Cool Perfomance Art

I'm not usually much of a YouTube guy but this is pretty cool. No protest, no motive, just let's see if we can do it. Two hundred people freezing in place for five minutes in Grand Central Station.

The Masters

It’s time. I know you can hear the first smooth strands of the piano music as the images of azaleas, dogwoods, brilliant green fairways, Rae’s Creek, the Hogan Bridge and Magnolia Lane roll across the screen. You are welcomed by the mellifluous voice of Pat Summerall and now Jim Nance. It’s Masters Week at Augusta National.

The only one of the major championships played on the same course every year The Masters holds a special appeal for both players and fans alike.

Both the club and the championship were the vision of golfing legend Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts. The list of Masters champions reads like a roll call of golf’s greats; Gene Sarazen, Byron Nelson, Sam Snead, Ben Hogan, Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Phil Mickelson and Tiger Woods.

It’s Masters week at Augusta and I plan to enjoy.

Returning a favor - BLOOD4

A while back I got some nice words about my blog from a fellow blogger in Brazil. So I want to return the favor. Frederica Cassis is a psychologist at a hemophilia hospital clinic in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She believes in the power of images and uses what she calls ‘blood symbolism’in her hemophilia work. People like Frederica; our doctors, nurses and social workers are so precious to our (relatively) small bleeding disorders community.

Frederica helps the children in her care educate themselves about hemophilia and cope with living with a bleeding disorder. She has created a flashcards game to teach kids about blood clotting and hemophilia called HEMOACTION. Examples of some of the HEMOACTION cards are below. For more about HEMOACTION go here.

I can barely put two coherent thoughts together at one time and Frederica blogs in French, Spanish and English. Remarkable!

Thanks, Frederica.

Visit her at BLOOD4

Great new Product - Brūz Wear

I remember hearing about this idea a while back and though it was great. These pants for your little one have padding sewn into the pants over the knees. When Jack was starting to crawl we worried about bruises and must have gone through 4-5 sets of knee pads to help ward off the black and blue knees. He never seemed to be bothered much by the bruises but they did look nasty, which sometimes got us nasty looks.

From the 4/6/2008 Press release:

"Brūz Wear’s pants are the creation of Colorado mom, Kathryn Ames, who was determined to find a way to encourage her son, Nicholas, to crawl, climb, and stumble even though he has a severe bleeding disorder named hemophilia.

“I wanted Nicholas to feel like a normal, active little dude that could keep up with the other kids,” Kathryn said of her designs. “Other kids notice his ‘cool’ skater pants but I’m thankful his knees are protected from hard surfaces!” It was not hard to share the pants with all active children. “Many Moms on playgrounds ask where they can find Brūz Wear pants for their own kids. Hemophiliac or not – the pants are in demand!”

Good Luck to Kathryn and Brūz Wear.