Quiet day at home with Steven. Quiet night at work, which sort of makes up for how busy last week was. Made my hotel reservations for New York in August, will make some for camping this summer as soon as my song from itunes gets done downloading (dial up connection takes forever ). Hopefully I can find something on one of the Great Lakes...there are some state park campgrounds on glorious sandy beaches on Lake Michigan and Lake Huron.  Our favorites include Muskegon State Park and Port Crescent State Park.

At the expense of the housework and laundry, I finally started getting really into Jared Diamond's Collapse. Its pretty amazing how various historical cultures destroyed their environments (some to the point where everyone in the culture died to the last man, woman, and child) or where things get so bad and crazy people are eating each other just to stay alive -- and no one did anything while there was time to make a difference. What in the world is going through the mind of the person who cuts down the last tree on an isolated island when your people depend on trees? What went through the mind of the person who cut down the last strand of pinyon pines at Chaco Canyon? What was once a forest is still a rock desert today, hundreds of years later.  Why did the Norse in Greenland all starve to death next to fjords filled with fish, that they didn't eat due to some sort of local taboo? What on earth were all of these people thinking?

Rem - Losing My Religion Lyrics
Life is bigger
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no I've said too much
I haven't said enough
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

Every whisper
Of every waking hour i'm
Choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt lost and blinded fool
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up

Consider this
The hint of the century
Consider this
The slip that brought me
To my knees failed
What if all these fantasies
Come flailing around
Now I've said too much
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream
That was just a dream

SEND HER MY LOVE - Journey
It's been so long
Since I've seen her face
You say she's doing fine
I still recall
A sad cafe
How it hurt so bad
To see her cry
I didn't want to say good-bye

(Chorus)
Send her my love
Memories remain
Send her my love
Roses never fade
Send her my love

The same hotel
The same old room
I'm on the road again
She needed so much more
Than I could give
We knew our love
Could not pretend
Broken hearts can always mend

(Chorus)

Send her my love
Memories remain
Send her my love
Roses never fade
Send her my love

Callin' out your name
I'm dreamin'
Reflections of a face
I'm seein'
It's her voice
That keeps on haunting me

Send her, send her my love
Roses never fade
Memories remain
Send her, send her my love

Ella Fitzgerald - They Can't Take That Away From Me Song Lyrics

There are many many crazy things
That will keep me loving you
And with your permission
May I list a few

The way you wear your hat
The way you sip your tea
The memory of all that
No they can't take that away from me

The way your smile just beams
The way you sing off key
The way you haunt my dreams
No they can't take that away from me

We may never never meet again, on that bumpy road to love
Still I'll always, always keep the memory of

The way you hold your knife
The way we danced till three
The way you changed my life
No they can't take that away from me