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Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)buddingspritelet said Aug 6, 2008, 4:59 AM: |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Enlightened.thinker said Aug 6, 2008, 8:48 AM: |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Enlightened.thinker said Aug 6, 2008, 8:52 AM: |
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I am a posting dumb dumb and cannot post a picture of the Amalfi coast….so I'll justs say, we are there and enjoying some gelato. |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)martha said Aug 6, 2008, 10:00 AM: |
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Peri! Peri! Peri! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! You can never have too many of them, really. …Well, they do get a little “old” after a while, but as far as I'm concerned, life JUST gets BETTER!!! And to support this bettering process in your life, I was going to buy you Michelangelo's statue of David, because I know you wanted Italian Men for your birthday. But then I had second thoughts. It's not simply that it would cost so much, but let's face it. He's emotionally unavailable. And we are looking for a soulful man! A man who shares his soulful heart! And so, I decided to get you Andrea Bocelli singing a lullaby to Ernie the Muppet. And Andrea told me that if you're really good, he'll come over on your birthday and sing you a lullaby, too! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgUnYzXU-Fo |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Julia [no longer around] said Aug 6, 2008, 10:31 AM: |
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Happy Happy Birthday Peri! I wanted to stop by and give you a huge hug |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 6, 2008, 1:39 PM: |
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Sprite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Julia!!!! Thank you my love! Thank you for acknowledging my role in you connecting with your art! much love and appreciation of you! I will be back to party more with everyone!!! :)) |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)buddingspritelet said Aug 6, 2008, 2:42 PM: |
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Yep, Peri and I are off for real life adventures in Portland and then we'll teleport back to Italy and hook up with you all a bit later. :-D Carry on!!! |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Mamakat said Aug 6, 2008, 5:38 PM: |
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Bella Peridotta,  Ti amo! Mamakat |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)FastDart said Aug 6, 2008, 6:19 PM: |
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http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm180/2graphic4you/birthday_wish.gif |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Janet said Aug 6, 2008, 7:25 PM: |
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Peri - when you're celebrating your birthday in Italy, you may as well have a castle cake!  And if you're having castle cake, you must wear a crown since you get to be queen on your birthday!  You are the celebration, Peri!!!! We love you lots. |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Samme said Aug 6, 2008, 7:41 PM: |
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Happy Happy Birthday Dear Friend Perri From My Heart, I Love You dear Friend |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Doug said Aug 6, 2008, 10:50 PM: |
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Happy Birthday Peri! |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 6, 2008, 11:20 PM: |
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I love you too dear Samme and I have really been missing you! I have been mostly OFF of Gaia for all of July (due to some moving problems) … and I thought of you several times during my absence. I have many blogs and lots of STUFF to catch up on … |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 6, 2008, 11:02 PM: |
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awwwwww!!!!! Thank you Lars!!! You were with us in Florence!!!! Your name was mentioned oh so many times!!! Can you join us for Gaia NW 2009? It is sure to be the best Gaia Gathering on the GLOBE!!!! ;-)) |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 6, 2008, 10:59 PM: |
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Ahhhhh, bella bella bella!!!! love you KAT!!!! and I mean that!!! Did you know that I think I have the most beautiful photo of you … relaxing on the green leather couch …. Your beauty is shining out - all over the place!!! I love you and miss you! |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 6, 2008, 11:07 PM: |
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Janet!!!! Thank you my darlin' … from the Sisterhood of the Traveling Shoes!!! I love the Castle Cake and my CROWN!!!! You give me goosebumps baby!!!! |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 6, 2008, 11:36 PM: |
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That was very sweet douglass!!!! thank you! |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Enlightened.thinker said Aug 7, 2008, 8:31 AM: |
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I think it is now time we all had some Italian lessons… |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 7, 2008, 1:06 PM: |
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Monty Python's Italian lessons!!!! Priceless! Thank you dear Aley! |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peace Seeker said Aug 7, 2008, 8:58 AM: |
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Happy birthday, Peri. For your birthday, I'm sending you a few bottles of Italian wine. Don't drink it all at once. He he he. |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 7, 2008, 1:22 PM: |
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Thank you Peace Seeker!!!!!! I'm so glad you are here! love, peri |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Paul said Aug 7, 2008, 6:44 PM: |
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Happy birthday Peri. Well it might just already be your unbirthday. Or is it your birthday? I don’t know. More tea? Love Always, Paul |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 7, 2008, 10:45 PM: |
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Paul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Paul said Aug 8, 2008, 6:37 AM: |
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Yes I did feel the love. When I read about the trip I can see myself there. I would like to hear more about it so maybe you could give me a call sometime. I'm looking forward the the gifts you brought back for me. What could it be? I guess I will just have to wait and see. I'm sure when Martha gets settled in and has time she will give me a call so we can meet up. I've already let her know to get in touch with when she has time so I can get the treasures. |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Fae said Aug 8, 2008, 7:53 AM: |
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  HELLO EVERYONE! Welcome to Florence … Italy! Florence is one of the special places of my heart … both Florence, Italy and Florence, Oregon. I will be having my celebration for Peri here, in Florence, Italy. It will be titled “A Day Late and A Dollar Short, Enchantment and Revelery at the Museum Bargello.” Here I am going to host a small, intimate gathering of a few hundred randomly selected beautiful Italian men and all of Peri’s friends as well. THE MUSEUM BARGELLO  Here is the courtyard. You can see a few statues beginning to appear back in the darkened walk way. At our party there will be thousands of white candles, but no other ornamentation, for the Bargello is so beautiful itself, it doesn’t need any. There will be a string quartet playing, tucked back in one of these alcoves. During the evening, the quartet will play all sorts of different music. I think, however, for visualization purposes, we will begin with Vivaldi.  When the queue at Florence’s Uffizi Museum is three hours long, you can usually walk right into the Bargello and find relatively few people here. Possibly people just don’t know what incredible wonders are here? Let’s not tell them. It is always cool in here, no matter how hot it is outside. Walking up the steps, I rub my hands against the rough/smooth stones. Contradictions. In/out. Yin/Yang. Even the walls are lovely here. The beauty of the building is a bit of an irony, since it was originally constructed as a jail. The museum holds more sculpture than painting and is also rich with splendid collections of bronzes, majolica, waxes, enamels, medals, seals, ivories, amber, tapestries, furniture and textiles from the Medici collections and those of private donors. Standing causally around there and here and here and there, looking at each other you, will find incredible works of art: Michelangelo, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Verrocchio, Cellini. Actually, the Bargello doesn’t look like a museum at all. It looks like a beautiful building where a cocktail party full of fascinating people - and animals - was suddenly enchanted into stone.  In the center of the courtyard is the Well of Wishes. Here you may write your birthday wishes for Peri on small, flat pieces of alabaster or marble. You then toss your small, stone marker into the well and wait for the sound of the stone splashing into the water of the well. The Court Yard goes silent for each dropping. If you do not hear the sound, your Wish-Trial has failed and you will have to run out to one of the venders in the streets to buy Peri something particularly Florentine … a new leather bag, shoes or a leather coat; gold jewelry; marble fruit; alabaster sculptures; wooden boxes & notebooks with pictures by the masters on the front. Historically - and right up to today - the drains and sewers in Florence are … not the best in the world. This gives parts of Florence a delicate aroma that is uniquely Firenze. It doesn’t take long before you can find your way around the city, knowing which corner and which street is which by the presence or lack of the “Breath of Florence.”  The architecture of Florence is some of the most exquisite and elegant in the world. Photographs don’t really show the frangible, delicate work on the sides of the buildings; workings of alabaster, jade, gold. Photographs also don’t show how much of this work is pink! Much of Florence is white, pink and gold - a bit like a Faerie Land. Giottos Bell Tower (above) is actually a light, delicate shade of pink. This tower is one of the most beautiful pieces of architecture in the world. Unlike the narrow, congested streets of Rome and Naples; the roads of Florence are wide and calm. The open air markets are not full of poultry and produce, but of books and paintings, leather work and sculpture. The amount of the world’s scholarship, learning, knowledge and art that originated in this one city is staggering. Meanwhile: Back at the Well. If you DO hearthe soft plash of your marker hitting the water, you know that your Wish-Trial has succeeded and the present you asked for has manifested somewhere in this entrancing, enchanted building. Then everyone goes off running in all directions, searching for the prize - even though they don't know what it is! The musicians play faster, a racing dance music and everyone is running and laughing. Sometimes the musicians run down the halls too, playing as they go. It is especially fun to watch the cello player wild with the chase! When you find the prize, someone blows a conch shell and everyone else follows the sound. When everyone meets where the present is discovered and displayed there is great merriment. (Don’t ask me about the conch shell. It’s just THERE I guess. Enchanted stories are like that.) This is the legend. Once in a wide pink, alabaster moon,  when the stone marker hits the water, those who are listening, hear laughter and music rather than just the plop of stone into water. They say that when this happens all the statues in the Bargello come to life and join in the hunt, staying flesh and blood all through the dancing and feasting, the laughing and celebrating, and not returning to their frozen, waiting state until the last reveler has fallen asleep. I certainly hope I get to see this some day. I would love to have a discussion with this particular David. “How does it feel to be so completely out of the time period in which you were created?” I would ask, ” How is it to be made by a Master who saw the future with his fingers?” Donatello's David  I don’t suppose any of you would like to wish for a clean up crew? No? Well I can’t either because I have already decided on my wish. When it is my turn to wish, remembering the theme here, I’m going to wish that Peri gets a date with the most fantastic, incredible, magnificent Italian man ever! Oh yes, and marvelous, astonishing, and fabulous as well. * We all listen and hear a soft splash and run off searching, laughing. The music turns out to be Monteverdi, so we all sing as we run. Finally, in one of the back galleries we find him! He is standing by a very schmee stone Wart Hog. Here he is! The most amazing Italian Man ever! ** * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *  Wouldn’t you know? I’m quite sure it is true. Here he is Peri! He isn’t particularly sexy and he looks a little grim, but the Well of Wishes never lies. He is undoubtably the most fantastic, incredible, magnificent Italian man ever. (And he does have a superior beard.) Happy Birthday Peri! Enjoy your time with this glorious Italian Man. Perhaps you can get him whipped back into shape. I understand he is rather scattered, a terrible procrastinator and does odd things like writing backwards and claiming that man can fly. The old polymathic Homo Universalis. I would love to read a narrative of your date. Where will you go? If anyone ever really gets to Italy - DON’T miss Florence. If anyone ever really gets to Florence - DON’T miss the Bargello. I’ve got to go now. I’ve got a date with Donatello’s David. We are taking Donatello's Bacchus too. Remember: ‘as long as one of the revelers is still awake.’ I knew I was going to be good for something sooner or later! See you in September! Love! ~ Dryad Edwina ~ And Faeanna - Wherever she may be! * I forgot astounding, prodigious, and phenomenal. Oh, my goodness! LOOK at this! Leonardo declares his political position! 
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 8, 2008, 2:22 PM: |
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Winnie!!!!! *** your reference to the book My Name is Asher Lev. It happens to be one of my favorite all time books - written about a young man's transformative life and what he went through to be the artist that he was … WOW oh WOW!!!! |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Jeff said Aug 8, 2008, 11:54 AM: |
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Peridot, Wow nice gifts! Happy Birthday ! I hope when mine gets here next week I see some hot, glam things like that… Happy Happy Birthday, In the voice of MM… I am Love, Jeff
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 8, 2008, 2:26 PM: |
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Hi Jeff!!! |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)mimi said Aug 8, 2008, 12:25 PM: |
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WhooHoo Happy Birthday Sweet Thang, |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 8, 2008, 2:28 PM: |
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Thank you sweet mimi!!!! Goodness I've missed everyone! I will be catching up with blogs going way back to late June. If you ever need help getting a photo over here from your photo gallery just send me an email and I'll help you out with it!!! |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)tara said Aug 9, 2008, 1:04 AM: |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 9, 2008, 5:22 PM: |
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tara! I have an easy time applying photos here … seems like others have a more complicated time. It works best if you have the Pod open in one window and then your gallery in another … Pick your photo and right click on “copy” …. place it where you want in the comment box and right click “paste” … VOILA … simple as that. |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)tara said Aug 10, 2008, 1:13 PM: |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Peridot [no longer around] said Aug 11, 2008, 7:48 PM: |
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Tara, thanks for that incredible music! I love!!!! |
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Re: Peridotta's Birthday Wishes :)Nicole said Aug 13, 2008, 7:25 AM: |
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really really late birthday wishes, peri! glad you have been enjoying it so! |
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