HELLOOOO AUSTIN

There's a gathering in Austin today...its a celebration...a celebration of the life of their beloved friend Sophie who left this earth one year ago today. I only knew her a short time but I knew her to be a lady of such class and grace. She loved her family, her friends, her farm, her dogs, goats...and Harry the parrot. Harry has supplied Sophie's friend, Marie, with "many-a-funny" story to tell. So here's to Sophie and her loving friends:


Speak to us of Friendship...and he answered saying...
Your friend is your needs answered.
She is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And she is your board and your fireside.
For you come to her with your hunger and you seek her for peace.

When your friend speaks her mind, you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay".
And when she is silent you heart ceases not to listen to her heart;For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.

When you part from you friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in her may be clearer in her absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

And let your best be for your friend.
If she must know the ebb of you tide, let her know its flood also.
For what is you friend that you should seek her with hours to kill?
Seek her always with hours to live.
For it is hers to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

-Kahlil Gibran

And for a blessing for us all...please click on post above...Britian's got talent