Hello,  a photo of  me in the garden                                                          http://www.valleydemsunited.com/

Thought for the Day:                

"Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely possible." ------ Homer Simpson

Television:

NOT that Cheap Crap on Faux News,... Nothing seems to engrossing at the moment CHEERS, Seindfeld is always a decent stand by and BASEBALL season is reaching it's glorius pinnacle

• Progressive Democrats of America
• http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/
• Writings of James Madison - incl the Federalist Papers.
• Several chronologies of the Civil War
• The White Tecumseh (bio on the incredible William Tecumseh Sherman)
• James Gordon CSA memoirs
• Several books on the Red River Campaign
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• Newton Forester or the Merchant Service
• Horatio Hornblower...the whole series
• keeping track of the Xian Reich
•  NY Times, Billings Gazette, Washington Post,
• keeping up with the Lori Berenson trial and tribulation...looks like things will be changing soon...as of 06.16.04 and it remains sadly, the same 12.12.06 
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see www.freelori.org a young woman illegally imprisoned in the bowels of a Peruvian prison on a bunch of trumped up charges...please go to the web site and help us get Lori out of Peru ....thanks

Books from the past: Horatio Hornblower by C.S. Forester all 11 books in the series ...one adventure after another. A remarkable journey not to be missed. African Queen is also Foresters and a great read.

  Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles

Michael Angelo and the Popes Ceiling

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins. A Brilliant Work.

i just finished reading Cadillac Desert by the late Marc Reisner. A seminal consummate work regarding WATER ...in America ...who what when where how and why...a very compelling work indeed.

Favorites: Movies        

1. Dangerous Beauty                  
2. Breaking the Waves                 
3. The Boxer                             
4. Shakespeare in Love                   
5. Bagdad Cafe   
6. Aliens
7. Blade Runner
8. LA Confidential   
9. Billy Elliot
10. Moulin Rouge
11. Chocolate
12. Tortilla Soup                                         

1. Jodi Foster
2. Jonathan Demme
3. Humphry Bogart
4. Dru Barrymore
5. George Cloney
6. Glenn Ford
7. Emily Watson
8. Nicole Kidman
9.  

               My incredible daughters Jennifer Kaye and Renee Denise

                             born Sept 13th, 1969

                                        born  August 24th, 1972                                        

 Former Project coordinator for the Artic Research Consortium of the United States (commonly known as ARCUS) in Fairbanks, AK www.arcus.org

Renee was recruited by the National Science Foundation in Washington DC and resides near her work as a coordinator for Arctic Research.

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            April 2004

Renee just signed the deed to her first home in Washington DC, well just outside DC really

     BRAVO Renee, BRAVO

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Also recently finished a bust of Renee, replete with her dog, an eagle, a musk ox, a salmon, a caribou, a bird and aurora borealis...Titled: Arctic Mistress .. in the Stone Carving Room:)

This is  my Daughter                                      Jennifer Kaye Crain Baretta 

Home: Billings, Montana                                   

Jennifer Kaye Baretta as of

4th of July 2002  in Red Lodge Montana just outside of Billings,...CONGRATULATIONS

She is Now a Mom and no longer a Banker for Stockman Bank but still a Ceramist extrodinaire.

(a dad could never ask for a better kid)  

 Owner of: Cat Tail Pottery  see her page on this site...a work in construction :)

                        Step Mom to Kaitlin and Josie

                                       Jennifer & John are expecting  !!! baby is due in Mid-June.   They have also started their own Civil Engineer business as of February 2004 ... CONGRATULATIONS !!! ... gotta get the name ...

                                                                                                        with a great sense of twisted humor;

And a great Eye as a photographer

and as an artist            (Santa Monica at Sunset)                                              

in charge of the Community Theater Project ,   Billings, Montana

   I would not paint-a picture-
I'd rather be the One
Its bright impossibility
To dwell-delicious-on-
And wonder how the fingers feel
Whose rare-celestial-stir-
Evokes so sweet a Torment-
Such sumptuous- Despair-

I would not talk, like Cornets-
I'd rather be the One
Raised softly to the Ceilings-
And out, and easy on-
Through Villages of Ether-
Myself endued Balloon                                           
By but a lip of Metal-
The pier to my Pontoon-

Nor would I be a Poet-
It's finer-own the Ear-
Enamored-impotent-content-
The License to revere,
A privilege so awful
What would the Dower be,
Had I the Art to stun myself
With Bolts of Melody!
  Jennifer Kaye Baretta, photographer

www.freelori.org

and a new site i'd like to share is      BluezArtz http://www.artistnation.com/members/lofts/bluezartz/   give it try won't you  

Kim Wyatt

http://members.home.net/kimwyattsart/cardpage.htm her Posties are really a treat

Music:               B-52's Bob Dylan, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane,

Buddha Bar Vol III and Buddha Bar Vol V ; Bombay Beats; Nirvana Lounge; Buena Vista Social Club;  Massive Attack; Janice Joplin; Joe Cocker; Cesaria Evora; Gypsy Kings, Old old Rolling Stones; Pink Floyd; Crazy Penis (British); Howlin Wolf and all the great Blues Musicians. Jimi Hendrix And just about all Opera.