Sunday

We hope your Sunday has been sunny, healthy  and happy. The evening from this corner of the world has been satisfying, soft and sweet. Dusk was melancholy as the setting sun waved it's daily goodbye's. ☼ Yes, we hope you have found contentment some time today, that the sun wrapped it's warmth around you and gave you good light. ☼ Monday gently taps on Sunday nights sleepy shoulders, eager to bring in a new day, with a majestic wave, robed in the distance with it's fire and might, restless and ready, beaming with it's new light and first rays of the dawn

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As an onlooker keeping an eye on the progress of the UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center, it is like a child who can hardly wait for Christmas to open the gifts. Rio Rancho tax payers said "Yes" to a new hospital for the region. Blueprints have been drawn, contractors and work crews aligned, construction is underway, the ground is surveyed and unearthed, leveled, stakes pounded in the ground, concrete pads poured to accommodate the structure that will house those in need of healing, the scientists and researchers, the students and the teachers, doctors, nurses, all the necessary medical personnel required to operate a top notch, state of the art medical facility.

The hospital will be home to everything from Emergency Room facilities to General Medicine, Pediatric, Orthopedic and numerous other departments. Relief, resources, hope, encouragement, support will be in place, on the ready to offer world class medical treatment and health care to those who enter it's corridors. It is about as exciting a project as you can get when one considers the countless lives that will be impacted, the hearts and minds that will be mended, comforted and repaired. Yes, indeed there is a change ahead!

Heart to Heart

UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center's sister hospital, UNM Hospital and Health Sciences Center have long been making advancements in it's Cardiology Clinic, Cardiac Cath Lab and Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinics.   Specialty programs and departments in the planning and development stage at UNM SRMC include Cardiology Research and Clinical Programs which will make way for more opportunities to serve people in the region with heart aches and pains. We can hardly wait to see what is in store in the name of keeping hearts strong and healthy, one heart to many hearts at a time.

In theory as in practicality and reality Jacques Benigne Bossuel sums up the complex and magnificent ways of the heart; "The heart has reason that reason does not understand."   

Rio Rancho Resources

Here is a link that lists many resources available in Rio Rancho. The link shows telephone numbers, addresses and names of organizations, facilities and services available in the area. Rio Rancho is thriving and strives to accomodate everyone wishing to be part of one of the fastest growing towns in the United States.

Baby Boomer Toys

Today in history the Frisbee got off the ground, so to speak. On January 23rd, 1957 the Wham-O Toy Company began mass production on what was at one time referred to as the "Pluto Platter", inspired by the UFO stir in the late 50s, early 60s. Wham-O was also responsible for introducing the Hula-Hoop and the Super Ball, the various size balls with the serious and oft out of control bounce. Like the little solid rubber ball at the center of a golf ball after it's been peeled layer by layer.

Other toy's boys and girls of all ages in the 60's gravitated towards seemed so simple and provided hours of fun for countless kids, toys like the Yo-Yo, The wirey -timeless Slinky, Marbles, Jacks, Pick-up Stix, Tops, Jump Rope, View Masters, Easy Bake Ovens, Creepy Crawlers (precursor to gummie bears & worms) Barbie Dolls & Etch A-sketches, Spiro-Graphs, Cootie, Hot Wheels, Tinker Toys, Tonka Trucks, Lincoln Logs, Mr Potato Head and Army Men. The great thing is many of these toys are still around but not necessarily mentioned among the "A" list of kids favorite toys now a days in this age of modern technology, digitized toys, virtual reality... electronics a go-go.

Just fun to get nostalgic about some of the stuff that puts a light in the eyes of Baby Boomers.

What the World Needs Now - Tom Clay

Equality

“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.”
 ~ Martin Luther King Jr
Born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15th, 1929. Died by assissination on April 4, 1968. A champion of people for civil rights, respect, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. The price for freedom is costly but a basic human right. RESPECT, justice, fairness, equality... Dr King did not ask for too much, only what rightly belonged to it's owners.