I am going to offer what i believe is to be some very original renditions of some "ole yule tide carols" JethroTull's Christmas Album and "James Taylor: A Christmas Album"
Month: November 2005
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My Taste In Christmas Music
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THANKSGIVING TIME OF THE YEAR
This Season is my favorite time of the year... It is getting colder, the wood is being stacked and fireplaces are ready for the winter to house the comfortable warming tongues of fire....
We Gather Together
We gather together to ask the Lord's blessing;
He chastens and hastens his will to make known;
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing,
Sing praises to his name: He forgets not his own.
Beside us to guide us, our God with us joining,
Ordaining, maintaining his kingdom devine;
So from the beginning the fight we were winning;
Thou, Lord, wast at our side, All glory be thine!
We all do extol thee, thou leader triumphant,
And pray that thou still our defender wilt be.
Let thy congregation escape tribulation;
Thy name be ever praised! O Lord, make us free!
Amen
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I DECLARE THIS COFFEE DAY
Central Colombia is trisected from north to south by three cordilleras, or mountain ranges. The central and eastern cordilleras produce the best coffees. The principal coffees of the central cordillera are Medellin,
Armenia, and Manizales, all named for the towns or cities through which they are marketed. Medellin, the most famous coffee of the three, is known for heavy body, rich flavor, and fine, balanced acidity; Manizales and Armenia are, in general, thinner in body and less acidy. For the purposes of large-scale marketing in the United States, these three coffees are often grouped together as MAM, an acronym for Medellin-Armenia-Manizales. If your coffee seller is not clear about the precise provenance of a Colombian coffee, it was probably sold as MAM, which means it could be any of the three.
The two most famous coffees of the eastern cordillera are Bogota, from the region surrounding Colombia's capital city, and Bucaramanga, marketed through the town of the same name. Bogota, considered one of the finest coffees grown in Columbia, is less acidy than Medellin, but equally rich and flavorful. Bucaramanga is a soft-bean coffee, with some of the character of fine Sumatran coffees: heavy body, low acidity, and rich flavor tones.
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I would like to Blog about what I would consider some of the best coffee this side of CHINCHINA Colombia.
I do value my own opinion about coffee . I think of my self as a Gringo Juan Valdez...in 1994 I was called to travel and be apart of this soap opera about Colombia’s Café con Aroma de Mujer (“Coffee with the Scent of a Woman”) which tells a love story amid the ups and downs of big players in the coffee industry for a whole week!!!! To make a long story short i declined due to other plans...LQQking back i can kick my self for not jumping at the opportunity. -
by Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference -
We all like to recieve letters, don't we??? Especially when it is in an envelope, is stamped and it is hand delivered. The letter you see in my blog is even hand written which makes it even more special!!! It was sent to my mother by my "birth mother" in Feb of 1952... I read it for the 1st time a few weeks ago finding it in a shoe box in my mother's basement with bills and receipts from the years 1950 to 1955...(the way my parents filed things away) I found other hand written leters also from my "birth mother" dated months earlier. What a find!!! I knew that there was correspondence from my "birth mother" but my mother didn't know where or what shoe box they were in..
I always wondered, when growing up, what my "birth mother" was like ; what kind of personality and if she had the same kind of humor as me...At least i have these letters to read and file away in another "shoe box".
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