Good morning everyone--we made it through 9/11/02 and we even survived all the news coverage! I think we all need some good, cheerful news--anybody have any?

I woke up alive this day, and at my age that is always cheerful news...

Today is a great day, it will be filled with wonderment and awe, I will enjoy the sunshine and welcome the rain, I will meet my fellowman and embrace his or her uniqueness, I will once more marvel at an apple tree heavy laden with it's fruit and while I have a tree of my own, I think maybe that today I will reach across some fence and gather for myself that sweetest of all fruits, the stolen apple, (maybe I have a little bit of New York cop in me), I will reach out into cyber-space and embrace a family that I have never met but have always known and tell them, I love you and I hope this day will be a great one for you all.

well that is my limit for cheerfulness but as always, I am willing to try and and fit just a little more gusto into the day and rest assured, today is the perfect day to reach for the stars.

Saw the tail-end of a story on the Today Show this morning ... 1st graders won an award for a book they wrote about the day after. They were cherubs--so cute. The theme was very upbeat and about how things would be okay. Like, "the sun came up today" and "we said the Pledge of Allegiance," etc. The last page was "This is not the end."

I didn't see the whole story, and can't find it on-line. Maybe someone else can add to what I saw.

Anyway, made me feel good for the day.

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Saw the tail-end of a story on the Today Show this morning ... 1st graders won an award for a book they wrote about the day after. I didn't see the whole story, and can't find it on-line. Maybe someone else can add to what I saw.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Is this it?

"Through Children's Eyes: A book and exhibit mark the anniversary, The Day Our World Changed: Children's Art of 9/11, and an article discusses how to talk to kids about their art."
http://www.aboutourkids.org/

Thanks for the link--it sounds like a wonderful book. I'll lhave to check to see if we have it in our library.

BuffaloGal, thanks for the link--sounds like an interesting book and a good article. However, the story I saw was for a book that the first-graders (Southern accents) actually wrote. They won some sort of an award and a trip to NYC. Wish I'd seen the whole thing, but I was getting ready for work and only saw/heard a bit of the intro and the kids reading parts of the book.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by pamramadama:

BuffaloGal, thanks for the link--sounds like an interesting book and a good article. However, the story I saw was for a book that the first-graders (Southern accents) actually wrote. They won some sort of an award and a trip to NYC. Wish I'd seen the whole thing, but I was getting ready for work and only saw/heard a bit of the intro and the kids reading parts of the book.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Is this one it? http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/911/nation_912.htm

WOO-HOOO. That's it. Everyone ... try that link. It'll give you hope for the future.

Wait a minute.

How can there be a "New Beginning"?

I mean any beginning is new.....right?
How could you have an old beginning?
And if the term "new beginning" is not redundant enough, what's all this about "another new beginning"?!?!
You people drive me crazy......but that's why I like it here, so carry on.<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/confused.gif" width=15 height=22> <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/wink.gif" width=15 height=15>

Let's try having an old beginning. I mean..let's give it the OLD college try and see how things go..eh?

This is your brain on Blunder...

A couple of weeks ago at a local coffeehouse that I attend on a regular basis, a comical British poet by the name of Les Barker reminded those of us in the crowd with one of his wonderful witty poems; that it is impossable to experiance "deja' vu" for the first time.

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Been there, done that!
Been there, done that!

Can you have deja vu all over again?