Serendipity

Fence surround Wende Correctional Facility, Alden, NY As many of you know, my son: Shawn Campbell , is on a Journey to Justice  (the first of many blogs following his journey through the court system) to correct the wrongs that have been done to him...including imprisoning him for a crime he did not commit. However, since he is incarcerated in the meantime, he has asked me to write this blog to help get exposure for two online petitions and to push for prison reform in New York State. The S.A.F.E. [ Safe And Fair Evaluation of Parole Act] Parole Act " would amend New York’s existing parole statute,  Executive Law § 259-i."   As it stands now, inmates that go in front of the parole board may get denied several times, for issues that are out of his/her control...specifically: the Parole board looks at the crime committed; dis-allows any good behavior; the completion of necessary programs needed for their eventual release (if under a life sentence) IF available at th

Idle Thoughts Of A Wandering Mind:   I planted some bird seed.   A bird came up.   Now I don't know what to feed it   ********************   I had amnesia once---or twice   ********************   I went to San Francisco .   I found someone's heart. Now what?   ********************   Protons have mass?   I didn't even know they were Catholic.   ********************   All I ask is a chance to prove that money can't make me happy   ********************   If the world were a logical place,   Men would be the ones who ride horses sidesaddle.   ********************   What is a "free" gift?   Aren't all gifts free?   ********************   They told me I was gullible   And I believed them.   ********************   Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home   And, when he grows up,   He'll never be able to merge his car onto the freeway.   ********************   Experience is the thing you have left   When everything else is

The red squirrel I've named "Little Red" In the days that I have been absent from my blog, several things have happened, but the most exciting is that I have finally met our resident red squirrel. I knew we had one that visited the pines at the edge of the yard, but didn't realize that he lived 'local'!   My first photo of Little Red, about a week and a half ago, playing under some pines My second photo of Little Red, playing in our back yard about a week later! I didn't discover that little fact until a few days ago, when I was walking to the mailbox. I saw Little Red run up our big tree in front of the house, but didn't have my camera with me (I mean who walks to the mailbox with their camera?) so I waited perhaps about 20 minutes and then quietly snuck back out and Little Red actually sat and let me get photos of him as he nibbled on a morsel he must have found. Very watchful as he sat on a piece of curled-up bark It a

The rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons that form a cuff over the shoulder. These muscles and tendons hold the arm in its "ball and socket" joint and are involved in essentially all shoulder motions. Back in April, I talked about (in another blog ) having to go to physical therapy for pain that I was having in both shoulders...and had lost my strength and range of motion in both arms. While in PT, I found out that my muscles from my neck to my lower back had seized. Not good. I remained in PT for a few weeks, until I was able to get in to see an orthopedic surgeon. The doctor was great...and actually took the time to show me in a medical book, what was going on with my shoulders, after he reviewed the xrays his office took of my shoulders.  Diagnosis: tendinitis of the rotor cuff . Tearing and inflammation of the tendons of the shoulder muscles can occur in sports which require the arm to be moved over the head repeatedly as in tennis, pitching, swi

What do you see??? Even as a child, the sky has always been mysteriously beautiful to me. I can't remember there ever being a time that I wasn't looking up...watching the sky, the clouds and even storms rolling in.  What follows, is a journey through the last week of such sky-watching. 5/10/2012 The photo above was taken on a gray day, but the clouds did not bring the much needed rain. sunset 5/15 I love when I can capture the rays coming off the clouds like this one. Sometimes the clouds roil and roll...often before a storm, but not always. This was a storm from building...5/21/2012 And building... This one looks like an explosion behind the tree! 5/21/2012   Sometimes...the colors put me in awe, as well as the way the layers of clouds do: I love the depth of colors and layers... 5/21/2012 Here's another, only minutes later The following night, May 22nd, these were what we were seeing at sunset: Notice again the layers...a