Just got laid off (Page 3 of 5)

I like what you said there, Geoff...I've had one thing after another happening lately and it's so easy to get down in the dumps...but so far everything is working out ok.  I've definitely had an angel on my shoulder for most of my life.   

I also need to apologize for spelling your name wrong, my angel is on my shoulder but I don't think my head is.

Hi Geoff,
I'm happy to hear your wonderful news!!! I am a believer when it comes to guardian angels!  I know you are a big George fan, (musically and spiritually I'm guessing, you connected to him.. he was one cool dude, with that witty, dry humor) Do you ever get to the Chelsea Garden Show? I would LOVE to go to that.  If you haven't seen this, it looks wonderful!  I remember reading that George considered himself a gardener first over everything, even being a musician.  I really enjoy gardening and flowers, although currently I have lots of bunnies mass producing on my property, presenting some real gardening dilemnas...:D

Drop me a line if you're not making a forum announcement about what developed...I'm curious.

"George Harrison: Chelsea Flower Show homage to late Beatle

Last Updated: 12:01am BST 20/05/2008

It may not be rock'n'roll, but he liked it. Judith Woods on the Chelsea tribute to George Harrison

How should we remember one of the greatest pop musicians of the 20th century? A gala concert? A blue plaque, or a digitally remastered retrospective of his finest work?
Well, according to the widow of George Harrison there is no more appropriate way to commemorate his life - and afterlife - than a garden at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Embracing one of the Season's most popular events may not sound very rock'n'roll, but Olivia Harrison is clear that this was where his heart lay.
"I wouldn't like to say whether gardening was as important to him as music," she recalls, speaking at the family home in Friar Park where he spent so many happy hours, "but when he was home he was always either in the recording studio or in the garden. Both were places where he became utterly absorbed and we didn't like to disturb him."
The Harrison garden takes its place this year alongside a number of show-stopping creations including The Daily Telegraph's tranquil Japanese-inspired pondscape.

Entitled From Life to Life, A Garden for George (the name comes from the Beatles' song It's All Too Much), the horticultural homage to Harrison is planted with scrubby thistles and allotment vegetables, brightly clashing perennials, white-stemmed birches and scented roses.
The garden is divided into four tiers that Olivia says represent his life, music and philosophy; it takes visitors along a Venetian glass mosaic path from Harrison's post-war boyhood in Liverpool (symbolised by a child's old bike and rough grass), through the heady days of Beatlemania (where there is a 6ft glass sun).
Then it's on to the singer-songwriter's more mature years (represented by ferns and silver birches), and, finally, to his spiritual life, represented by a white Indian pavilion.
From the age of 27, Harrison devoted much of his time to landscaping the 35 acres surrounding Friar Park, a 12-room neo-Gothic Victorian pile outside Henley-upon-Thames. But he first gained his love for making things grow on his father's allotment in Liverpool.
"Sometimes George would see that something he'd planted in one place suddenly sprang up in another instead," says American-born Olivia, 59. "He'd always be amused at this confirmation that he was facilitating nature rather than controlling it.
"I feel that George has been by my side as I've worked on this project," adds Olivia, who worked on the garden with designer Yvonne Innes (it has been sponsored by Harrison's Material World Charitable Foundation). "I've learned a lot about the English from their gardens. No matter how small the patch of ground they have, people take great pride in making it beautiful."
Harrison married Olivia, his second wife, in 1978, and they had a son, Dhani, now 29 and himself a musician.
After being diagnosed with cancer in 1997, Harrison had growths removed from his throat and lung, but in 2001, his cancer returned and was diagnosed as terminal. Towards the end of his life, the garden gave him great comfort.
"I know he would have loved nothing better than for a garden to be created in his name," says Olivia, "although he always fought shy of things being about him.
"We spent so many years together working on the garden at Friar Park that I know which plants he would and wouldn't like and how he would want them to be planted. We've taken elements of the garden he created at home and brought them here and I think it really captures something of George's essence. I hope visitors to Chelsea will enjoy it."

You can view a panoramic image of the garden at the bottom of this page:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/ma … sea360.xml

Well Said!

moi aussi,
BJJ

Oh my.  I have white feather stories. 

  Libby 

Two beers Lynn? You cutting back??

OK....guardian angel thred coming up.

Ok the tricky thing is the "quiet spot" part.  Maybe one day that'll happen! 

Mom's ok, she'll just need to make some adjustments in her life as she will need to be in a wheel chair, but it could be MUCH worse.  Thanks for asking, Geoff, that means a lot. 

I'll work on that for sure, Geoff.  How's the new job going?

I have to laugh as I write this....I just got laid off again. Twice in one year! Well, I always said that I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life so I suppose I better make my mind up pretty quick. This is becoming a habit.