HAPPY NEW YEAR to all who are reading my new blog!  Thank you for your warm comments and encouragement.   I know I am long overdue in corresponding with many dear friends.  I think the dust is starting to settle. 

The photo at the top of my blog is Pike's Peak taken by my daughter Emily from our yard.  This is the view from our new home as the morning sun rises in the east.  I love the awesome pink glow! 

I've named my blog Tantara's Landing as a salute to our year of nautical adventure aboard our 38' catamaran sailboat, Tantara.  Last year,  we settled in our new home on a mesa overlooking a Colorado mountain range.  I like to imagine that our "boat" has finally landed (like Noah and his family on Mt. Ararat) and we are embarking on a new life, a new chapter.  Tantara's Landing.

Actually, we have named our new home the same name and someday we hope to erect a sign somewhere on our property.  When folks wrinkle their foreheads at the idea of naming our home, I say, "And why not?  Is there a law against it?  Do only beach cottages in Gulf Shores (Cloud 9) and Scarlett O'Hara's Tara have exclusive privileges?"  

Have you named your home?  If not, why not?  What would you name your home?  I'd like to hear your ideas.  Make it a family project this year.  Make it official by erecting a sign in your front yard or sewing a special flag.  So what if your current residence is temporary?  Each place is unique in your family history.  

The word Tantara is an onomatopoeia (formation of words in imitation of natural sounds) meaning: the sound or fanfare of a trumpet; tan-ta-ra!    A few passages that inspired the name for us were 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18:

"For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God.  And the dead in Christ will rise first.  Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in  the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.  And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words."

and 1 Corinthians 15:52:

"in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.  For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."

Tantara, Warderick Wells, Bahamas, February 2007

May you be richly blessed in 2009!

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Posted by Anonymous

Happy New Year from our home. We have named it "The Little Blue House on the Prairie"

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Posted by Anonymous

Hmmm...I'll have to think about it. Since we are moving again in June I doubt we'll name this one. ::snort::

De'Etta

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