02/23/16 - NNHS Newsletter -
I Dreamed a Dream

“Dreams can disappear - poof, just like that. Where do those dreams go?
Are they floating out there with no place to land - songs not sung,
dances not danced, all those dreams that will never come true?”

- Marjorie Klein, Test Pattern, 2000, p. 204

Some notable musical connections with this song include:

• "I Dreamed a Dream" starts in E♭ Major, then E Minor, then F Major — "On My Own" starts in D Major, moving to B♭ Major, and ending in F Major.
• "I Dreamed a Dream,” outlines unfairness and woe in Fantine's life, the second half dedicated to her former male partner, who deserted her after the conception of Cosette. In "On My Own," Éponine outlines her desire to be with the character Marius, and (similarly to Fantine), dreams and imagines him by her side.
• Near the one-minute mark (slightly after in "I Dreamed a Dream"), the final key signature change is made and the music and singing grows louder and more intense, as is done in "On My Own.

The song is a lament, sung by the anguished, dying Fantine, who has just been fired from her job at the factory and thrown onto the streets. She thinks back to happier days and wonders at all that has gone wrong in her life.

In the original Musical, the song occurs after Fantine has been fired, and before Lovely Ladies. In the film adaptation, these two musical numbers were swapped around, to place dramatic emphasis on Fantine's depressing descent into prostitution.

- Jimmy Fallon

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"A study showed that every hour of TV you watch after the age of 25 shortens your life by 22 minutes. That doesn't sound too bad to me. You'd probably watch TV with that 22 minutes anyway."

- Jimmy Kimmel

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Two friends are discussing the possibility of love.

"I thought I was in love three times," one friend says.

"How so?" his friend asks.

"Five years ago I deeply cared for a woman who wanted nothing to do with me."

"And that wasn't love?" his friend asks.

"No," he replies. "That was obsession. Then two years ago I deeply cared for an attractive woman who didn't understand me."

"Was that love?"

"No," he replies. "That was lust. And just last year I met a woman aboard a cruise ship to the Caribbean. She was smart, funny, and a great conversationalist. And everywhere we met on that boat, I would get this strange sensation in the pit of my stomach."

"Was that love?" his friend asks.

"No," he replies. "That was seasickness."

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Stress Control--Wisdom Tip
By Maru from Singapore

Be Happy always!
In Life……….

Shortcomings, Loss & Setbacks are INEVITABLE….

but…..

Suffering, Worry & Sadness are all OPTIONAL.

Be cheerful & happy always!!! Just take care of your health & family - happiness will follow you wherever you go or be !!!

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RANDOM TIDBITS

Girl Scout cookies can have a different name based on what bakery they come from? Samoas might be called Caramel deLites and Trefoils called shortbread. Each council chooses a baker, either ABC Bakers or Little Brownie Bakers. The baker will each produce a similar cookie, but the name and recipe are slightly different.

According to the Girl Scouts website, Girl Scout cookies made their first appearance in 1917. At the time, a troop in Oklahoma baked the cookies and sold them in a high school cafeteria as a service project.

Cookies were baked and sold commercially in the 1930s.

The revenue from cookie sales stays within the Girl Scout councils. The national Girl Scout organization, Girl Scouts of the USA, gets a royalty from the licensed baker in exchange for the use of the Girl Scouts trademarks. No other revenue from the cookie sales goes to the national organization.

The cookie program is meant to encourage girls to learn five important skills - goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics.

These days customers can find their favorite cookies by searching for a seller through a mobile app or ordering online from a Girl Scout they know.

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Quotes

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."

- Christopher Reeve

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"New ideas pass through three periods:
1) It can't be done.
2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing.
3) I knew it was a good idea all along!"

- Arthur C. Clarke

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"Winners Dream Big Dreams."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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"We come this way but once. We can either tiptoe through life and hope we get to death without being badly bruised or we can live a full, complete life achieving our goals and realizing our wildest dreams."

- Bob Proctor

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"A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."

- Mark Twain

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"We have a choice of how we view the obstacles on our life path. One choice makes us slaves to circumstance, while the other empowers us, and motivates us to follow our dreams - and our happiness."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Inspirations

The Widow's Mite

This edition of MountainWings is available as a spoken version.
Click to Hear > http://www.mwings.com/4110.wma

Below is a letter sent to MountainWings from the issue, The Gifts > http://www.mountainwings.com/past/1293.htm

I, too have a story about the widow’s mite.

For the last 18 years, I have been a public health nurse in my county. About 17 years ago, I was caring for an elderly poor widow.

At Christmas time, I turned her name into the adopt-a-family program. She was chosen by a local church.

They delivered clothes, food and personal items. She saved all of the presents and opened them in my presence on December 24. This was her Christmas and she was sharing it with me because I had turned in her name.

She also gave me a card with a brand new $5 bill inside. I knew she didn’t have this kind of money. She told me that she saved quarters all year long and walked downtown about two miles one way to trade them in at the bank for the $5.

She was so pleased she could do this for me.

I knew she would be so offended if I refused. I took the money and left her home. I drove about four blocks away and pulled over and cried for the next 15 minutes.

I had taken the widow’s mite.

It was all she had and she gave it to me so willingly.

She’s been deceased for several years now.
I will never forget her.
I still have the card and the $5.00 bill.
I just can’t spend it.
It seems wrong somehow.

Another note. A friend forwarded MountainWings to me about one year ago. I have enjoyed your e-mails so much. Please use the enclosed check any way you need. It is not the widow’s mite. Thanks so much for your wonderful words each day.

Mary Ann Riensche
Jesup, Iowa

From The Mountain:
The amount of the enclosed check?
$50.00
Exactly ten times the widow’s mite.

Click for Spoken Version > http://www.mwings.com/4110.wma
Other Spoken Issues > http://www.mountainwings.com/spoken.html

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The Later Part

According to Ecclesiastes, sooner or later, for every one of us,

"The sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, the clouds return after the rain."

We are all subject to the merciless and inevitable order of this life, in which the young and the beautiful wither and the strong grow weak.

Yet there is more to this life.

There are certain human qualities that seem to go the other way.

As the physical frame ages and bears the consequences of life's struggles and passage of time, these qualities grow, increase, and flourish, and really start to blossom only at the later part of a long life.

~by Rev. Aivars Ozolins~

MountainWings subscribers who are in ministry may find Rev. Ozolins' story very interesting.

Read it here: http://www.mountainwings.com/past/4108a.htm

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Being Grateful For What You Have In The Present

"Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be struck blind: Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, as if you would be struck deaf. Touch each object as if tomorrow your sense of touch would fail-smell perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell or taste again."

- Helen Keller

   Thank you, Shari!