Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Janie
Date: 20 Aug 15 - 12:17 PM

I could use a hug. Just began my lunch by checking the news and the first headline I see is Jimmy Carter has Melanoma which has spread to the brain. Yesterday would have been my father's 90th birthday so I was already feeling more emotional about his loss than usual, and this news is so similar that I can't get the tears to stop. Flooded with memories of Daddy's last days and feelings of grief and loss almost as intense as in the weeks after he died.

Gotta get a grip in time for the eyes and face to be clear before my next client at 1:00.

Just typing this is helping. So grateful to have somewhere to express this.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 20 Aug 15 - 10:40 AM

thinking of all the crew

sandra

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 19 Aug 15 - 10:49 PM

Welcome aboard, Lisa; I have heard you mentioned respectfully for years, but to be honest hadn't been more acquainted than that. I've just looked up a bit of your singing on Youtube, and certainly enjoyed it. Will be holding you and your son in heart and mind here in Michigan.    Dean

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 19 Aug 15 - 09:25 PM

Welcome aboard, Lisa. I'm glad you've joined the Rainbow's crew. I'm another member who will keep you and your son in my heart and prayers.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,pete from seven stars link
Date: 19 Aug 15 - 05:44 PM

you hear of so many problems and bitterness at weddings where there have been breakups , but you demonstrated grace wendy. bless you.
blessings all    pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 19 Aug 15 - 11:56 AM

Welcome, Lisa. The Rainbow's a good ship and her crew are wise.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: billybob
Date: 19 Aug 15 - 06:16 AM

Welcome Lisa,you simply could not be with a better crew of people!

Nigel, I too had a first marriage that "ended in tears" as my mother would say. When my daughter married her lovely husband she was given away by both my husbands and the father of the bride speech was made jointly by them. Her father had left when she was ten and Billy was ( and still is) a wonderful step father. After the wedding a few friends commented that if their ex's had gone to their children's wedding they would not!!They simply could not understand that both her dads were a huge part of her life. We all treasure the DVD of that wedding because three years later her father died of cancer. He had the chance to see his granddaughter who was born three weeks before he died.I cannot say in all honesty that on the day I felt love for the woman who took my place in my first husbands heart,but she too was at the wedding. It was a wonderful happy day and I know that the 2 fathers could not have been more proud of their beautiful daughter and I was very proud of them both.

much love to all,
Sailing on
Wendy xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 19 Aug 15 - 05:27 AM

Welcome on board, Lisa. I'm very pleased that Janie has introduced you & your son to the Crew. As you may already know from Janie, Ann & I have survived one of Life's greatest storms, but not without the knowledge, experience, love & compassion of the good people who sail with us. We are indeed, a flotilla & speaking personally, we stand in front of you with arms outstretched...ready to help in whatever way we can,
                               With Love,
                                              Nigel & Ann
                                              xxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 18 Aug 15 - 01:30 PM

Thank you, Janie!

Welcome, welcome to Lisa, well known and highly treasured. I will hold you and your son in my heart. Singing to you long distance!

Maeve in Maine

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 18 Aug 15 - 12:46 PM

...Janie....spellcheck don't always get it right.   ,!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Lisa Null
Date: 18 Aug 15 - 12:44 PM

Thanks Janie. It's strenthening to go on such a vigorous journey as if it were a great seafaring one. It's true, the ship goes up and then down and then up again. We know we have a new destination to explore but haven't got a compass yet beyond dead reckoning. Be of good cheer, Mate. I'm trying to be!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 18 Aug 15 - 12:41 PM

Very well expressed Janice . May the waters ahead be as kind as possible to them. Blessings. Pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 18 Aug 15 - 12:02 AM

Hey crew! A mother whose son is dying is in my thoughts tonight. Lisa The son is also. Probably several weeks, maybe a couple of months. Both of them, and all who love them doing their best to sail ahead into uncharted waters.

Some of you know or know of Lisa Null and some don't. Regardless, I know you all welcome her aboard.

Some one see to the sails, someone else get the kettle on in the galley. I see some of you are already battening down hatches that don't require much going in and out of.   The seas ahead, as we all know, will likely alternate between stormy, tempest tossed and long swells, sometimes soothing and sometimes sickening. Down at the bottom of those swells, seems as if a little ship must surely be swallowed by the ocean, only to find in a little while, the ship is momentarily perfectly balanced on the top of a swell and all creation laid out as a feast for the eyes, the heart, the spirit, the suchness of being.

We are not just one small ship. We are a flotilla, giving heart and courage to one another. That is what it means to be as fully human as each of us can be, eh?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 17 Aug 15 - 09:18 PM

Nigel, I am glad you and Eleni were able to resolve matters and ease feelings at that last meeting.

gnu, I'm sorry you and your mother were so badly hurt by your ex.
And the ruby-throated hummingbird is one I don't need a photo of. It is one I could easily recognize.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 17 Aug 15 - 06:36 PM

For my friend gnu- found using "hummer" as search term.
Subject: BS: I just LOVE hummers!
Good times there.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 17 Aug 15 - 06:21 PM

A quick search for "Hummingbird" only yields...

Subject: RE: BS: Hummingbirds
From: gnu - PM
Date: 07 May 05 - 03:39 PM

LTS: "...much more acrobatic ..." Obvoiusly, you've never seen them in action. I've had them hover about a foot in front of me (perhaps looking at their reflection in my sunglasses) and just that is impressive. When they start fighting it's amazing. Your eyes can barely follow them. And, watching them beat up on a cat is unreal. A pair will fly in figure eights at right angles and, when the cat is distracted by one, the other will peck the cat on the top of the head. I watched one of my cats hug the ground under such an attack for about two minutes before making a run for it. She licked a bunch of blood off her paw that day. And she avoided that lilac bush for the rest of the summer.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 17 Aug 15 - 06:14 PM

Ditto, maeve.

I still loathe my ex for what she did to me and to Mum (yes, to Mum... behind my back... it was only about ten years after I divorced the vile piece of shit that Mum told me about "things"). Sadly, I cannot forgive the thirteen years, four months, seventeen days, and eleven and a half hours of... Gee. I seem to be ranting a lot. Must be something in the beer. >;-)

Hbird pics, CL? I have some somewhere but to find them? Ruby Throated Humming Bird. I have posted many stories about The King Of Birds. I recall one thread in which I told a story and Spaw said it was my best post ever. I'll never forget that. Spaw. Sniff...

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Peter from seven stars link
Date: 17 Aug 15 - 02:07 PM

Bless you Nigel .

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: maeve
Date: 17 Aug 15 - 08:36 AM

Nigel,
I am grateful you and Eleni and Ann have this in common:

Grace and Forgiveness. Such a treasured memory.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 17 Aug 15 - 05:46 AM

Today, I remember my first, late Wife, Eleni. She died from breast cancer in 1997. We had been through an acrimonious divorce in 1990 & had no contact with each other for several years. An overlooked, minor legal matter lead to an exchange of letters & an eventual, face to face meeting. It was clear from the outset that in the interim, we had both changed & 'grown up'. The legal matter was dealt with in a matter of minutes. We spent the rest of the time catching up & more importantly, apologising to each other for the mistakes we'd made & how we'd hurt each other. I drove home, several hours later, realising this had been one of the most important days of our lives. A week later, Eleni's partner 'phoned me with the news of her diagnosis; something she already knew, but choose not to tell me. We exchanged one more letter, underlining & reinforcing our mutual regrets. Three months later, Eleni died. Ann & I have talked about the details of my first marriage on many occasions, in particular, that one, special meeting. We are both in agreement that it was the best thing that could have happened. It made coping with her death a little easier.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 16 Aug 15 - 07:47 PM

Nice, Nigel. I'd like to add to it but so fwr I'm coming up blank.

Photos, gnu? Or at least a link to a pic of the same kind of hummingbird?

ChanteyLass being a pain in the . . . .

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 16 Aug 15 - 01:58 PM

Lovely gnu.   Our feathered friends can be a delight.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 16 Aug 15 - 08:06 AM

I like it!

I also like the fact that we have a Hummingbird resident in Mum's apple tree and he isn't shy. Comes to the feeder and flowers while Mum and I are sitting and chatting just ten feet away.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 16 Aug 15 - 04:22 AM

Here's an unfinished song. Please feel free to add, subtract & edit in any way you see fit (or totally reject if you so wish!). It fits to the tune of: "We're Bound for Botany Bay".

Come all ye who voyage on The Rainbow,
Come all ye who make up the Crew.
We're bound over yonder horizon,
Not knowing what work's left to do.

CHORUS:
                Singing tooralie, ooralie addity
                Singing tooralie, ooralie ay.
                Singing tooralie, ooralie addity,
                The Rainbow's in sail & makes way.

Our voyage started here in old London,
We'd water & food in the hold.
With map table & the meridian
And oilskins to keep out the cold.

                                                                CHORUS

The compass was set for Americay,
For the United States we were bound.
The Union Flag & Old Glory
At the masthead could proudly be found.

                                                                CHORUS


We've all been beset by life's tragedies,
We've felt more than our fair share of pain.
We did what we could to relieve it
And we'd do it again & again.

                                                                CHORUS
(August 2015)

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Aug 15 - 03:28 PM

The specific toxins are made by Monsanto under the names Gaucho and Sancho. They are Nicanoids and when France banned these systemic poisons even their bee population returned.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 13 Aug 15 - 08:57 PM

Fierce little beasties, aren't they?

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 13 Aug 15 - 08:23 PM

Hooray for your hummingbird! May many more survive!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 13 Aug 15 - 07:24 PM

Good news is easy on the mind. Glad to hear it.

Mum is much better today. The Tuesday night fall took a toll more mentally than physically. Still... no way she will consider a monitor, hearing aids, vertigo assessment and physio or cataract surgery. "My cousin went through that and the doctor put her through hell!" Sigh. I'd like to say, "Bullshit. You have to do these things for your own good.", but she has 30 years seniority on me so I can't.

Don't commiserate or offer anything at all. Fact is, this woe is miniscule in comparison. I am just venting. Just posting it lightens my load a tad. To have replies adds to my load.

So! Saw a Hummingbird yesterday and another today at the feeder I have next to Mum's apple tree! A small lone male Ruby Throated Hbird. Anyone who knows me knows my love of THE KING OF BIRDS. We used to have oodles all summer long but for three years... SFA! Last year, only a female and two young for three days during southern migration. I believe the pesticide and herbicides are killing them off. I immediately went in my house and called Mum... "Humming Bird Alert." "Okay!" Click. She is nearly blind but she has binoculars beside the kitchen window... I SO hope she saw it. I will have tears if she didn't.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 12 Aug 15 - 07:09 PM

Yay!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 12 Aug 15 - 06:44 PM

Janie, I'm adding prayers for P-Vine and Bobert. Pete and Wendy, thanks to each of you for some good news!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: billybob
Date: 12 Aug 15 - 06:37 AM

Ooops, don't know how I did that!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: billybob
Date: 12 Aug 15 - 06:33 AM

Morning crew,
I haven't been on board for a week or so, had grandchildren so full of beach days and a rather wonderful boat trip around the Walton backwaters to see the seal colony.

However sending much love to Pete and Tommy and Bobert, p-vine and any others needing our healing thoughts.

Good news have AT LAST sold mother's bungalow, to the third buyer, who really did have the cash to buy unlike the first two. Why oh why are some people so dishonest?

Mother is very weak, hardly eating but still walking , walking!! Her birthday will be on August 31st, she will be 92! Amazing lovely lady.

My daughter is on holiday in France and feeling WELL !!! So the Rainbow mojo is working!

much love to all, enjoy your trip Nigel and Ann.

Wendy xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: billybob
Date: 12 Aug 15 - 06:33 AM

Morning crew,
I haven't been on board for a week or so, had grandchildren so full of beach days and a rather wonderful boat trip around the Walton backwaters to see the seal colony.

However sending much love to Pete and Tommy and Bobert, p-vine and any others needing our healing thoughts.

Good news have AT LAST sold mother's bungalow, to the third buyer, who really did have the cash to buy unlike the first two. Why oh why are some people so dishonest?

Mother is very weak, hardly eating but still walking , walking!! Her birthday will be on August 31st, she will be 92! Amazing lovely lady.

My daughter is on holiday in France and feeling WELL !!! So the Rainbow mojo is working!

much love to all, enjoy your trip Nigel and Ann.

Wendy xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 12 Aug 15 - 06:09 AM

Glad to hear he is well enough to get home. Hope it continues upward.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 12 Aug 15 - 02:07 AM

We bought tommy home last night. I am sitting in his room and he is sleeping peacefully with a very slow tube feed going this morning. He is having antibiotics for ear infection and has pneumonia but as he is brighter, hospital team visiting rather than being kept in . Thank you crew.                With a prayer for bobert and p-vine and blessing on them, and y'all

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 09:32 PM

P-Vine and Bobert would not mind some prayers and comfort from the crew. No emergency, but P-vine has had a long run of intermittent but significant health problems over the past several years. Recently doing better and may that continue, but Bobert would appreciate some good mojo that the improvement continues.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ranger1
Date: 11 Aug 15 - 12:48 PM

Thanks for the update, Pete. Tommy's been in my thoughts.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 09:21 PM

Pete, let us know . . . . Prayers continue.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 02:32 PM

Thank you so much, I,m touched by your thoughts and prayers.   I,m pleased to report that he has been much better today, and hopefully out tomorrow. It is thought that it was triggered by mucous blockage. He does not know how to shift it, and it is not easy to identify till it adversely affects him.       Blessings    Pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 01:20 PM

Oh dear! Ditto, ditto, ditto... thoughts and prayers, Pete.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Nigel Paterson
Date: 10 Aug 15 - 04:02 AM

Pete & Tommy...life has battered you with it's storms, but there is always a safe haven here. Wishing you both calmer seas as the Doctors tend to Tommy's needs.
                                  With Love,
                                                   Nigel.
                                                   xxxxx

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,ChanteyLass on cell phone
Date: 09 Aug 15 - 10:19 PM

Oops! This and the previous post are both mine.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 15 - 10:16 PM

As, Pete, sorry to hear that Tommy's had a setback. I'm adding my prayers to yours and those of others here.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Aug 15 - 09:43 PM

Amen to what Janie said; hoping for the best for Tommy.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 09 Aug 15 - 02:08 PM

Ahh, Pete. All hands assembling on deck. A ship may rest in port for a time, but it seems the nature of life that the ship may not linger over long. Hoisting the mainsail as we head out again into the wild blue sea. Holding Tommy and you and your family in my thoughts.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: GUEST,Pete from seven stars link
Date: 09 Aug 15 - 11:29 AM

Tommy had a dip this morning and was ambulanced to hospital and in resuss, non too well.   Apparently very busy there , so praying that he gets the attention he needs. Thanks crew.

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 08 Aug 15 - 06:53 PM

That helps!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: Janie
Date: 08 Aug 15 - 12:33 AM

Sweet and somewhat creamy, but don't overdress the slaw - too much dressing makes the bun too soggy, and sweet because if vinegary the dressing is thin and watery and and soaks the bun, turning the already steamed bun into an unpalatable, doughy mess - a textural insult to the mouth and tongue.

I was raised up right and proper, south of the Slaw Line:>)

Heading to the galley....

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Aug 15 - 08:55 PM

The link Janie provided sums it up! Now, I'm capable of spreading cole slaw on a hot dog, but should the slaw be Vinegary, sweet, or creamy? I love trying local versions of hot dogs!

Subject: RE: Jane's Rainbow: for all needing support & comfort
From: gnu
Date: 07 Aug 15 - 05:34 PM

Glad I got out of bed today... slaw line. Who'da thunk it?