http://sanddappaloosas.net/news Hot News Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:40:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Michael Edward Szymanski April 20, 1928 - June 14, 2009 www.sanddappaloosas.net/inmemory.htm http://www.marshfieldmail.com/articles/2009/06/16/obituaries/doc4a385eb2065c4813570952.txt http://sanddappaloosas.net/news/?p=26 I recently read one of my favorite thinkers and writers passed away last month as a result of a long battle with lung cancer. I've been out of touch from "that world" and it occurs to me how sad it is when we have separate worlds we loose touch with ... http://sanddappaloosas.net/news/?p=25     Posted with permission from the organizers.  Some excellent ideas coming out of the workshop, thanks so much to these folks for their hard work and dedication to the app club. For more information on other workshop summaries or on the ApHC please visit www.appaloosa.com and the ApHC Blog updated by CEO Steve ... http://sanddappaloosas.net/news/?p=24 If you have sent us an e-mail recently and not received a reply back, I apologize. It appears as though I am not receiving all of my e-mail. I will be updating the e-mail on the website, but in the meantime, please use the following address to contact me: info@sanddappaloosas.net or, you can ... http://sanddappaloosas.net/news/?p=22 History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr. In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence ... http://sanddappaloosas.net/news/?p=21 "...I ... believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something—a great deal—to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words, by trivialization, ... http://sanddappaloosas.net/news/?p=20 Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and has a great start to their new year! I'm not even going to say that I will be better about keeping things updated, because inevitably it won't happen the way I intend. Hopefully, there will be more news and better news to prompt me ... http://sanddappaloosas.net/news/?p=19 A wonderful barn cat who was so much more than a barn cat. She lived an outstanding life and was never sick a day in her life. She caught everything you could imagine and even escaped from the mouth of a coyote. You will be missed, but we know you ... http://sanddappaloosas.net/news/?p=18 Well, where should I begin this week's update . . . Post surgery physically went pretty well for my father with a couple minor exceptions. The major problem was something called sundowners. I have never heard of this before, but it is very much like alzheimers except that it literally ... http://sanddappaloosas.net/news/?p=15 My dad's surgery went better than expected on Thursday, thank goodness! He is now recovering, albeit slowly. After a triple bypass at 79 what else could be expected?! The fourth blockage was not as bad as they thought it was, so he only had the triple. We are now just ... http://sanddappaloosas.net/news/?p=14