Wow

I got this as an e-mail today. It's worth reading.

We rarely get a chance to see another country's editorial about the USA.

Read this excerpt from a Romanian Newspaper. The article was written by Mr. Cornel Nistorescu and published under the title "C"ntarea Americii, meaning "Ode To America") in the Romanian newspaper Evenimentulzilei

"The Daily Event" or "News of the Day".
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~An Ode to America~

Why are Americans so united? They would not resemble one another even if you painted them all one color! They speak all the languages of the world and form an astonishing mixture of civilizations and religious beliefs. Still, the American tragedy turned three hundred million people into a hand put on the heart.

Nobody rushed to accuse the White House, the army, and the secret services that they are only a bunch of losers. Nobody rushed to empty their bank accounts. Nobody rushed out onto the streets nearby to gape about. The Americans volunteered to donate blood and to give a helping hand.


After the first moments of panic, they raised their flag over the smoking ruins, putting on T-shirts, caps and ties in the colors of the national flag. They placed flags on buildings and cars as if in every place and on every car a government official or the president was passing.

On every occasion, they started singing their traditional song: "God Bless America!" I watched the live broadcast and rerun after rerun for hours listening to the story of the guy who went down one hundred floors with a woman in a wheelchair without knowing who she was, or of the Californian hockey player, who gave his life fighting with the terrorists and prevented the plane from hitting a target that could have killed other hundreds or thousands of people.

How on earth were they able to respond united as one human being? Imperceptibly, with every word and musical note, the memory of some turned into a modern myth of tragic heroes. And with every phone call, millions and millions of dollars were put in a collection aimed at rewarding not a man or a family, but a spirit, which no money can buy.

What on earth can unite the Americans in such a way? Their land? Their galloping history? Their economic Power? Money? I tried for hours to find an answer, humming songs and murmuring phrases with the risk of sounding commonplace I thought things over, but I reached only one conclusion... Only freedom can work such miracles.

Cornel Nistorescu

Greetings From Wyoming!

Hello all. I'm here in wyoming and coming home on wednesday. Yesterday we went down to the Snake river and I canoed for the first time. It was alot of fun even though we did tip our canoe a couple of times. The other day I was fishing behind the ranch that i'm on and saw two deer about 50 feet in front of me. They hung around a while and ate grass. Occasionally they would look over at me when I made a noise. I have really enjoyed wyoming and am so glad I got to come.

Later

One week from today

I will be in Jackson Wyoming visiting my good friend Jenn while see works at a dude ranch for teenage children. I will be there for a full week, and Jenn has quite a few fun activities planned. We will be : fishing on crystal clear lake, riding the horses, shopping in Jackson, floating down one of the rivers, swimming, and anything else we can think of. The high temperatures there are middle 70s with lows in the 40s. I have never been to Wyoming and I have not had an actual vacation in about 4 years. I am SUPER excited to see my friend Jenn and looking forward to a needed and deserved vacation away from Texas.

Your Average Monday Morning Except for the Migraine

I learned several months ago that I have migraine headaches. This morning when I woke up I just so happened to have a migraine. I will say that in the past when I heard of people having migraine's I would think, ok a really bad headache, that sucks. Now that I am a migraine sufferer I have much sympathy for all the other sufferers.

I went ahead and came into work this morning, and took my migraine medicine with my morning cereal. My migraine's feel like someone has stabbed me with a knife right above my left eye. The pain is constant and sharp, and I would not wish it on my worst enemy. Thank goodness for the medicine because I would not be able to type right now let alone even look at the computer screen without it.

In other news. I went and saw my mother on Saturday. We went to my favorite place to eat( the Peach Orchard) in Oklahoma and played Bingo. We did not win at Bingo even though I found a penny in the parking lot ( it should have been lucky).

Tomorrow I am going to the horse races at Lone Star Park. Big bucks no whammy's!