We should all be this lucky!

We Will Never Forget...9/11

We were living in Los Angeles on 9/11 when we saw the horrific events happen live on tv. L.A. is known for a lot of air traffic, most of it deafening, that day all was eerily quiet with only the sounds of fighter jets in the air.

These images I shot using black and white film. I rode on a North Hollywood fire truck with an enormous American flag on top to a location on the corner of Colfax and I think Magnolia? And then to Ventura Blvd. in Studio City.

I have more that need to be scanned. The images are far from finalized, but since today is the anniversary, I thought best to put them up.

jayden's first face drawing!

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Originally uploaded by blackbird72

i shot a quick photo using my cell phone camera, but i'm so happy that my daughter did this and knew what she was doing!

so happy!

What I am Thankful For Every Single Day

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I have been quite a busy bee lately. So much sorrow going on, yet so much to be thankful for.

Here is my list for the day:
-My Daughter
-My Family
-Our Neighbors
-Our Friends
-Air-Conditioning
-The promise of a brand new memory foam mattress!!!!(Arriving in 5-7 business days!)
-The hope of no pain when I sleep!!!
-A nice and sunny day.
-Seeing a puppet show with my daughter for the first time ever in my town. She LOVED IT!


Thank you all!

A Very Sad Ending......

sad update.... http://dirtnap13.livejournal.com

My thoughts and prayers are with Erin, Noah, their mother and all of their family.

PLEASE HELP FIND MY FRIEND's DAD!!!!!!!!!!!!

ATTENTION! This note was written by Noah Korda today at 1:03am on Facebook. For some reason every link I send out to the note only redirects to the FB homepage, so I'm reposting his message here! PLEASE spread the word and FIND THIS MAN!!

RT on Twitter with the hashtag #FindBOB

UPDATE: Here is a banner his son made with a photo of the make of his car: http://www.batsday.net/missingrobertkordaposter.pdf

I don't know where to begin. PLEASE HELP. MY FATHER IS MISSING.Hi guys,I know this is going to sound like another bogus chain email but I assure you that it is not. I personally dont know how I am keeping it together at the moment.


My father has gone missing and I need help.

I know that sometimes sending out messages like this can help locate people. I am asking for any help at this point. Someone might have seen him.

The police is not really doing anything about it other than just reporting it as a missing person. The best part about all of this is that his cell phone is on and I know that they could do a tracking on it to locate him. They cant do anything without a court order which I am going to try and get, before his cell battery dies.

My father left Thursday 7/9/09 morning @ 7:45am to go to a job and never made it to the job. The job called the person who booked him the job and said that he never showed up.

He left from the Van Nuys area. Major cross streets Woodman & Victory. His destination was to be in Hollywood at the Gower Studios at Sunset & Gower.

He was driving a white 1994 Geo Metro. I dont have the license plate but will get it. My father is the type of person that is right to the point so he would have just taken the most obvious route. Victory to the 170 to the 101 to Gower. But at this point who knows. He is also the type of person that wouldn't really go somewhere with out telling someone. Its like he just disappeared into thin air.

Name: Robert Korda

Age: 69

Height: 5'5"

He is in good health

Any info would be great since we are at a total loss. We have contacted all the hospitals and police stations and there has been no one with his description at all. This is why I am now going to cyberspace since it seems that normal channels are not helping.

Any info can be emailed to me @ findrobertk@aol.com

As much as I would love emails that say I'm sorry for your loss, please do not send this kind of emails to the email account or to this post. Thank you for this your understanding.

Any info that can help would be greatly appreciated. My family is a mess right now and we don't know what else to do. You can repost this to other groups if you need to.

Thank you.
Noah Korda

NEW INFO: My Father's License plate number from the car he was driving.CA 3GPJ453 1993 White Geo Metro

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/note.php?note_id=113994988512&id=699078447&ref=nf

Beth Peterson of Winged Blue Arts

Recently I came across a lovely woman named Beth. She has a fantastic site that is positive and helps others. Here is what she wrote to place in this blog:


WingedBlue Arts is the home site of Beth Peterson. Peterson is an artist and has articles and a gallery of work on site, but she is also a (retired) clinical psychologist focused on helping victims of interpersonal manipulation and abuse.

She is the author of several books on interpersonal manipulation, recovery from abuse, and psychological / spiritual health. Several titles are online at WingedBlue as free PDF downloads.

Beth has many articles on about.com that focuses primarily on pottery and pottery arts.

Please be sure to check out her lovely work, and download her FREE PDF books. Let others know about them as well. You never know who needs her words and spiritual guidance.

The Power Of Positive Thinking From The Etsy Forums

"If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again."

- Flavia Weedn

"I think that we all, at some point in our lives, feel our "dreams" have shattered and we have nothing left. Does that mean you quit? No, you don't quit. If your dream has not come about, pick up those pieces and start again. It may be that your dream just wasn't right for you, or that you were not doing something you needed to be doing to attain that dream. Take that and build upon it. Maybe you need to come at it from a different direction, you might need to change the dream in order to get there. But whatever you do don't give up the dream...step by step, day by day work towards it.....eventually it will come true. Have a great Saturday, have some fun today and remember your one day closer to your dream!!"
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My Etsy bill has gotten waaay out of hand! I mean seriously, I have lots of great new products and I cannot afford to list them there. It's ridiculous, that and lack of sales don't help either. But I have hope, I know that things will turn around soon...right?

I've been trying to streamline my life and my shoppes. Business has not been good at all. I have a great sale going on in my Etsy shoppe and no bites. But I did make 2 smaller sales on my Blackbird's Closet shoppe :)

Something is always better than nothing :D

Here is my list:
-My daughter gets more beautiful each day. I hope to maintain my business to stay at home with her.
-The people at Dave's freelance gig(that ended today) really appreciated him and made it known with a very nice card.
-I got the best tweet today! Rings_Things@deirdreryan - #followfriday - Deirdre is like a welcome visitor in the tree outside your window (blackbird) ☺Dave
-It's the weekend!
-We miss Canela, but each day gets a little easier.
-Love TweetDeck! it's fahh-reee!
-rain
-looking forward to a Knit, Purl, and Nosh next wed. night at my local library
-although Dave will be not working, it will be nice to have him home.
-my laptop :D
-prayers
-faith