Sing To Me

It's somewhat random post time: I'm thoughtful today, grateful, happy. It's been a good day. I had some potentially very good news, personally and professionally at about the same time.  But I also have some friends who are going through some extremely difficult times, unspeakably sad things that no one should have to go through. And they introduced me to some music that is helping me a lot this week, so here are some videos to ponder.  Nice beach scenes too.  Can you believe summer is almost over?...

Tori Amos: Taxi Ride 

("we've all been pushed too far, i guess on days like this 

you know who your friends are")

The Young and Famous: Young Blood

("we're only young and naive still, we require certain skills. 

the mood it changes like the wind, hard to control when it begins. 

the bittersweet between my teeth, trying to find the in-betweens. 

fall back in love eventually.")

Band of Horses: Funeral

("to know you is hard")

Yellowcard: Sing to Me

[no video here, just the song, but the lyrics mean a lot to me right now]

("look at me and listen close so i can tell you how i feel before i go. 

just a year, it's not much time for me to show you i am proud 

that you are mine. 

i wish i had known the future in my heart was just about to start. 

say tomorrow, i can follow you there...

i will hear you, always near you...

every lock on every door, i put them there to try to hide you from the world. and you kicked, you screamed, you never understood 

you're everything to me...

no looking back when i am gone, follow your heart it's never wrong...

out of time, all out of fight, you're the only thing in life that i got right")

Vacation Days continue in Bermuda

Just got back from a week-long cruise to Bermuda.  It was pretty, warm and fun: here's the white lava cocktail I sipped as the ship left the harbor.

There were gorgeous sunsets to watch as they slid into evening.

Dinners to get dressed up for:

and oh, so much food.

Excursions to the Royal Naval Dockyard

and St. George

where we couldn't believe how blue the water was

and we made a few new friends.

If you like pink as I've mentioned I do more than a few times before, this is the place for you, especially in the town of Hamilton:

so many pretty houses (in other colors too).

We took a sunset glass bottom boat to see the coral, fish and a shipwreck below.

And went to Horseshoe Bay

probably the most beautiful (and pink!) beach I've ever seen

where we climbed up a cliff to look around for miles

and the water was still clear.

Although this is NOT the way that I came down again.

It was a lovely trip, more pics to come!