Like a lot of folks - we own an IPOD, and I keep ours on 'shuffle' - always amusing to hear a song by Ozzy followed up by the Benedictine Monks only to get Willie Nelson next.

Routine has us waking up, easing (and I do MEAN easing) into the day - first the coffee pot and then the Ipod shuffle and then the laptop...."so what?"  right ...lol

This morning the IPOD took us to Neil Diamond - don't know which album but it didn't matter - Neil Diamond always takes my mind to Earlyne Margaret Lorbetske.  Aunt Earlyne 'loved' Neil Diamond - albeit she indeed had LOTS of 'loves'.

Anyone who ever visited Aunt Earlyne's house in Huntsville Alabama soon came to realize that she had a passion for lots of things - did I say LOTS of things.  Aunt Earlyne didn't just casually do anything - she absorbed it, she lived it, she loved it.

So thanks to my IPOD and your shuffle for making me reflect, if even briefly, on one of my favorite people.

Going to give this a shot - hopefully I can stick with it.  My intention is to try and post a little more detail than a facebook post.  Also I would like to relate anecdotal items - funny, interesting and no doubt some sad stories.  We shall see how it goes