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| Current mood:  cultured Category: Writing and Poetry I got my second rejection letter today. It was better than the last one I think, even if sent by email. See below: Dear Jennifer,
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| Current mood:  busy Category: Music This video fully facinated and freaked out the very young me watching it on the very young MTV. My dad was quite fond of music videos back in the day (when they were cool...duh. Today's videos are sooo not Dad's style. He prefers outdoors shows, reality TV and "My Big Fat Redneck Wedding" currently). The part where Alice turns into cake? I figured Tom came up with that for my childhood nightmares. Enjoy! http://community.mtvmusic.com/Video/Dont-Come-Arou... source: MTV Music p.s. This is the first video I looked up when I found out that MTV had put every single video they had ever aired on their website. p.s.s. "I learned it from TV"
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| Current mood: blessed..TR> ..TABLE>
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| Current mood:  bummed Category: Writing and Poetry Poetry is ... a universal bitter-sweet mixture for all possible household emergencies, and its action varies according as it is taken in a wineglass or tablespoon, inhaled, gargled, or rubbed on the chest...." - Robert Graves
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| Current mood:  breezy Category: News and Politics Take this test. I did and I compare with Gandhi, Buddha and the Dalhi Lama. i.e. the left and lower quadrant almost dead center. I found it to be highly enlightening. I'm off to the Vancouver Mall, Target and then Sushi Land! |
| Current mood:  mellow Category: Writing and Poetry A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." -Maya Angelou
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| Current mood:  sleepy Category: Life We don't do our children any favors by trying to be perfect, by never admitting we have made a mistake - by never confessing that we are wrong. If they think we are perfect, they will feel like failures when they find out they are not perfect themselves. Look at all those people whose stories we read in the Bible: There is Abraham, who mistreated both of his wives and almost killed both of his children. There is King David, who had an affair with a married woman and arranged to have her husband murdered for his convenience. And these are the good guys. And what we learn from that, is you can be an awfully good person without being a perfect one. And you can be a wonderful parent without being a perfect parent. -Rabbi Harold Kushner and ... intellectual capacity is no guarantee against being dead wrong." -Carl Sagan
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| Current mood: sad Category: Life I can still remember the night (right around Halloween) when Mom and Dad said she was staying. No one had claimed her when Mom had put a collar on her with our name and number. She drank out of the water glasses I left in my room for years before I figured it out. She loved Spaghetti-o's. We called her Skit-Mit, Skittle and Mittle. She let Lucas bathe her when she fell in oil. She loved to sleep in girl beds. She favored Shannon's after I moved out. A cat walks in your door and stays 20 years. The miracle is in the blessing the six of us were given. "The miracles of nature do not seem miracles because they are so common. If no one had ever seen a flower, even a dandelion would be the most startling event in the world."
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| Current mood: thankful Category: Life Our friends in the neighborhood could have lost their home...or more, in the fire they had tonight. Thankfully, they were late getting home from church. Thankfully, the "arcing" damaged wire in the attic didn't catch fire earlier or later when they all were asleep. The talking about what she pulled from the house and the unexpected laughter in a time of such crisis allows for the reflection of what matters. I can't imagine what she felt in those moments when she didn't know if she would ever get to be in her home again. But as mothers together, as she told me that the children were safe, then beloved books and mementos of loved ones who have passed were taken up in her arms in the dark smokey house. I understood completely. I am so blessed to know these wonderful people. "After years of pursuing myself through the world, I am ready to pause, to arrive once more ... at a here, and stay long enough so that "here" is all that need be said. I want to recognize my neighbors, not wake up in the morning and squint trying to remember where I am, not hesitate wondering how to answer when asked where I'm from.... I want to stop the rolling camera. I want a close-up, a still life, and me in the picture."
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