Slow Dance ... What A Great Lesson From A Loving Young Soul

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I received this touching piece from my good friend Neiro DeRubeis


Slow

Dance

This

is a poem

written by a teenager with cancer.

She wants to

see how many

people get her poem.

It is quite the poem

Please pass it

on.

This

poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a

New York

Hospital.

It was sent

by

a medical doctor -

Make sure to read what is in the closing statement

AFTER THE

POEM.

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SLOW DANCE

Have you ever

watched

kids

On a merry-go-round?

Or listened to

the

rain

Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a

butterfly's erratic flight?

Or gazed at the sun into the

fading

night?

You better slow down.

Don't

dance so

fast.

Time is short.

The music

won't

last.

Do you run through each day

On

the

fly?

When you ask How are you?

Do you hear

the

reply?

When the day is done

Do you lie

in your

bed

With the next hundred chores

Running through

your head?

You'd better

slow down

Don't dance so

fast.

Time is

short.

The music won't

last.

Ever told your

child,

We'll do it

tomorrow?

And in your

haste,

Not see

his

sorrow?

Ever lost

touch,

Let a good

friendship die

Cause you

never had time

To call

and say,'Hi'

You'd

better slow down.

Don't dance

so fast.

Time

is short.

The music won't

last..

When you run

so fast to get somewhere

You

miss half the fun of getting

there.

When you worry and hurry

through your

day,

It is like an unopened

gift....

Thrown

away.

Life is not a

race.

Do take it

slower

Hear the

music

Before the song is

over.

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FOR WARD ED

E-MAILS ARE TRACKED TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL

COUNT.

Dear All:

PLEASE pass this mail on to everyone you know -

even to those you don't

know! It is the request of a special girl who will soon

leave this world

due to cancer.

This young girl has 6 months left

to live,

and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to

live their life to the fullest, since she never will.

She'll

never make it to prom, graduate from high school,

or get married and have a

family of her own.

By you sending

this to as many people as

possible, you can give her and her family a

little hope, because with every name

that this is sent to, The American

Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per name

to her treatment and recovery

plan. One guy sent this to 500 people! So I know

that we can at least send

it to 5 or 6. It's

not even your money, just

your

time!

PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST.

10462

Alden B. Dow Home And Studio -- What A Treat To Visit

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The afternoon of February 9th Martin and I visited the Alden B. Dow Home and Studio ... it was marvelous.  Words can hardly do justice to the experience, so let me have some of pictures that I gathered do the talking.

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National Historic Landmark In Midland Michigan

Craig McDonald -- Director

Beth Todd -- Office Manager

Marilyn Soules -- Tour Guide

(all so helpful and source of all the great information)

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Some of the fun facts I learned about Alden Dow and about his Home and Studio:

• The Home and Studio is 20,000 square feet or roughly 1,858 square meters.
• Alden Dow loved to ice skate (on his own pond).
• Chocolate was a favorite treat of Alden Dow.
• Yes, there are fish, frogs and turtles in the pond.
• Vada Dow was the eldest of the eight Bennett children.
• Alden Dow designed a fur-covered house AND had a patent on it.
• Alden Dow designed his own clothes.
• Alden Dow and Frank Lloyd Wright had a life-long friendship.
• Frank Lloyd Wright never came (although invited) to the Studio.
• Alden Dow’s favorite composer was Beethoven.
• The Dows always had dogs in their home.
• The Floating Conference Room has never flooded in its 74 years.
• Alden Dow played the violin.
• Alden Dow made over 300 movies on nature, family, architecture, and much more.
• Alden Dow played football for Midland High School.
• Alden Dow had the first go-cart in Midland…it was bright red.
• Alden Dow enjoyed Harpo Marx, a favorite costume of his for Halloween.
• Alden Dow loved cameras, mechanical toys and model trains.

Oh there is so much more to learn about Alden Dow and all that he did -- I would especially lean more about the various types of blocks that he used, and how fun loving he was, his love of nature, and that he could find beauty in simplest of things -- WOW!

Visiting With Martin Anand -- Tournament Racquet Stringer At The 2012 Dow Corning Tennis Classic -- A USTA Pro Circuit Event

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I was in Midland on February 9th where I visited with Martin at the Midland Community Center in the morning ... it was just beautiful. Here I present some pictures I took ...

Then in the afternoon, Martin and I visited the Historic Alden B Dow House ... I will write about that in another post.

Neha's Dance Performance

In my blog post Dinner On Christmas Day At Rajeshwari and Sundaram's Place I had posted two videos of Neha's dance performance ... however on clicking on each video to play, a message pops up about buffering and the video doesn't play. So let me send you to my

photos at Google+ 

and in fact let me give you a 1-click link that will take you directly to

Neha's Dance Performance video

Enjoy!

Newly Wed Bhushan and Neha's Reception Party At Farmington Hills Manor In Michigan

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A Great Party For The Beautiful Couple
Neha and Bhushan
Let Me Have The Following Pictures Do The Talking

Wishing Neha And Bhushan All The Very Best!

Love

Yogi