Just Me, My Needle and Live 365

What a great day! Started the morning with room service breakfast...don't you just love the decandence of it all? Was going to start on some surface design but have to lecture tonight so thought better of it. Instead, got out some sections from the new leaf design and decided to sew. Immediately, the whole world looked brighter...and am up for tonight.

Like many of us on the ring, the news aggitates me to no end....so turned my laptop to www.live365.com

This is a wonderful internet radio station that has music and what they call spoken word. Under spoken word, they play old radio shows....especially my favorite the old time mysteries, Sam Spade, Inner Sanctum and many more. Makes me feel like a little girl sitting on my grandfather's lap listening intently and imagining. That's the problem for me with television...nothing is left to the imagination. I can picture Sam Spade as Humphrey Bogart or Howard Duff, who usually is the voice of Sam. Kinda makes me wonder if we shouldn't get our children and grandchildren to sit around the computer and listen, like I used to sit in front of the radio, writing and drawing. Now this certainly dates me, but we didn't get a tv until I was 5 years old....so I really remember the radio shows. Even after tv first went on the air, radio was still going strong. It took several years for tv to rule the airways.

Kinda makes you wonder if our imaginations are being truncated by having everything shown to us...leaving nothing to wonder about. This is the reason that reading is so important....it sparks the imagination in the same way...through visualization.

So here I sit until 4 p.m. when it will be time to get dressed for the lecture, needle in hand and wondering how Sam is going to get out of the jam he has managed to get into this time. Low tech meets high tech in the most delightful way.