Our Family: June 2007 Archives

After breakfast this morning, I took a few photos around our home before the storm arrived. This is what I came up with. I hope you enjoy.

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I know... I’m a bit late in posting this. These were my thoughts on Memorial Day...

Today has been a relaxing and uneventful day for me. In fact, I’m sitting on my deck sipping on mango margaritas (2nd one no less) without a thought in the world. I’m hooked up to my XM radio listening to the Dvorak Cello Concerto with Jacqueline du Pre’. I’m sitting with my camera in hand to try to capture the essence of my canvas. But more on that later.

Unlike most people, Memorial Day is a tough day for me -- a solemn day. I am haunted by thoughts of past friends who are no longer here. It seems only proper that I should honor them in some way by remembering them. But many would say, what’s the point? Here’s a memory from my past.

Dick Kramer’s Gay Mens Chorale, winter 1985

I’m not actually in that photo, but I was part of the choir at that time. It was a wonderful but turbulent time in my life. I remembering not being able to be at the photo shoot. I wish I could have been there. So many of these guys are gone now, but I was thinking of them on this Memorial Day. A friend who came upon my blog because I had written of being in Dick Kramer’s chorale, sent me this photo. Sadly, Dick Kramer passed away this last March in Southern California.

So for this Memorial Day, I decided to relax a bit an not be sad, but to find joy and peace in the fact that I celebrate each day of my life as though it were my last. Maybe that’s why I love cats so much. They live "in the moment" and each moment is of the utmost importance. And I know the guys that were my friends would want me to live my life that way.

And while I was relaxing and listening to my music, here are a few images from my day. Please keep in mind that I've had two mango margaritas in me and I'm really quite happy, so if my technique is off a bit, that's why.

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The second mango margarita I had that afternoon. They are soooooo good! And I love the way the light is reflecting in the stem of the glass. I just noticed that.

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