Rob Dougan -  Nothing at all lyrics…..

I wanna be still
I wanna walk into your grave
Where I can shelter in peace
Until all our cares have blown away,yeah

Let the whole world fall away
And fall into my arms
Stay with me,I don´t know how long we´ve got left
And so I´m asking you to forgive me

I learn as I go
To float far away into silence and just watch your face
And find some kind of grace
In that quiet bliss

Can I stay
And say nothing at all,at all?

Where will we go when we get old?
When the bustle and the noise get too frightening
When each and every angry word
Is banished to the past

That´s when I think we´ll learn as we go
To float far away into silence and I´ll watch your face
And find patience and grace
In each line there

Work each day
All for nothing at all,at all
And the few words I say
They mean nothing at all,at all

Will you walk into the grave with me?
Will you leave this empty world soft and wistful?
To sink into the dark,dark earth
And never reappear would be blissful

To float far away into eternal space
And God´s silence where I´ll watch your face
And find patience and grace
In each line there

Drift away
Into nothing at all,at all
Find the grace
To be nothing at all,at all
Fade away
And end up nothing at all,at all,at all,at all

Daphne Cochran-Shapiro is an Author & Poet, Designer & Crafter, and Entrepreneur who specializes in working with folks needing design assistance. My goal is to empower you to be the best you can be in ALL your endeavors. I invite you to browse my sites and share your comments on my works!

who passed on June 16th…and I can barely think on that…he loved this song…

Graceland

The Mississippi Delta was shining

Like a National guitar

I am following the river

Down the highway

Through the cradle of the civil war

I’m going to Graceland

Graceland

In Memphis Tennessee

I’m going to Graceland

Poorboys and Pilgrims with families

And we are going to Graceland

My traveling companion is nine years old

He is the child of my first marriage

But I’ve reason to believe

We both will be received

In Graceland

She comes back to tell me she’s gone

As if I didn’t know that

As if I didn’t know my own bed

As if I’d never noticed

The way she brushed her hair from her forehead

And she said losing love

Is like a window in your heart

Everybody sees you’re blown apart

Everybody sees the wind blow

I’m going to Graceland

Memphis Tennessee

I’m going to Graceland

Poorboys and Pilgrims with families

And we are going to Graceland

And my traveling companions

Are ghosts and empty sockets

I’m looking at ghosts and empties

But I’ve reason to believe

We all will be received

In Graceland

There is a girl in New York City

Who calls herself the human trampoline

And sometimes when I’m falling, flying

Or tumbling in turmoil I say

Oh, so this is what she means

She means we’re bouncing into Graceland

And I see losing love

Is like a window in your heart

Everybody sees you’re blown apart

Everybody feels the wind blow

In Graceland, in Graceland

I’m going to Graceland

For reasons I cannot explain

There’s some part of me wants to see

Graceland

And I may be obliged to defend

Every love, every ending

Or maybe there’s no obligations now

Maybe I’ve a reason to believe

We all will be received

In Graceland

his memorial…*sigh*…I’m blown apart….

Daphne Cochran-Shapiro is an Author & Poet, Designer & Crafter, and Entrepreneur who specializes in working with folks needing design assistance. My goal is to empower you to be the best you can be in ALL your endeavors. I invite you to browse my sites and share your comments on my works!

Daphne Cochran-Shapiro is an Author & Poet, Designer & Crafter, and Entrepreneur who specializes in working with folks needing design assistance. My goal is to empower you to be the best you can be in ALL your endeavors. I invite you to browse my sites and share your comments on my works!

First of all, Happy Holidays to those celebrating! Though I haven’t posted of late here, there has been lots going on in my life, both business and personal.

On the biz front, I’ve been doing some work for a few clients through Virtual Genie. I’m also busy re-vamping Celestial Realms which has been on the backburner for some time. Blue Rose Bookstore has been keeping us busy with customer orders and our new custom products available via Zazzle. Feel free to check out our designs – click here!

On the personal front, I’ve been fighting a nasty little cold I caught from my son (who should be getting a place with his buddies soon. yay!). Not to mention fighting it while working up at Disney with hubby. *blech* But we got back home safely and I had a few days in bed to recuperate and rest, watching football and NetFlix movies. I figure another day or two should put me back to full health. Oh! And my torn arm muscle is almost 100% healed so I’ll be getting back to working out. I definitely miss my workouts! And I’ll be tickled pink to lose the pounds I’ve gained in the past few months *groan*. Hopefully, no more injuries will interfere with my weight loss plans which have been so sidetracked.

For a while I was pretty busy with a new neighborhood, the Caribbean, over in AncientWorlds. Something I’ve got to get back to and finish up. Next on the list is designing and finishing the Boriken hood. ImagineDome is still providing fantasy lit info as I can get around to posting it.

Our old car about bit the dust, so we had to spend lots of time looking for a replacement. So far, we’re very happy with our Suzuki XL-7!

The holiday madness hasn’t hit too badly here, but then most of the family isn’t located nearby. Our baby Christmas tree is up, new wreath made from Michael’s items is out front, purple lights up outside around the front door, and a few decorations around the house. Not too much, but enough to spur a bit of the old holiday feeling.

Lastly, I hope to get back to my writing and finishing my cross-stitch project now that things are pretty much set for the holidays and I’m caught up from being out of town. As always, there’s something going on or planned for the near future to keep me busy and creative. *grin*

Enjoy the holidays, spread joy, share love….and be at peace within!

Daphne Cochran-Shapiro is an Author & Poet, Designer & Crafter, and Entrepreneur who specializes in working with folks needing design assistance. My goal is to empower you to be the best you can be in ALL your endeavors. I invite you to browse my sites and share your comments on my works!

Its been an incredibly busy time over the past couple of months!!

The holiday rush, three trips out of town to work at Disney in Orlando, a family illness, and dealing with upheavals in my children’s lives are only the tip of the iceberg.

Between all that, I’ve also done quite a lot of posting at my fantasy literature site, ImagineDome.  In addition to the posts, I’ve also created a genealogy section using phpGedView, the Genealogy Compendium, to trace the family lineages in the fantasy books I’ve posted about. And, to spark my writing muse, I took the plunge and installed the Xoops and Yogurt CMS platforms to create the Writers Dome, an online community for writers.

The learning curve has been extremely steep considering all the new stuff I’ve been cramming into my mind!

I’ve got two or three other projects that I’ve been brainstorming on….but announcements and updates on those will have to wait till they evolve a bit more.

When I can sneak in some leisure time (not too too often! hah!), I have entered the strange world of golfing…that’s because I bought my hubby a new Xbox360 for Christmas and, since he loves golf, I bought him the Tiger Woods ’07 golf game. I haven’t played too shabby (my drives down the fairway are rather inconsistent), and have even managed 3 holes in one! Yeah!

My Christmas gift turned out to be a Casio electronic keyboard (woohoo!), which I’ve been puttering with in conjunction with using Magix Music Maker. As a passionate music lover, I particularly enjoy composing new tunes, though I’ve yet to learn how to master the tracks.

Lastly, but certainly not least, I’ve re-committed myself to my SparkPeople weight loss and fitness plans. So, in the mornings you can find me hanging in there as user DaphneCS. Hubby and I have had some good tennis sessions and have begun to take walks again. Next is the possibility of getting into P90X….but that’s something I’m still contemplating.

There you go—the latest and greatest from my neck of the woods! I haven’t disappeared by any means, just been a busy, busy lady. And all this right before I turn the big 5-0 birthday on 2/10!! Wowsers!

I hope all is going well with you in your world and that the days are full of peace and joy—

Daphne Cochran-Shapiro is an Author & Poet, Designer & Crafter, and Entrepreneur who specializes in working with folks needing design assistance. My goal is to empower you to be the best you can be in ALL your endeavors. I invite you to browse my sites and share your comments on my works!