August 25

August 25, 2007 Saturday Hugs!! Belated Happy Birthday (yesterday)to my Big brother Jeffery!! big loves

And Happy Birthday to me! 46years old today..

a letter I wrote to my brother: a good update.

Happy Birthday Jeffery!!!!! big loves to you!! I hope you had a fantastic party as I suspect you did..I am 46 today, incase you lost track.

LIfe is GRAnde.. busy... had an incredible 10 days on the 12M vintage race boat Onawa with Barry... wow!!  Came back determined to get my boat back in the water... but realizing that she is in worse shape than i thought.  found more issues with the rigging.  actually, it was scary to realize that the starboard spreader is absolutely loose, the anchoring bolt washer broke allowing the bolt to actually fit through the hole in the fitting.  Luckily the stresses that had been on the spreader were holding it to the mast.  Shouldn't be hard to fix, but man, it is scary seeing it like that. I have questions.  use of galvanized washers?.. aluminum fittings that broke?.. should have been stainless.  anyway.  I made it.  I have to have it all fixed though.  Will Barbeau has worked out a trade with Andy Tyska at Bristol Marine to do the work in turn for his publicity help.  amazing..Inpsired Insanity is looking so bad right now.  she always does out of the water.  I spent yesterday pulling the seacocks apart.  They are pretty worn but not brittle. May leak but won't sink me.  We'll see if Andy is considering replacing them... if so, i'll go with new ones. but i hate to give up the old ones. they are so simple.  2 pieces.  easily seviced.. and i am sure that it would be expensive to replace these with new bronze ones.  I may be able to find replacement cores at the local consighnment shop. they carry bronze seacocks.. the refit part search begins. I am settling into a bit of normalcy i hope these next few weeks.  work at the cafe, gigs, and work on the boat. Being a part of the community.  I can have the boat back in the water soon if I just stay on the tasks.  Today, I am going to get more boxes and get more stuff off the boat.  All the books and such are so moldy smelling.. I slept on the boat last night and woke up feeling like my lungs are inflamed.. coughing and irritated.  So.. today and tomorrow, I'll clean.. Monday, meet with Andy and get a plan underway for the repairs. all good. This next week I don't have any gigs or other distractions so I hope to make headway.  but come september, i have quite a few gigs, though mostly evenings.
Well, biggest hugs big brother, Happy Birthday to you... xoxoxoxoxo little sis


NOtable Days coming up:

INternational Day of Peace

September 21

In RI, at noon, all the church bells are to toll!!  On September 23rd, 3-5pm Program at the DAvey Lopes Rec Center Park in Providence.
www.peaceflagproject.org.

On Thursday Night, I joined the Sierra Club membership in Newport or a talk on Peace Flags. It was amazing because of the people there, it had turned out that Ihad met several before whether in peace rally's, protests or even at the sustainability seminar I had gone to. Little did I know about the very 'Tibetian Peace Flags" I have on my boat given to me by Stu and Sherry Kahn before I left on my journey. Ginny Fox and Jane Maguire did a lovely talk about hte origins of the peace flags in Tibet which gave so much more meaning to them.  I will now not worry when i fly them when the threads seem to come apart.  It is part of the process of the prayers going out to nature.  Ginny and Jane had blank red, blue, green, white and yellow flags there for us all to make our own peace flags with.  The blue representing prayers to the god of sky, white being to the clouds, red to fire, green to the earth, yellow the water...A lovely project we all shared together.  I asked them if I can incorporate this kind of project into my programs with children which they were happy to have me do. Soon I will take out my prayer flags on my boat and fly them often.. Thanks Ginny and Jane for your program, STu and Sherry for my own peace flags..
biggest hugs xoxoxoxo d

"keepin on, keepin on, keepin on caring...lifting our dreams and wishes before us as mantras of probability... if we can dream and see peace, we can attain it".

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