Tom

I'd like to meet:

Interesting, nice, sincere people.....and God!

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Maine's Junior Senator, Susan Collins....ain't she cute?
Goodbye Susan, you've had your two terms. And, your creepy voice is driving us crazy!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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What's Tom listening to these days? Well, look below!

Artistry Interrupted. A performance of great depth and transcendence. Smith & Hunt Lieberson may be gone, but their souls still live on.

Lorraine at Emmanuel - new CD from Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Kyi9PMoZk

Relish the artistry of Lorraine Hunt Lieberman & Craig Smith performing Handel's "Cease, ruler of the day, to rise" from "Hercules."

Handel's "Where Shall I Fly?"from "Hercules" - simply stunning!

Maria Muldaur & Bonnie Raitt sing Allen Toussaint's "Yes We Can Can."

Music:

Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, REM,
Kate Fenner & Chris Brown, U2, Laura Nyro,
Martha Wainwright,June Tabor, Maddy Prior, Kate Rusby
Tom Waits, Natalie Merchant, Maia Sharp,
Duncan Sheik, Waterson:Carthy, Eliza Carthy
Rufus Wainright, Ray Lamontagne, Patty Griffin,
Carol Noonan, Ollabelle, Elvis Costello,
Maria Muldaur, Jenni Muldaur, Wendy Waldman,
Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Teddy Thompson,
Linda Thompson, Richard Thompson, Van Morrison,
John Hiatt, Ann Peebles, Cassandra Wilson,
Dee Dee Bridgewater, Blind Boys of Alabama,
Valerie Carter, Emmylou Harris, Vic Chesnutt,
Susan Tedeschi, Janis Ian, Cyndi Lauper,
Marianne Faithfull, Curtis Stigers, Etta James,
Bonnie Raitt, Rory Block, Susaye Green
60's & 70's Motown,

Boston Baroque, The Boston Camerata,
Emmanuel Music (RIP, Craig Smith),

Robert Casadesus (my musical grandfather),
Madame Gaby Casadesus, Jean Casadesus,

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (RIP),
Beverly Sills (RIP),
Edita Gruberova, Rene Fleming, Dawn Upshaw,
William Hite, Paul Agnew, Arianna Zuckerman

and tons of classical!

Movies:

Dreamchild, Howard's End, Chinatown,
The Trip To Bountiful, John Huston's The Dead,
Little Voice, Barton Fink, Heathers, Brazil,
Naked Lunch, Serenity, Alien, Rear Window,
A Passage To India, Where Angels Fear To Tread,
The Return Of The Soldier, The Shooting Party
Hannah And Her Sisters, Insects And Angels,
Unforgiven, Lord Of The Rings Trilogy,
Pan's Labyrinth, The Triplets of Belleville,
Pink Flamingoes, A Dirty Shame, Barbarella !

Television:

Spooks (aka MI-5), The Office,
Ugly Betty, 30 Rock, Absolutely Fabulous,
Farscape, Battlestar Galactica,
The Dresden Files(a 2nd season would have been nice!),
Firefly, Carnivale

Books:

A Confederacy Of Dunces, The Ponder Heart,
Pride and Prejudice, A Tale Of Two Cities,
The House Of Seven Gables, The Unbearable Lightness
Of Being, Angle Of Repose, Moby Dick, Dracula,
Uncle Silas, Collected Ghost Stories of J. Sheridan
LeFanu
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In Memory of my Mother, a Victim of Pancreatic Cancer
No Coward Soul is Mine
No coward soul is mine,
No trembler in the worlds storm-troubled sphere:
I see Heavens glories shine,
And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
O God within my breast.
Almighty, ever-present Deity!
Life -- that in me has rest,
As I -- Undying Life -- have power in Thee!
Vain are the thousand creeds
That move mens hearts: unutterably vain;
Worthless as withered weeds,
Or idlest froth amid the boundless main,
To waken doubt in one
Holding so fast by Thine infinity;
So surely anchored on
The steadfast Rock of immortality.
With wide-embracing love
Thy Spirit animates eternal years,
Pervades and broods above,
Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.
Though earth and man were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou wert left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee.
There is not room for Death,
Nor atom that his might could render void:
Thou -- Thou art Being and Breath,
And what Thou art may never be destroyed.
-- Emily Bronte

Heroes:

My Mother and my dearest friend, Ona Hilton Moody
A woman who showed me how to live a gracious life,
How to be brave in this world,
And how to show dignity until one's final breath.
Thank you.
~~A Meditation by Evelyn Davies~~
Dying is the final healing
The last great adventure
It cannot be avoided
It is the harvest that we are
all working towards.
We need to learn the skills
of letting go long before
We come to our own
completion
And know that death
is not failure
But celebration after
a life well-lived
However short or
long that life may be.
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Hirschburg Foundation For Pancreatic Cancer Research
PLEASE HELP!
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...and they all went home.
Adults-(l to r)My great uncle, my great aunt, my grandfather.
Children-(l to r)My mother's cousin, my mother, my uncle.
Summer, 1939
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