Inclusion begins with "I"!!!

Count me in!

We are "our brothers keepers"!

Damn, I'm gonna miss these two!   One day Americas will wake up and realize the same!   Truly a class act!

FLOTUS! You go girl!

The above collage is from Malia Obama's You Tube Channel!
Ms. Michelle knocked it outta da' park!!!   Rockin' that Versace!
Damn...I'm gonna miss them.   Truly a class act!

How cool would it be for FLOTUS to become the POTUS!!!

Paul Cadden...WOW!

This is NOT a photograph!   Awesome!
From the artist, Paul Cadden...

"Although the drawings and paintings I make are based upon photographs, videos, stills, etc., the idea is to go beyond the photograph."

To love America is to love ALL Americans!

via: lovehasnolabels.com

Uber in London!

Ok!   Here in London visiting my daughter and son-in-law.   Had our first Uber experience!   It was awesome.   Daughter sent in a "request" and two minutes later a driver shows up to take us back to my daughter's apartment and for a really good price!   Gotta try this when I get back home!   Awesome!

The Sanctity of Marriage???

Ms. Sarah's daughter is pregnant again!

41 Years Ago Today!

Google - Year in Search - 2014

Mary Kay Pink Cadillac? Circa 1959!

Spotted this beauty on Collins Avenue in South Beach, Miami.

Happy Mother's Day & 40th too!

Happy Mother's Day to my wife and the mother of our two wonderful daughters.   Today marks our 40th wedding anniversary and you are still the "sunshine of my life"!

Much luv...Me!

"Hello...this is American Airlines..."

Thursday, May 8th around noon:

Phone rings.   I don't pick up.   Automatically switches over to our answering machine.

"Hello.   This is American Airlines calling with a flight update.   Unfortunately, American Airlines flight #101 from London's Heathrow to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport is now expected to depart at 11:00am and due to arrive at JFK at 2:15pm.   This call may be recorded."

WTF?   Must be a wrong number?

Around 5:00pm my youngest daughter shows up with our grandson in tow.   As is often the case, he likes to sneak up the stairs and jump into the kitchen and yell...SURPRISE!   Thursday was no exception.   However, a few seconds later, someone else yelled surprise!

Who you might ask?   It was my oldest daughter (who resides in London...DUH)!   She and her sister had planned this surprise over the course of the last week or so!   Needless to say, my wife and I were in a state of shock!   Hugs & kisses and yes...a few tears flowed!

Why the surprise visit?

• My wife (her mother) just retired.
• I had just been released from the hospital after knee surgery.
• Mother's Day!
• Our 40th wedding anniversary!   Just happened to fall on Mother's Day this year!

Alba Iulia, Romania is Happy!

Love Overcomes Hate!

I'm sure the Cherrios kids would agree!

Affordable Care Act - Deadline at Midnight!

As you know, the deadline was extended to midnight tonight!   It's not too late...but you're about to run out of time!   Good Luck!

Sign up at: healthcare.gov
Video from Alicante.   Brilliant!

Swiffer and the Rukavinas...Nice!

Wow...loving this ad!

However, similar to the original Cherrios inter-racial ad, the comments on YouTube have been disabled.   Why?   Based on the racist/hatred comments posted on the original Cherrios ad, I'm sure YouTube knew this would/could get ugly responses from the wackos in America!

Below is more background/info on the Rikavina's family.

I've posted other entries about inter-racial couples before and I'm proud to have so many of them within my immediate and extended family and close circle of friends!   I wish I could be around 20 or 30 years from now to see their offspring and witness (hopefully) how America may have changed!

12 Minutes of Happiness! London & Moscow too!

Just posted my first venture into Pharrell William's "Happiness" videos yesterday.   After a few more hours viewing even more videos today, I found this 12 minute "Supercut" video.   It brings it all together and fuels my curiosity to try and view ALL the "Happy" videos!

#HAPPYDAY Supercut

As I posted earlier, my youngest daughter is visiting her sister in London!   My daughters are happy and, apparently, so is London!

LONDON is Happy!

With all the sh*t that's going down in Russia, Crimea and the Ukraine, even some younger folks in Moscow appear to be happy too!   I know John McCain ain't happy!

MOSCOW is Happy!

I don't know 'bout you...but these make me happy!

Pharrell: Spread the Happiness!

I stumbled upon this beauty earlier this week.   It is part of a collection located at happyinnyc.com.   I thought I had discovered a new found wonder!   (I guess I've been hiding under a rock?)   Then I went to Youtube and clicked on similar videos and discovered that Pharrell William's "Happy" is a world-wide phenomenon!   Since then, I have spent several hours watching these "Happy" videos from around the world!   We're talking Japan, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Poland...and on and on!

Each of the videos provide a unique and creative view of hope & happiness and offer an escape from all the sh*t that's going on in this world.   But more than anything else...Pharrell's work and all these videos, related to "Happy", definitely prove that music is a universal language!   Again, I've spent hours looking at these and I'm determined to post all of them here on my little space in the blog-o-sphere!   They're awesome.   I'm addicted!

London: One daughter visits another! Awesome!

My younger daughter is visiting her older sister (who resides in London) and below is her latest e-mail to us!   I think this is the epitomy of sisterhood!

"I'm getting comfortable now.   It's felt like home away from home before but now, a full week has passed and we are enjoying every bit of what it means to have family abroad.

Monday we enjoyed the house, some laptop time and a yummy English Chinese takeout lunch.   After a break of trashy tv, we tackled tidying the house and daydreamed about your visit and what you guys might like to do when you come.   My brother-in-law came home and we enjoyed leftover stew and cocktails and more cocktails.   We started to think of crazy day and weekend trips and how we'd take advantage of our childless-sisterly freedom and the amazingly unique opportunity to be here together for the next two weeks.

Today was a strange perfect.   We woke up to a delicious breakfast at a small local restaurant and plotted on our plans for the day.   Of course between giggles, we became excited about how similar our desires were.   Back at home we fixed some small but big to-dos.   Feeling overly accomplished, we set out to the Tate Museum and St. Paul's Cathedral.   So cool and perfect and effortless are all under statements.   Perusing through famous works of art, we found the upstairs cafe to be our final resting place.   Perfection!   Overlooking the river and London skyline, we talked art and design and vacationy plans.   Tea and scone as we watched people and river boats pass.

Now we're waiting on Indian food and basking in the simple pleasures of the day."

Studies on Hysteria!

Studies on Hysteria
...the naked truth about life, the universe, everything!

I stumbled upon this German beauty during my normal daily jaunts through cyberspace!   It blew me away.   It is DEFINITELY NSFW (not safe for work)...at least not in the greatest country on earth!   It includes full frontal (male/female) nudity, and I mean FULL...but as stated in the tag line...I believe it speaks the truth!   Just brilliant beyond words!

Make sure you view the full 7.47 minutes (including the credits) for an awesome twist @ 7:41!

Footnote:
What's equally...if not more amazing...is that this is apparently an AD for a German (?) jeans company named Colorado Denim!   I don't think the Grahams will be buying these jeans!