Surinam was great. 3rd visit after I left as a 15 year old in 1966.

The mosquitos were horrifying. These beasts SUCK the living daylight out of ya! The bumps I got from every little sucker blew up reddish, size of an inch. I look swell. And goodness the itching...

but... it was sheer delight to meet with old (school)friends, old neighbours, Lots of laughing and love. It’s so amazing how it still clicks after so many years. Also made new friends. And sheez, each time it’s as if we’ve already been friends for a lifetime. It rarely happens that what shows like a meaningful friendship turns out to be just a big bag of air. But hey, that too is a most meaningful lesson of this dream, this charade we call life.

Food was wonderful. Nature spectacular.
The 5 day river cruise trip: beyond words.
My dad made it to Surinam the last week. He was on Curacao (the Antilles) for a dozen medical treatments for his eye which had only 5% vision. The other he already lost 2 decades ago because of glaucoma. Vision is 20% now, he’ll be off again to the Antilles for further treatment, the doctor thinks it will go up to 50 or 60%. Burn a candle for him please and say a prayer.
And of course,  there is a lot more to tell, and it would take me a year to share it all. Who knows, maybe a small selection of the pics will make it to an album.



I NEVER hit the approve button just like that. I read people their profiles first and comment. I also listen to the artist’s their music and come up with a couple of sentences and telling them if their vibes move mine (or not). Empty flat, meaningful words  won’t do...
But more and more I find after sending off a request that I can ONLY send people (even artists) a message if I AM already a friend, or if I know their email address or their REAL name to be their friend?!!
Okay, tell me, is this WEIRD or just my screwed up perception?

Now I’m working through the pile of messages and friend requests is a task. It’s depressing to work through 1318 emails sent to my private addresses. I should have stopped the daily avalanche of 2 websitebuilding yahoogroups. Now Im too curious about what worthwhile tips I missed and work my way through this huge mountain. At the end I’ll be enlightened... just wait...

See... I’m back and already complaining.
enjoy!

love, peace and happiness to all

PS:
LISTENING TO MUSIC: DAMARU - Mi Rosu (my rose).
(look below for a few lines from the song)

One of the 2 times we took a bus downtime Paramaribo, the capital of Sranan (Surinam) I heard a really great song (UB40 style) and wondered who it was, so I asked the lady next to me. DAMARU, she said.
In town I went looking for his music. Young guy, about 23 I guess,
and I think he’s good.
But oh... Artist horror... there wasn’t a single original cd or dvd of any artist (local AND  international) in the shop... (and not in in any other cd-shop for that matter... uuuuhhh).
ALL COPIES. Poor Poor artists..
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Anyway I scored quite a pile of music. Mostly old songs by local artists from my youth (end  the 50’s beginning of the 60’s) and 2 DAMARU cd’s and 1 DAMARU DVD in which he’s singing the song for I think his baby girl!

And... Im a  lucky gal: At Schiphol, our luggage was scrutinized. 4 suitcases my friends.
They worked themselves through everything, the worn undies and all (whatever it takes to turn these guys on, dAng~!), but they never found the copies, so they’re pretty useless. anyway if you want tips how to import copied cd’s, hollar and I’ll willing to share my secret.
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= = DAMARU - Mi Rosu = =
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first lines (translated) began with: 
I have a garden in my heart, and it’s only meant for you.
(Ik heb een tuintje in mijn hart, maar alleen voor jou)
Yes, in my heart, only for you, my black rose, for you my white rose.
(mi rosu, in mijn hart, alleen voor jou, mi blaka rosu, 
voor jou, mi witi rosu).
The Black earth will make you grow. (Blaka doti e go meki yu gro).

My heart turned weak, my started floating. sooo sweeet.
Hey Davoidus didn’t you say I was a romantic? oh well... I suppose so.
End of the song goes:
you are a rose (yu na wan rosu)
OKAY I Ripped it (just for the good cause okay?) and I actually started a fansite  to pop the song in.... probably too jetlagged to find a solution to embed a player in this blog... (sigh and yawn).
CLICK and Listen and let me know if you like the song too!!

My Nawlinz friend Elyse commented on the blog "Berkeley Guy sent me a story to lift up my spirits" about two animals keeping each other warm.
Her story is as beautiful. I'm sure she won't mind me sharing it with all of you.
BIG LOVE to you all , and let's look out for each other and give a hand where it's needed! What the world needs is LOVE,  ONLY LOVE
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Here's one for you, several years ago, Roger was in his parking garage going to his car to go home when he heard a sad yowling coming from the level above him. He went to investigate the sound and all of a sudden some gray creature started coming towards him and crawled up his leg, ever closer to his crotch he took the jacket he was carrying and threw it over the creature. He brought this little kitten covered in oil home, she had obviously stowed away in someone's engine.

Scared and covered in grease we held her in the jacket trying to calm and clean her. Robyn had a rat as a pet at the time, her name was NIMH, well Nimh started to lick this little filthy kitten to clean her of the oil, Nimh continued to clean her until the kitten was revived enough to start playing with the rat.

Nimh then retreated to the safety of Robyn's hands. Just goes to show you that even creatures who are considered to be natural enemies can reach out with love and concern to one another. We as humans need to keep these realizations in our hearts and souls.
Love, peace,and health to you and yours,
Elyse

Goodness Gracious me. My space is buggy today.
Had a blog entry about why I made a A-V-day photo album, and words of praise to my dear myspace friends. Mysapce ate it... (what's new...)
You know... I ALWAYS copy the content before I hit any confirmation key in myspace...  because I know how often you just LOOSE everything.
And this time - being in a hurry to leave - I just didn't... pfff...

Okay, in short: I'm not into commercially artificial days like v-day, father's and mother's day and the like.
Each day should be one of love...!!!
What does a bunch of roses and a box of chocolate mean, if the rest of the year, there's no love around?
Same as with honoring our parents?
Why ONE day of being nice, and just neglect them all the other days? Especially round xmas time, when children sometimes fight over who will be "having" mom and dad...

Anyway: there are others out there, who think the same and there actually WAS an anti-v-day website. It's gone...???  The few pics I had from their site in the past are in the album. They are funny. It's not bad to kick v-day a bit also.

Then there was a part about the friends in my toplist, but not going to repeat that here. You know who you are. You know you're appreciated.

THANKS for being there, for your support and love all through the year!!

In spite of being anti on V-day, still while having fun in PS last night,
the image below rolled out.
It was for Dove (Jackie), but sharing with all of you here as well.

Big hugs and thanks again.

I hate this insane fucking world.
Why do people of peace get killed.
DAMN DAMN DAMN!
BBC OBITUARY

This came my way, I finally know what I wanna be.
It took me almost 57 years to find out,
but hey... better late than never.

Hi Everyone,
Busy with a lot of things (mostly nice.. thank goodnezzzz) and still got myself into a yahoogroup to assist people who learn HTML - that's huge and very time consuming. Moreover I'm doing more Photoshop and CSS courses... so 24 hours in a day is NOT enough it seems.

I'm kinda crazy.
So, not here often.
If you want to reach me privately, you´re welcome to do so.
no prob.
sosolobi.4all@sherill.org
girls and boys who have another email address... USE that!

HUGS and LOVE for ALL
Talk Soon, I hope.
sherill