I cling to the hope of entering the eternal utopia of the Prince of Peace, and being told that I've been a "good and faithful servant". I also look to the day when I'm reunited with my beloved family and friends, who have passed from here to there... "I believe we'll meet, where there are no farewells" ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ In loving memory of ALENE ELIZABETH EVERS ~ March 17, 1959 - February 21, 2003 ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ Alene, be at peace my love... ************************************************************ ************ "It will always be your name written on my heart..."- Julie Miller ************************************************************ ************ "I loved you from the first time I looked upon your face, though I didn't know your story I could feel your wild grace"~ Peter Case ************************************************************ ************ "Gone are the tears that you have wept, you'll dance in freedom ever after"- Julie Miller ************************************************************ ************ "Love is stronger than darkness ~ Love is stronger than death"- Bruce Cockburn ************************************************************ ************ "There is a life no one can take ~ There is a chain of love no one can break"- Julie Miller ************************************************************ ************ "Precious angel, you believe me when I say ~ What God has given to us, no man can take away ~ You're the queen of my flesh, girl, you're my woman, you're my delight ~ You're the lamp of my soul, girl..."- Bob Dylan ************************************************************ ************ "You're the dream I prayed would come along, to make my fantasy ~ Day and night you live inside my heart, you're the flame of love to me"- Maurice White, Charles Stepney, and Phillip Bailey ************************************************************ ************ "You appeared to me ~ You were real to me ~ You helped me see ~ Everything, Anything... Everything"- Chris Robinson ************************************************************ ************ "I will never let you go ~ I love you more than dreams and poetry ~ More than laughter, more than cheers, more than mystery ~ I love you more than rhythm, more than song ~ I love you more with every breath I drawâ€â€” T-Bone Burnett ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ "Well, it was back in *Allen, Texas in 2003* ~ When I last saw you alive ~ But we missed that shift on the long decline ~ Long may you run, long may you run ~ Although these changes have come ~ With your chrome heart shining in the sun ~ Long may you run, long may you run"- Neil Young ************************************************************ ************ "Beyond the wall of sleep, you will shine again ~ Kiss me once, and may God be with you"- Terry Scott Taylor ************************************************************ ************ "In my heart I see you run free, like a river down to the sea"- Julie Miller ************************************************************ ************ "She goes on forever ~ Yeah, she’s gonna shine forever, like a diamond, in the sunlight"- Tom Petty ************************************************************ ************ "It was the diamonds I remember ~ Yeah, right there behind your eyes"- Bill Mallonee ************************************************************ ************ "I would have paid down through the years ~ A price beyond rubies beyond tears ~ To keep you safe with me"- Emmylou Harris ************************************************************ ************ "Now you're the catch in my throat, was I in your dream of last goodbyes?"- Terry Scott Taylor ************************************************************ ************ "Tell me, what is my life without your love? ~ Tell me, who am I without you, by my side?"- George Harrison ************************************************************ ************ "If I could write I’d set all the words free to follow you ~ Tell you wonder, tell you secrets and solitude ~ I’ve had to let go of so much it’s hard to hold on now ~ Something far off is pulling me..."– Sam Phillips ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ "Gone beyond the gate ~ We must all pass some day ~ You took a part of me ~ A broken heart left here to play ~ This sad, sweet music ~ The air that I breathe fills me with longing ~ I thought that I saw your face in the crowd ~ But that couldn't be, 'cause you walk beyond the stars ~One more time, I'd love to see you my friend ~ One more time, I wish I could hold your hand ~ One more time, I'd look into your eyes and tell you "I love you" ~ One more timeHere, inside a dream, I see you standing on a hill ~ You smile, then turn away ~ Now I must go--the air is filled ~ With sad, sweet music ~ I open my eyes and I feel the longing ~ I thought that I heard your voice call my name ~ But that couldn't be, 'cause you walk beyond the stars"- Terry Scott Taylor ************************************************************ ************ "You are on my mind ~ The echo of your laughter flowing through me ~ And wishing you were in my arms, and loving me completely"- James Pankow ************************************************************ ************ "Not a day goes by, I don’t think about you ~ You left your mark on me, it’s permanent, a tattoo"- Lucinda Williams ************************************************************ ************ "I will always be emotionally yours"- Bob Dylan ************************************************************ ************ "Part of me, you are a part of me ~ I never want to lose ~ Hard for me, this is too hard ~ Maybe I can't get through ~ What will I miss the most ~ Pray that I'm haunted by your ghost"- Karin Bergquist ************************************************************ ************ "In my heart I hold your photograph ~ And the thought of you comes on like the feel of the coming rains"- Bruce Cockburn ************************************************************ ************ "I like feeling loved, but only by you ~ Without that in my life, sometimes it feels like everything is through"- Ty Tabor ************************************************************ ************ "Lift back the veil that hides me from you..."- Jeremy Enigk ************************************************************ ************ "You’re the beauty that is deeper than eyes can merely see ~ The closest thing to perfect, but the farthest thing from me"- Brett Detar ************************************************************ ************ "Drifting, on a sea of forgotten tear drops ~ On a lifeboat sailing for your love ~ Sailing home"- Jimi Hendrix ************************************************************ ************ "No one else can fix me, although sometimes my heart tricks me ~ Into thinking someone else will do ~ But you’re the only one, you are the only one"- Rhett Miller ************************************************************ ************ "She's different from any girl I knew"- Chris Robinson ************************************************************ ************ “All those golden memories way past the counting ~ It’s a treasure you gave to the world ~ But of all that I will miss the most here, I will miss you girlâ€â€“ Bill Mallonee ************************************************************ ************ "I know now what it means to miss someone..."- Maria McKee ************************************************************ ************ "I miss you more than these words can say..."- Andy Piercy and Peter Banks ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ "Our last conversation still echoes on bare walls ~ Like a child’s painting of everything we planned ~ Though I’ve loved you for a long time, it can’t denied ~ Someone see’s the dreams we hide"- Peter Case ************************************************************ ************ "Last night I dreamed I held you in my arms ~ The music was never-ending ~ We danced as the evening sky faded to black ~ One step up and two steps back"- Bruce Springsteen ************************************************************ ************ "She’s up there... I’m down here changing lanes ~ And I’m depending on time, babe ~ To get *back to you again* ~ I guess it’s one of those things ~ You could never explain ~ Like when an angel cries ~ Like runaway trains"– Tom Petty ************************************************************ ************ "All I wanted was to stay there in your arms ~ But when the door opened I had to say goodbye ~ And I knew that it was not our fate ~ But I waited all those years to hear you say, ‘I always loved you, only you’ ~ ...Though I still have dreams of you and I together again... I have to say goodbye *for now* ~ We didn’t know the future, but we did what was right"- Jeremy Enigk ************************************************************ ************ "Where ever you are tonight ~ I love you like my own life, and that’s no lie"- T-Bone Burnett ************************************************************ ************ "If I don't meet you no more in this world ~ Then I'll meet you in the next one ~ And don't be late, don't be late"- Jimi Hendrix ************************************************************ ************ "I’m thinking about forever, missing you..."- Sonny Sandoval ************************************************************ ************ "Will you meet me someday past the sunset? We'll shine like chrome with snow white angel wings ~ Will you meet me someday past the sunset? Known by the known, the dreamers of the dream..."- Chris Robinson ************************************************************ ************ "I’ll meet you on the other side, where worms change into butterflies..."- Matt Bissonette ************************************************************ ************ "I will try, when it’s time ~ I will see you on the other side"- Doug Pinnick ************************************************************ ************ "Goodbye for now, so long ~ I think the hardest part of holding on, is letting it go"- Sonny Sandoval ************************************************************ ************ "Goodbye baby... Don't forget me... You *are* with me all the time ~ I'll be with you one day"- Stevie Nicks ************************************************************ ************ "Goodbye, farewell, we'll meet again ~ Somewhere beyond the sky..."- Larry Norman ************************************************************ ************ "Ain’t no packing bags when your voyage is to the Son ~ Ain’t no last goodbyes when Heaven calls you on"- Terry Scott Taylor ************************************************************ ************ "Up in heaven, there are no good-byes..."- Chris Robinson ************************************************************ ************ "...I know that this is not goodbye"- Paul "Bono" Hewson ************************************************************ ************ "In my dream the pipes were playing' ~ In my deam I lost a friend ~ Come down Gabriel and blow your horn ~ 'Cause some day we will meet again"- Robbie Robertson ************************************************************ ************ "His love always remains ~ Farewell, farewell, but we'll meet again"- Ulf Christiansson ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ GREAT AMORICANS of the HALLUCINATION NATION (see slide show below) ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ "Throw up the peace sign-- it'll do you no harm!" Sly Stone, Woodstock 1969 ************************************************************ ************ "Come wanderers, come enemies, and sufferer kings, and lay your coats to dry by the fire ~ Come heretics, come horse thieves come all wise men of great vision ~~~~~~ Though my garden gate is broken, and there's cracks on all the walls ~ Though my table is never empty, I will make room for you all"- (an excerpt from "The Never Empty Table" by Chris Robinson) ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** OH, HOW THE YEARS GO BY... ************************************************************ ************ "By this time I'd a thought I would be sleeping ~ In a pine box for all eternity ~ My faith keeps me alive, but I still be weeping ~ For the saving grace that's over me ~~~~~ Well, the death of life, then comes the resurrection ~ Wherever I am welcome is where I'll be ~ I put all my confidence in Him, my sole protection ~ Is the saving grace that's over me"- (an excerpt from "Saving Grace" by Bob Dylan) ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** ************************************************************ *********** SUNDANCE and SUMMERLAND ("The Girls") (below) ************************************************************ *********** My female golden retrievers, and a female black cat: "Sundance" (aka "Baby Girl"); one of the sweetest and most gentle spirits I've ever met-- human or otherwise ~ "Summerland" (aka "Littles" or "Laughing Lion") named after the King's X song "Summerland"; simply put, she's a character ~ "Starlight (aka "Little Scardy Cat") so named because of her jet-black coat and white flecks of fur in her ears; she has a somewhat typical fickle kitty personality, but a cutie nonetheless-- you just have to get to know her :) ************************************************************ *********** All praise and honor to The Most High for the healing of their precious lives ~ "dying trees grow greener when you pray..."- Bruce Cockburn ************************************************************ ************ To my utter heart break, on 08/13/07 at 11:52am, Summerland was called to make her journey "beyond the wall of sleep". ************************************************************ ************ Summerland, my little friend, you are my hero, and I love you. "Parting is such sweet, sweet sorrow", however I will see you again, on the other side :o) ************************************************************ ************ ************************************************************ ************ "SUMMERLAND" by Ty Tabor and King's X ************************************************************ ************ "Summerland in my past ~ Days were full and I knew it would last ~ I never thought there was anything else but you ************************************************************ ************ Summerland ~ The wind is getting cold ~ Summerland ~ You're finally getting old ************************************************************ ************ Not much time ~ There's much to do ~ Look ahead and walk on through ~ No one's taking sides this time it's you ************************************************************ ************ Summerland ~ Your sky can still be blue ~ Summerland ~ Always in love with you" ************************************************************ ************