Thank you from Jay Tavare (Happy Holidays 2007)

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Jay Tavare

Dec 5, 07 - 7:33 PM Happy Holidays To All...

Hello to all my lovely fans and friends from all over the World.
It's been a tough year for our Planet, but as this holiday season draws close, I would like to wish all of you a wonderful holiday season and a bright new year.
I am ending this year with more activity than I have had most of this year. I am producing a project that I have written with Old Bear and I will be co- directing it in early 2008. It is a project that is very close to my heart and I know most of you will find the topic fascinating and informative.
I will keep you all posted and you will soon enough know about our project.

I want to thank all the dedicated folks who have worked so hard to keep this site going, I know it was it's 4th birthday not long ago and It pleases me to know this site has real direction now and I love the kind of folks who come here to support me and all the charities I endorse.

I like to thank RRF and Fontenel and all the Jaybirds who donated of their time and money. It is all truly appreciated.

I know 2008 will be an interesting year and I look forward to all that is ahead for us all.

The Apache's have a wonderful but short prayer, Goo Zhoo Dash...
It means, "let all good things happen", as we surrender to the will of something higher, let it be with good faith and with a belief that a higher will is at work, so keep your dreams alive and no matter how impossible it may seem today, tomorrow is a new day, so get up and live your dream!

With all my heart
JT>
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Shay

Dec 6th, 2007 - 5:14 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Happy Holidays to you also Jay and to yours and of course to everyone here in Jayland!!! Your project sounds very exciting and I wish the very best for you and Old Bear with it.

Yes 2007 was and still is a tough year but trials will either kill you or make you stronger. We all are survivors here, lol, so we continue on believing that better things are on the horizon.


Shay
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Seania

Dec 6th, 2007 - 6:31 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Good morning,
And Merry Christmas to you too Jay (and all of Jaybird land). I pray that your production (along with Old Bear) will go smoothly. I can't wait to hear more about it (and see it). How exciting to co-direct something that you have already put yourself into. To see it take "on a life of its own", and grow.
As for 2008, it will be the first time in over 5 years that I won't be in school (though I plan on completing some language classes, as well as some new ones (like furthering the little I know on Cherokee language)). And of course, I'll be back here more often as well.....AS I HAVE MISSED YOU ALL.
I want to thank those that have prayed for me while I have been in school. I have "walked through fire", many a time, while trying to complete my degree. And if you can't tell, I'M SO EXCITED to be graduating next week. New Orleans, here I come.

Blessings to all,
Sea~
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THUNDERCLOUD

Dec 6th, 2007 - 6:37 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

As a newbie , I have enjoyed my time here. Jay , you have a wonderful site. I love your profound words , the pictures , and the crew that manage this site for you. Glad I joined. Thanx Lynn H for giving me the tip
Looking forward to seeing your projects in 2008!
PEACE and GOOD WILL to everyone this Holiday Season!!
Western Massachusetts-- foothills of the Berkshires!
myspace.com/mainemdi
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Running Red Fox (Forum Hostess)

Dec 6th, 2007 - 7:37 AM Happy Holidays To All...

Hi Jay, you are welcome and Happy Holidays to you as well. Congratulations and wishing you all the best on your new project with Old Bear and I'm sure you know we are soooo tuned in and are waiting patiently for more updates.

We appreciate you keeping this site open and I look forward to growing with this site. Happy4th Birthday to JayTavare.com

Happy Holidays to everyone in Jayland.

RRF
Forum Hostess
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~Moni_Bella~

Dec 6th, 2007 - 8:51 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Hi Jay!

Happy Holidays to you and yours! Can't wait to hear more about your upcoming project. Wishing you all the best as you move forward into 2008.

Take Care,

~Moni_Bella~
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Lisa C.

Dec 6th, 2007 - 11:24 AM Re: Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Buon Natale e felice anno nuovo Jay! May you have the brightest of holidays and a very blessed New Year.

Can't wait to hear more about your new project as I am sure it will be spectaculure and co-directing, what fun!

Lisa
Iowa
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Shannon Noelle

Dec 6th, 2007 - 2:19 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Happy Holidays ! I hope that you have a beautiful 2008 filled with much happiness!

I look forward to hearing about your exciting new project!

Happy Holidays to all of the Jaybirds!



Shannon Noelle
www.myspace.com/shannon20052005
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Deer

Dec 6th, 2007 - 5:29 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Happy holidays to everyone. Stay safe.
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Kelly

Dec 6th, 2007 - 7:12 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Wow, sounds really intriguing. I am sure I am not alone when I say, I cannot wait to see your film with Old Bear. Happy Holidays to everyone on here and you Jay. Thank you for your spirit that always moves me.
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Carol aka The Empress

Dec 6th, 2007 - 7:57 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Hey Jaby and the Jaybirds around the world!

I hope everyone has a festive, safe and wonderful time with your loved ones, in-laws and out-laws (hehehe).

May peace be your companion, love be in your hearts and Beano in your stomaches. Just kidding, but not a bad idea with all the celebrating we'll do.

Carol
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rita pallada

Dec 6th, 2007 - 11:58 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

hello jay happy hollydays to jou en i find you an verry good acteur and verry gordeous man groetjes rita
netherlands
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Claudia

Dec 7th, 2007 - 12:52 AM Re: Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Happy holidays to Jay and all Jaybirds!!!
Netherlands
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rita pallada

Dec 7th, 2007 - 4:22 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

i am sorry jaybirds jou too a happy hollydays too
netherlands
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Running Red Fox (Forum Hostess)

Dec 7th, 2007 - 5:17 AM Happy Holidays To All...Hello Rita Pallada

Hi Rita P., thank you & welcome to Jayland We hope to see more posts from you around the forum. Happy Holidays!!

RRF
Forum Hostess
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sissy

Dec 7th, 2007 - 4:43 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

And a happy holidays to you and yours! Can't wait to see what you have in the works with Old Bear.

Be well and please give Mohawk a hug for us Jaybirds .

peace,
sissy
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lovablegypsy

Dec 7th, 2007 - 5:13 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Thank you, that was a wonderful Holiday Blessing. I could feel the seeds of Goodness sprinkled all over me.

I wish you and all the Jay-birds and the hardworking Jay-Team a Very Blessed Holiday Season.

Much Success & Happiness to All reading this.

Look forward to hearing more Good things
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Eleanora

Dec 7th, 2007 - 11:11 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

merry xmas to jay and jaybirds. i glad you working jay
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Dragonfly

Dec 7th, 2007 - 4:18 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Happy Holidays to you too Jay . I look forward to hearing more about your project. Thanks again to you and everyone who works so hard for keeping the site going. It truly is a positive thing.


Happy happy holidays to all!

Dragonfly
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Rita Ann

Dec 8th, 2007 - 12:06 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Goo Zhoo Dash right back at you too, dear Chief, and to everyone in Jayland. Thank you especially for your warm encouragement to keep our dreams alive in the last paragraph of your post.
I can't wait to hear more about your and Old Bear's project. I know it will be magnificent, whatever it is.
Here is a poem I found, to commemorate your project and the 4 year anniversary of this site:

The Track of the Sun
across the Sky
leaves its shining message,
Illuminating,
Strengthening,
Warming
us who are here,
showing us we are not alone,
we are yet ALIVE!
And this fire
Our fire
Shall not die!

-Atoni (Choctaw)
***
Abundant blessings and Happy Holidays to all,

Rita Ann
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Blue Angel

Dec 8th, 2007 - 12:20 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Merry Christmas to Jay and all the Jaybirds and families.
Hope you all will have some nice and relaxing days.

It has been a quite revealing and most certainly interesting time for me on here, and I look forward to more challenging threads.

All the best
Lots of love
from Andrea (aka Blue Angel )
Doncaster
www.myspace.com/fourtysomethingwotsit
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Christi

Dec 9th, 2007 - 6:06 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Hi Jay and Everybody!

Jay you have changed my life by just being you, and doing what you, and creating this place. I started trying to name all of the great peeps I've met here, but I'd forget some one, and the list would be too long. So I'll just say "Blessings be upon all of thee."

Christi
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Linda K.

Dec 9th, 2007 - 7:19 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Jay,

Happy Holidays to you to. I hope that you have a safe and Merry Christmas and a good year in 2008. I look forward to hearing more from you in 2008 on this website.

To everyone else who is on this website. I wish you all Happy Holidays to.

The Hillbilly Barbie from Kentucky
Linda K.
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Surferdame

Dec 9th, 2007 - 8:40 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

ALOHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I WISH YOU JAY AND THE TEAM THAT HELPS YOU OUT WITH THE WEBSITE THE BEST HOLIDAY SEASON EVER.....AND THE JAYBIRDS ALSO I HOPE THIS NEW YEAR COMES WITH BEAUTIFUL BLESSINGS TO EVERYONE .... LOTS OF LOVE , PEACE, AND HAPINESS AND GOOD SURFING..... HANG LOOSE OHHHH YEAHHHHHHHHHHH

CIAO,
SURFERDAME
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Summer Breeze

Dec 9th, 2007 - 5:15 PM Re: Re: Happy Holidays To All...

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ....
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Windsong

Dec 10th, 2007 - 9:30 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Happy Holidays to Jay and all the Jaybirds and Lurkers!!!

xoxo, Windsong
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Susan

Dec 10th, 2007 - 5:31 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Wishing everyone of the Jaybirds and Jay a happy happy holiday season and a successful new year. RRF and team Tavare you have done all of us proud. Thank you.
PS Looking forward to your film Jay, now you are moving to directing and producing after writing and acting! You are a true film maker and story teller.
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Miss Davis - a.k.a. "Five Shrieks"

Dec 12th, 2007 - 4:29 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Howdy, Jay!

Wishing you a safe and lovely holiday season and a very prosperous new year!!!

Miss Davis
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Michaelle Kelly

Dec 13th, 2007 - 6:13 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Happy Holidays to everyone.

Take care,
Mica
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rita pallada

Dec 21st, 2007 - 5:01 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...christmas

hello jay and jaybirds merry christmas and a happy new jear to you all and kissis for momo greetings rita pallada
netherlands
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CellFunktion

Dec 21st, 2007 - 5:04 AM Holiday Greetings and Wishes

Merry Christmas and a Happy new year to all the Jaybirds out there in Jayland!!!!!

I wanted to thank all of you on here that has given me so much support and a listening ear to all my crap, strange as though these rants seemed.

I have to tell ya, you guys are part of the people in my life thas lifted my spirits, and it's people like you that make me look forward to the new year, new life, and new people.

It's been a hell of a year for me and mine, and I thank God everyday for people such as yourselves for lifting me up.Too often I have been behind this keyboard with a downtrodden heart, and just as often I walk away with my spirits lifted.

This is the greatest gift a girl could have for Christmas.

Besides Christ's birth, of course.

So, in the spirit of giving, you guys have inspired me to make music out of all of this. Hopefully these beats will be done by the new year. I'm not selling them, I'm giving them. Music is a gift, and that is a gift to all of you that have inspired, comforted, and in some ways, HEALED my heart.

I'll let ya know when I'm done.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, Y'ALL!!!

CellFunktion

Location: VA(for now)
www.myspace.com/cellfunktion
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Mona

Dec 21st, 2007 - 8:07 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Happy Holidays to all of you!!!

I have to say I'm happy to leave 2007 behind me as it has been a tough year for me and for many of us. I hope to reemerge in 2008 stronger and wiser, and ready for the new day, new fight. I wish all of you strength to look at everything from the positive point of view. In other words I wish happiness and joy for everyone

Love,
Mona
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(Jen) Malika

Dec 22nd, 2007 - 2:23 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Oh..Happy Holidays!
www.myspace.com/tribalsistah
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Monet

Dec 24th, 2007 - 7:35 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Happy Holidays to all of you, whatever holiday you celebrate.

And if you don't celebrate any particular holiday, well it's a day off, right?

Got any special plans?
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Claudia

Dec 25th, 2007 - 2:00 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

We don't have something special.
A friend is coming over for diner tonight.

Last year was his first time that he had diner at our house. He lives all by himself and he had nothing to do on 1st Christmas day. I didn't like the idea of him being alone, so I called him and asked if he would like to come over.

This year we asked him again, LOL.

Tomorrow is my grandmother's birthday, we will have diner at my parents house and the day after that, it's my brothers birthday...very busy.
Your Location: The Netherlands

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gunilla

Dec 25th, 2007 - 8:53 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...christmas

Merry christmas to you all!
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lovablegypsy

Dec 25th, 2007 - 8:57 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...christmas

Same to you & everyone here

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Miss Davis - a.k.a. "Five Shrieks"

Dec 25th, 2007 - 11:36 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S ! ! !

Good morning to everyone in Tribe Tavare! I just wanted to wish everyone here a very Merry Christmas today, and I hope you received mostly everything you wanted. And just in case you do not celebrate Christmas, then have a wonderful and safe holiday as well.

To me, Christmas is a time of sharing, caring, giving, love, hope, embracing traditions and enjoying family and friends. . . I think everyone can basically "dig" that. . . right? LOL!

Holla-Holla!

Miss Davis
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Running Red Fox (Forum Hostess)

Dec 27th, 2007 - 10:15 AM Happy Holidays To All.......Happy Kwanzaa

Kwanzaa (matunda ya kwanza, Swahili for "first fruits") is an African American holiday observed by African communities throughout the world that celebrates family, community, and culture. It is a seven-day holiday that begins December 26 and continues through January 1.


NGUZO SABA (The Seven Principles)


Umoja (Unity)
To strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation and race.

Kujichagulia (Self-Determination)
To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speak for ourselves.

Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility)
To build and maintain our community together and make our brother's and sister's problems our problems and to solve them together.

Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics)
To build and maintain our own stores, shops and other businesses and to profit from them together.

Nia (Purpose)
To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

Kuumba (Creativity)
To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Imani (Faith)
To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.
­
Maulana Karenga
www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/index.shtml

Happy Kwanzaa

RRF
Forum Hostess
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Roma

Dec 31st, 2007 - 4:33 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Hello Jay-Land! Sending out Best Wishes for a Very Happy New Year 2008 to Jay & all us JayBirds, JayWalkers, and JayDeds. We may be here or there, near or far, past or present, but we all have in common an appreciation for you Jay for bringing us the knowledge of these good things you share willingly & unconditionally. Keep your light shining. One fine day we may meet & I can say Thank You for the positive influence you have been to me & mine. You are not forgotten. Party Safe & Be Blessed , Everyone!
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Running Red Fox (Forum Hostess)

Dec 31st, 2007 - 5:25 AM Happy New Year To All...

Hello to Jay and everyone in Jayland,

Thank you Roma, it is good to see you. Please feel free to post more often.

Here's wishing Jay, this website, and everyone in Jayland a very prosperous 2008. May we all continue to grow together and be there for each other thru our ups & down, thick & thin.

Peace
&
Love

RRF
Forum Hostess
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lovablegypsy

Dec 31st, 2007 - 10:22 AM HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR

HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR

I hope ALL your dreams come this year

If you're drinking tonight please do it in a safe place and have a safe way to get home

Have Fun
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Turquoise

Dec 31st, 2007 - 11:03 AM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Hello to all fellow Jaybirds!!!

May 2008 bring unforgettable joyous memories to your life....
A Happy and healthy new year to you all! Cheers!

T.
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Linda K.


Jan 1st, 2008 - 12:38 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...Hello

Happy New Year to Jay and all the Jaybirds out there. I hope you have a safe and healthy 2008.

Linda K.
Hillbilly Barbie from Kentucky
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Nia

Jan 1st, 2008 - 2:39 PM Re: Happy Holidays To All...

Thanks for the message Jay and Happy Holidays to all!
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CellFunktion

Jan 2nd, 2008 - 4:35 AM My New Year's gift to you

When I wrote my Christmas greeting, I had fully intended on penning a song/beat as a thank you for all the Jaybirds that have been in my spiritual corner. And I was ALMOST finished.

But something changed.

In the music world, nothing is set in stone. The things a musician means to write or play tends to change like the weather. And most of the time it's unexpected.

This was no exception.

Remember the the person I was dating that I talked about on here(the one with the parents that don't like me because I'm..well...whatever...look it up lol)? He decides to spend New year's Eve with my friends and I. We had the night planned: Gonna go to dinner, then hang out at the hookah bar and dance the night away, meeting people there and having a great time.

Then Denny calls me.
"Yo, why don't you bring your cello tonight? I feel like jammin'."

Of course.

We never made it to the bar.

After the ball dropped, Denny decides that he wants to jam. And record it. We play a few songs, jot down some ideas, as everyone else was chillin' in the living room watching tv and chatting up. I then decided that I wanted to record something. I have written a few songs on guitar. I am self-taught, so my guitar playing is very limited. But I wanted to lay it down anyway. I proceeded to teach Denny the song so I could overdub it with cello. He heard me play it and says,"I think you need to do this one on your own."

"Closure" was the result.

I played for all of us that have lost, gained,slipped or fell the past year. I played for all the pain and pleasure we have experienced. I played for the wisdom gained from such deep lessons, and for the wisdom we will gain in the future. I played for those that I loved and for those I hated. I played for those that had nothing and everything. I played for the known and unknown. I played for healing. I played for sickness.

I played for you.

I played for a closing chapter in life, and played for a new chapter opening.

That's what 2008 is for me, and as it should be for all of us.

So...this is my gift to you. I had something else in mind, but this is more....spiritually appropriate...this is my Spirit speaking, telling you that I thank you and love you all. Go to my page You can download it if you wish. It's not perfect, but it is honest and open. I don't need any feedback, just take a listen, burn it, do whatever. Again, this is my gift to you. I hope it brings you comfort, peace, and most of all CLOSURE in listening to it as much as it did me playing it.

Happy New Year everyone.

CellFunktion
Location: VA (for now)
www.myspace.com/cellfunktion