New Years Resolutions

Here is my list of New Years Resolutions:

First foremost and most importantly:
Contentment in all things...if I achieve this then all the rest will fall into place.
Contentment that I am where I am supposed to be with my job, that another door will open when the time is right for me to leave.

Eat healthier and Exercise more (yada yada yada - same as every other american in this world).

Listen more to the kids.

Fix up my house....gotta love that paycheck, eh?....learn contentment...

Read less about art and work more on creating it!

Draw more, and doodle even more.

Work hard at getting my sense of humor back....maybe I should hang around LuAnn more...she makes me laugh!

Never make a list of New Years Resolutions again...ha ha! This is the first one I have ever made in my whole life. I always thought they were a colossal waste of time. ha ha. So there you have it.

So Sweet!

I have had the whole week off from work. It has gone by way too fast. But it has been the best week I have had in a long time! I have thoroughly enjoyed myself.

One bit of an update on what is happening in my life. I found out the last day of the semester, the last test of the last day of graduating with my BFA in Computer Art and Design that I only have 5 classes to get my BA in Anthropology and that they will be teaching a class in Visual Anthropology next semester. I didn't even know there was such a thing as visual anthropology, and upon further investigation it seems like the perfect blend between my artistic, photography and creative skills and my interest in history, people, archaeology and anthropology. It is very exciting! Since there are next to NO jobs in the design field in my town maybe this will open new doors for me. If you haven't figured it out so far I am pursuing my Bachelors of Anthropology degree. A friend of mine was disappointed that I wasn't going to be able to put BS behind my name....ha ha!!

I bought a book that reflects on the thought - "if you have one hour to live, who would you call and why are you waiting?".....something to think about. I must go read that book now! ta ta! Ciao!

Corporate personalities

Is it possible that there are just some people that are not cut out to work in the corporate world? I think I might be one of them. I hate my job. I love the money, love the work but the politics and the stupid people just amaze me.

Do you know that no one decorated for christmas in any way at work? Do you know there were no carry in's, no gift exchanges, no holiday atmosphere, just everyone leaving early and as soon as they could to get out of that place. It is so oppressive in this place. I feel like I am suffocating, drowning as a matter of fact. There is no creativity, it is just robotic, "this is what we want so do it...make it happen...." sigh..... I yell at God, I beg God, I plead with God, - GET ME OUT OF HERE! I look for jobs, I submit resume after resume hoping that someone will get me out of here, but no....I must stay. I really enjoy the paycheck, even if it is low on the pay scale for my field, but that guaranteed paycheck is certainly nice. I think God is having me work on being content no matter what situation I am in. I just cry when I think about going back to that place. I am SOOO looking forward to the next week off.
If you are reading this and you are a praying soul, please pray that God would do something in my situation at work!

Christmas Fun!

Here is a little Christmas Fun!
Click the link below, it takes a while to load but definitely worth the wait!

watch these pictures in animated form! Hysterical CLICK HERE

Update...

I have been so busy lately with my senior show and getting everything ready for my graduating "ta-da" that I haven't had much time for blogging.
Life is still happening, I am in the midst of a rebellious teen ager that is floundering in her life path. It is sad to watch, and most frustrating given the fact that I have been down that path and I with all of my wisdom and knowledge of what she could do to make her life better, just ring like a loud annoying clanging bell in her ears. I had someone tell me that if they had it to do all over again they would pray more......pray without ceasing has taken on a whole new meaning in my life, and amazingly I see it working!

I am believing that her true strength and character will come through and that we have started being proactive before it went to far - hopefully. But there have been some things put into motion that are going to make life very difficult in the next year or so.

Now changing subjects I have a job! And a good job at that! Working for a large automotive company. I get to use all of my skills in photography, videography, graphic design and I am running a broadcasting station for the whole plant. It is a good job and I love the work....I hate the politics and the pull between company and union. I wish they would all grow up....I will stay there until God directs me to a different place doing something different. I pray it is soon, but I am committed to this company until then. My position is a source of contention. The company wants a company person in my position, the union wants a union person in my position. It is a very insecure feeling job. Will you have a job after the next contract agreement? Are you being set up to fail, by not being told the truth by the other person? For instance I was supposed to go take a photo, but was told i didn't have to only to find out that I should have, and then I get the funny little comments from the big wigs of the union because I didn't show....stupid games like that. Oh bother!

So that is all for now! I will be blogging more after my senior show. Which is Friday, Nov. 2 for those of you who know me and want to come. Email me and I will send you the where at info so you can share with me as I graduate! This is a big moment for me. Almost the official graduation ceremony in my eyes.

So Much has happened.....

So much has happened since the last time I blogged. I got a new job...and not just any job but my dream job! I get to shoot video, edit the video and put together videos, photography and graphic design! I am so thrilled! And the pay is GREAT!!! Now instead of being behind the eightball I am at least breaking even. Sad but true....I don't have money for extras but at least the necessary bills are paid! Huge blessing! It certainly takes a big chunk out of my day, what with a 40 minute drive (on the highway none the less) both ways, and the eight hour day, but that is okay. I am happy. The extreme tiredness is beginning to wear off, and I am beginning to have more energy in the evenings again.
It's funny when I look at what my budget is and I only added food, a little more on a new car payment, a little more gas, and little more on insurance and I am breaking even, I wonder how I was ever making it with my freelancing (since that was next to nothing). I think God has showed me that He was doing more than I ever suspected!

Yes..I do have a new car! A Pontiac G6 (a funny sidebar, I work on a Mac G5 all day and drive a G6) It is so nice to be back in a pontiac again. I truly love pontiac's and I found sales man there that if he stays with Pontiac I will go back to him time and time again. I like him. If you know me ask and I will give you his name.

It has been a big adjustment for the kids. Me being gone all day, instead of being home, but after this semester of school they should have a lot more of me.
This is my last semester of school at college. I will be graduating with a BFA in Computer Art & Design. This is a long time coming, and I am going to the graduation ceremony and having an open house all of this in the spring even though I am graduating this fall. COUNT ON IT! I have worked too long and too hard to get to this point to not go through the motions and celebrate my accomplishments with those people who surround me in my daily life.

I am having trouble getting the freelance commitments I made accomplished and for that I feel bad, I am doing the best I can, with the energy I have. I can see why people pump themselves full of caffeine. I have not stooped to that yet, since I feel the health risks far outweigh the energy, maybe more exercise would help...

Anyway ta ta for now! (As Tigger would say!)
Life is good.....

Life Changing News.....

Good news! I finally have a good paying job after many many months of trying to find one or trying to make money to make ends meet! I got a job with a huge corporation in the auto industry doing video, video editing, photography, and some graphic design work! And it pays well!
I look for my life to change drastically from this point on....no more late bills or disconnect notices! Whooo hoooo! Now I must work hard to rebuild my credit.
I am concerned as a mother about how this will affect my children who have been quite spoiled by having me around all the time. There will have to be adjustments made. But I am sure they will appreciate the fruits of my labor. My youngest son has outgrown his bike a long time ago and has never had a new bike, he will have to ride his bike back and forth to school now, so I plan to buy him a new bike! I can't wait!
And maybe a dog to help keep the kids company? We will see!
Another big change is the fact that I must get rid of my car. It is a Honda and this is an american car plant....yikes! NOT a good thing! So I must work on this right away....

More to come at a later date....

whooooo......

THat is the equivalent of a big sigh.....I found out this week that I am getting laid off from the only steady income I have. Good news is I have 2 potential websites to work on, that should bring money in. So....it all works out for the best. I will have more time to work on those websites.

And I think I have found a scholarship to help me with my camera situation. My camera quit focusing, and the camera repair shop I took it to said it was too old. It is only 5 years old! Well anyway, I can only borrow the multimedia labs camera at school for short times and usually not when I have the time to go take pictures. I have to take pictures for my senior project, this fall and fashion them into my designs. I went to the women's studies department at IPFW and they are working to help me get a solution figured out. hoooray!

My first solo show tonight for my artwork. I am excited yet nervous! I have invited 100 people by email and handed out 250 postcards. If all I had to do was show up and interact with people I would be fine. But I don't know what is expected as the norm for a opening. Am I supposed to have wine, cheese, crackers, hor duerves and such? I can't afford that. I decided to use a creative bent instead and bought 3 HUGE bags of M&M's and sorted them by color and then bought cupcake papers and I plan to create a kaleidoscope design out of the cupcake paper filled with M&M's. I wish I could do something more. Ah well, someday!

My books....

I wanted to post about my books, not too many people know that I have two books in the works.

The first book, a book on front porches, people in my hometown on their front porches. A book to revive the front porch culture of america. There is so much that happened when people stopped sitting on their front porch. Do you know that crime went up when people stopped sitting on the front porch? Do you know why people stopped sitting on their front porches? Two things brought it on. The first was air conditioning. When people started installing air conditioning they didn't want to sit on the hot front porch anymore. And TV came out around the same time. No longer did people want to sit and visit on the front porch, they wanted to watch this new invention and stay cool. No longer did people keep up with their neighbors, they didn't know what was going on with each other. And think about it. If you lived in a neighborhood where everyone sat on the front porch porch at night, how many drug dealers would you have living in YOUR neighborhood? A LOT less. This is a book that would be easy to get on a soapbox about and go around and lecture with a multimedia presentation.

My second book - "Saved By An E-mail" a collection of over 3000 emails between a person struggling with so many issues in their life - divorce, single parenting, abuse, addictions, depression and a Pastor/Counselor trying to effect real change in that persons life. Follow along in this book to see how this person starts a journey of positive life changing habits and changing of thought patterns to become a healthy productive individual achieving great things in their life. A story sure to help everyone that has struggled with life, that they too can overcome difficult situations to come out a winner! Afterall who doesn't want to read someone else's emails? ha ha!

Life is....

I have had a cloud hanging over my head. I shouldn't, a lot of exciting things are happening, but still the depression hangs there ominously. I can't seem to shake it. I get to meet Patty Duke tomorrow, a get together with her and a few others, wow! How exciting is that? I have admired Patty Duke and been a fan for a long time!

I found out today that I have a gallery show June to July, how awesome is that? A local art gallery set up a show for me at a chic beer and pizza joint. I mean this is what I have been striving for right?

So why does this cloud linger? I am over this, I have moved past this depression, I have changed my attitudes I claim good things, I, I, I, damn this depression.....will it never go away?

Of course after learning about Picasso, Matisse, Jackson Pollock and others I am in the company of great! So I should be glad for the depression, maybe it is a gift, maybe that depression is the very same thing that feeds my creativity, maybe it is the thing that makes my artwork great. Maybe it is because of what ever causes the depression causes the creative part of my brain to explode with sparks of ideas that I can use to create works of art?

Now if the depression will just hold off long enough that I can study well enough to get through my final. I pray it does. Because when that fog settles in it is hard to focus on anything.

I like this philosophy

I have a college professor that I admire. I really like his style and his philosophies, he wrote this on his blog:

How realistic am I?

One day I want to be a published author and spend my days writing, painting and doing the ocassional lecture. Is that realistic? I think so. Is it a dream? Sure. But why not dream big. I've done my best to surround myself with friends who are positive and who are actively pursuing their own dreams. I've lost some friends and aquaintences by doing this, but the way I look at is like this...if you have a talent, a gift, use it. If all you're going to do is complain about how cheated you are by life, God and everyone, because you aren't the success you thought you were going to be, then I don't want to hang with you. Go away. - Allen Etter

I have been beginning this same attitude the last few months and this so eloquently sums up what I have been trying to achieve. I am getting rid of the negative people surrounding me, as much as I would like to change them they must do it themselves. I have been working on keeping my attitude positive and looking for the good things. Much as Allen has stated that he has lost some friends and acquaintances this way I too feel some of the people around me slipping away. I am going to be the same as the people I surround myself with. Like attracts like. I choose to attract success and happiness and postivity in my life. Like my professor, I too want to be a published author and pursue my artwork and lecture or teach (I have two books in the works, and I am promoting my artwork). I want to make this world a better place. Jesus did not focus on the bad things in a persons life, He always emphasized the positive aspects. Celebrate your talents, gifts and the steps of change you achieve every day, keep your eyes on the long term but focus on the here and now. One day at a time....

Cool Puzzle site

This is a mathmatical 3D spatial puzzle - very cool and harder than I thought it would be. Be careful you might lose a few hours!

BLOCK PUZZLE


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hmmm.....

Your Brain is Blue

Of all the brain types, yours is the most mellow. You tend to be in a meditative state most of the time. You don't try to think away your troubles. Your thoughts are realistic, fresh, and honest. You truly see things as how they are. You tend to spend a lot of time thinking about your friends, your surroundings, and your life.

What Color Is Your Brain?

Sigh...

Last night I had to drop my youngest son off with his dad, Olivia was there and she would come around and talk to me even though I asked her how school went. Is she ignoring me? Is she ashamed? Is she mad at me? Does she really hate me? These are questions I can not dwell on. I love her and hope she comes back to me someday.

My heart still feels heavy but I am trying to over come that. I do NOT want the depression to settle in again. I must keep journaling and doing what I know to fight off the cloud that is threatening to settle over my head.

Random thought:
I was setting goals for myself and when it came to weight loss I want to lose 70 pounds. That doesn't sound like so much when you hear stories of people losing 150 pounds! 70 seems like it would be pretty easy! I must do it by this fall, now that might be the tricky part!

Life is so empty

My daughter is gone, really gone. I know I am going to see her tomorrow night to pick her up and take her home from dance class, but the house seems so empty. Her kitty walks around like he is lost, and I feel the way he is acting!

Levi had to write a paper about a scary time in his life. He told me that it was either when I left his dad or when his sister moved out to their dad's house. How sad. Divorce is a terrible thing. If anyone is reading this and you are contemplating divorce thinking it will make your life easier....think again. It compounds the problems and makes them all worse.

I really do miss Olivia. I was told today that she did the self made tattoo because a gang at school was wanting her to join and she did not want to. She told her dad that they told her to tattoo herself or they would go after her little brother. I don't know whether to believe this or not since there have been so many lies told in the last few months, and she acts like she hates me. I don't know what to think anymore. Will we ever be friends again?

Heart pains...

My 14 year old daughter has been full of anger for about a year now, and rebellious. I have tried to get her to talk to me and she has refused to go talk to a counselor. I don't know if she is angry at me, or something at school, I just don't know. She has decided to go live with her dad. She is leaving tonight. I feel like someone is ripping my heart out of my chest. A mother and daughter are supposed to have a special relationship right?

I think she is going to be less happy at her dad's. They live in a trailer in the middle of the country with no one around. He is much much more strict than I am. She has made comments that make me think that she has no concept of what the realities are going to be but I have tried to talk to her and she absolutely refuses to let me in and open up and tell me what is really going on. My heart is breaking, I wish I could save her from her decision but maybe the best thing I can do is let her go, and I will but it hurts so......

It was a bittersweet day on Saturday. A full page article with pictures of my artwork came out in the paper and my daughter decided to go live with her dad and leave me.

Great Group!

I went to a meeting with other graphic and web designers. It was great to meet new people and talk "shop". Got a lot of new sources and ideas for things! I am stepping out of my protective box of only knowing "church people". It is really exhilerating!

Click here to check out
The I-69 Visual Design Meetup!

Art Update

Well I got the email that I didn't make it into the show in San Diego....What a bummer! I was really disappointed at first, because I had this idea that I was going to take off with my art work with ease. I guess it is a due an artist must pay in order to stick with it. Rejection is part of the game. I am beginning to see that it is all about Marketing yourself and your art. I have put that on hold lately, school seems to be consuming my time. But I must get back to it. I have plenty of subject material to create new works. I must devote at least an hour each day to my artwork, whether it is marketing and promoting or creating. I would rather just create I think most artists would but it is about the marketing as much as the creating.
I would really like to make a trip to Chicago when it is warmer to get some Chicago material. I have a friend in the art world in Chicago and I have been told that Chicagoans love my kind of work.

As I read back over this I have to question why do I create my artwork? Is it to make money? Or is it for the pure joy of making it. I would have to say that it is for the pure joy of making it and showing it to others! I get a big kick out of seeing peoples faces light up when they see my artwork. It is about creating the artwork to bring joy to others. If I get some money out of it great! But I won't quit my day job just yet! ha ha! But what a dream that would be to travel around the country doing custom images and creating new ones from the world around me! WOW!
I HAVE A DREAM......... (can't you just hear that booming voice of Martin Luther King?)

Cool New Software!

I found this cool new software! Sitegrinder2. It allows you to design total websites in Photoshop and create CSS design! It is awesome! Check it out! It has allowed me, who knows how to design and layout in Dreamweaver an even greater flexibility and creativity! The learning curve is very short and I can make websites so much faster than doing it the old fashion way. I had a professor at school turn up her nose at the software when I told her what it could do. Well at one point a lot of people turned up their nose at Illustration software for the computer and now look at where we are with that. What if people has poo pooed the WYSIWYG html editors? This is the future folks! Go check it out! Bad for us web designers in a sense because it allows everyone to be a better web designer, but yet, it is so exciting! And the tutorials and video lessons are extraordinary - and - if you email customer service with a question about how to do something? Within an hour you have a complete answer back. I have not seen such customer service out of a software company for years! It will blow you away, more companies should take lessons from Media Lab software!

My second favorite SuperBowl 2007 Commercial

Thanks to Comcast I can really relate to this commercial! Ha ha! I have Connectile Dysfunction at my home!

My Favorite 2007 SuperBowl Commercial

COLTS VS. BEARS

What an exciting day it is today! The colts - our home state team - play the bears. Now we live right in the middle of both of these teams territories and the city is pretty well divided on who they want to win. You often see signs like "Go Colts - play well Bears!" I am rooting for the colts, they are, after all, our states team, and it would be so cool to have Indiana recognized for something besides Corn and the Indianapolis 500! No offense Indiana but as far as big events go we don't have a lot! You see people walking around with colts jerseys, hats, and one couple had feathers and sparkly things attached to the hats and the whole family looked that way! And that was on Friday! It really is rather fun, and the excitment in the air is palatable! There is an air of anticipation in the city. There are super bowl parties everywhere, there usually is superbowl parties but they seem bigger, more promoted somehow.

We won't be going to any parties, my daugther has been really ill, the whole past week, and the new antibiotic brought with it a new outlook for all of us that she is on the mend. It has been a horrible week of worry for me, as she was so sick. But yesterday she was up most of the day and even helped me bake, and talked to me. She did NOT have mono so that was a good thing, but what she did have we are not sure of. She has yet another doctors appointment on Monday. I am getting sidetracked here.....so we are staying home for the superbowl, which is fine by me. I love the superbowl commercials and it seems like when ever you go to a superbowl party everyone talks during the commercials (usually the best part of the whole show) and you can't catch them. Then I have to find them on the internet and watch them, hoping my connection is stable and doesn't cut out! And this really is going to be an exciting game. I love watching football, especially when it gets to the championships and the superbowl!
So our night will be spent at home. We bought some cold meats and chips and dips and we will have the customary treats for our own private super bowl party. It should be fun! The kids and I will have a ball and the show will be good! Party on Colts Fans!

PS - THE COLTS WON!
WHOOOOOO HOOOOOOO! THe colts won! And what a game! Oh my gosh! It was so exciting! Indiana is on the map for something besides cars running around in circles! WHooooo hoooooooo! Do you hear me dancing in the house? Do you hear me shouting? Do you hear me screaming? Do you hear the happiness in my words? WOW! WoW! WOW! Tooo coool!

Red Letter Day - Feb. 2, 2007

The day of Feb. 2, 2007 is a retter letter day for me. I submitted 3 of my art images to a big, juried show out in San Diego. If they are accepted into the show then it will be another big red letter day! But for me, finding the confidence to submit the pictures was a big deal. I finally found a show that my artwork would "fit" into as well. The Museum of Art director said to find a show that your artwork was compliant with to submit. For instance I would not want to submit my kscope images to an oil painting show. This show is aptly called "The Art of Photography" and it is about photography, digital manipulation, and collaged photos. I fit right in! So now I will be facing extreme rejection or sky-high elation! The rejection - oh well - the trick is to not take it personally.

You go over in your head - "did I submit the right images?", "Should I submit more"?
The really cool thing is that the guy that is the judge (I have never heard of him before, but this is a new area I am venturing into) is a big wig and many people request him to look at their work and critique it but he does that rarely because he doesn't have much time, and everyone who submits to the show gets reviewed by him! He is the founding Executive Director of The No Strings Foundation, a non-profit foundation established in 2004 whose mission is to provide direct funding to photographic artists. So it is all very exciting.

I found this show in a magazine called camera arts, and after I registered I went and looked through the participants last year and a well know local photographer was in the show last year, so I feel that it is a good show.

I often feel like my path is being directed. My faith set aside, I see events happening that allows doors to open or directs my attention to certain areas that require me to take action. It is all very exciting, and I know God is the one directing these events, the waters are being stirred it seems and the waves are just starting to ripple! It is all very exciting!

Travel

I think there may be a way for me to go to Italy for a month. It fulfills an art history requirement and I would be able to get some awesome, photos for new Kaleidoscope images! I am praying about it. If it all falls into place I could go to Italy and stay for a month.

I have never been out of the country and have never had the desire to go out of the country - until now. I really want to go to Italy and see all the centuries old buildings, the landscape and the art. We will be 30 miles away from where they filmed the movie "Under the Tuscan Sun".

I am so excited!

Excitement

A local shop wants to put my work up for sale! My art work is taking off! It is so exciting! I have 5 prints framed and ready to hang this week.
I somehow have it in my head that I am going to sell them right away, we will see what the reality of that is, but I am hopeful that they will sell well. It is so exciting!

I would never have dreamed that I would even be selling my artwork 2 years ago. I would just create things and put them away in the attic, I would never let people see what I had created.

Isn't self confidence wonderful? You become confident in yourself and your skills and then everyone else sees the value in your talent too. Confidence is contagious it would seem.

Good News!

The doctor tells me I have a "Renal Mass" well I am sure you can figure out what my first thought was.....but it turns out it was a cyst on my kidney! No big deal and many people have them....whew......all those prayers panned out!

What a relief!

hanging over my head

It is funny how stress can affect me. I am not able to focus, I keep having these horrible thoughts run threw my head. The worst imaginable scenario, that whatever this mass is that they have found could be only the worst, but it could be something insignificant too, a cyst or something. I have had those before, lots of them, but my head keeps going back to the negative. What will I do about the kids if....? What will I do about paying the bills if.....? It is the if's that will kill you! I have to quit worrying about what might be and wait and see what the test on Monday reveals. I must stay on the here and now, but I can't seem to focus on my work, I can't seem to concentrate on anything. I want to sit and mindlessly watch TV or shop or read or play on the computer or do my art work. Should I just give in and go with it? I don't feel well at all anyway. Or..should I keep plugging away focusing as best I can? I play praise music, pray often and get mad at Satan and tell him off a few times a day. My God is healing me and I expect a miracle by Monday! Sigh....it really is a weight none the less, no matter how positive I feel.

Then I have a friend who is going to get demoted or fired as a friend. She has become so negative, she heaps all kinds of negativity on me when I am around her, and I don't need that negativity. I politely listen, and do my best to escape her, but last night she dumped all of her step childrens divorce and fights and cop calling garbage on me and I couldn't get away politely. I think I am going to have to throw polite out the window and be blunt. I hate to do that to someone, but right now I need positive people around me, and I don't need all of her garbage in my life. She is verbally journaling and she won't keep a journal because she is afraid that someone will read it! Well I am not going to be her journal I can NOT be her journal. It is poison to me and my mental well being and possibly my physical well-being. Satan get thee behind me!!!

Friends if you are reading this and I am sure you know who I am talking about please come rescue me when you see me cornered. PLEASE!

bad news

I got bad news from the doctor today, I have to go back in on Monday for another test. This does not sound good, but I am done worrying about something that is not true yet. So until then I am going to have a positive attitude and believe that it is nothing for now. I know something is wrong, but I am not going to listen to the words they said I am going to believe instead that God is taking care of it all and that this is just another thing that He is going to use to show people that God is in control and that He is our healer. I am going to believe that it is a huge kidney stone or something and that it will all work out. Thank you God for hearing my prayers and the prayers of your people - that you are working on my situation.

religion and politics

I have never been very active in politics. I get frustrated with it all, but here is an interesting blog about the Mayoral Candidate Matt Kelty from an indianapolis blogger.

Advance Indiana: Mixing Religion And Politics

Basilica Pictures

Here are the Basilica pictures that I took.

Traveling....

I love to travel and see new things. I have been down to St. Louis on numerous occassions and each time I fall more in love with that city. This past weekend I went to the Dale Chihuly show at the Botanical Gardens. What a fantastic show, Dale Chihuly will never let you down when it comes to one of his shows. Each one is unique and special, he tailors the show to the surruoundings of the area.

I also went to the Basilica in St. Louis. WOW! There are not many words that can describe the awe and beauty of this beautiful place of worship, my pictures don't even begin to do it justice. A must see place. It is a place I would like go back to without a group of people, in order to just sit and take in the reverant beauty of this beautiful house of God. It wasn't just about the beautiful artwork or awesome mosaics, there was a distinct feeling that God would physically show up while you contemplated all He is. Incredible place.

I thought I would share just a very small portion of all of the photos that I took, several thousand in all......very productive trip! I should have many new Kaleidoscope images soon!

more of me....

Well there are a lot more of me with my maiden name....maybe I don't want to change it back....

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 18 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Only one me...

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?