@edgarblythe,
Hey, Texas, thanks again for your comments.
Don't know Johnny Western, but Hannah Lee was great.
Also tapped my foot to Conway and Lorretta's song. Love to do that.
Time for me to say goodnight, and I think that I shall do so with a Celtic hymn and a poem.
Also some info on a place called Cat Island in Japan. They survived the tsunami.
First, Be Thou My Vision. I recall having awakened one night singing that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMttnek4868&feature=related
Now the poem by James Dickey.
Here they are. The soft eyes open.
If they have lived in a wood
It is a wood.
If they have lived on plains
It is grass rolling
Under their feet forever.
Having no souls, they have come,
Anyway, beyond their knowing.
Their instincts wholly bloom
And they rise.
The soft eyes open.
To match them, the landscape flowers,
Outdoing, desperately
Outdoing what is required:
The richest wood,
The deepest field.
For some of these,
It could not be the place
It is, without blood.
These hunt, as they have done,
But with claws and teeth grown perfect,
More deadly than they can believe.
They stalk more silently,
And crouch on the limbs of trees,
And their descent
Upon the bright backs of their prey
May take years
In a sovereign floating of joy.
And those that are hunted
Know this as their life,
Their reward: to walk
Under such trees in full knowledge
Of what is in glory above them,
And to feel no fear,
But acceptance, compliance.
Fulfilling themselves without pain
At the cycle’s center,
They tremble, they walk
Under the tree,
They fall, they are torn,
They rise, they walk again.
James Dickey
If anyone is interested, here's a link to Cat Island.
http://news.discovery.com/animals/japans-cat-island-survived-quake-needs-supplies-110315.html
Hope all is well all over the world,
From Letty with love to everyone
