Steve Jobs died-November 5, 2011

Apple.com has given over to a tribute of Jobs, which reads, “Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being.”

Steve Jobs, who as Apple’s founder and twice CEO revolutionized the use of computers, phones, and music players before popularizing digital tablets, died today after a seven year battle with pancreatic cancer and related ailments. He was 56.

Jobs’ family put out a statement saying he was with loved ones when he passed away:

Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family.

 

 

Jobs holding a white iPhone 4 at Worldwide Developers Conference 2010
Born Steven Paul Jobs
February 24, 1955[1]
San Francisco, California, U.S.[1]
Died October 5, 2011 (aged 56)
Palo Alto, California, U.S.[2]
Alma mater Reed College (one semester in 1972)
Occupation Chairman, Apple Inc.
Net worth increase$8.3 billion (2011)[3]
Board member of The Walt Disney Company,[4] Apple, Inc.
Religion Buddhism[5]
Spouse Laurene Powell Jobs(1991–2011) 

 

 

August Rush

Out door concert where he conducted the music in Grand Central Park

They found him-Mother and Dad-she had been looking for him, after she found out that he father gave him up for adoption.

august rush trailer

main title

raising up

August Rush

watch (Theme Song)

August’s Rhapsody

listen

all you have to do

Johannes Vermeer

The girl with the pearl

Women with the water pitcher

Women holding the balance

The Lace maker

Milkmaid

A Lady writing a letter

Music Lesson

Women with the pearl necklace

Guitar player

‘My favorite painter’

You believe something so perfect coming out of a living human being

whitney (I will always love you)

houston (Greatest love of all)

W Houston (You light my Life)

michael Billie Jean-Moon Walk)

jackson Man in the Mirror

“One gift from God-that will never be replaced”

“That Voice”


Everybody Hurts

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Is Life but a figment of your imagination

The silence depressed me.  It wasn’t the silence of silence.  It was my own silence.

It’s to bad that life is not like a computer where you could hit the delete button and it would all disappear.

“There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice–patched, retreaded and approved for the road.”


Dream Catcher

How to make a Dream Catcher

Dream Catchers

Dream Catchers

While dream catchers originated by Native American (Ojibwa Nation). Some consider the dream catcher a symbol of unity among the various Indian Nations, and a general symbol of identification with their nation.
“Even infants were provided with protective charms. Examples of these are the “spiderwebs” hung on the hoop of a cradle board. These articles consisted of wooden hoops about 3 inches in diameter filled with an imitation of a spider’s web made of fine yarn, usually sinew. In old times this netting was made of nettle fiber. Two spider webs were usually hung on the hoop, and it was said that they “caught any harm that might be in the air as a spider’s web catches and holds whatever comes in contact with it.”
Traditionally, they construct dreamcatchers by tying sinew strands in a web around a small round or tear-shaped frame  The resulting “dream-catcher”, hung above the bed, is used as a charm to protect sleeping children from nightmares. As dreamcatchers are made of a willow and sinew, they are not meant to last forever but are intended to dry out and collapse as the child enters the age of wonderment.
The Native American Indian believes that a dreamcatcher changes a person’s dreams.  ”Only good dreams would be allowed to filter through . . . Bad dreams would stay in the net, disappearing with the light of day. Good dreams would pass through and slide down the feathers to the sleeper.
Another version from the same article was, “Luscious dreams pass through the center hole to the sleeping person. The bad dreams are trapped in the web, where they perish in the light of dawn.

While dream catchers originated by Native American (Ojibwa Nation). Some consider the dream catcher a symbol of unity among the various Indian Nations, and a general symbol of identification with their nation.  ”Even infants were provided with protective charms. Examples of these are the “spiderwebs” hung on the hoop of a cradle board. These articles consisted of wooden hoops about 3 inches in diameter filled with an imitation of a spider’s web made of fine yarn, usually sinew. In old times this netting was made of nettle fiber. Two spider webs were usually hung on the hoop, and it was said that they “caught any harm that might be in the air as a spider’s web catches and holds whatever comes in contact with it.”Traditionally, they construct dreamcatchers by tying sinew strands in a web around a small round or tear-shaped frame  The resulting “dream-catcher”, hung above the bed, is used as a charm to protect sleeping children from nightmares. As dreamcatchers are made of a willow and sinew, they are not meant to last forever but are intended to dry out and collapse as the child enters the age of wonderment.The Native American Indian believes that a dreamcatcher changes a person’s dreams.  ”Only good dreams would be allowed to filter through . . . Bad dreams would stay in the net, disappearing with the light of day. Good dreams would pass through and slide down the feathers to the sleeper.Another version from the same article was, “Luscious dreams pass through the center hole to the sleeping person. The bad dreams are trapped in the web, where they perish in the light of dawn.

My Native American Flute

My flute

I use to play the clarinet when I was a child-so the Native American Flute was easy to me to learn.  If you can’t get a song in the head or  just by the tune of it, you can get sheet music. I play it all the time-especially at night because it makes me dreamy and it is easier to fall asleep.  I wouldn’t be without it.  It is one of my prize possessions.  I read books and play the flute at different intervals. If the book doesn’t work then I bring out my flute, it can put me in a trance, it’s so dreamy, especially the songs i like to play.  The flute and it’s bag are always under my pillow, I could never be without it.

Zen Garden

A meaning for a Zen garden is a physical form or representation of Zen Buddhist philosophy, Zen self-examination, spiritual refinement and enlightenment.

Zen gardens are composed of natural elements such as stones, shells, zen rake and sand. Besides natural components, man-made elements such as bridges, pathways and lanterns can be found. Man-made elements must be made out of the natural atmosphere, balanced environment and peaceful meditation spot.

Sand represents water. Shells are  made out of environmental elements which are  are called torii, and symbolize boundaries. Stones are major elements, and can symbolize eternity, fertility.

One rakes when they meditate, it brings them closer to spiritual refinement and enlightenment.

A Zen garden represents a setting for human activity and is an expressions of individual worlds of thought.

Desk top Zen Garden