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| Spring is a live in the Carolinas ... Ah, yes, Spring is alive. It's my favorite time of the year ... with all the critters and flowers, my camera is never out of reach! I hope everyone enjoyed the baby humming bird pictures I sent out. He is so amazing! On Mother's Day, Danny was visited by one of his 'babies' ... a blue jay who was probably released last year. (I think we released 9 or 10 of them) I said he came back to see his 'momma'! He will still fly down to Danny's hand for a peanut ... or for a taste of a frozen treat! Although we're 'closed' ... I'll keep you all posted of interesting critters that comes along. So since, our last couple of campouts haven't been very successful ... We're planning another one! A Stone Mountain camping trip! August 12 - 14 for the Persides Meteor Showers. Please email me if your interested in camping with us. Stone Mountain Camping Information: Campsites for tents and recreational vehicles are located on two loop roads. Each site has a tent pad, table and grill. Drinking water and a washhouse with hot showers and laundry tubs are located nearby. There are no utility hookups. There is a $15 daily fee for camping and a six-person limit per campsite. All sites are available on a first-come basis. I hope more of you guys will make it out, we always have such a great time. I listen to John's music a LOT, but my favorite place is around the campfire! So, make plans to join us ... you have a FAR OUT time, guaranteed! |
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| Denver Delights ... From time to time, little things happen that remind you of John. They always make you smile ... I like to call them 'Denver Delights' ================================================================= Thanks for sending me your 'Denver Delights' ... Keep them coming and look for them in future newsletters ... Laura ================================================================= From Jenny: The kids got out of school for the summer on Wed. May 25th. On Monday, I went to pick up Will about an hour early and the school was letting the kids have a "fun day." They were all outside and there was a magician, ice cream, face painting and.......karaoke. Just as Will was coming to the car, a little girl got up to the microphone and started singing Country Roads! Then I noticed as Will was walking to the car, he was singing along. I just love it when I hear John's music being passed on to younger generations! Far Out!!!! From Laura: I've had quite a few Denver Delights this past month :o) While out shopping, I heard Back Home Again over the store's PA. And when I got back into my car, Back Home Again was on again ... Oh, that was my CD! Last month I went camping with a bunch of folks from work ... that's where I found out Liz & George were JD fans ... she told me "we listened to John on the way up here!" :o) We had a great time ... singing John's songs at the campfire. When I arrived at one nursing facility, the soft instrumental back ground music was John's! I went downtown Hendersonville to a music shop to buy guitar strings ... they were playing John's music ... bluegrass style ... in the store and on the street! :o) There were a couple more ... I'll save them for future newsletters! |
| News & Info from Our Members ... Welcome Our New Members ... Audrey Schwankl, Sue Conklin & Ben Perchik Audrey, Sue and Ben are also new members of Foxfire <click here> John Denver Screen Savers from Linda E <click here> Defenders of Wildlife is gathering 100,000 signatures to save our endangered wildlife. We've already gathered 50,000 signatures. Please help us get to 100,000 signatures by signing at http://www.saveesa.org now. Thanks. Earth Song Environmental Foundation a John Denver memorial foundation... If you purchase items from Amazon.com through the Earth Song website, they get a percentage of the purchase for their group. Billy Dean's cover of John Denver's "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" climbed the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart and peaked at No. 27. http://www.billydean.com Pete Huttlinger has a new release ... Hymns For Guitar book/cd. You can order a copy from Pete's website www.petehuttlinger.com |
| Special Events ... Stone Mountain Camping Trip Come watch it Rain Fire in the Sky ... During the Persedies Meteors! August 12 - 14, 2005 ~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~><~ Plans for Aspen are beginning to be discussed! Make plans to come with us this year! |
| Visit the NC Friends of JD's Home Page for Important Links and Member Informatiion ... Past Events and Trips to Colorado ... Oh, and MORE Photos, too! |
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| Got any Ideas or Anything You Want to Share? E-mail ME......CountryRoadsNC Send me anything you would like to include in the newsletter....... Poems, JD in the News, or share a great JD moment. Peace my Friends, Laura Bollinger Patti Buser President, NC Friends of JD V. President, NC Friends of JD |
| Follow your heart like a flying stallion, Race with the sun to the edge to night ... Form your truth like a gold medallion, Dance in the circle of LOVE and the LIGHT. J. Denver |
| JD on Ebay ... New DVD ... John Denver, A Song's Best Friend ... Ends June 17th The Harbor Lights Concert - John Denver ... Ends June 18th Interesting ~ John Denver's boyhood bicycle? ... Ends June 18th John Denver Take Me Home 24KT Gold Record ... Ends June 22nd JOHN DENVER ANTHOLOGY~Music Book ... Ends June 18th John Denver "Annie's Song" Musical 2004 ornament ... Ends June 19th |
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| What I Do In Honor of John Denver I really enjoyed reading what folks had to say to this, in the Rocky Mountain High Newsletter. So, I'd like to ask all of you who belong to the NC Friends of JD the same question. What DO YOU do in honor of JOHN DENVER??? ~ Email me your thoughts on this ~ (click here) |
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| Tom Crum's Centering Hint The 'Magic' of Golf by Thomas Crum People often tell me, “I'm surprised you play golf. It seems incongruous with your life-long study of meditation and stress reduction.” Well, I often ask myself the same question after a particularly frustrating four hours of hitting, following, losing and finding again a little white ball, before finally tapping it into each of the eighteen little holes scattered over several hundred acres of converted cow pasture. “But you see,” I answer, “golf can be an ideal mind/body art for today’s crazy, stressed out world.” In Maintown, USA, you can’t just drive over to the local Zen Archery Center and become so involved in concentration and focus that your crazy world stops spinning. But, you can accomplish the same result in most towns by walking a golf course. If approached correctly, golf can be a modern ‘walk about’ taking you into your own ‘dream-time’ state, where it’s all about the walk and the awareness. Golf is an art of being in the moment. Time stops. The present shot is all there is. But, of course, this is not how most play the game. We fret about our score. We worry about embarrassing ourselves with silly shots. We are in constant judgment. Sounds like daily life, doesn't it? This is where golf can become a Master Teacher. The rules of the game are clear, but the purpose of the game is always our choice. We can choose golf as just another form of ‘beat myself up’ or we can choose to see it as a nice long walk, a mind/body awareness opportunity. Rather than getting ‘hooked’ by the needless attachment to performing well, our purpose can be to breathe and to witness. To notice the myriad of emotions that can appear from one shot to another. To examine the way we judge ourselves and others. And all the while, breath by breath, we can choose to play an ego-less learning game - learning the art of Awareness or the art of Companionship, or the art of the Walk. Tee one of those Games up, and golf takes on a whole new Possibility. Want to explore the kind of golf that Tom is talking about? Join us for The Magic of Golf in Aspen, Colorado - July 22-25, 2005. <Click here> |
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| Foxfire News Our Connection to Windstar Our territory includes South Carolina, North Carolina and Virgina. I want to thank Bob Langston who was in charge of the Earth Day festivities at the NC Zoo and our very own Janice Coakley who also works at the zoo, for allowing us to set up a display for Foxfire, NC Friends of John Denver, and Windstar. We handed out information on all three groups and actually had one person, Doris Lambert, fill out a Windstar application and write out a check to become our newest Foxfire member. Welcome Doris. I hope we can make Earth Day at the Zoo an annual event. An idea for next year is to be set up outside and have some of our more talented members playing John's music live to draw more attention to our booth. If you have never been to the NC Zoo, it is really a great place. It is one of the better zoo I have been too. As Laura mentioned in the last newsletter, we got to go behind the scenes at the zoo and meet Kaela and Rajah the two tigers cubs found roaming in Rowan county. Being tigers don't fit into the North American and African exhibits, the zoo couldn't keep them. They have been moved to a newly constructed 1/2 acre habitat at the Carnivore Preservation Trust in Pittsboro, NC. You can visit them on line at www.cptigers.org. It was so FAR OUT interacting with these amazing creatures. They were like extremely over sized kittens. It was easy to forget that they could kill you. We could have stayed there all day watching them play and petting them. If you turned your back on the cage they would stalk you and "attack"! It was awesome to watch. Thank you Janice for a wonderful experience. www.wstar.org Are you just a fan of John's music or do you believe in saving our environment and are you willing to do something about it?! Welcome New Foxfire Connection Members ... Audrey Schwankl, Sue Conklin & Ben Perchik Come on and join!!! When you do join, please let me know so I can keep a current list of members and won't have to scramble at the end of the year. You do what you can do and I'll do what I can do and ... together we can make a difference! |
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| New JOHN DENVER Stuff!! ~ Now Available ~ Three New CD Releases from Sony/BMG ... Digitally remastered ... Back Home Again, Greatest Hits & Poems, Prayers and Promises! AND ... On June 7th, Sony/BMG released a DVD documenting JOHN DENVER's life, entitled A Song's Best Friend. Includes live performances and interviews with John. <click here to order yours today from Amazon.com> type john denver in their search window |
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