Lola

This has been a sad day. My friend and partner in music2work2 has lost Lola, one of his dogs. She had an illness from which she could not recover. She was a sweet, loving little dog. I know she was a source of joy for her family and they loved her very much. Caring about people, having friends, means that when they are hurting, you hurt also. It is a helpless feeling to watch friends in pain from a loss, knowing that no words or acts can make the hurt go away. You just hope that their knowing that you care about them and share their pain will somehow help a little.

When I lost my dog, Cassie, about 6 months ago, Andrew gave me the wonderful gift of a piece of music written just for her. I don't have the ability to do anything like that for him; I can only send him and his family love and wishes for comfort and strength during this time of loss.

Hope for more productive days

You know the kind of day that, when it's over, you realize you were busy all day; you are tired; but you can't see a lot of accomplishments to make you feel good about your day. That is the day that I have had. I was able to work on MySpace.com for music2work2 a little but most of my time was spent "putting out fires." The organization I do volunteer work for seemed to be confronted with one problem after another. Maybe it's the time of year, maybe it's the weather - - whatever it is that causes all the problems to occur at one time has certainly been in full force for the past few days.

I suppose all I can do is hope for calmer, less frustrating, more productive days ahead.

A quick note -

Things are coming along with music2work2 - I am still looking for friends on MySpace.com; there will be some new music available on music2work2 in the near future; and we are still having new people register on the web site. If I had written this earlier in the day, it might have been a longer blog. At the present time, I am dealing with a migraine, so just wanted to write a quick note to say that all is going well. Hopefully, I can do a better job with this tomorrow.