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May 11

What to Eat? Hmmm

Can't eat pork,

Swine flu...

Can't eat chicken,

Bird flu.

Can't eat Beef,

Mad cow....

Can't eat eggs,

Salmonella.

Can't eat fish,

heavy metal poisons in their waters.

Can't eat fruits and veggies,

insecticides and herbicides.

Hmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I believe that leaves Chocolate and ice cream!!!!!!!!

Remember - - - 'STRESSED'

spelled backwards! is

'DESSERTS'

Hope you enjoyed!

Mr. Joe

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May 07

Tater's on you- A joke

Girl Potato and Boy Potato had eyes for each other, and finally they got married, and had a little sweet potato, which they called ‘Yam’.

Of course, they wanted the best for Yam.

When it was time, they told her about the facts of life.

They warned her about going out and getting half-baked, so she wouldn’t accidentally get mashed, and get a bad name for herself like ‘Hot Potato’, and end up with a bunch of Tater Tots.

Yam said, not to worry, that no Spud would get her into the sack and make a rotten potato out of her!

But on the other hand she wouldn’t stay home and become a Couch Potato either.

She would get plenty of exercise so as not to be too skinny like her Shoestring cousins.

When she went off to Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Potato told Yam to watch out for the hard-boiled guys from Ireland and the greasy guys from France called The French Fries.

And when she went out west, to watch out for the Indians so she wouldn’t get scalloped.

Yam said she would stay on the straight and narrow and wouldn’t associate with those high-class Yukon Golds, or the ones from the other side of the tracks who advertise their trade on all the trucks that say ‘Frito Lay’.

Mr. and Mrs. Potato sent Yam to Idaho P.U.
(that’s Potato University) so that when she graduated she’d really be in the chips.

But in spite of all they did for her, one day Yam came home and announced she was going to marry Tom Brokaw.

Tom Brokaw?!

Mr. and Mrs. Potato were very upset.

They told Yam she couldn’t possibly marry Tom Brokaw because he’s just....

Are you ready for this?

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Are you sure?

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Okay, here it is!

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A COMMONTATER

Not all who wander are lost...

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March 11

The World Voice Project is seeking photos and stories about you!

The World Voice Project is seeking photos and stories about you! We are putting the call out for funny, artistic, natural, sexy, and creative photos/stories to have the chance at being published in the next internationally released book “World Voice: Inspiring a Conscious Signature”. Contact for more info and submissions balanceheart@hotmail.com. Thanks for reading this and please pass it on!

Joseph

Check out my website www.squidoo.com/Santiagoinc

http://twitter.com/World_Voice

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March 01

2009 Playboy Bunny Calendar!

Hope you’ve enjoyed! :>

Mr. Joe

Check out my website www.Santiago-inc.com

Stay up to date with projects I am working on, my thoughts on life, and things that simply fall out of my head and go "Thunk"... This is my personal blog where I try to keep in touch with people, listen to me ramble, share my reviews, and join me in collaboration in future projects. Listen to my podcast from this link. http://podcasts.odiogo.com/mr-joe/podcasts-html.php

February 28

I joined Twitter today... Follow me!

Joseph asks you to follow him on Titter http://twitter.com/World_Voice

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February 25

Press Release for World Voice Connected Communities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Linking Readers and Writers through Shared Experiences

Santiago, Inc. Publishing presents its latest book in the World Voice series: “Connected Communities”

(Westerly, RI, February 2009) – With his third book in the World Voice series (World Voice: Connected Communities) Joseph Santiago has created a setting where the reader will be inspired to reflect on what connects various peoples of the world.

In Joseph’s own words, “Too often, people today are depicted simply as economic trends and statistics. People are far more complex than numbers and there are times when we all feel that no one is listening to us, and no one understands us. In sharing the sorrowful joy and the joyful sorrow of our lives as engaged people we begin to see ourselves in the lives of one another.”

World Voice: Connected Communities is a cultural exchange where writers from around the globe share their lives, passions, poetry, stories, spiritual pilgrimages, and their own humanity, while becoming part of the historical record of a burgeoning global society. The World Voice book series has the goal of fostering communication and commonality of all people across borders. This compelling collection of work illustrates the commitment and spirit of collaboration that can bring individuals together to improve the quality of one life at a time with the intention to touch the whole world.

World Voice: Connected Communities began as an independent thanatology study in China and it quickly grew from the life that its many authors have breathed into it. Thanatology is the study of how we deal with loss in our lives and how we refocus back on what matters to us in life. One unique element to World Voice: Connected Communities is that it invites readers to become writers by responding to what moves them and thereby continuing an honest global conversation that has a shot at being published and includes the entire world.

We at Santiago Inc. invite you to share your voice and leave your mark by submitting your piece for the next volume. “We are a community within your community. In sharing what truly matters to you, you will learn that you are not alone.” See contact information below.

Link to Publication*: http://www.lulu.com/content/4764038

ISBN 978-0-578-00030-5

AUTHOR

Joseph A Santiago is a business owner, and has a professional background in coaching. Mr. Santiago is currently working on his doctorate through Walden University.

Joseph A Santiago created World Voice: Connected Communities after realizing that the most meaningful aspects of life are often not easily or readily talked about. He hopes readers will pick up his book with a desire to recognize the core values we all share, such as the need for contribution and the desire to meaningfully connect with another. World Voice: Connected Communities is available for purchase at Lulu.com and all bookstores online or near you.

Santiago, Inc. would like to thank the sponsors of World Voice: Connected Communities.

Robert Leuci: Mentoring, Coaching, and Editing for Writers.

Robertleuci@aol.com

bluesteelhead: Your source for the latest fishing information!

www.bluesteelhead.com

Adele Travisan: Portraits, paintings, and charms.

www.adeletravisano.com

DO NO HARM: Making the world a kinder and gentler place.

www.donoharm.us

CONTACT:

Joseph A Santiago, President - balanceheart@hotmail.com

Kelvin Burroughs, Dir. Product Development - kelvinB@santiago-inc.com

Santiago Inc. Publishing, www.Santiago-inc.com

BUBBA HAS A QUESTION

Down south, Bubba called his attorney and asked, 'Is It true theys suin them cigarette companies fer causin people to git cancer?'

'Yes, Bubba, sure is true,' responded the lawyer.

'And now someone is suin them fast food restaurants fer makin them fat an cloggin their arteries with all them burgers
An fries, is that true, Mista Lawyer?'

'Sure is, Bubba.'

'And that lady sued McDonalds for millions when she was gave that hot coffee that she ordered?'

'Yep.'

'And that football player sued that university when he graduaided and still couldn't read?'

'That's right,' said the lawyer.'
'But why are you asking?'

'Well, I was thinkin...

What I want to know is, kin I sue Budweiser fer all them ugly women I slept with?'

Hope you’ve enjoyed! :>

Mr. Joe

Check out my website www.Santiago-inc.com

Stay up to date with projects I am working on, my thoughts on life, and things that simply fall out of my head and go "Thunk"... This is my personal blog where I try to keep in touch with people, listen to me ramble, share my reviews, and join me in collaboration in future projects. Listen to my podcast from this link. http://podcasts.odiogo.com/mr-joe/podcasts-html.php

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February 22

How can you tell this table is being sold by a man?

How can you tell this table is being sold by a man? And don't cheat either!!

It's not hard!!

This
table was for sale on eBay.
How can you tell it is being sold by a
man?
Can you solve this little riddle?
First look and guess.

You will find the answer below, but don't cheat!

Know the
answer? If not, scroll down now.....

OK,
Look in the mirror.
Remember, if you are posting a picture on the
world-wide web, WEAR CLOTHES when taking the picture.
I NEVER
LAUGHED SO HARD...AND IT WAS POSTED ON eBay!!!

Hope you’ve enjoyed! :>

Mr. Joe

Check out my website www.Santiago-inc.com

Stay up to date with projects I am working on, my thoughts on life, and things that simply fall out of my head and go "Thunk"... This is my personal blog where I try to keep in touch with people, listen to me ramble, share my reviews, and join me in collaboration in future projects. Listen to my podcast from this link. http://podcasts.odiogo.com/mr-joe/podcasts-html.php

February 20

A call to writers, artists, and photographers- Opportunity to be internationally published!

*! ATTENTION ALL WRITERS !*

HERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO PUBLISH YOUR WORK IN AN ONGOING SERIES OF BOOKS CALLED WORLD VOICE .

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WE ARE LOOKING FOR EXPERIENCED AND AMATEUR WRITERS ALIKE. THE AIM OF THIS PROJECT IS TO CONTINUE A WRITTEN EXPRESSION OF WHAT IS FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

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SHARE YOUR STORY.

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WRITE ABOUT YOUR LIFE.

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WHATS REALLY MATTERS TO YOU?

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HAVE A PERSONAL JOURNAL? SUBMIT IT!

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Examples of submissions are essays, poetry, biographies, creative writings, photographs of your original art, and photographs. Please email the coordinating author Joseph A Santiago for more details and an online submission form.

BALANCEHEART@HOTMAIL.COM.

To check out books published under the World Voice theme go to www.Amazon.com and search for World Voice: Connected Communities.

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February 17

A story of a love bug

The California Highway Patrol in the Los Angeles area recently found some amusement filling out accident reports in a series of car accidents. As it turned out, drivers were losing control and running into other vehicles upon seeing a giant woman's pubis displayed on the front part of an oncoming car.

The CHP started frantically looking for the dangerous pubis and came upon the tracks of a young hairdresser named Nelly Node. Nelly's passion for the arts made the young woman photograph her own crotch and put the zoomed picture on her Volkswagen Beetle. Nelly decided to use such a shameless method to prepare her college course work in which she analyzed the art of design. The witty student's idea worked for the college professors.

She was proudly driving her 'pubic beetle' until the CHP arrested the woman. The court ruled that Nelly's car was creating a dangerous situation on the roads. She had to paint over her car's hood.

Here's a picture of her VW before she had to repaint it.

You don't suppose the other drivers were driving along saying 'Twat was that??'

And was she charged with pubic indecency?
It's a good thing she was picked up by the fuzz...

I'll stop the cracks now.

Hope you’ve enjoyed! :>

Mr. Joe

Check out my website www.Santiago-inc.com

Stay up to date with projects I am working on, my thoughts on life, and things that simply fall out of my head and go "Thunk"... This is my personal blog where I try to keep in touch with people, listen to me ramble, share my reviews, and join me in collaboration in future projects. Listen to my podcast from this link. http://podcasts.odiogo.com/mr-joe/podcasts-html.php

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February 15

Happy Valentine's day!

Happy Valentine's day!

Never take for granted every person close to your heart because you might wake up one day and realize that you have lost a diamond because you were too busy collecting stones.

Hope you’ve enjoyed! :>

Mr. Joe

Check out my website www.Santiago-inc.com

Stay up to date with projects I am working on, my thoughts on life, and things that simply fall out of my head and go "Thunk"... This is my personal blog where I try to keep in touch with people, listen to me ramble, share my reviews, and join me in collaboration in future projects. Listen to my podcast from this link. http://podcasts.odiogo.com/mr-joe/podcasts-html.php

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February 01

Staying Young

Stay Young

We all need to read this one over and over until it becomes part of who we are!

HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Try everything twice.

On one woman's tombstone she said she wanted this epitaph:

"Tried everything twice.loved it both times!"

2. Keep only cheerful friends.

The grouches pull you down.

(Keep this in mind if you are one of those grouches!)

3. Keep learning:

Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever.

Never let the brain get idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.'

And the devil's name is Alzheimer's!

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud.

Laugh until you gasp for breath.

And if you have a friend who makes you laugh,

spend lots and lots of time with HIM/HER.

6. The tears happen:

Endure, grieve, and move on.

The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves.

LIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love:

Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health:

If it is good, preserve it.

If it is unstable, improve it.

If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips.

Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county,

to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

I love you, my special friend.

11. Forgive now those who made you cry. You might not get a second chance.

And if you don't send this to at least 4 people - who cares?

But do share this with someone.

Remember! Lost time can never be found.

Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.

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January 25

Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures

Astronomers Select Top Ten Most Amazing Pictures Taken by Hubble Space Telescope in Last 16 Years
'...they illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange, but also almost impossibly beautiful.'

After correcting an initial problem with the lens, when the Hubble Space Telescope was first launched in 1990, the floating astro-observatory began to relay back to Earth, incredible snapshots of the 'final frontier' it was perusing.
Recently, astronauts voted on the top photographs taken by Hubble, in its 16-year journey so far. Remarking in the article from the Daily Mail, reporter Michael Hanlon says the photos 'illustrate that our universe is not only deeply strange, but also almost impossibly beautiful.'
Enjoy!
Hubble Telescope's top ten greatest space photographs. Awesome!!!

The Sombrero Galaxy - 28 million light years from Earth - was voted best picture taken by the Hubble telescope. The dimensions of the galaxy, officially called M104, are as spectacular as its appearance It has 800 billion suns and is 50,000 light years across.

The Ant Nebula, a cloud of dust and gas whose technical name is Mz3, resembles an ant when observed using ground-based telescopes... The nebula lies within our galaxy between 3,000 and 6,000 light years from Earth.

In third place is Nebula NGC 2392, called 'Eskimo' because it looks like a face surround ed by a furry hood. The hood is, in fact, a ring of comet-shaped objects flying away from a dying star. Eskimo is 5,000 light years from Earth.

At four is the Cat's Eye Nebula.

The Hourglass Nebula, 8,000 light years away, has a 'pinched-in-the-middle' look because the winds that shape it are weaker at the centre.

In sixth place is the Cone Nebula. The part pictured here is 2.5 light years in length (the equivalent of 23 million return trips to the Moon).

The Perfect Storm, a small region in the Swan Nebula, 5,500 light years away, described as 'a bubbly ocean of hydrogen and small amounts of oxygen, sulphur and other elements'.

Starry Night, so named because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting. It is a halo of light around a star in the Milky Way.

The glowering eyes from 114 million light years away are the swirling cores of two merging galaxies called NGC 2207 and IC 2163 in the distant Canis Major constellation.

The Trifid Nebula. A 'stellar nursery', 9,000 light years from here, it is where new stars are being born.
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The end....you have just seen the Top 10 Hubbel Pictures!!!
Share with someone!!!!!

Hope you’ve enjoyed! :>

Mr. Joe

Check out my website www.Santiago-inc.com

Stay up to date with projects I am working on, my thoughts on life, and things that simply fall out of my head and go "Thunk"... This is my personal blog where I try to keep in touch with people, listen to me ramble, share my reviews, and join me in collaboration in future projects. Listen to my podcast from this link. http://podcasts.odiogo.com/mr-joe/podcasts-html.php

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January 18

Money we can all expect to see

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Hope you’ve enjoyed! :>

Mr. Joe

Check out my website www.Santiago-inc.com

Stay up to date with projects I am working on, my thoughts on life, and things that simply fall out of my head and go "Thunk"... This is my personal blog where I try to keep in touch with people, listen to me ramble, share my reviews, and join me in collaboration in future projects. Listen to my podcast from this link. http://podcasts.odiogo.com/mr-joe/podcasts-html.php

January 17

Want a chance to have your photos and so much more published?

I am looking for photos, audio recordings, video, opinions, rants, stories, poetry, and secret musings. All submissions must be original works, and you must be the creator holding all rights associated to your submitted work. The photos and stories will have a chance of being used in My Post Bush American Life, or The World Voice series of books.

My Bush American Life is a personal bibliotherapy where I record life and my thoughts as it happens. I intend it to be an entertaining approach to adding to the historical record of the times as well as an opportunity to look through my younger self’s eyes. I welcome listener collaboration as we go through this process and life together. This project is an invitation to step into another’s shoes and be a part of this life by association. Your purchase makes it possible to continue work that touches people’s lives. Please check out the World Voice Connected Communities for more info. www.Santiago-inc.com

The current World Voice book will be available worldwide in approx 4 weeks, but you can grab your advanced copy of it at www.Santiago-inc.com. The Next World Voice book is accepting submissions but it has not officially announced the call for papers.

If you haven’t heard of the World Voice project before here is your chance to learn about the current volume World Voice: Connected Communities.

There are times when we all feel that no one is listening to us, and no one understands us. In sharing the sorrowful joy and the joyful sorrow of our lives as engaged people we begin to see ourselves in the lives of one another. World Voice: Connected Communities is a snap shot of a small space in time and a select few people that now know "We" are listening. Writers from around the globe share their lives, passions, poetry, stories, spiritual pilgrimages, and their own humanity, while becoming part of the historical record of a burgeoning global society. The World Voice book series has the goal of fostering communication and commonality of all people across borders. In supporting the World Voice series you are making a difference in people’s lives by taking part in creating a community where neighbors might become friends, and all people can connect meaningfully to improve the quality of one life at a time with the intention to touch the whole world. So take your place, take a chance, and leave your mark.

If you’re interested in sharing your photos and your voice please send an email to balanceheart@hotmail.com and put in the title line “Info on Sharing my Photo/Voice”

Please attach the materials you would like to send and you will receive a release from us. We will not use your submissions unless you sign the release! At that point we will let you know if your submissions can be used and published in one or more projects. If your sending photos you may wish to consider sending along a text file with them as the audience will not have access to the release form. Good luck and I look forward to meeting you.

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January 12

Going to this on Wed night anyone want to join me?

Hillel to bring the Afro-Semitic Experience to URI, Jan. 28-29, 2009

Media Contact: Jhodi Redlich, 401-874-2116KINGSTON, RI -- January 9, 2009 -- In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. week at the University of Rhode Island, Hillel - The Jewish Student Center will present The Afro-Semitic Experience, a jazz ensemble of Jewish and African-American musicians, in a two-day residency, January 28-29, 2009. This presentation is in association with the URI Multicultural Center and the Jazz Music Program.

The Afro-Semitic Experience will perform on Thursday, Jan. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the URI Fine Arts Concert Hall, 105 Upper College Rd., Kingston, RI. Tickets are $3 for students and $10 for the general public and may be reserved by calling 401-874-2740 or emailing hillel@urihillel.org. Tickets may also be purchased at the door by cash or check.

In addition, members of The Afro-Semitic Experience will conduct a participatory workshop on Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 7:30 p.m. in the URI Multicultural Center Hardge Forum, 74 Lower College Rd., Kingston, RI. The workshop is free and open to the public.

Ensemble members also will be guest artists at the Music Department Convocation on Thursday, Jan. 29 from 12:30 - 2 p.m. in the Fine Arts Concert Hall. The Convocation is free and open to the public.

The Afro-Semitic Experience is dedicated to preserving, promoting and expanding the rich cultural and musical heritage of the Jewish and African diaspora. The band presents interpretations of music from the rich traditions of Gospel, Klezmer, Yoruban drumming, Nigunim (wordless Jewish chants), Spirituals, Funk and Swing. They transform the concert hall into a "whoopin', hollerin', testifyin' celebration of multicultural soul music." In concert, the band frames its music by telling stories about what the pieces mean, how they relate to individual members of a community, and how they reflect upon the relations between Blacks and Jews both as ethnic and religious communities.

The Thursday night concert will feature all six members of the band. At the Wednesday night workshop, David Chevan and Warren Byrd lead a discussion about race and interfaith dialogue and how music can serve as a bridge builder. Baba David Coleman will distribute a variety of African percussion instruments and engage the audience in a massive jam session while teaching them traditional rhythmic patterns and techniques. At the Convocation on Thursday afternoon, Chevan, Byrd and Coleman will teach the process of creating inter-cultural music as well as infusing spirituality into performance.

"I think it is wonderful that through this concert URI will play host to the sweet aspects of Black and Jewish cultures," said Robert Weisbord, URI professor of history and author of Bittersweet Encounter: The Afro-American and the American Jew.

Members of The Afro-Semitic Experience

Will Bartlett has thirty years of experience as a professional woodwind performer and educator. He has led saxophone master classes and workshops on jazz improvisation, jazz theory, arranging and composing for the small ensemble, and klezmer clarinet interpretation.

Warren Byrd is a pianist, composer, and vocalist with an extensive and eclectic background. He has led workshops in Jazz Composition and Theory, Jazz Piano, as well as Gospel Arranging and Composition, and Vocal Training.

Dr. David Chevan holds a Ph.D. in Musicology and specializes in the history and performance of jazz and Jewish music. He has experience teaching workshops on world and jazz improvisation, Jewish music, klezmer ensemble performance, music and spirituality.

Baba David Coleman is a Yoruban priest, African drummer, and African drum builder. He has studied with Baba Femi and continues to be a disciple of the legendary Chief Bey, the oldest African-American hand drummer.

Babafemi Alvin Carter, Jr. plays drum set, Afro-Caribbean percussion, and the drums of the West Afrikan djembe drum ensemble. He has developed an innovative and exciting workshop for merging Afro-Caribbean, West Afrikan and Klezmer drum styles with contemporary percussion patterns.

Stacy Phillips is a Grammy winning multi-stylistic steel guitarist and violinist. His Klezmer Collection was the first book of accurate transcriptions of early klezmer music.

The residency of the Afro-Semitic Experience is funded in part by the Jewish Federation of Rhode Island and the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies, URI College of Arts and Sciences and the URI Student Senate. The events are co-sponsored by the URI Student Affairs Diversity Committee, the URI Chaplains Association, the Bureau of Jewish Education and the Rhode Island Chapter of Hadassah.

For more information, please contact Amy Olson, Executive Director of URI Hillel at 401-874-2740 or amyolson@mail.uri.edu.

Hillel at the University of Rhode Island seeks to create artistic opportunities that illuminate the Jewish experience as well as build cultural bridges among campus groups of varying backgrounds.

January 09

What it takes to make you smile

This has been going since 1^st Dec, 2000.

Please send it on to someone who is a friend to you . . .

Always try to help a friend in need
Believe in yourself
Be brave...but it's ok to be afraid sometimes
Study hard
Give lots of kisses
Laugh often
Don't be overly concerned with your weight, it's just a number
Always try to see the glass half full
Meet new people, even if they look different to you
Remain calm, even when it seems hopeless
Take lots of naps..
Be weird whenever you have the chance
Love your friends, no matter who they are
Don't waste food
RELAX
Take an occasional risk
Try to have a little fun each day. ...it's important
Work together as a team
Share a joke with friends
Fall in love with someone..
...and say 'I love you' often
Express yourself creatively
Be conscious of your appearance
Always be up for surprises
Love someone with all of your heart
Share with friends
Watch your step
It will get better
There is always someone who loves you more than you know
Exercise to keep fit
Live up to your name
Seize the Moment
Hold on to good friends; they are few and far between
Indulge in the things you truly love
Cherish every Sunday
At the end of the day... PRAY
....... and close your eyes
And smile at least once a day!

As soon as you receive this email, send it to at least 10 people to brighten their day,
including the person that sent it to you. :)

Hope you’ve enjoyed! :>

Mr. Joe

Check out my website www.Santiago-inc.com

Stay up to date with projects I am working on, my thoughts on life, and things that simply fall out of my head and go "Thunk"... This is my personal blog where I try to keep in touch with people, listen to me ramble, share my reviews, and join me in collaboration in future projects. Listen to my podcast from this link. http://podcasts.odiogo.com/mr-joe/podcasts-html.php

January 06

A Moments Understanding

A Keeper

Their marriage was good, their dreams focused. Their best friends lived barely a wave away. I can see them now, Dad in trousers, work shirt and a hat; and Mom in a house dress, lawn mower in one hand, and dish-towel in the other. It was the time for fixing things: a curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress. Things we keep.

It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy. All that re-fixing, re-heating leftovers, renewing; I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste meant affluence. Throwing things away meant you knew there'd always be more.

But when my mother died, and I was standing in that clear morning light in the warmth of the hospital room, I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't any more.

Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away...never to return.. So... While we have it, it's best we love it.... And care for it... And fix it when it's broken.... And heal it when it's sick.

This is true: For marriage... And old cars... And children with bad report cards. Dogs and cats with bad hips... And aging parents... And grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it. Some things we keep, like a best friend who moved away or a classmate we grew up with.

There are just some things that make life important,
Like people we know who are special... And so, we keep them close!

Hope you’ve enjoyed! :>

Mr. Joe

Check out my website www.Santiago-inc.com

Stay up to date with projects I am working on, my thoughts on life, and things that simply fall out of my head and go "Thunk"... This is my personal blog where I try to keep in touch with people, listen to me ramble, share my reviews, and join me in collaboration in future projects. Listen to my podcast from this link. http://podcasts.odiogo.com/mr-joe/podcasts-html.php

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World Voice: Connected Communities goes global today!

World Voice: Connected Communities ISBN has been accepted by Bowker and listed in the Books In Print database.

ISBN: (978-0-578-00030-5}
Title: {World Voice: Connected Communities}
Publisher Name: {Santiago, Inc.}

That means the information on World Voice: Connected Communities is now available to all the companies in the book world that access Books In Print. (Trust us, that's a lot of companies.) Not to mention other major international databases that provide information and services up and down the book supply chain. All the way up, in fact, to places like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Ingram Book Company, Nielsen BookData in the UK and others!

You can expect to see the book listed on retail sites within the next six weeks, but remember that each bookseller controls its own process and when they take on new books.

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December 26

A Different Christmas Poem

A Different Christmas Poem

A Different Christmas Poem

The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light,
I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight.
My wife was asleep, her head on my chest,
My daughter beside me, angelic in rest.
Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white,
Transforming the yard to a winter delight.

The sparkling light s in the tree I believe,
Completed the magic that was Christmas Eve.
My eyelids were heavy, my breathing was deep,
Secure and surrounded by love I would sleep.
In perfect contentment, or so it would seem,
So I slumbered, perhaps I started to dream.

The sound wasn't loud, and it wasn't too near,
But I opened my eyes when it tickled my ear.
Perhaps just a cough, I didn't quite know, Then the
sure sound of footsteps outside in the snow.
My soul gave a tremble, I struggled to hear,
And I crept to the door just to see who was near.

Standing out in the cold and the dark of the night,
A lone figure stood, his face weary and tight.
A soldier, I puzzled, some twenty years old,
Perhaps a Marine, huddled here in the cold.
Alone in the dark, he looked up and smiled,
Standing watch over me, and my wife and my child.

'What are you doing?' I asked without fear,
'Come in this moment, it's freezing out here!
Put down your pack, brush the snow from your sleeve,
You should be at home on a cold Christmas Eve!'
For barely a moment I saw his eyes shift,
Away from the cold and the snow blown in drifts.

To the window that danced with a warm fire's light
Then he sighed and he said 'Its really all right,
I'm out here by choice. I'm here every night.'
'It's my duty to stand at the front of the line,
That separates you from the darkest of times.&nbs p;

No one had to ask or beg or implore me,
I'm proud to stand here like my fathers before me.
My Gramps died at ' Pearl on a day in December,'
Then he sighed, 'That's a Christmas 'Gram always remembers..'
My dad stood his watch in the jungles of ' Nam ',
And now it is my turn and so, here I am.

I've not seen my own son in more than a while,
But my wife sends me pictures, he's sure got her smile.
Then he bent and he carefully pulled from his bag,
The red, white, and blue... an American flag.
I can live through the cold and the being alone,
Away from my family, my house and my home.

I can stand at my post through the rain and the sleet,
I can sleep in a foxhole with little to eat.
I can carry the weight of killing another,
Or lay down my life with my sister and brother..
Who stand at the front against any and all,
To ensure for all time that this flag will not fall.'

' So go back inside,' he said, 'harbor no fright,
Your family is waiting and I'll be all right.'
'But isn't there something I can do, at the least,
'Give you money,' I asked, 'or prepare you a feast?
It seems all too little for all that you've done,
For being away from your wife and your son.'

Then his eye welled a tear that held no regret,
'Just tell us you love us, and never forget.
To fight for our rights back at home while we're gone,
To stand your own watch, no matter how long.
For when we come home, either standing or dead,
To know you remember we fought and we bled.
Is payment enough, and with that we will trust,
That we mattered to you as you mattered to us.'

PLEASE, would you do me the kind favor of sending this to as many
people as you can? Christmas will be coming soon and some credit is due to our
U.S service men and women for our being able to celebrate these
festivities. Let's try in this small way to pay a tiny bit of what we owe. Make people
stop and think of our heroes, living and dead, who sacrificed themselves for us.

LCDR Jeff Giles, SC, USN
30th Naval Construction Regiment
OIC, Logistics Cell One
Al Taqqadum, Iraq

Hope you’ve enjoyed! :>

Mr. Joe

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