Thank You for the digital camera.

Thank You to everyone that chipped in money to buy me a digital camera and cheer me up during this rough spell.

Things are still swirling about but we are making progress. After this storm has cleared I hope to have a get together and be presented the camera that you have purchased for me.


My sincere thanks and gratitude to:

Rob
Frank
Karyn
Bill
Vlad
Robin
Jordan
Grant
Viv
Al
Buck
Raphael
Dave (the bartender)
Sherry
Jay
Garrett
Ryan W.
Bob R.
Bob (freakface)
Steve
Bob C.
Andrew
Adam



I have deleted the quotation that I posted here earlier today about friends by Tom Waits. Those words do not justly represent the spirit of the people listed above, nor do they represent the spiritual wisdom and courage of my hero's: Rell Sunn, Jesus, The Duke, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Donny Hurbert, Eddie Aikau, the 911 brothers, Ely S. Parker, Oscar Schindler, Terry Fox, and my Father.

We all can be better as people and advance this existence while we are here instead of leaving behind a legacy of destruction and anger.

On this day in memory of Martin King, in thanks to the charity shown me, and with thanks to those who point me in a direction to assist in finding a way to deal with a cancer that took my left eyesight. I write these uplifting words instead. It is best to play it forward and to keep it positive and more enlightened. Raise the bar, the eyes, and the heart.

"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep puting oil in it."

- Mother Teresa



May these many below edits serve as a platform to the stars and be the place where my written good thoughts and deeds turn upon the wind on a Buddist prayer wheel in the thin air of a mountain pass or the shores of a deserted Great Lake: