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Just my world of dreams, music and thoughts. Author of two books, one a novel of Love stories set in Framingham, Mass, Secrets of the Heart the 2nd book an autobiography of growing up in Framingham, Mass. Small Town America, Framingham My generation was the first teenage generation, that was when the word was coined. Ours was the generation that started cruising through town and to the drive in theater and drive in restaurant. In our area, Ernie Kampersal,from Holliston, drove his bucking car through town, picking up girls. It rose in the air, like a stallion! We went to the soda shops and played the juke boxes. It was a different town, a different time, and it belonged to us!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Bioshock 2 Soundtrack - 18 - Django Reinhardt;Stéphane Grappelli - La Me...

The grey afternoon, brings this song to mind, it is bitter sweet and expresses a longing for what we are searching for, that lies beyond the sea. In the game Bioshock, the city under the sea was lost, have you finished the game, to know if it was ever found again.?

Bunny Berigan - I Can't Get Started, Jazz 78



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In," Secrets of the Heart," Meggie meets Bunny Berrigan at a teenage house party in the early 1950's, that is she meets this recording. Everyone did a dance we called the Jitter Bug. The record dates from 1937, but was still alive in the 50's as a great jazz song.  The song quality is not the greatest, but, buy it if you are a collector, it might be hard to find in the future.

Redbone - Come And Get Your Love - The Midnight Special 1974

Jump ahead almost 40 years, wonderful song, full of rhythm, upbeat, and I liked the Indian dance introduction.  In Ashland, Mass., we have created Village of America, that tells a small story in names of the birth of the United States.
Starting with the Village of the Explorers, then Mayflower, Independence, and next is Constitution Village, followed by Louisiana Purchase.  The town square gazebo is going to be called 6 Nations, after the wonderful Indian Treaty that helped guide our magnificent Constitution.

LEARNING CENTERS

Spread the Good Will, are the words that we have been entrusted with.  Does it mean religion?  Or does it mean, help each other, do what is right and best?  Spread the Good Will, think about it, your eyes will open to a new world of happy feelings, smiles and knowing you are doing what is right. 

We don't need teachers for this, we just need to observe what we are doing as a society, that we think is liberal and kind, then come to the realization...... we are making a society dependent on Government.  From the beginning of time we have learned by example, apprenticing, and from training at the bottom and heading  up.  It is not sufficient to give help in the form of apartment, food stamps and a monthly check, this is a pay off to get rid of the problems.

We need to think in light of LEARNING CENTERS, that house needy families , while offering safe haven, training, child nurturing, and other services needed to get back into society.  This is true help!

Friday, November 12, 2010

The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Fantasia 1940

When I was a school teacher, my favorite teaching reading subject for the early grades, was this movie of Mickey.  We would watch it and dream up our own stories in the fantasy world of magic and dreams, by illustrating with a written story.  The "little" ones loved it as much as I did.  You have to admit it has lots of charm

THE GAYLORDS - FLAMINGO L'AMORE

I'm Longin' For Love; Flamingo L'amoreI don't know if you can find this collection anywhere today, if you can, this group was funny, and entertaining.  The song is just wonderful and was a big hit in the 50's.

Frankie Laine - "Someday"


After the tears , it is time to wipe your eyes, and move on , be  up with music while in the back of your mind you think about all the waste in our system, we are the kindest people in the world, lets do it right!

A Boy Called It by David Pelzer

Studies are pointing to the importance of nutrients... I quote from the latest report...
"nutrients constitute the most long-lasting environmental influence on the human body from before birth until death, interacting with the genome and leading to different responses in individuals depending on their genetic background and other environmental factors. Therefore, nutrition scientists must make a concerted effort to include nutrition and lifestyle data in databases such as NCBI"
Welfare the concept and the outlook has to change, if you look at the growing prison population, read books like , "A Boy Named It," you will realize that  what we empower for families that need help is not working...

College settings are  a good example of how to help people that need help, set up learning centers where they will live. .  Learn something to get out of poverty, while protecting and nurturing the children in controlled healthy environments, and best of all ...it saves the taxpayers money, while saving lives of children who are destined for prison, if we keep going the way we are going.  I cried my eyes out when I read this book.  You will be glad to read his other books, because the ending was miraculous, when you consider what his life was like as a child.

Thursday, November 11, 2010

FRANKIE LAINE DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME

This is one of the many songs that I mention in my book , Secrets of the Heart, as you travel with Meggie from the 40's thru the present.  You can imagine the fun we had dancing to this song!

ANDREA BOCELLI (HQ) SOLAMENTE UNA VEZ


In the 1940's lovers danced to this beautiful music, which Andrea has brought alive again with his wonderful voice. Mom would put a the record on and the house would come alive with music as Mom and Dad danced in the dining room to this song.  We learned to sing along with them as they sang and showed us their love for each other, and for our family.

ANDREA BOCELLI (HQ) AMAPOLA


Enjoy the desert, and the Colorado river, while listening to this song of the 1940's that has lived into the new generation.  Andrea is one of the great voices of our time.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Dreams, re-incarnation, visions

Exploring more locations on re-incarnation, I discovered this author who is very popular, has a site on Amazon and a large following on the subject of re-incarnation.
You can browse his books, and remember my book, Secrets of the Heart, if you read it I would appreciate a review on Amazon, and Barnes and Noble, Thanks.

Monday, November 8, 2010

True North, Kravets

Howard Kravets writes a war time adventure story . His account speaks of the horror of being the only one alive on a bomber, having to bail out and leave his buddies . The hero manages to live and fly again, only to be targeted and hit one more time, falling out of the sky and enduring escape. The hero lives to wreck his life as he fights his war time demons, that shake his reality at night while he recreates the horror of war in his dreams. Burying himself in an unfaithful affair he is caught between two worlds, his wife and family, or his paramour. The story is so true of the vets who came home wounded not only bodily, but mentally, with horrors they never would have had to endure if the war had not been put upon our shores.
Howard has done a magnificent job, on his first novel, it is a good read, and a great Christmas present for your father or grandfather , who might have fought in the 2nd world war. They keep their secrets in, so a book like this allows them to let it out, they were not alone.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Dreams, re-incarnation, visions

Secrets of the Heart is getting good reviews, enough to encourage me to continue with my next book.  Love, dreams, visions and re-incarnation are again the theme , hopefully the book will be ready for publication late next year.

Autonomous Articulated Robots: Finale (second half)

Bell's TheoremBell's TheoremBell's Theorem states that electrons never forget and that they share information at a distance. So if the psychic charge is with us for ever, we never forget, what happens when we make robots out of matter, they too are elecrtrons?  Can we insert our electrons into the robots and live forever, through constant replacement of our electrons in new robots?  Who would dream it would come to this?

Friday, November 5, 2010

Scientists Look to Recreate Big Bang

Scientists Look to Recreate Big Bang   Interesting, scientists think that matter at the time of the big bang was plasma.  Rudolph Sheldrake, studied the morphic form, and that might be a form of plasma.
I know people that can see that morphic form, amazing, crazy world, and science is unraveling it faster and faster, as time progresses...

Willard Wigan - Originals Gallery

Willard Wigan - Originals Gallery

The magnificent art of WillardWigan, don't miss this
contemporary art!  Here is the information on  Editorial Reviews at Amazon.com


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Mallikarjuna Reddy (born August 24, 1981) is a miniature sculptor, and Guinness World Record Holder, the creator of the world's smallest monolithic sculptures, often taking months to complete one, working between heartbeats to avoid hand tremors "You have to control the whole nervous system, you have to work between the heartbeat - the pulse of your finger can destroy the work. To the naked eye, each of Reddys works is all but invisible unidentifiable speck that reveals its true form, in mind-boggling detail, only when placed under the microscope and magnified 500 times. Mallikarjuna Reddy was born Changalaraya Reddy, son of a landlord and politician mother Akkamma, Thoppanahalli Village in Bangarpet, Kolar (District) Karnataka. India. At first, under the self influence, He learned caricatures in school Kolar Gold Fields at age nine. He studied with self-owned skills and creativity and has the potential of creating high-end miniatures and has hand full last skills. Caricaturing on the most delicate media, has the sense of handling such most delicate material and presence the skill of art. But soon after, supported by his family he moved to Bangalore (2000) to study Biotechnology at the Reddy Jana Sangha College. It was there, in the communities of Reddys and Friends that he had enriched his skill of Miniature although his parents were envying his hobby of Miniature Sculpture. Living in this environment, Mallikarjuna Reddy create Microscopic sculptures. In 2001 he exhibited at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishad with his first one-man show held at Chitrakala Parishad he was commissioned by most influence by media. With artistic innovation at its height, in the 2004s he experimented with abstract forms he called Micro Miniature... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22244032

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Secrets of the Heart, book by Madlyn Fafard

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A moving and introspective narrative, making use of current, nostalgic and spiritual references. Those familiar with the locations will feel they are right there in the some of the scenes. SECRETS of the HEART will make you laugh, cry and smile, make you think, and most of all give you hope.

Secrets of the Heart, book by Madlyn Fafard

Secrets of the Heart

by Madlyn A. Fafard

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This is a wonderful quick-read that melds authentic history of the 30s to the present intertwined with personal stories that definitely touch the heart. I loved how Madlyn included music of the times with Meggie's recollection of her intimate experiences with her family and friends. I could relate to her joy and pain.


If you have lived during this time in the Metrowest region of MA (or I think any home town in the USA), you will undoubtedly be pleasantly surprised as your memory is returned to your own experiences. It's like being in a holygram (spelling?) with the music playing in the background. I felt such a surge of emotions with each story.
When you get to know "Meggie", you will feel like you've always known her.

This book made me reconnect with friends I had lost track of through the years and now my life is richer for it.