Enya's Magic Kingdom

May 14, 2007 at 2:30 PM

At Enya.com when the picture loads, run your mouse from left to right over the top edge of it and see what happens.

I have just discovered her music at rhapsody. I really like their feature of looking at what you select to listen to and then suggesting albums. That's how I found her. I "canned" Sirius two months ago and I am so much happier at rhapsody. No satellite signal to get lost every couple of hours (here in Idaho). All programming slanted towards me, not some young screwball D.J.

Rhapsody only works if you do. I try and spend thirty minutes a week looking up old friends and saving them to my "play list" and then running through their suggested albums. Most records I only listen five seconds to and pretty much know if it deserves further listening.

When I was in college I use to check out seven books a week on subjects other than my major. Here also, I skim read them and returned 80% as being uninteresting. The 20% I read, was at great cost, but was the basis of the difference between a pretty good education and a great education.

And then there are the brownie points. I was at sea on the USS Locator AGR-6 when I got a letter from Mom telling me she had selected Sul Ross my college to get her master's. She said the Librarian stopped her when she saw her last name and asked if she was the mother of Bob. She then told my Mom I had read more books than any other student in the history of the college.

When I walked into Celestial Navigation at Newport, R.I. I was with graduates from every huge University in America. I knew all my constellations and the navigational stars there in. They didn't. On bridge watch I made all lookouts tell me a constellation and navigational star before I let them rotate and come into the warm bridge. Every deck hand knew all the major constellations and the navigational stars and were darn proud of it.

From Natasha Marsalli
Posted on May 15, 2007 at 2:49 PM

:) That's a brilliant idea...as my father says: "It pays to know everything."

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