WhiteHeart Wednesday

Link: [Power House]



MP3 Audio Player From: [BlogDumps Video]

Desert Rose
WhiteHeart
Lost in a windswept land
In a world of shiftin’ sand
A fragile flower stands apart
There in that barren ground
You feel like the only one
Tryin’ to serve Him with all your heart

And you wonder
Wonder
Can you last much longer
This cloud you are under
Will it cover you

Desert rose
Desert rose
Don’t you worry
Don’t be lonely
Heaven knows
Heaven knows
In a dry and weary land
A flower grows
His desert rose
His desert rose

Sometimes holiness
Can seem like emptiness
When you feel the whole world’s laughin’ eyes
But if it’s a lonely day
Know you’re on the Father’s way
He will hear you when you cry

And He will hold you
Hold you
Your Father will hold you
He will love you
Love you
For the things you do

Desert rose
Desert rose
Don’t you worry
Don’t be lonely
Heaven knows
Heaven knows
In a dry and weary land
A flower grows
His desert rose
His desert rose
His desert rose

Desert rose
Don’t you worry
Don’t be lonely
Heaven knows
Heaven knows
In a dry and weary land
A flower grows
His desert rose
Desert rose

Desert rose
Don’t be lonely
Don’t be lonely

Desert rose
Oh don’t you worry

Desert rose
Don’t you know He’ll be with you

Heaven knows
Heaven knows
He will hold your troubled heart
Oh desert rose

Link: [WhiteHeart]

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TWO FOR TUESDAY {REDO}

Link: [Gordon Lightfoot]

Not every song that will be featured here will be what is generally considered as being “Christian” in the eyes of this world. For some will be anguished cries from the pit of despair, and others will be quite obviously ferverent rants of rebellion. Nonetheless, be assured that they will all be of our Heavenly Father (in one way or another) and I hope that you have been given ears to hear the message.

Link: [On Youtube]

If You Could Read My Mind
Gordon Lightfoot
If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark
Or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I’m a ghost
That you can’t see

If I could read your mind love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind the drugstores sell
Then you reach the part
Where the heartaches come
The hero would be me
But heroes often fail
And you won’t ready that book again
Because the ending’s just too hard to take

I’d walk away
Like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three-way script
Enter number two
A movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me
But for now love
Let’s be real
I never knew
I could feel this way
And I’ve got to say
That I just don’t get it
I don’t know
Where we went wrong
But the feeling’s gone
And I just can’t get it back

If you could read my mind love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
About a ghost from a wishing well
In a castle dark
Or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
But stories always end
And if you read between the lines
You’d know that I’m
Just trying to understand
The feelings that you lack
I never knew
I could feel this way
And I’ve got to say
That I just don’t get it
I don’t know
Where we went wrong
But the feeling’s gone
And I just can’t get it back


Link: [On YouTube]

Don Quixote
Gordon Lightfoot
Through the woodland
Through the valley
Comes a horseman wild and free
Tilting at the windmills passing
Who can the brave young horseman be

He is wild
But he is mellow
He is strong
But he is weak
He is cruel
But he is gentle
He is wise
But he is meek

Reaching for his saddlebag
He takes a battered book into his hand
Standing like a prophet bold
He shouts across the ocean to the shore
‘Til he can shout no more

I have come o’er moor and mountain
Like the hawk upon the wind
I was once a shining knight
Who was the guardian of a king
I have searched the whole world over
Looking for a place to sleep
I have seen the strong survive
And I have seen the lean grown weak

See the children of the earth
Who wake to find the table bare
See the gentry in the country
Riding off to take the air

Reaching for his saddlebag
He takes a rusty sword into his hand
Then striking up a knightly pose
He shouts across the ocean to the shore
‘Til he can shout no more

See the jailer with his key
Who locks away all trace of sin
See the judge upon the bench
Who tries the case as best he can
See the wise and wicked ones
Who feed upon Life’s sacred fire
See the soldier with his gun
Who must be dead to be admired

See the man who tips the needle
See the man who buys and sells
See the man puts the collar
On the ones who dare not tell
See the drunkard in the tavern
Stemming gold to make ends meets
See the youth in ghetto black
Condemned to life upon the street

Reaching for his saddlebag
He takes a tarnished cross in to his hand
Then standing like a preacher now
He shouts across the ocean to the shore

Then in a blaze of tangled hooves
He gallops off across the dusty plain
In vain to search again
Where no one will hear

Through the woodland
Through the valley
Comes a horseman wild and free
Tilting at the windmills passing
Who can the brave young horseman be

He is wild
But he is mellow
He is strong
But he is weak
He is cruel
But he is gentle
He is wise
But he is meek

Lyrics From: [Gordon Lightfoot Song Lyrics]

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Come Monday...White Rabbit ART SALE!!!

“Come Monday…” is a weekly series that will involve a review of, or commentary about, websites, movies, documentaries, television shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the time. Be assured that these reviews will be generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come Monday.” This is subject to change, however. In fact, I would be most derelict in my duties to neglect going on a rant every once in a while. For rants promote change, and change can be good—right? Therefore, since good is generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel universes that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being something positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).

Link: [White Rabbit Art]

The title of this piece could have been: Come Monday…Local Boy Does Good! For Chad Thomas of [White Rabbit Art] fame and fortune is rather local to me. For he lives in a town really close to Springfield, MO, and if you don’t think that he hasn’t done good with his artistry, there is something seriously wrong with you.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, “they” say that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but I would think that even “they” would have to agree that his art is pleasing on so many levels. For it is clean enough to appeal to those who want to be able recognize what they are looking at, and funky enough to appeal to those who love artists who dare to color outside of the lines.

Okay, just go on with your badself and make up your own mind. Below are a couple examples of what I am talking about, and you can have them for just $50 each for the rest of this month!

Link: [Dragonfly Dance]



Link: [Lion Tac Toe]

P.S.: Congratulations to the New Orleans Saints and all of their longsuffering fans. Even though I was secretly hoping that the Indianapolis Colts would win because of the mancrush I have on Peyton Manning, I am well pleased that the Saints have finally come marching in as the NFL Super Bowl champions. Just in case you are wondering, the reason why I had to secretly hope for a Colts victory is because of how much my wife would make me regret not being for the Saints with all of my heart, mind and soul—especially if the Saints won. If you don’t tell her, I certainly won’t.

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A Sunday Drive

Back during my childhood, our parents would often load up my brother and I after Sunday morning church services for a leisurely drive around where we lived. Even though we were seeing mostly familiar sights, it was still good to see them, and this is why “A Sunday Drive” sounded about right for the name of a weekly series revisiting familiar sites that are well worth seeing again and again. The link below the image is to the site itself, and the image is linked to the post it was first included in here.

Link: [Croatia Pictures]

Link: [Deep Thoughts]

Link: [Doorkeeper's Journal]

Link: [Praise God With All My Heart]

Link: [ProBlogger]

Link: [Sports Business Journal]

Link: [The Everyday Adventurer]

Link: [The Snarky View!]

Link: [Triz Designs]

Link: [Womensselfesteem.com]

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Top Entrecard Droppers: January, 2010

I have only one observation to make about [Entrecard] this time, and it really is just an observation. For I wonder how the list that Entrecard keeps of our top droppers can vary so drastically in just minutes? For just in the amount of time that it took for me bookmark the links for this post, no less than five sites had been replaced in the top 25. Perhaps this is something that those who only list their top ten should keep in mind? Anyway, the following is “A” list of the top 25 droppers here last month in alphabetical order. Be assured that I greatly appreciate their efforts, as well as the efforts of everyone else who go to the trouble of dropping by. Hopefully, they have gotten more than just an Entrecard credit-point from doing so.

Link: [Ann's Snap Edit & Scrap]

Link: [Art by Paul Baines]

Link: [Beaded Tail]

Link: [Comedy Plus]

Link: [Coming Back To Life!]

Link: [Confessions of a Fitness Diva]

Link: [Confessions of a Psychotic Housewife]

Link: [DigiVickie's Word Art]

Link: [Duck and Wheel with String]

Link: [EastCoastLife]

Link: [English Wilderness]

Link: [Frelia's Blog]

Link: [Funky Town Disco Music]

Link: [Greetje Greets You]

Link: [Guitarbench.com]

Link: [Just One Touch]

Link: [Laane On The World]

Link: [Lainy's Musings]

Link: [Man Over Board]

Link: [Marriage and Beyond]

Link: [My Linux Today]

Link: [Rambling Stuff]

Link: [Secret Forest]

Link: [Stay At Home Mom]

Link: [The Frugal Housewife]

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Sites To See

The SOLE purpose of this weekly series is to call attention to sites that I think many would find most interesting—in one way or another. The link below each image is to the site itself, and each image is linked to the particular post from which it was taken when applicable. Please, go see for yourself.

Link: [A Beautiful Storm]

Link: [Measled Potatoes!]

Link: [Miss Millificent's World]

Link: [Mother "NO"s Best]

Link: [Nonamedufus]

Link: [PacificNorthwestLife]

Link: [Photography Exposure]

Link: [Political Lore .com]

Link: [Randomcreative]

Link: [Riding A Buttertub]

Link: [Rising Phoenix Toys]

Link: [ROFL Stuffz]

Link: [The Baglady]

Link: [The Colo(u)r of the Sun]

Link: [The Shutterbug Eye]

Link: [Thoughts...By Charity Joy Bell]

Link: [Turbomacncheese.com]

Link: [Unconscious Ink]

Link: [Without Dash]

Link: [Writes Phillipia...]

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Puppy Bowl VI

Quite frankly, I have had some problems with the [Animal Planet] channel. For many of their shows are beyond lame.

Nonetheless, they do have one star in their stable, and it will be undoubtedly shining as brightly as ever this coming Sunday, February 7, 2010. For that is when [Puppy Bowl VI] will be contested at the same time as [Super Bowl XLIV].

Yeah, maybe there is a good reason for why there are so many lame shows on Animal Planet? For if the powers that be there think that they are going to get a lot of viewers while the Super Bowl is being broadcast, they’ve been hitting the catnip a little too hard.

On the other hand, viewership of the Puppy Bowl has been steadily rising over the years, and after doing an interview with a couple of the stars during media day, I must admit that I am a little excited about what may happen. Thankfully, since Animal Planet doesn’t have all that much to compete for airtime, the Puppy Bowl will surely be shown over and over again. If not, it can be seen on Animal Planet’s website.

Me: "It says here in the media guide that your name is Pinch, and that you are [bischon frise]?"

Pinch: "Well, my name is actually Pinche. For I am French."

Me: "Hmm, I don’t see anything in the media guide about you being from France."

Pinch: "I was born in Paris."

Me: "Oh, here it is, and it does say that you are from Paris. Paris, Texas, that is."

Pinch: "I am still French, and I wanted a more intimidating name. So, instead of it being Pin-shay, the name is now Pinch. Pretty clever—no?"

Bugger: "After I get a hold of him, he’s gonna wee-wee all over himself."

Pinch: "Cretan!"

Me: "It says here that you are Bugger, and that you are a [bulldog]?"

Bugger: "Yep. You gotta problem with that?"

Me: "No, not at all. I am rather curious about your name, however."

Bugger: "What about it?"

Me: "Well, British people might get quite a chuckle out of it."

Bugger: "It has to do with what happens to the eyes of those who get in my way."

Me: "Again…"

Bugger: "You are just sick."

Me: "Wouldn’t it be better if your name was Buggy?"

Bugger: "No."

Pinch: "He has no social graces. Why are you wasting your time on him when I am the obvious star of the show?"

Me: "That is to be determined this Sunday."

Bugger: "Yeah, and I wouldn’t be counting on them [catahoula] ringers your team has brought in."

Pinch: "You can growl like a big dog now, but you’ll be yelping for your momma, come game-time."

Bugger: "Did they enjoy all of those cheese treats?"

Pinch: "If you’ve done anything sneaky to bind-up our offense, you’ll be hearing from the commissioner!"

Bugger: "We sent him some, too. Along with a cute little teacup poodle, who just loves to play—if you know what I mean?"

Pinch: "This is an outrage!"

Bugger: "Only if the video comes out."

Me: "Speaking of such, are either one of you nervous about performing in front of such a large crowd?"

Pinch: "Show-business is in my blood."

Bugger: "I am just focused on flattening that powder puff as soon as the whistle blows."

Me: "Well, I hope you both have a good game."

Pinch: "I promise that you will be most entertained."

Bugger: "I think I’m gonna be sick."

The following is a video of some highlights from Puppy Bowl IV, as well as one of the Kitty Halftime Show from Puppy Bowl III. Rumors are flying that rabbits will provide the halftime entertainment this year. Is this too much to hope for or what?

Link: [On YouTube]


Link: [On YouTube]

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