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#10 BREATHE ON ME, O BREATH OF GOD! Breathe on me, O Breath of God, Fill me with life anew, That I may love the things You love and do what You would do! Breathe on me, O Breath of God, Until my heart is pure, Until with You I have one will, To live and to endure! Breathe on me, O Breath of God, My soul with Grace refine, Til every earthly part of me Glows with Your Fire Divine! Breathe on me, O Breath of God, So I shall never die, But live with You the perfect life In Your eternity! A Wild Canary [beautiful music too]

Condolences and many blessings.

A very small, very old (1949)time worn loose-leaf (means brown pages are falling out)...."Seeds of Contemplation," by Thomas Merton. Have started over at the beginning several times and won't go anywhere without it. Even thought to write it out by hand so as to etch it in my brain. Personally, I found the (Sylvester Stallone?) movie disappointing and too short to really cover much of the story. Also, the single book "Battlefield Earth" was a little bit disappointing, I believe both the TV show and the Battlefield Earth book were based on a single volume of the Mission Earth stories, but it's been so long since I read them, I'm not sure. HOWEVER!!!: The "Mission Earth" (10 volume series) by L. Ron Hubbard was addictive! I couldn't stop reading them. I had to go to 4 different libraries and check out 3 volumes at a time to go through them all without stopping (each time I got to third volume, I'd return the first two and check out the next two in sequence.) Lots of action and you just kept wanting more and more. Probably the second best space opera after e.e. 'doc' smith's Lensman series (which has blessedly been reprinted by the book firm Old Earth Books in Baltimore Maryland). Caution: the Mission Earth series books I found in the library system were all hardbacks about the size of the Thorndike-Barnhardt high school dictionary and there's 10 of them to wade through. I've finished reading Jack Chalker's Well World series and now I'm mostly playing the PC game "Syberia" and reading some Andre Norton books in between to give my mouse-hand a rest to avoid repetitive motion syndrome. Since Syberia is more of a thinking puzzle game with a very nice story line, than a shoot-em-up (there is NO shooting in this game), I can play it for hours without strain. No reflexes required! I'm definitely going to also buy Syberia 2 which just came out. Both games and free demos for each are available from www.gamestop.com . The free demos give a good idea of the feel for the game play. Beautiful graphics work and excellent sound/music effects in both games. If you even played Myst, this is much better and also has game characters who must be interacted with in order to solve the riddles and proceed through the story line/game. p.s. - for anybody worried about it - the Mission Earth sci-fi books have NOTHING to do with Dianetics written by the same author. <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Rise up this morning, Smiled with the rising sun Three little birds(doves) pitch by my doorstep Singin' sweet songs of melodies pure and true Sayin', "This is my message to you-u-u." Singin'... (Repeat) "Don't worry about a thing, 'Cause ev'ry little thing gonna be al-right." (4 times) Bob Marley