i reminisce about this place (LJ) from time to time. i used to be so ballsy in what i'd write and put out there in the open internet abyss; hopeful of expressing myself bigger & better than i ever could in spoken word; hopeful to be discovered, uncovered, noticed? My wordpress is so completely different... or is it me that is so different? This is ( Read more... )

@ work, i try to spend lunch-breaks outside. Natural light / fresh air is an instant fix to a monotonous workday. Sometimes i'll take a nap (what am i 80?). Sometimes i read. Sometimes my mind won't shut off... especially when i really want it to. Sometimes prayer works. Sometimes i can't even think of the words to begin or keep going or end with ( Read more... )

it's been a while since i saw a preview of a movie and really wanted to see it.

i've talked repeatedly about wanting to see this one, and managed to get a handful of friends to accompany me to go see it. i'm pretty sure most, if not all of them did not like it ...at all. One of them texted me in the middle, "i'm going to need a prozac after this ( Read more... )

Elliot has taken to sitting directly in front and center of the tv screen now. When i say "front", i mean nose to screen. i tried to take a picture of it last night, but the moment i got close to him, i became more interesting than the screen and he jumped down. Aside from him blocking the view, i'm worried about his eyesight.

Saturday morning, i  ( Read more... )

fall has the best skies. hands down.

Aside from the AFTERWORD, which i read just now Tuesday morning, i finished A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by D.Miller yesterday Monday. i've read every book he's published; though it's been a while since reading anything by him. Personally, i'd put this one at a level right underneath Blue Like Jazz. There ( Read more... )

We started low in the Sacred Valley, along a river that ran through a desert canyon. Above us were the snow-covered steeples of the Andes, and beneath the peaks, high enough to find the sun, the farmers cut the steep land for their crops. They hiked up every day to their high fields. They hiked with their tools and their baskets for harvesting, ( Read more... )

DWSJanitor: Y'know what i'm gonna say when i retire?
Me: HALLELUJAH?!
DWSJanitor: Oh no. No i'm gonna say, (pauses for dramatic efffect then breaks into a slow, low song) i wish you blue birds in the spring to give your heart a song to sing and then a kiss but more than this I wish you love.
Me: wow. that was WAY nicer than what i'd say.
DWSJanitor: ( Read more... )

..my son, he stands there and he says, i want one. And i'm like, no no no, we're leaving. we're going.  And he's like, but i waaant one. And i'm like noo. it's got like this cord and it's got this strap thing. it'd get all like tangled. no, no. we gotta go. He's like, buut i waaant ooone.

Now, a couple weeks before this, we had been at this school ( Read more... )

She dresses herself with strength
   and makes her arms strong; [17]

She opens her hand to the poor
   and reaches out her hands to the needy.
She is not afraid of snow for her household,
for all her household are clothed in scarlet. [20, 21]

Strength and dignity are her clothing,
   and she laughs at the time to come.
She opens her mouth with wisdom,
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...my do wop singing Janitor friend will be leaving in two-weeks.
Either to switch locations or retire altogether. i told him he should retire & travel. He then started to talk about traveling in the pursuit of good fishing locations. i told him to send me postcards.

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