View From Here: New Year's Eve

View From Here: New Year's Eve: Well how about that? Another year ending and a new one about to start. Funny how that happens – and so regularly, too! I don’t need to...

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SF Gay Men's Chorus - "North Pole Rock & Roll"

This is the best way to start the New Year off.

View From Here: Gems from Adversity

View From Here: Gems from Adversity: A friend of mine died two weeks ago. It was not a pretty leave taking. He is the one who suggested I try to offer a positive thought for S...

View From Here: Spirituality and Religion

View From Here: Spirituality and Religion: Bubbling up are ideas and sentiments. In my mind. Same ideas with slight differences continue to plague my thinking process. Not clogging ...

What If money didn't matter?.. - Alan Watts

View From Here: Journal-ing All The While

View From Here: Journal-ing All The While: This blog is my journal – a personal journal and commentary on today’s issues – as it states in the heading. It is my attempt to muse abo...

View From Here: Is It Over Yet?

View From Here: Is It Over Yet?: Whew! Christmas Eve and Day have come; and gone. And we are still here. And we are OK. So much for that emotional cliff! I made it. Di...

View From Here: Christmas Day!

View From Here: Christmas Day!: The day of hope and expectation has arrived! We spend quality time with loved ones, the ones with whom we have built history. A timeline o...

View From Here: Christmas Eve

View From Here: Christmas Eve: A magical time for many.  Christmas Eve. The hour approaches when dreams and hopes reach for reality. One time each year when what we want...

best coming out

Sable

Bandit is reclaimed by his owner after being lost for 5 years!

Sweet Mama Dog Interacting with a Beautiful Child with Down Syndrome

View From Here: Sticks and Stones...

View From Here: Sticks and Stones...: There is a photo of a woman on the internet holding up a sign. Here’s what it says:             “If a pre-school child hits another ch...

View From Here: Sugar Plum Fairies

Sorry forgot to post this one.

View From Here: Sugar Plum Fairies: Every TV ad showing a young child, sitting with my granddaughters, hearing children happily babbling in a restaurant…conjures images of th...

View From Here: About the Cliff

View From Here: About the Cliff: James Madison in his The Federalist No. 10 , gave this observation: “The most common and durable source of faction has been the variou...

Chicago Gay Men's Chorus: A Place Called Home

Golden Eagle Snatches Kid

This is a good reason NOT to leave

your small children unintended.... or a small dog.

View From Here: Balance

View From Here: Balance: During the summer of 2012 efforts began to recall Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin . What spurred this action was the governor’s so-call...

Hallelujah - The Voice

View From Here: Positive Foundations

View From Here: Positive Foundations: This is the season of Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward All Men. Regardless of your religious faith or tradition, or even of culture, this i...

View From Here: Death and Dying

View From Here: Death and Dying: Last week was a hard one for many people. None more than the parents and family of the 20 children massacred in Newtown, Connecticut, or t...

View From Here: Death: Planned and Stunned

View From Here: Death: Planned and Stunned: This is not a full post but one to prepare for Monday's offering. I will attempt to write something about the school shooting in Connecticut...

View From Here: Light and Inspirational

View From Here: Light and Inspirational: At least I hope so!  The following jewels snatched from the internet will help:             “Piglet: how do you spell love?         ...

Horrible Truck Accidents 2012 October

There's a problem with Brighton's Christmas lights

View From Here: Achievements

View From Here: Achievements: Many of our Presidents are remembered for significant achievements during their term in office. For example FDR is remembered for creating...

Life Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang - "One Day"

Zeitgeist 2012: Year In Review

View From Here: From Blahs to Blessings

View From Here: From Blahs to Blessings: The Holidays pose problems for many. Yesterday I wrote about the Holiday Blahs. Today I want to focus on the positive. Doing polar opposit...

Parents Who Beat 7 Year Old To Death For Not Reading Bible Called Pastor Before 911 | The New Civil Rights Movement

Parents Who Beat 7 Year Old To Death For Not Reading Bible Called Pastor Before 911 | The New Civil Rights Movement

Love and Marriage at Seattle City Hall - December 9, 2012

Drop the idea of becoming someone,
because you are already a masterpiece
You cannot be improved
You have only to come to it
to know it, to realize it
~ Osho 

View From Here: Holiday Blahs

View From Here: Holiday Blahs: Do you get the Holiday blahs? I do but used to think I was the only one who did. Now I know better. The condition affects many people. ...

The Amazing Survival Abilities Of The Ibex

One Million Moms ’moving on’ from Ellen Christmas commercial protest

One Million Moms ’moving on’ from Ellen Christmas commercial protest

View From Here: Value and You

View From Here: Value and You: Rocky received the following email message from a friend. She was sharing a thought I think we all should think about.  Here it is: “T...

Meet Billy, Rescued From a Puppy Mill

View From Here: Making Things Up

View From Here: Making Things Up: When is a cliff not a cliff?  When is a crisis not a crisis? The answer for both questions is: when politicians make up different defi...

Jurassic Prank!!

Jurassic Prank!!

View From Here: Fiscal Cliff Values

View From Here: Fiscal Cliff Values: Yesterday I wrote much about taking responsibility for the fiscal cliff issue.  Today I just want to offer a few pithy quotes from others ...

Meet Billy, Rescued From a Puppy Mill

View From Here: Some Quickies

View From Here: Some Quickies: I've read several quips lately that are sharable here. They are not very discussable but they have an impact that is interesting. Some you m...

View From Here: Weekend Thought

View From Here: Weekend Thought: A house becomes a home when……? Well, when those you love reside there. Or where memories of those you have loved find a nest in your s...