It’s only fitting to start this site with a tribute to The Mormon Pioneers.
Utah wouldn’t be what it is today without them.

Photo: Private Residence, Lindon, Utah,
taken by Alice Gold, @5:00 p.m., 01Jan2012, photo editing in Camera+

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Aura Camera and Chakra Readings at The Crystal Ray allow you to see the colors in your Aura and the size, shape and color of your Charka system.  Michael’s intuitive reading of the Chakras informs you of any issues that are creating imbalances.  Michael will then Balances your Chakras and gives methods to help you keep the energy flowing.
A reading will usually include a visit from a Spirit Guide, Earth spirit or Angel.  Information of your connection to that Being.  Many times Past Life information will be given.

There are many more aspects to the 23 page report that you recieve with your reading. 

• Full color photo of you and your Aura showing the radiance of your energy field.
• Visual image of your full body aura and your entire chakra system.
• Explanation of your main aura color, which reflects your personality type and characteristics.
• Overview of the significance of the size and shape of your chakras.
• The level of activity or energy in each chakra, which accurately indicates strengths & weaknesses.
• Your overall chakra balance.
• Bio-Data analysis including your yin-yang or male-female energy balance.
• Mind-Body-Spirit balance ratios to show if you are more mental, physical or spiritual.
• Emotion-Meter which indicates your level of emotional balance.
• State of Mind/Body Graph which indicates if you are stressed or relaxed.
• Energy Level Graph, which measures your vibrational field in the energy channels of the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual realms.
• Detailed interpretations of the various areas of your personal auric field, including the balance or dominance of your right (yang) side, your left (yin) side, above and beneath your body.

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In this post, we’ll speak about some recommendations for household furnace maintenance. We will cover some vital factors that you simply must do to keep your furnace or HVAC unit running correctly.

All kinds of furnaces must be cleaned in a yearly basis. In addition to receiving rid of accumulated dirt, this may enable the furnace service technician to fix and detect other troubles prior to they develop into serious complications. Particularly with steam boilers, the burner and boiler tray must be cleaned yearly for efficient heating and burning.

You in all probability don’t comprehend it, but servicing your furnace can definitely strengthen the excellent of your life. Complications associated to furnaces can result to humidity imbalances. Dryness or excessive humidity can trigger severe well being complications like nose bleeds, itchy eyes, asthma attacks, and mold growth as well as adversely affecting windows and woodwork. A licensed heating qualified can identify complications along with your furnace and fix it to strengthen humidity and make your home as relaxing as probable.

Your furnace could most likely do properly from a repair or upgrade, in particular if your heating method is an older unit. Heating systems are especially dominant in older homes and will need frequent care and maintenance. On the other hand, existing heating units is often restored with smaller improvements or adjustments.

Also, for those who have a furnace which is running from propane or natural gas, extra caution should be taken. Make sure to not to do something with your furnace if the power or gas valve is turned on to prevent fire and associated accidents. Checking the furnace though it can be operating should be performed only by certified heating system technician. Replacing the air filter of your heating system as soon as a month is also suggested to maintain your furnace operating effectively. Some high quality filters may well last a month longer depending on the type of filter plus the sort of atmosphere.

All high efficiency furnaces have some kind of drain hose or drain trap. Blockage inside the drain technique of furnaces is the prevalent reason of less heat inside your heating unit. Try to clean and take away the drain trap and blow out all the dirt in it. You may use household bleach to obtain rid of bacteria and molds which are making up in the drain lines of one’s heating unit.

Last but not the least, getting educated on your heating unit is incredibly vital. It may well save you a service call someday. However, be sure to ask as quite a few questions about your furnace as probable after you employ an HVAC service technician. Familiarizing your heating method may well keep you from calling a technician once again when a different challenge arises.

In this article, we’ll talk about some suggestions for residence furnace maintenance. We will cover some essential things which you really should do to maintain your furnace or HVAC unit running correctly.

All kinds of furnaces must be cleaned in a yearly basis. Along with obtaining rid of accumulated dirt, this will enable the furnace service technician to fix and detect other troubles ahead of they come to be significant challenges. Especially with steam boilers, the burner and boiler tray need to be cleaned yearly for effective heating and burning.

You almost certainly do not understand it, but servicing your furnace can genuinely strengthen the top quality of one’s life. Troubles related to furnaces can result to humidity imbalances. Dryness or excessive humidity can cause severe well being issues like nose bleeds, itchy eyes, asthma attacks, and mold growth too as adversely affecting windows and woodwork. A licensed heating qualified can identify problems with your furnace and fix it to strengthen humidity and make your house as relaxing as attainable.

Your furnace could likely do properly from a repair or upgrade, primarily if your heating system is an older unit. Heating systems are especially dominant in older homes and will need frequent care and upkeep. Having said that, existing heating units is usually restored with tiny improvements or adjustments.

Also, in case you have a furnace which is running from propane or natural gas, extra caution must be taken. Be sure to not to do anything with your furnace if the power or gas valve is turned on to avoid fire and associated accidents. Checking the furnace though it is running should be carried out only by certified heating technique technician. Replacing the air filter of one’s heating system once a month is also advised to keep your furnace operating appropriately. Some top quality filters may well last a month longer depending on the kind of filter plus the type of atmosphere.

All high efficiency furnaces have some kind of drain hose or drain trap. Blockage inside the drain method of furnaces will be the common cause of less heat in your heating unit. Make an effort to clean and eliminate the drain trap and blow out all the dirt in it. You can use household bleach to obtain rid of bacteria and molds which are creating up in the drain lines of your heating unit.

Last but not the least, getting educated on your heating unit is pretty significant. It may possibly save you a service call someday. On the other hand, make sure to ask as a lot of questions about your furnace as achievable after you employ an HVAC service technician. Familiarizing your heating method may well maintain you from calling a technician once again when yet another difficulty arises.

When the Istari arrived around year 1000 of the Third Age, it was Círdan who greeted them at the Havens. Having realized that Gandalf was the greatest of these, he gave him the Ring of Power he wore, Narya, the Ring of Fire. Círdan stated to him, as read in RotK Appendix B:

“Take this ring, Master… for your labours will be heavy; but it will support you in the weariness that you have taken upon yourself. For this is the Ring of Fire, and with it you may rekindle hearts in a world that grows chill. But as for me, my heart is with the Sea, and I will dwell by the grey shores until the last ship sails. I will await you.“

The people of the Grey Havens do not play a major role in the events of the Lord of the Rings, however Círdan does send an elf named Galdor to the Council of Elrond in Rivendell.

Following the defeat of Sauron and the events of the Third Age, the Three Rings diminished and the bearers returned to the West through the Grey Havens. Frodo and Bilbo also took the ship with Elrond, Gandalf and Galadriel as they were also Ringbearers. Tradition is kept that Samwise Gamgee also took a ship from the Havens to the West, as he also bore the ring, albeit briefly. Círdan stayed until the last ship had sailed, and then he left the shores of Middle-earth forever.

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Did you know that a portion of the purchase price on every new Hyundai is donated to a charitable cause known as Hyundai’s Hope on Wheels?

Hope on Wheels combines the efforts of Hyundai dealers nationwide to help children fight cancer. According to the Hyundai Hope on Wheels Web site (www.hyundaihopeonwheels.org), “The program is dedicated to raising awareness about childhood cancer, celebrating the hope of the brave children battling the disease, and supporting the research and programs that bring us closer to better treatments, therapies, and hopefully one day, a cure.”

The Hope on Wheels program was founded in 1998, initially as a local fundraiser brought together by New England Hyundai dealers associated with the Jimmy Fund at Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. It quickly evolved into a nationwide, non-profit organization supported by Hyundai dealerships across America and has raised more than $23 million to date.

Each year, Hyundai dealers participate in the Hope on Wheels tour, where representatives travel to different hospitals around the country to raise awareness and donate money to support further training and research for doctors involved in childhood cancer research. These medical professionals are designated as Hyundai Scholars. The tour also hosts a Handprint Ceremony at each location visited, where childhood cancer patients place their painted handprint on a white Hyundai Santa Fe. The white Santa Fe, covered in the handprints of these children, stands as the symbol of Hyundai Hope on Wheels program.

The Hyundai Hope on Wheels tour usually takes place in September, which is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Last year, the tour raised $2 million, in addition to the $6.8 million donated by Hyundai Motor America and Hyundai dealers nationwide. “The funds – distributed in the form of $100,000 ‘Hope Grants’ – were applied to childhood cancer research projects, survivorship programs and other resources intended to improve quality of life for children with cancer,” as stated on the Web site.

We encourage you to take part in the Hyundai Hope on Wheels tour of 2011 by visiting a Hyundai location near you. Murdock Hyundai of Lindon would like to thank you for helping Hyundai give Hope on Wheels.

The phrase ‘off the grid’ Normally refers to a person who removes themselves from their connected lifestyle. No Internet, no mobile, no catching up and generally switching off from external contact for a period of time. My idea of hell. So it seems ironic that for 15 days I let myself get consumed, wholeheartedly by NikeGrid, to the detriment of my ‘normal’ connected lifestyle. So much so that I effectively swapped one ‘grid’ for another.

It wasn’t intentional, but i wasn’t alone. From the 22nd October – 5th November there has been over 3,000 ‘gridders’. Taking on the streets of London – and each other. If NikeGrid proved anything to me, it was that us runners are a dedicated, passionate and above all honourable, (if highly competitive) breed. It also proved to me that when pushed to the limit, the human body is capable of amazing things!

What is NikeGrid?
‘The Grid’ is London, it’s central and surrounding postcodes, 48 in total. Each postcode had 4 phone boxes activated as check in posts, on average about half a mile apart. Find a grid phone box, dial in to start. Run to another, dial in again to log the run and score points. Repeat.
As each run earns you points. The more you run, the more points you earn. Completing tasks earned special badges that award bonus points. For example, running at set times or finding hidden – ‘stealth’ phone boxes. Each postcode had a leader board. The person with the most points accumulated for that post code owns the ‘crown’. There was also a team dynamic to this. Any points a player earned got matched in the team account. Teams as well as the individuals were competing for post code crowns as well as overall points.

Wether it’s a curse or an asset, I am a very competitive person. I love running and I love ‘games’. The Grid was my rabbit hole. I was like Alice in wonderland.

For me Nike Grid was a game of two halfs. The 1st half, or 10 days to be precise. Was about personal targets and achievements. In this time I managed to earn the ‘Endurance 48′ badge. I became one of the small percentage of players, (runners) that can say they have completed at least 1 run in each of the 48 post codes. I had earned the ‘speed’ badge and ‘speed king’, ‘frequency’ and ‘ frequency king’ badges. These are awarded for fastest time and most runs logged in one of the 48 post codes, on multiple days. I had invested time and effort into one particular postcode and given myself a good strong point lead – I owned the ‘Crown’ for SE5.

The second part of NikeGrid was all about the team effort.
At the start, being in a team for me was about connecting with a handful of runners, involved in the same endurance event. I was lucky enough to join Team Audio Fuel. During the first half, individual efforts had catapulted us into 3rd place in the team rankings. We were all excelling and most of all enjoying the experience. We were a long way from the leaders – but equally, a long way from 4th place. We were all getting on, supporting and encouraging each other.

By day 10 I had met a couple of the team as well as other Gridders on the streets and queuing at phone boxes. Everyone was chatty and interested in each others stories. Exchanging information and tips. There was a real community spirit. I’ll add at this point that the community spirit extended into the playing of the game. It would have been very easy for anyone to cheat, in many ways. But like a lying about a PB or taking a short cut on a route, runners just don’t do that. That’s not to say we weren’t playing phycological games with each other! I have heard several cases of intimidation tactics – I was guilty of this myself! We all wanted to win – but there was a sense of honour amongst men about it too. Everyone was playing fair which made it all the more enjoyable.

Sean, Audio Fuel’s team leader, arranged for as many of the 15 strong team as possible to meet on the 10th day. The main aim was to discuss our personal goals for NikeGrid and how we could coordinate ourselves as a team to help each other and improve the overall team performance. Plans were hatched and executed. Over the next few days Audio Fuel were working the streets in packs! Pumping points into postcodes to defend crowns and take new ones. It had become very tactical and there was a lot of analysis and second guessing other teams going on. We weren’t the only team stepping up our game though – it was a battle!

We were coming to the final days of NikeGrid. Players were getting tired and injured but there wasn’t time to rest. With bonus points being awarded for runs between 5am and 8am, (early runs) and 7pm and 10pm, (late runs). If you weren’t out running, someone else was! It was all about attacking and defending Crowns.

I had run 15 days with just one rest day when I was working in Manchester. Each day running for 3hrs and covering 12miles, on average. Luckily it wasn’t as harsh as it sounds. Runs were punctuated with a couple of minutes rest in phone boxes to register efforts. When chasing the Endurance 48 badge, there was a lot of map reading too, (with my iPhone, of course!) which also slowed the pace. Non the less – stretching, correct fuelling, compression kit and ice baths physically enabled me to keep going. This was accompanied by the mental determination of the task in hand. There were no ‘junk miles’ in this game – each run had a fully planned purpose for a personal or team goal. I was surprised and amazed not only by what I found I was capable of – but what others were putting them self through as well! This was an endurance event that demanded commitment. Run late, run early, run when bonus points were on offer. Sleep and rest was a luxury we were depriving ourselves of, to get in the extra runs and points!

For myself, NikeGrid ended a day early. I was to fly to the States, 31hrs before the game ended. By this time I had put in a massive amount of effort. I had gained an intimidating point lead in my post code. Surely no one could catch me with the time left? And I was helping secure other post codes for the team.

For the final hours of NikeGrid. I was in the states. I could do nothing but watch online as my team ran – executing their final plans. The ‘game board’ was starting to eclipse, meaning post codes were shutting down. After a few text messages to some of the runners their final runs were logged, it was all over.

It had been an exhausting and exciting couple of weeks. I met some amazing people and had a great time. The days following, we were all basking in the afterglow. The results were announced and the banter continued. We were reflecting on our efforts and achievements. A wide group of runners of all abilities, brought together by NikeGrid. We shared something special. We ran our city. We battled it out for Crowns. We mastered the game board.

What next? I know this won’t be the last time I see or run with the people from NikeGrid. Be it in a race, training or the next NikeGrid. Personally, I feel i have learnt masses about myself – as a result of pushing myself with NikeGrid. I would also like to start planning for an ultra marathon… Its not the first time i’ve had these thoughts. But it’s always been ‘one day’ goal. I’m not saying that next Thursday I’ll hit the road for a 50miler! But I feel more capable and confident with such a challenge. I have the Brighton Marathon to focus on now. But after that I’ll be ready to start the journey to an ultra and set some goals to work towards.

It might be the end of the game. But the running doesn’t stop here!

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“¿La muerte de la edición? ¿El ocaso del libro? Hablemos. Pese a la irrupción de los nuevos grandes medios de comunicación, bien puede decirse que el mercado del libro en Francia nunca ha funcionado mejor desde que la importancia de la literatura se ha atenuado. Al margen del zumbido de las empresas multicolosales, si hemos de creer lo que la prensa dice, nunca ha existido mayor entendimiento entre pequeños editores y escritores nimios, o microautores más minúsculos aún, e incluso indiscernibles del todo. Unos y otros se entienden como ladrones en feria de libro. Y me contentaré para demostrarlo con un artículo estándar elegido al azar en un semanario de gran difusión, como es L’Express, donde leo esta afirmación en boca de Yves Michalon, editor de Buenos días, pereza, libro de una tal Corinne Maier: «En este caso, algunos dirán que es un milagro. Yo prefiero verlo como el fruto de nuestra tenacidad, de nuestro compromiso. Corinne llegó en el momento idóneo, respondiendo a las preocupaciones de un público muy amplio» [ 1 ] . En pocas palabras, si la saga literaria parece continuar en nuestros días, en todo caso lo hace en un tono íntimo, muy de amigo-amiga (atención al uso del nombre propio) y por un simple juego de alusiones literarias: se da el pego con una Sagan de segunda, quien en su momento ya daba el pego como una Colette de segunda.

Igual de llamativa es la innegable feminización de los espacios de la edición, algo de lo que el autor del artículo no parece haberse percatado siquiera. Muy a la moda de nuestros días, la editora, por lo general la hija o la nieta de un gran editor ya fallecido, es una figura cada vez más en primer plano; la editora forma con el autor-estrella de la casa una asociación que invariablemente se nos presenta según el modelo de una pareja de novios. Lo refleja el pie de página que acompaña una de las fotos publicadas por L’Express: «Anne-Marie Métaillé, con Luis Sepúlveda. Gracias a El viejo que leía novelas de amor, ella demostró que era capaz de promocionar un libro a gran escala» [ 2 ] . En la imagen, la editora y el autor se miran a los ojos, mientras con la mano izquierda ella acaricia afectuosamente el rostro barbudo. Son, con muy pocos cambios, los mismos titulares que encontramos en la prensa people (pronúnciese peep-hole), como corrobora el pie de página de esta otra fotografía también publicada por L’Express: «Anne Carrière con Paulo Coelho. Aunque él acaba de dejarla por Flammarion, Coelho ha contribuido a la consolidación financiera de la editora» [ 3 ] . El divorcio perfecto. Otros, al contrario, nos ofrecen la imagen de una pareja que goza de una plácida felicidad y de una fidelidad conyugal a toda prueba: «Joëlle Losfeld con Michel Quint. Antes de Effroyables jardins [Los jardines de la memoria], Losfeld llevaba diez años publicando a este autor en medio de la indiferencia de los lectores» [ 4 ] .

En cuanto el editor, hace algún tiempo que murió, o que se manifiesta exclusivamente como último ejemplar de una especie en vías de completa extinción. Es fácil comprender la angustia de cierto autor, miembro de una de las contadas editoriales de reputación literaria que aún quedan, ante el vacío dejado por la muerte de quien lo edita. Me refiero a la desaparición, en abril de 2001, de uno de los últimos mastodontes de la edición literaria, Jérôme Lindon. Su muerte causó una impresión lo bastante profunda en uno de sus protegidos como para que éste dedicara a la muerte de su editor un breve libro en el que queda expresada la perfecta circularidad del proceso de edición. El libro, publicado por Éditions de Minuit, se titula precisamente Jérôme Lindon [ 5 ] . El único objeto del libro, su auténtico tema podríamos decir, es la persona que lo edita, y me gustaría demostrar hasta qué extremo esta tesis está extendida.

Por más triste que pueda estar el autor, Jean Echenoz, no deja de hallar consuelo en la idea de que hay alguien dispuesto a retomar las riendas. Sí, hace algún tiempo que la hija de Lindon se incorporó al equipo para apoyarlo en su trabajo: «Su hija Irène, quien se va a hacer cargo junto a él de mi libro, quien se ocupará cada vez más de los próximos y de las demás cosas en general» (JL 24). El relevo está garantizado y el protegido a salvo, desde antes incluso de la desaparición del editor.”

continúa en : http://www.revistasculturales.com/articulos/127/trama-and-texturas/1190/1/la-muerte-del-editor-echenoz-y-lindon.html

Former President Harry Truman playing piano at a dinner in his honor in 1961.

Harry Truman the piano player

One youngster who never needed to be forced to practice his piano lessons was Harry Truman. He used to get up at 5 o’clock in the morning to practice for two hours.

When he became a man, music remained his first passion after politics, and he often said that if he had been a good pianist he never would have become President. “I missed being a musician,” he said, “and the real and only reason I missed being one is because I wasn’t good enough.”

His mother became his first teacher when he was about 10. She sent him for a short time to a neighborhood teacher and then to Mrs. E. C. White, a Kansas City teacher who had studied under Theodore Leschetitzky, the renowned European master. Lifelong friend Charlie Ross said, “He didn’t lack spunk when he braved the jeers of the boys to go regularly to his music teacher, carrying his music roll.”

At the age of 15 he suddenly quit taking piano lessons, to the distress of his mother and Mrs. White, who had visions of him as a concert pianist, but Harry realized he wasn’t good enough for that.

His favorite composers were Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin, and he liked the music of Florodora, Strauss waltzes, Gershwin and Debussy.

In October, 1945, at a county fair in Caruthersville, Missouri, Truman played the piano for a group of Methodist Women and winked at them as he said, “When I played this, Stalin signed the Potsdam Agreement.”

Reference:

MR. PRESIDENT
by William Hillman,
Mew York; Farrar, Straus and Young, 1952

And a random extra…  Here’s a clip our children like Monsters Vs. Aliens:

the President playing the piano!

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Timpanogos H-D Bronze Sculpture

I’ve written a couple of times about the motorcycle destination resort in Lindon, Utah called Timpanogos Harley-Davidson and its bankruptcy hardship HERE.

Adding insult to injury the embattled dealer was hit by sneaky metal thieves looking for some quick cash.  A 4-ton statue – which cost approximately $100,000 and depicts an old-time speed racing motorcycle and was mounted to a granite block outside the motorcycle shop was stolen over the weekend.  Stating the obvious, Lindon Police Chief Cody Cullimore stated:

“that thieves must have used heavy equipment to ‘make off’ with the statue.”

The days of “tweekers” selling scrap metal for quick cash are over, at least in Oregon.  A new law (SB 570 (.pdf)) which went into effect this year requires everyone transporting metal to get a state certificate (.pdf) and selling scrap metal is no longer possible without detailed information on where the metal was obtained.  In addition sellers will no longer get same day cash for the metal.  They will get checks in the mail after a 3-day waiting period assuming the person has an address!

Metal theft has been problematic in the northwest.  Nothing is off limits it seems from aluminum bleachers at the high schools, bronze grave markers and even railroad spikes.  These people will need to continue to support themselves and I doubt this will cease the acts….but it might make them move to other locations where the hurdles are lower.

UPDATE: January 5, 2009 — The Dealer News blog is reporting that the theft was the result of artist Jeff Decker, who owns Hippodrome Studios and used a crane to remove the statue.  The artwork was listed as an asset of the business, which went through bankruptcy, however, it was not an asset, but instead was loaned to the dealership under a “display” agreement.  The artist simply repossessed the work and it will now be a civil case and not a criminal case.  Also reported was that the dealer originally opened as Monarch Harley-Davidson prior to the owners sinking millions into the place.

Photo courtesy of Timpanogos H-D.

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A première vue, Welcome parait relativement sombre. C’est vrai, l’histoire d’un maitre-nageur en elle-même n’est pas forcément très alléchante. Elle sent surtout le chlore. Tout celà est aussi intéressant qu’une verrue plantaire. Sur fond de procédure de divorce. Et ça se passe à Calais, où il fait gris quand il ne pleut pas. On peut dire qu’on touche le fond de la piscine. Et pourtant…

Pourtant on plonge très vite dans cette rencontre où Simon (Lindon) va être d’abord impressionné puis séduit par la détermination de Bilal (Ayverdi). Simon subit sa vie. Il n’a pas été foutu de traverser la rue quand sa femme l’a quitté. Mais il va décider de reprendre les choses en main en aidant Bilal à réaliser son ambition. Quand il accompagne Bilal, c’est une partie de lui même qu’il cherche à sauver. Tous les deux sont attachants et on leur souhaite de pouvoir arriver de l’autre côté de cette mer sans boire la tasse.

Tout celà est rendu possible grâce à Vincent Lindon qui sait parfaitement s’insérer dans cette histoire, presque sans faire de bruit, alors qu’il “porte” pourtant le film. N’oublions pas cette dame avant la séance qui est venue demander au Dr. Morisset (moi) s’il s’agissait bien du film avec Vincent. 

Lindon, qui malgré son arbre généalogique où l’on retrouve les branches de Raymond Lindon (qui participa à la création de l’état d’Israël), d’André Citroën (cf le Quai) et dans une proportion moindre de Pierre Bénichou, est parfaitement crédible dans son rôle de maitre-nageur calaisien. Alors d’accord il n’a pas l’accent du Nord mais on n’est pas dans un film de Dany Boon après tout. Je regrette, je préfère un Lindon auxiliaire de piscine sans accent dans le Pas de Calais plutôt qu’une Line Renaud native d’Armentières avec un faux accent dans Bienvenue chez les Chtis. Non, franchement, entre son adaptation parfaite dans les films “sociaux” et sa maitrise des TOC lorsqu’il est devant la caméra… Lindon est un acteur très complet qui sait être émouvant.

La tonalité est juste : Les accents anglais ne sont pas forcés. La politique du gouvernement y est dénoncée sans tomber dans la revendication. Chacun reste à sa place. La générosité n’est jamais gratuite. Les personnages ont des parcours chaotiques sans qu’on s’apitoie sur le sort de personne. Ce n’est pas l’origine des soucis de chacun qui compte mais plutôt la manière de les gérer avec courage dans une région qui n’est sûrement pas choisie par hasard. Finalement on se retrouve un peu tous dans l’eau en train de nager sans savoir que de l’autre côté… english is spoken.

P. Lioret propose une approche humaniste, ambitieuse mais sans prétention, où l’homme est montré à travers sa faiblesse mais où il a toujous la possibilité d’affronter les difficultés s’il trouve en lui la volonté nécessaire.

Il y’a des films à voir avant de critiquer (Gran Torino), il y’a des films qu’on peut s’abstenir de voir si on a vu les vérités si je mens (Coco). Et il y a d’autres films qui valent la peine.

We have been looking at some houses, we would like to buy one… I don’t where we will buy one at. I would like to get one in Orem, Lindon, Pleasant Grove… some place like that or even in Murry or the area around. Since we both work in Salt Lake I don’t want to go in the direction of Provo any more than we are already.

Our Home Teacher came over last night and we talked for about 30 min. Bro. Diaz and his wife will be going to the temple on Feb. 21 and we are so happy for them.  They started getting ready about the same time Andy and I did. We wish them the best of luck, we will do what every they need help with!

Things are getting better around our house.  We are having time for just Andy and I. We are not having people stay with us or people comming over, we are just having time for us. This has been long needed and is working out great!

We have decided to plan a fun night, we are going to save us some money so that we can go to a Jazz game in January! We are going to have GREAT seats, we are going to go to a NICE dinner. We are going to have a LONG time comming date with just the 2 of us!

Well that is the updates for now… oh and last one, Andys sister Jenny had a baby on November 14. His name is Braden Joseph. Take a look at her blog and see some fun pictures of the family. Link