean a loss of significance? Do our older selves matter less than our younger selves? Much of the answer to these terribly important, but rarely-spoken, questions lies within our
attitudes.
If these attitudes define old age as a time marked by loss and decline, we are in for some real trouble. Besides, there are simply no data to support this negative conclusion. As Norman Cousins once said, "No one knows enough to be a pessimist."
Aging, like most everything else, turns out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. You will get largely what you expect to get, what you believe,
and what you think is likely for you. Pygmalion was not a casual insight of George Bernard Shaw. It was an observation of everyday dynamics.
So if I ask you to complete the sentence, "When I am an old person..." what will you say? Do you expect the best for yourself? Do your actions support those expectations?