Magical chain reaction

Mystery Couple Starts "Magical" Chain Reaction
For five hours, strangers bought each other meals at a Philly diner
By DANIELLE JOHNSON
Updated 12:50 PM EST, Mon, Dec 14, 2009

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It played like a scene from a holiday movie -- a mystery couple, who didn’t leave their names or numbers, walked into a restaurant, finished their meal and then set-off a chain reaction of generosity that lasted for hours.

That’s just what employees at the Aramingo Diner in Port Richmond said a man and a woman did during their breakfast shift last Saturday morning.

“It was magical. I had tears in my eyes because it never happened before. I’ve been here for 10 years and I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Lynn Willard, a waitress.

Willard and other waitresses told NBC Philadelphia that the couple started the chain reaction by paying double: for their own meal and for the tab of another table of diners at the restaurant. There's no evidence that one group of diners knew the others.

“I could not believe it … and it continued and continued, it was very nice,” said Willard. “They asked us not to say anything until they left, but we said ‘Merry Christmas, that person picked up your tab.’”

For the next five hours, dozens of patrons got into that same holiday spirit and paid the favor forward.

The diner’s manager said not one person was concerned about price of the check -- which averaged between $12-$30.

“It was a surprise to all of us, the girls were even taken aback,” said Linda. “Those who took the check also tipped the waitress. So nobody had to do anything other than pass it on and that’s what they did. They just passed it forward.”

It’s a true holiday story that proves how a small gesture of kindness can create some magic.

No One Says "Hello"

Author: Daniel Edstrom

No One Says Hello by Daniel Lee Edstrom http://supremeintelligencesmedia.blogspot.com

Introduction to song lyrics;

The song that I have entitled "no one says hello", was written, recorded, and produced, on a Sunday afternoon. It is mostly about the ironic state of lack of communication in our technological world.

I feature myself on the 12 string guitar, bass guitar, orchestra strings, and vocals. I mixed it all down on a tascam portable studio, transferring the files to my computer, I put together a video using power editor from cyber link.

The video is unique in the sense that I used a Logitech WebCam during the very initial stages of the song when I was first inspired by a simple basic tune. At that point I didn't have one lyric in mind, however, I felt that the tune was catchy and was confident that the words would come along soon enough.

Sure enough the lyrics came along and were inspired from a missed phone call that my mother made to me. I recorded her voicemail message on the first channel in my studio and low and behold, everything seemed to fall into place for the completion of this song. I hope everyone enjoys it.

I am also offering my fans a unique oppurtunity to choose the option of having their name engraved on the cd or dvd face for a more personalized and valued keepsake effect.

[ Lyrics below]

Everyone has a cell phone technology world today

everyone has a cell phone but no one says hello

I saw a homeless man talking to the trees today

I wondered is this a sign a sign of things to come

When you can't seem to get through get through to anyone.

In a world of a trillion wires the irony's unspun, the irony's unspun

musical break [12 string guitar and orchestral strings]

Web cams and iPods in all our homes today

Musical downloads e-mails on the way

I wonder if the music the music that we need to hear

Is coming through the channels and coming through real clear

Are the movies that were watching inspiring us today

or is technology and cameras stealing our souls away, stealing ou souls away

Musical break [12 string guitar and orchestral strings]

repeat first

If everyone starts talking talking to the trees

Will the message that we need to hear be coming from the leaves, coming from the leaves

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Awareness # 3

awareness number three

Author: Daniel Edstrom

Welcome friends and visitors to the ongoing saga of supreme intelligences media. We are going to write about what we believe to be, awareness number three.

For those of you who are familiar with the plant totem project, we had the healthiest tomato plants flourishing from one of the totems, and one day when I returned home from work, I noticed that some of the leaves were missing from the plants. I shrugged it off to the wind until the next day I noticed almost all of the leaves were gone! And to my surprise, upon closer viewing, there was a big, fat, bright, green worm munching away on one of the few leaves that were still standing.

As usual my ego took control and I swiftly brought that beautiful creature's life to an end. You killed my tomato plants and I killed you. I thought nothing more of it. A couple weeks went by and ironically, I still was able to harvest a relatively small crop of cherry tomatoes.

A Southern evening was coming down as I was relaxing on my front porch. An area in between my toes on my right foot, began to itch. As I looked at my foot from time to time, I noticed what seemed to be a red inflamed track heading haphazardly across my foot. After doing research and visiting my dermatologist, I learned that I had contracted a parasite that came from my brother's cats. It was called hook worm.

Let's see here, a parasite almost destroyed my tomato plants, and a parasite created havoc to my foot. Could this be a link to the supreme intelligence? Relax, breathe in deep, and meditate. A parasite is a living creature that depends on another living creature for its survival. My tomato plants were yielding its leaves ever so willingly to the worm. Supreme intelligence has set forth harmonious relationships between parasites and hosts. But what happens when the parasite threatens the survival of the host or in smaller scale, merely aggravates the host? In my particular case, I was severely aggravated and therefore motivated to take the steps of annihilation necessary to procure a rather untimely death to another intelligent species.

A rather large parasitical spectrum is now being unfolded in front of me. From the infinite microscopic direction, to the what is larger than me universe. And then we think about the earth. Is the earth a living organism? Yes it is. Are human beings parasites to the earth? Yes we are. Is it possible that the earth is starting to recognize what affects human beings are having upon it?

Awareness number three. It is in our best interest that we take the steps necessary, now, to prevent the earth from dying. It is also paramount to ease mother Earth's aggravation with human beings before it is too late for us. Awareness number three is about timing, it's about now.

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Plant Totems: Design Update

Plant Totems: Design Update

"The Joy Of Being"

"THE JOY OF BEING"....[AT ONE TIME A #1 SPOT ON GOOGLE SEARCH!], IS A FRESH NEW APPROACH ON HOW THIS POEM, BY PATTY EDSTROM, IS BEING PRESENTED THROUGH A VIDEO FORMAT WITH AN ORIGINAL 12- STRING GUITAR COMPOSITION ENTITLED "THE REPOSESSION" WHICH IS PERFORMED BY HER SON, DANIEL EDSTROM. THIS UNIQUE, DIGITAL, COLOR VIDEO, WILL DISPLAY HER LITERARY WORK WITH A SPECIAL, ANIMATED TEXT THAT IS BACKED WITH A HIGH QUALITY, DIGITALLY MIXED MASTER FILE[WINDOWS MEDIA AUDIO/VIDEO FILE @ 7.81 MB] FROM THE STATE OF THE ART STUDIO AT SUPREME INTELLIGENCES MEDIA.