I just wanted to post a note to the folks who've friended me recently and any who might do so anytime soon. Please don't take offense if I haven't friended you back. At this juncture, my friends list is comprised almost exclusively of people I know in person or people I've known online for a long time. Most of my entries are protected because I ( Read more... )

Anybody love me enough?

Anybody?

....Bueller?

ETA: I assume you all know this, but I'll just add it in case anyone has lost their sense of humor as a casualty of Holiday Gift Crunchtime. I'm totally joking about asking ANYONE to buy this for me. There's no way this item can be THAT much better than my current version.

"Courage is not the abnormal," wrote poet Jack Gilbert. "Not the marvelous act. Not Macbeth with fine speeches. It is the thing steady and clear. The marriage, not the month's rapture. The beauty that is of many days. The normal excellence, of long accomplishment. Not the Prodigal Son, but Penelope." Gilbert's words are my gift to you, brave Taurus ( Read more... )

I am a lemming, it's true. Taken from gws57 and detlef: the Johari Meme.

I really love living near an international youth hostel. Actually, there are a few places around here that provide shelter to the young and foreign. There's something delightful and inspiring about seeing intrepid and disheveled young people emerging from the subway with their travel packs on their backs, turning to and fro, not sure which way to ( Read more... )

I keep waking up in the middle of the night and I'm not particularly pleased about it.

I'd like to get some recommendations for reading materials. I'm looking for works that have had a profound impact on your life and the way you experience it and/or touched you in some way. I'm trying to reprioritize my life, and I feel like quiet time and good literature will help.

"One morning I came upon a small demonstration on a street corner," wrote Sparrow in The Sun. "Several men were holding signs that said BRING BACK DUSK, and shouting, 'Dusk! Give us dusk!' 'But dusk will come again this evening,' I pointed out to one of them. 'We don’t care,' he replied, with a wild look. 'We want it now!'" If and when you become ( Read more... )

I find it fascinating that in a yoga class filled with middle aged upper west side hausfraus this simple point needed to be driven home. "Ladies," the instructor said, "yoga is not a competition. It's not a competition with yourself or with anyone else in the room." And it needed saying too! There were a few of these biddies who were going to ( Read more... )

I'll be in Chitown from June 26th to July 2nd, so get your bids for time in now! And please let me know when you think will be good times for a Brauhaus excursion!