Miracles Await!

The Daily Love via Visual Inspiration: Miracles Await!.

May 21, 2012 0

Simon Creek Winery, Door County, WI

PANO_20120518_140834 — Click image to enlarge…

I’m just testing the panorama feature on my Google Nexus S. Simon Creek is a ‘must stop’ destination if you’re heading to Door County — the wines don’t suck and the winery itself is a little slice of Napa Valley in Door County…

Door County Triathlon (homeaway.com)
Door County, Wis., has charm to spare (newsok.com)
PSP [Peninsula State Park] Walk (toddlohenry.com)

May 21, 2012 0

BB King live!

86 years old and still bringing down the house!

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May 20, 2012 0

This summer

May 20, 2012 0

Guys, which one are you?

Guys who like Betty and guys who like Veronica. Which one are you?

May 20, 2012 0

Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans; This Day in History

On this day in 1873, San Francisco businessman Levi Strauss and Reno, Nevada, tailor Jacob Davis are given a patent to create work pants reinforced with metal rivets, marking the birth of one of the worlds most famous garments: blue jeans.Born Loeb Strauss in Buttenheim, Bavaria, in 1829, the young Strauss immigrated to New York with his family in 1847 after the death of his father. By 1850, Loeb had changed his name to Levi and was working in the family dry goods business, J. Strauss Brother & Co. In early 1853, Levi Strauss went west to seek his fortune during the heady days of the Gold Rush.In San Francisco, Strauss established a wholesale dry goods business under his own name and worked as the West Coast representative of his familys firm. His new business imported clothing, fabric and other dry goods to sell in the small stores opening all over California and other Western states to supply the rapidly expanding communities of gold miners and other settlers. By 1866, Strauss had moved his company to expanded headquarters and was a well-known businessman and supporter of the Jewish community in San Francisco.Jacob Davis, a tailor in Reno, Nevada, was one of Levi Strauss regular customers. In 1872, he wrote a letter to Strauss about his method of making work pants with metal rivets on the stress points–at the corners of the pockets and the base of the button fly–to make them stronger. As Davis didnt have the money for the necessary paperwork, he suggested that Strauss provide the funds and that the two men get the patent together. Strauss agreed enthusiastically, and the patent for “Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings”–the innovation that would produce blue jeans as we know them–was granted to both men on May 20, 1873.Strauss brought Davis to San Francisco to oversee the first manufacturing facility for “waist overalls,” as the original jeans were known. At first they employed seamstresses working out of their homes, but by the 1880s, Strauss had opened his own factory. The famous 501 brand jean–known until 1890 as “XX”–was soon a bestseller, and the company grew quickly. By the 1920s, Levis denim waist overalls were the top-selling mens work pant in the United States. As decades passed, the craze only grew, and now blue jeans are worn by men and women, young and old, around the world.

via Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive patent for blue jeans — History.com This Day in History — 5/20/1873.

May 20, 2012 0

After 12: Scumbag Alcohol

Epic Fail Funny Videos and Funny Pictures via After 12: Scumbag Alcohol.

May 20, 2012 1

Happy at Home

May 20, 2012 0

Well said, Kristin. While life and people may be unmanageable and control may be an illusion, we can never relinquish our power over our own responses. Thanks for providing such a great list of tactics and tools for retaining power…

May 20, 2012 0

Sadness

Melody Beattie shares this:

“Ultimately, to grieve our losses means to surrender to our feelings.

So many of us have lost so much, have said so many good byes – have been through so many changes. We may want to hold back the tides of change, not because the change isn’t good, but because we have had so much change, so much loss.

Sometimes, when we are in the midst of pain and grief, we become shortsighted, like members of a tribe described in the movie Out of Africa.

“If you put them in prison,” one character said, describing this tribe, “they die.”

“Why?” asked another character.

“Because they can’t grasp the idea that they’ll be let out one day. They think it’s permanent, so they die.”

Many of us have so much grief to get through. Sometimes we begin to believe grief, or pain, is a permanent condition.

The pain will stop. Once felt and released, our feelings will bring us to a better place than where we started. Feeling our feelings, instead of denying or minimizing them, is how we heal from our past and move forward into a better future. Feeling our feelings is how we let go.

It may hurt for a moment, but peace and acceptance are on the other side. So is a new beginning.

God, help me fully embrace and finish my endings, so I may be ready for my new beginnings.” via Language of Letting Go – May 20 – Sadness – SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information.

Grief is not an illness; it’s part of being human (miscarriedmom.wordpress.com)
Grief is not a disorder (mysanantonio.com)
Don’t ‘medicalize’ our precious gift of grief (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
Reflections on Grief and Loss (majellalaws.com.au)
Grief sauce and the Deep (ahimsamaven.wordpress.com)

May 20, 2012 2

On information

May 20, 2012 0

102 of the most unusual baby of names of 2011

Holy Kaw! via 102 of the most unusual baby of names of 2011 [infographic].

May 20, 2012 0

Music for a Sunday morning…

Sunday mornings I go for Baroque. What exactly is Baroque?

“The term Baroque is also used to designate the style of music composed during a period that overlaps with that of Baroque art, but usually encompasses a slightly later period.

It is a still-debated question as to what extent Baroque music shares aesthetic principles with the visual and literary arts of the Baroque period. A fairly clear, shared element is a love of ornamentation, and it is perhaps significant that the role of ornament was greatly diminished in both music and architecture as the Baroque gave way to the Classical period.

It should be noted that the application of the term “Baroque” to music is a relatively recent development. The first use of the word “Baroque” in music was only in 1919, by Curt Sachs,[11] and it was not until 1940 that it was first used in English (in an article published by Manfred Bukofzer).[12]

Many musical forms were born in that era, like the concerto and sinfonia. Forms such as the sonata, cantata and oratorio flourished. Also, opera was born out of the experimentation of the Florentine Camerata, the creators of monody, who attempted to recreate the theatrical arts of the Ancient Greeks. An important technique used in baroque music was the use of ground bass, a repeated bass line. Dido’s Lament by Henry Purcell is a famous example of this technique.” via Baroque – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Baroque music has been demonstrated to do great things for your mind and body as I posted here:

“Responses to music are easy to be detected in the human body. Classical music from the baroque period causes the heart beat and pulse rate to relax to the beat of the music. As the body becomes relaxed and alert, the mind is able to concentrate more easily. Furthermore, baroque music decreases blood pressure and enhances the ability to learn. Music affects the amplitude and frequency of brain waves, which can be measured by an electro-encephalogram. Music also affects breathing rate and electrical resistance of the skin. It has been observed to cause the pupils to dilate, increase blood pressure, and increase the heart rate.” via Music and the Brain.” via Go for Baroque! « Todd’s Perspective.

Lately, I have been using Classify on Spotify to find and play great Baroque. Here’s a fine example to get you started: