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Click Here for My Article in the Sept 2003 eBay Community Chatter Newsletter!

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." ~ Hannah Whitall Smith, 1902


Ebay Member Since Wednesday, Apr 05, 2000
Current eBay Date/Time: Nov-25-09 11:18:53 PST

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Last updated 09/04/03

A Link To My Article In The Sept '03 eBay Community Chatter Added

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Ocean-Gypsy is my Nom de Chatroom - I buy and sell on eBay under a different ID that has been around longer than this one has! Like a Gypsy, I wander all over the eBay Forums. I live in Berks County, Pennsylvania (the Heart of PA Dutch Country), but I am most at home at the seashore. I am half Pennsylvania Dutch and half Scotch/Irish/English in my lineage, so I have some wonderful old family recipes that I share on the Cook's Nook Board. I am a big Jimmy Buffett fan.

My ID Ocean-Gypsy is from the Title of a haunting 1975 song by the group Renaissance.

I have Class III Congestive Heart Failure (CHF). No, I didn't have a heart attack, my cholesterol is just peachy and I have no arterial blockage. I was just born with a bad ticker. In my 20s, I had my aortic valve replaced (twice) and received my first pacemaker. I am now wearing out my second pacer. I have just gotten to the point in my life where my heart is too weak to pump enough blood to meet my body's needs. Heart Failure is a condition that affects nearly five million Americans of all ages and is responsible for more hospitalizations than all forms of cancer combined. Over 400,000 new cases of heart failure will be diagnosed in the next year. Heart Failure is the only Heart problem in the US where the number of new cases being diagnosed are still increasing from year to year. Click Here to learn more about CHF.

I collect Fontanini Nativity Figurines, Old Amusement Park Memorabilia (especially from Carsonia Park in PA, which operated from 1896 to 1950), Local History Books and Ephemera, Rocks, Minerals, Seashells, and anything else that strikes my fancy. I have a very eclectic decorating style, to say the least!

My latest passion is playing around with my Paint Shop Pro program and creating personalized web graphics and animations. Click Here to view some of my work.


This is my very patient "Other Half" Jim!

OCEAN GYPSY

Tried to take it all away
Learn her freedom just inside a day
And find her soul
To find their fears allayed

Tried to make her love their own
They took her love they left her there
They gave her nothing back
That she would want to own

Gold and silver rings and stones
Dances slowly of the moon
No-one else can know
She stands alone

Sleeping dreams will reach for her
She cannot say the words they need
She knows she's alone
And she is free

Chorus:

Ocean gypsy of the moon
The sun has made a thousand nights
For you to hold
Ocean gypsy where are you
The shadows followed by the stars
Have turned to gold, turned to gold

Then she met a hollow soul
Filled him with her light
And was consoled she was the moon
And he, the sun was gold

Eyes were blinded with his light
The sun she gave
Reflected back the night
The moon was waning almost out of sight

Softly ocean gypsy calls
Silence holds the stars awhile
They smile sadly
For her where she falls

Just the time before the dawn
The sea is hushed
The ocean calls her
Day has taken her and now she's gone

Chorus

No-one noticed when she died
Ocean gypsy shackled to the tide
The ebbing waves were turning
Spreading wide

Something gone within her eyes
Her fingers lifeless stroke the sand
Her battered soul was lost
She was abandoned

Silken threads like wings still shine
Winds take pleasure still make patterns
In her lovely hair
So dark and fine

Stands on high beneath the seas
Cries no more
Her tears have dried
Oceans weep for her the ocean sighs

Chorus

My eBay Help Stuff
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I'm very proud of this Award that was presented to me in 2001 from eBay

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~~~ Teddy Roosevelt, Kansas City Star, May 7, 1918

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