BS: Your best thing of the year....

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: weerover
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 10:39 AM

Got to places I've never been before in the Alps (Switzerland, France and Italy), climbed rockfaces and abseiled down them. Any other year that would have done it but nothing can beat seeing a fine healthy baby newly born, especially when it's your grandson...and me so young!

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 10:44 AM

Back in May, attending Banjo Camp North in Massachusetts, taking classes from, among others, Peggy Seeger, Mike Seeger, and Howie Bursen. Three days of banjo heaven!

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 11:11 AM

Getting to meet JOe Offer, Peg and many other Mudcatters.

Moving to London

Towersey was fun

My boyfriend telling me he loves me for the first time

Things to look forward to this year......

Going to the Getaway...hopefully

Towersey again!! and possibly Whitby if I have the money

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: SINSULL
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 11:32 AM

Kendall getting his voice back. The first time I saw him on stage again, I teared up. We almost lost a treasure.

My house is a poor second to that.

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: harpgirl
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 11:37 AM

I hope today is an indication of what the New Year will be like for us. My brother called me and we had a long talk! I've missed talking to him. Now maybe he will come to visit me for the first time ever, this year.

The best thing about last year was having Nathan graduate from high school, stop being frightened of driving, and finishing his first semester of community college with a 2.8!!!! harp

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 11:52 AM

score at the end of the 3rd quarter: Entropy-(7), Bill D-(5)...not bad, considering!

The Getaway, after 24 years, is still a major highlight of any year. And, we had a very nice craft season...but the lathe broke and needs fixin. I guess a good year is when income covers expenses... ;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: CapriUni
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 01:41 PM

Well, I successfully fulfilled my new year's resolutions from last year -- and that's always a good way to make a year feel successful. The first resolution was to submit something for every issue of a local Pagan magazine, for the year (8 issues): even if pieces get rejected, to send something in for the next one. I sent my 8th and final one for the year 2 hours before the moment of the solstice, and 2 days before the publishing deadline. And four of those eight pieces were excepted for publication, and maybe a fifth, too... but I won't know that until the Imbolg issue is out.

The second resolution I made was to write something in memoriam of my uncle Peter, who was killed before I was born, but whose life greatly influenced mine (that was one of the pieces that wasn't printed, but I posted it to Mudcat, here, and so it was shared, and he will be remembered, at least as someone who mattered, by more people than me.

But the Best-est thing that I can think of this year had to have come at Christmas, when I opened a package from an on-line friend I've known casually for a few years, to find it chock full of things that suit my personality so perfectly, it nearly brought tears to my eyes. Not so much the stuff itself, but the thought and the effort that went into it -- the tangible proof that someone thousands of miles away took the time to see and understand me, as a person, behind the tens of thousands of annonymous words I've posted to the Internet.

Whether 2002 was joyful or diffecult for you, I send wishes of hope and joy to all for the year to come. May your heart be full of the laughter of ten thousand angels, and the strength of ten thousand elephants.

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 01:57 PM

My best, most inspiring time last year was the incredible show put on by my very favorite musician at my local community hall. The acoustics glowed in the dark, and she did too!... I've been going to the hall for music for twenty-five years... through all my 'phases' And I've never been so moved! A true musical genius full of the finest acoustic minstral's charisma... and gorgeous beyond pretention... in an old growth chamber of delicious timeless melody! Could it get any better than that? Well, for me, last year nothing else even came close...ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: kendall
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 02:42 PM

Wow, Sinsull, I've never been more important than someone's house before! Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 04:17 AM

I'm with you Spaw. I am alive! I survived a near death experience this summer, and I am happy to say, "LIFE IS JUST GRAND, AIN'T IT!"


In case anyone was wondering..my appendix ruptured and the first time I went to the hospital, the Dr. said it was a viral thing, sent me home with a prescription for nausea med. I was too sick to argue. That was a Thursday. I went back on Mon. and another Dr. didn't know either but set me up with a cat scan the next day. Tues. I went in for the scan (I was really sick now) and they were going to send me home for another two days to wait for results. Luckily a friend of mine working at the hospital told me the Dr. who reads the scans was there that day, so I insisted on the results that day.
So I call for the results a couple hours later and they tell me to get in to the hospital now. Turns out I was full of poison and shit(literally)(and living with a ruptered appendix for seven days) and they did surgery immediately.
I was in the hospital two weeks and it took almost two months to recuperate.
So, Yes Spaw...waking up and knowing I'm alive! EEE-HAW!
Peace, Rustic

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 05:02 AM

Well Mudcatwise meeting fellow catters for the first time, the bunch at Stony Stratford, (yes, Steve, even you!),who were tolerant enough to let me "sing" one song without throwing things, and Frank (King Street Smith)at the Caversham skiffle gig.
Not to mention hearing the Blue Plate Specials...
RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: fogie
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 05:43 AM

Escaping from the ruins of marriage and setting myself up in a new house, which meant reassessing what I'd take with me and what I'd dump
-very cathartic!

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: Kim C
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 12:54 PM

That I survived it. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: CapriUni
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 04:28 PM

For Kim C., and Rustic Rebel, and Spaw, and Fogie, and Sorcha, and Liz the Squeak, and anyone else out there who feels that 2002 was something they survived, I offer this song from Fred Rogers^*:

It's Such a Good Feeling
© 1970, Fred M. Rogers

It's such a good feeling to know you're alive.
It's such a happy feeling: You're growing inside.
And when you wake up ready to say,
"I think I'll make a snappy new day."
It's such a good feeling, a very good feeling,
The feeling you know that we're friends.

^*(for non-American Mudcatter's reference, Mr. Rogers was the avuncular host of a long running children's program on Public Television from 1966 until he retired last year. The program is still being broadcast in reruns).

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: Kim C
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 05:03 PM

Capri, I remember that! :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: Rustic Rebel
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 05:46 PM

Thanks CapriUni- I don't know the song, but I can picture Mr. Rogers singing it! That is another thing I forgot to mention that was the best thing that happened, is my friends happened. I had so much help, support, love, prayers, chants, abounding energy from so many people it was amazing how many friends were there for me. For all my friends,I am very thankful.
Peace, Rustic

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: Dharmabum
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 10:58 AM

A new grandaughter in July.
Winning that Taylor guitar at Old Songs.
Being included in the Mudcat CD.
Mostly,every day that the MS.decided it was going to let me walk on my own legs.

       DB.

Subject: RE: BS: Your best thing of the year....
From: Genie
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 07:15 PM

RusticRebel, we haven't "met," but I think your survival/recovery, like that of Kendall and some other folks around here, has got to be a highlight of the Mudcat year.

And, Nathan (Amergin), you've been holding out on us! Wonderful news!!!
Now, who IS she?

*BG*

Genie