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Hey y'all. This is one of my fave songs because of that memorable guitar intro, and the most recent song we covered between Sam's 2 heart surgeries. I used to care if I looked wonderful tonight, but now? I just want to SEE wonderful & FEEL wonderful. Wouldn't that BE wonderful? Looking wonderful is in the eye of the beholder whilst seeing wonderful is in the eyes of the holder. So, my recent appt. at Retinologist was promising. He's pleased. Says I'm making wonderful progress, however slow, painful & tortuous. The blood & fluid have stopped, but the fibrous matter takes time to dissolve, resolve & involve healing, fading. So injections will continue in one eye until. My daughter says the right eye looks like I'm half zombie with blood in one eye. Don't worry I won't bite tho feel like I'm half zombie after the last 2 years. The vit A foods are doing wonders, or should I say doing wonderfuls, however slow, but absorbed much better than supplements. Still faded, foggy twisted vision. The left eye fights the right. It's very bossy. The brain tries to figure out what warpness my eyes will see each day. Really makes me dizzy. How I long for wonderful, clear & colorful details as God knows, being the King of Details & Kreativity & Kolor. For now tho, very thankful for evidence of progress. It's ironic because faith is the evidence of things NOT seen. But sometimes that faith gets stronger WITH a lil evidence. Like Thomas in the bible. He just wanted to make sure it was Jesus he was seeing after the resurrection, some evidence. The wounds on Jesus. My world is full of wonders that I long to wonderfully gaze upon. Evidence of our Mighty God. Anyways, back in a month. Sam's Cardiologist checkup was this week as well. Wound from surgery is healing & they removed & lowered some meds yay, so hoping that will help him feel more like himself. He did pick up the 🎸yay. Goes back for Echo, other things, in a couple months when they can get a better idea how the heart is mending. Time to slowly strengthen upper body & heart, walk, be patient. So, I leave you with our cover of Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight". Signed, She's Looking To See Wonderful

#wonderfultonight #ericclapton

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🥀✝️ "Teardrops & Backdrops" Here is our 2nd Easter Blues original song for Easter, Ressurection Day, called "I Saw The Love". Starts out slow and easy, singing about a heart filled with joy and eyes filled with tears. Then doubletime jam. I have performance shots doing this tune throughput the years for the backdrops. It's our longest song, but I hope you'll stay. The 1st song, my previous post, is "Shepherd's Heart", a laidback soothing slide guitar tune. Slide on over to it after this if you haven't already. I hope you'll join us for both and feel the love. I feel the love and I'm praying selfishly to SEE the love. In people's faces, in creation, in the power of the resurrection. And in my soul. And yours. Def would bring tears of joy. A blessed, peace-filled Easter to you. We do not always see the dark, painful times approaching. Til it hits you. And you don't always see the blessings and love approaching... Til it gets you... Seeing the light. Through the tears. Signed, See The Love, Be The Love

#Easter #goodfriday #slideguitar #originalmusic #originalsong

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🥀🌹 This soothing song, "Shepherd's Heart", is one of our 2 Easter originals. I'm sliding this laidback slide guitar tune in today for Holy Friday comfort. Hope it gets to you. And jamming another one in on Easter Sunday, Ressurection Day, called "I Saw The Love", starts out slow and easy, then doubletime jam. I hope you'll join us for both and feel the love. I feel the love and I'm praying selfishly to SEE the love. In people's faces, in creation, in the power of the resurrection. And in my soul. And yours. A blessed, peace-filled Easter to you. We do not always see the dark, painful times approaching. Til it hits you. And you don't always see the blessings and love approaching... Til it gets you... Seeing the light. Signed, See The Love, Be The Love

#Easter #goodfriday #slideguitar #originalmusic #originalsong

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🚀 M🌒🌒N MISSION excitement from our front yard... Launch of Artemis II, crew of 4, from Launch Pad 39-B, around the moon and back! I used to work at Kennedy Space Center and I actually have been on the top of that Pad and I was shaking in my boots. Also stood on an old Apollo platform and sat in the pilot seat of the Space Shuttle Discovery. I received a Silver Snoopy from the awesome Astronaut Mike McCulley. I loved working there to the moon and back! A job full of awe, indeed. I blindly shot a video for me as a keepsake when I can see. Thought I'd share it because I love you to the moon and back. I long for the day and night when I can see the wonders of this world that are out of this world. You know, God made the moon and stars to light the dark and govern the skies at night, and the sun for the day. They mark time and seasons for mankind. And are intertwined with mathematics and music. Mysterious is space and the heavens. And God. Godspeed crew... Signed, She's Flawed But Awed & Would Love To See To The Moon And Back

#themoon #space #artemis #rocket #kennedyspacecenter

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💋🎙🎶 Guess who just got back today? Sam did. Boy, we're so very thankful. He's home from his ❤️ operation. Altho, a diff procedure than planned. They had to abort 1st operation because of serious life-threatening complications that sent him to ICU. 2 days later successfully implanted an ICD pacemaker. Rest, heal, strengthen ❤️, meds, get back to living & work, checkup🩺 3 wks. Hereditary ❤️ anomalies can be bad boys. Rare eye conditions as well, 💉 3 wks. But boy oh boy gotta fight on. You sure need big boy pants with health issues. Getting older isn't for sissies or thin skin either. Apologies for taking so long to respond & update. Needed some time for the discombobulation to ease up again. Everything feels worse when your vision is 2 wild eyed boys, warped, thick with dense haze & you gotta push thru. Made me think of a song we cover by Thin Lizzy, The Boys Are Back In Town! Now to get these ➡️👀 boys back in town! They've been gone too long & I've been hunting for them. Thru thick & thin, mostly thru the dense thicket of life's woods last 2 years. Making me dizzy pushing thru it. Ready for some thinned out clear light patches & I know Sam is too. Bless his ❤️. Life does give us times we have to navigate & hunt thru dark thicket woods & other times it's more clear. God promises to be with us thru thick & thin, thicket or clear, dark or light, which allows courage to steady us, ready us. For either! I confess, I'm ready for thin clear light of day. The thickness of stress can cause health & courage to get a lil thin. Ready for some Thin Lizzy & say bye to thick dizzy? Prayers? Always readily welcomed. I hesitated to post our cov from last year with the updates because I didn't want to to come off as thick headed or lighthearted about all this, I'm so not. Just wanted to ease our heavy hearts & MU🎼IC does that. Hope you enjoy it & it eases your heart. Thanks kindly to all who've been there thru thick & thin, in person, in prayer. Boy, that means a lot. May God have mercy on us, heal us & allow us to make more music. Boy, that'd be a blessing. I'll end with a fave quote by Patton: "Courage is fear holding on a lil longer". Signed, Thru Thick & Thin Lizzy

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🌃🐦‍⬛ If my eyes look anything like they feel & if I could see them in the 🪞 they'd look pained, tired, sunken. But I can't let my spirit get sunken. The eyes get weary, dimmer, from fighting each other trying to balance, not get dizzy in the brain-training process. But I force them to do everyday tasks. Have you ever seen one of those round pillows that swirl around with a button in the center that pushes it in & it looks like a pinwheel? That's what it's like. Like there's something in my eye that makes everything look like a pinwheel while the other one is trying to heal. So twisted. But I won't give up. So look for that glimmer in the dimmer eyes. Subtle changes keep me working hard to take these broken wings & learn to fly again, take these sunken eyes & learn to see again. How did my appt at the Retinologist go? Well, it was torture, always takes time to recover from the meds but the swelling on macula went down a lot. Another round of injections in a month til it's all down, then time to heal debris & see where my eyes are. It has to be dormant for months to heal. He says because I have 2 separate rare eye issues (Maculas & Vit A Deficiency) going on at the same time, it takes more time. But, he has very high hopes. I have higher hopes. I think of man's time, things happening at the speed of man. Then I remember what we used to say when I worked at the Space Center. We always said "Godspeed". Happening at the speed of God. For me, that means God's timing & protection. Time that is miraculously out of this world fast & still safe speed🚀 & other times it means a hare slower 🐢. So, continuing Vit A foods, they're making positive changes for both issues. Injections, rest, purposeful activity around the house, leaning on God. Slow but remedying. Moving subtle-ly🐢, not shuttle-y 🚀. I can see objects & some color, however Foggy, Faded & Forlorn, thru left. Right is Freaky along with those other F adjectives. But ameliorating. Hardest part is the time. Takes time to fix broken. Leaning times can be learning times. Also, Sam's operation is Wednesday🙏. God can take all kinds of broke & restore, all kinds of sore & soar. Signed, She's A Sight For Soar Eyes

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🤎🥀Well, we've come to the end of this intimate concert, and my 7th and final song in this "Velvet ✨️" song series is an original song titled One Heart. A song about the difference between being lonely and being alone. Being busy and being too busy. About the difference between happiness and joy. My "eyesight" journey has been a lonely journey, but I've not been alone. Being busy, working hard, has always been my escape and involves music much of the time. It's a bit more difficult to busy my mind and body without good vision, warped and dizzy from it. I've had to make some sense of it all and learn that touching, trusting feeling, is a valuable sense. Muscle and touch memory come in 🤚dy. What? Non sense is a valuable sense too, haha. I may have warped vision and a warped sense of humor but not a warped sense of faith. It too, like my vision just for now, is a hope of things not seen, but felt and touched and known. There's a place of longing in us that we try to fill that only God can fill that touches us and we know... Eyes and heart updates: I go back to 💉Retinologist next week and Sam has a surgery the week after. It would touch me and bring me joy to have prayers. I hope you have enjoyed this live setting of songs. It was so touching to have you join us. Remember happiness is like a brook in the desert, it's refreshing for a time but dries up from the sun. Joy from God is like an oasis in the desert with an endless eternal waterfall... I will settle for a touch of both. Makes sense to me. I need to have a touch of healing, touched by God, so's not a one can say, "she's a lil touched🤯" haha. Hope your Friday and weekend is good to your senses. I'll be in touch with updates and new music soon. Signed, She's A Sensible Human Being Who Has Her Eyes Set On Beyond Human Seeing

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Will you join me for #6 in my "Velvet ✨️" live song series? Hopefully, you're still in the audience. The song is 🪄Rhiannon🪄. A cool and mysterious song by Fleetwood Mac. The mystery of will you ever win? Yes! Will you, would you stay if she promised you heaven? Well I can't promise you heaven but I hope you feel heavenly after listening on your comfy velvet seating haha. I CAN promise you that God can and will promise you heaven. Remembering that God is able to bend the laws of this world and its contents He created as He sees fit is true magic, and His power is in us. I hope your week is magical. But, I tell myself that when things aren't so magical, and I "wand"er why? And heaven knows there's no magic wand 🪄to fix it fast? I will remember that there's magic in being thankful. And there's magic in praying. Oh not the magic wand 🪄 kind. The faith kind. The will to go on kind. The will to win kind. So will you ever win? I will. You will. In God's time. Signed, She Is Like A Cat🐈‍⬛️ In The Dark And Then She Is The Darkness! She'll Be Like A Bird🦅 In Flight When Her Vision Is The Light Yes!

#Fleetwoodmac #rhiannon #magic #mystery

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The 5th song in my "Velvet ✨️" series is by Bonnie Raitt. One of my favorite songs and it's from one of those albums that every song on it is memorable. The album is Nick Of Time, the song is Nobody's Girl. The story behind this? Well, many years ago I had some neighbor girls like seven and eight, named Stevie and Nickie that lived next door. And they came over almost every day. One day they came over with a cassette tape and told me to have a listen. It was this album and they told me I should listen and sing these songs, they're perfect for you. I fell in love with the tape and bought my own and wore it out. Inevitably, every song was engrained in my soul, like millions of others. So, I hope this is memorable for you. Like the song goes I want it all. But I'll settle for seeing. This last year I've been fragile like a string of pearls, with my strength coming from God. I guess I'm Nobody's Girl in the sense that I make my own decisions and have my own ideas and I like to be different, but I am God's girl. I run everything g by Him. Now get comfortable in your velvet seat and join me for the full cover. I love the lyrics of this song and the whole style. Def a velvet tune. Feels like touching velvet when you sing it. Signed, She's Fragile Like A String Of Pearls But She Has Strength Because She's One Of God's Girls #bonnieraitt #nobodysgirl

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Here is song 4 in my "Velvet ✨️" Series. The Series title story can be found in song 1 video writeup. So, here we have a Doobie Brothers cover. They really have some great music. We chose to do Takin' It To The Streets. The song talks about "a living hell". I, like most of you, have experienced my share of living through tough times as well as good. My last 2 years have seemed like a living hell. Some days I feel burnt out, other days just lightly toasted, haha. But God is 'seeing' me through... Now Id'ave rather skipped right thru this fiery furnace like Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego in the Bible, without a hair on their head being scorched and another figure was seen in there with them. But sometimes you gotta go thru the fiery furnace so your faith doesn't burn out, knowing there is another figure in there with you. Anyways, I hope you are still comfy on your velvety seat or couch🛋 or booth while we take the music to the seats haha. I always mention this if we do any Doobie Brothers: I have a jean jacket that the Doobie Brothers signed on my collar in their later years at a concert. Signed, Her Jacket🧥 Was Signed By The Doobies Because She Smiled And Said Oh Do Please!

#thedoobiebrothers #takinittothestreets #livemusic #theweekend #friday

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🥃Well, here is song 3 of my "Velvet ✨️" series, Tennessee Whiskey (series title story in 1st song post). I do love Chris Stapleton, I do. I hear you out there singing along. Thank you kindly. And won't I be glad when I can see you clearly. You know, I used to spend my youth nights out drinkin' and partyin' to escape, and 2 things are clear to me after all these years of NOT drinkin'... I pour out my heart instead of pouring out a bottle because the bottom of the bottle has no answers, and I'd rather be stoned on life, on music, on faith, because when you hit bottom, faith is the only thirst quencher, the only escape to peace. Signed, If You See Her Pouring Domething In A Bar, She's Pouring Out Her Heart By Humming A Few Bars🎼 #chrisstapleton #livemusic #TennesseeWhiskey #countrymusic

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✨️👖👀 You still out there comfortable in your velvety stool or booth? Yay, I'm thrilled! 🎼 Lawd, how happy can one woman be...🎼 And, when I find my vision, it will be like finding an old pair of comfortable blue jeans. Only multiplied a thrillion times! And, without the oil and gasoline! Lawd how happy will this woman be! Meantime, the peace and strength and hope and faithful anticipation from God that goes beyond any understanding will have to be my comfort. Here is my 2nd song in this "Velvet Stars" Series, ZZ Top, Blue Jean Blues. If you want to know why that title, please stop by and read my story on the 1st post, Beast Of Burden. Now let's chill with a lil music because that bomb cyclone out there is chilly. I hope you'll hang out for the remaining thrilling 5 songs. Signed, The Reason She Sings? Blues Is In Her Jeans👖

#zztop #bluejeanblues #thrillsandchills #Mondays #bombcyclone

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