IT LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER RAINY DAY, NASCAR CRASH

It looks like it is going to be another rainy day here in Colonial Heights and Sunday isn't looking to good either. There is a 100% chance of rain today and an 80% chance on Sunday, if we get all this rain there is no way that we will be playing at Shepherd Stadium on Monday. The Thomas Dale game with Matoaca was washed out again yesterday and they are going to to play on Monday as well. The UVA baseball team dropped game 1 of there series with Florida State yesterday 10-3, it doesn't look to good for the Cavs this weekend. I have enclose a video of Michael McDowell's qualifying crash at Texas yesterday that I got from ESPN, it was one wild ride. Dale Jr captured the pole for this weeks race beating Carl Edwards for the top spot. I don't know if you have checked out Mickey's Country Music Box yet but if haven't you should there are over 750 songs in it right now. They are running the Ukrop's 10K this morning in Richmond and there are 30,000 people running in this years event, I know several people who are in it and several of them wanted me to run in it as well, maybe next year I sure hope they don't wet. The NHL regular season ends tomorrow and the playoffs began next week, the NY Rangers are already in and the Washington Capitals can win the Southeast Division with a win or loss in OT tonight against Florida. The Caps had a major turnaround after they changed coaches in November and the may have the best player in the league in Alexander Ovechkin. Also tonight the NCAA final four play tonight with the winners advancing to the championship game. Try to stay dry. MICKEY



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On Communication, By Landmark Education LLC. the Official Guide To Landmark Education
Listening seems sometimes as if it is a rare happening among human beings. We can’t really listen to another person speaking if we’re preoccupied, or if we’re trying to decide what we’re going to say when the other stops talking, or if we’re debating about whether what is being spoken is true or relevant or agreeable. Listening, in other words, is being accessible and open to what is being said. Listening gives life to what is being spoken. You might even say it is with the listener that both the speaker and what is spoken exist and come alive. Speaking, meanwhile, can be something more than talking, more than the exchange of symbols or information, more than saying what you really think. In speaking we can share ourselves, we can evoke experience in others. Speaking is where our ideas become clear and possible. It is where others are expanded by our participation with them. It allows for the futures we create. Speaking lives in poetry, in the appreciation of another, in idle conversations that pass the time, in great theories and books that give rise to wonder and thought. . Speaking allows for "who" and "how" we "are" in the world. It is what gives voice to all that is possible in being human. True communication is creation. It has the power to shape, determine, and alter the course and quality of our lives. It moves people. It generates experience in others. It not only delivers information to others, it actually transforms their ability to hear. True communication transforms both the speaker and listener. The Landmark Forum suggests that what it is to be human has its own domain and that domain is one of language—of communication, of conversation. Through communication —the realm of language, of conversation—each of us has complete access to ourselves, to others, to the very essence and possibility of what it means to be human.