GOOD LUCK how wonderful, i'm really excited for her CHEERS (clink clink)

Good luck LouLou!!!! keep us posted.

Loulou wrote:This is a personal Happy Things posting. Tonight I premiere an excellent artist who also happens to be a good human being. Without seeing her work up front, in the last six months, I have worked with her and organized her first ever launch in Toronto. Her art was the subject of a museum 20 year retrospective; she was a child prodigy and at 35, already had 20 years under her belt. She's in the private collections of Dali collectors, of friends of Andy Warhol. I'm thrilled as I sit here hours before tonights event. Her name is Marie "Mady" Bourdages. Wish us luck!

Good luck loulou!

It's good to hear about good human beings--I think I have not been a very good one lately.

Maybe you can post some of her work here for us or share a little more about her with us since you have the inside scoop!

I wish you both a lot of success!

Here is some of Marie "Mady" Bourdages work

Marie Bourdages

MADY AND THE SEA

I like the sea paintings. Very relaxing looking at them.

THANK YOU!!!!!

SailorG, the sea is a very important theme to her. She is from a beautiful place in Qc called Gaspe, on the water. Also in her quest for deeper meaning in all things, life and art, she underwent shamanic rituals with aboriginals and her animal spirit guides turned out to be whales. In her meditations, she communed with them and on some level, even understood their language. Her series of whale paintings capture the depthlessness of their habitat to perfection. This is just one facet of her. She started to draw at 4, composed music by 6 and is all around a fascinating petite woman. Last night she had something of an epiphany and she is going home to paint a new series. The event went well. The media came, and she gave an interview to one French paper. I will upload a pic of her with someone who bought her last painting of a series she sold out of, on Edith Piaf.

Mady

A Whale's Memoirs

Interesting woman, I like all her work, but the sea paintings are especially nice.

LOVely, i like her work alot, very dreamy and peaceful but powerful. When i'm at the ocean, i feel God, it makes me aware of how small and insignificant i am in the overall scheme of things...humble and awed.

I'm going to convey all of your wonderful comments to her! Thanks so much, I'm really touched by your support.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... ubble.html

we need a thread for COOL stuff but i'm putting this here. a bubble bursting in slo motion. really COOL

Let's make one. bbb's post copied and pasted to the new Cool Stuff Thread.

happy, awesome, amazing ....a miracle

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldne ... alive.html

*British backpacker Jamie Neale has been found alive after going missing in the Australian bush for nearly two weeks.

Mr Neale, 19, had not been seen since July 3 when he left his hostel in the town of Katoomba, New South Wales, for a walk in the Blue Mountains. The Briton was discovered by two hikers exhausted and dehydrated.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... aisle.html

have ya'll seen this! the bridal party dances down the aisle. it's a happy scene for a happy couple.

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY just left the C doc and i passed my panels with flying colors, she doesn't want to see me for 6 months YEA TEAM (that's always a good sign) HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY

OH bbb, This is wonderful news!!!!! This was great news to wake up today. On my first day off I'll offer a toast.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFP7jQz8sDk

some friends of mine, whenever i hear kelly sing it makes me happy

http://www.ktvu.com/news/20581022/detail.html

*A young woman walked into a California police station and announced that she was Jaycee Lee Dugard — a missing girl who was snatched by an abductor from a Lake Tahoe-area school bus stop in 1991, authorities said Thursday.

Dugard's stepfather, Carl Probyn, told KTVU that the girl’s mother Terry Probyn got a stunning phone call at work Wednesday from federal agents.

"She got a call from the FBI, they said they had found Jaycee and she was alive," he said in a phone interview from the couple's Riverside County, Calif., home. "They put her (the woman) on the phone. My wife talked with her and is convinced she is Jaycee. Jaycee remembers everything."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/30/texas. ... index.html

talk about great fishing story!!!!

*Hawkins, 43, and his fellow boaters, Curtis Hall, 28, and James Phillips, 30, set out to catch swordfish and marlin when they set sail about 100 miles south of Matagorda Bay in Texas. But one night early on during their trip in the Gulf of Mexico, Hawkins was jolted by a "rude awakening."

*•Three fishermen missing since August 22 were found Saturday on capsized boat

•Boater spotted fishermen about 180 miles from coast of Port Aransas, Texas

•Coast Guard had called off search for men on Friday

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas ... ?page=full

interesting article about money and happiness

lockerbie murderer isn't enjoying much freedom, he's dying ALONE in intensive care
MAKES MY DAY

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,545 ... latestnews

TRIPOLI, Libya — Family members say the only man convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has been taken to intensive care after his condition worsened.

Abdel Baset al-Megrahi has terminal prostate cancer and Libyan officials have said his health has swiftly deteriorated since his release from a Scottish prison less than two weeks ago.

The family members, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, said they have not been allowed to visit him. There was no way to independently verify his condition.

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