May 27, 2007 

Most of yesterday I spend writing and creating my blog on line. I feel drawn to share my experiences with others and hope that they might find inspiration and hope in my words. 

Marijke had invited me to a dinner party at her home last night. It was a small group of wonderful people; Janet and David with their two beautiful girls Gracen and Annie and Janet’s mother Tommie from Dallas, Chris and her two boys and Kurt and his two boys and then Marijke and her son and me. Gracen and Annie like to sing and of course I wanted to hear this.  I felt privileged to spend some time with these two girls. The boys were doing their boy stuff so I didn’t get to spend much time with them. These two girls are very pretty and they are such a bright light. It was a joy to hear them sing and it pleases me that at this young age, they feel comfortable to share their gifts with others. If we can only encourage our children to speak up and perform for others at a young age then it will be so much easier for them later on to speak in public or to perform. I wish I had performed more at a young age but I was too shy and felt more at ease with my horses. It has taken me many years to over come the fear of speaking in public and performing. 

It was a nice group of people and we had great conversations. We also did some singing together on the deck and this was so much fun. Making music always adds something special. Janet, Tommie and Marijke have beautiful voices and it was a joy to share some of the well known songs like The Way we Were and Let it be. I remember when I was young and my grand father would bring out his accordion and my father would play trumpet. These are special memories. It saddens me that making music has very much been lost in our society. We are so busy. How often do we take the time to sing together? Maybe at Christmas a few songs and that is it. It is so simple to sing together and it brings so much joy. When we sing together, we truly become one.

I hope that when it is time for me to have a family, that I will remember this and that creating music and singing will be a big part of our lives. 

After the wonderful dinner, I decided to check out the Mint Bar in downtown

Sheridan. I always like to meet new people.

Wyoming is a real hunters area so the Mint Bar had all these heads of dead animals hanging on the wall. There were a variety of deer, moose, big horn sheep, as well as a coyote and wolf. There were also a lot of pictures of the rodeo. It is so much fun to be in the Western area and I do hope to see a rodeo while I am in

Wyoming. The crowed in the Bar was young and I didn’t feel that this was the place for me to be so I left, found a place to park my RV for the night and went to sleep.