Revisiting "Old Girl From The North Country" / Still Willing To Give Peace A Chance

My 17th blog birthday is coming up on December 8, the anniversary of the day that my beloved R returned from a year in Vietnam, serving as a helicopter mechanic in Da Nang.  That was the year 1970.  Something happened to him during that year that he kept inside.  It ate him alive.  Things happened to me after he came home that are still healing.  In 2006, a wise and concerned woman suggested that I do something good for myself on December 8, that I give that day a new meaning.  I had been reading blogs for about a year at that point, including Robin and Roger's blog "Dharma Bums."  

My blog was to be a retrospective of the art work I had created throughout my life, beginning with a drawing I had made in my senior year in high school, a drawing that came to represent R.

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Somewhere along the line (2008?) I inadvertently changed my blog address from

http://oldgirlfromthenorthcountry.blogspot.com

to what it is now.

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After R died in April 2008, I changed the name of my blog to:

 TALKING 37TH DREAM WITH RAINBOW (RUMORS OF PEACE)

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I've changed my blog name several times since them and most recently to:

37TH DREAM / RUMORS OF PEACE AT SUNRISE

(with SUNRISE repeated 7 times)  

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In the last years of his life, during the war in Afghanistan, R wrote on the envelope of a letter to me, "Give Peace A Chance."