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Isobel's Dream
From Isobel Wren's Twitter stream:
Had a dream that I stabbed someone to death w a paintbrush and the bloodspatter turned into mural paintings of wild rose vines.
After the murder I was astonished by how beautiful it was. They moved slowly on the walls and ceiling as though they were alive in there.
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My hair is too long because of the economy.
I work at home, and I work for a company 200 miles away. I go there for major meetings (the ones that we can't do over the phone), or when clients or potential clients want to meet me, or for major company events like the Christmas party. Usually, unless I've already had my hair cut recently, I cut my hair before going down, so I can look all ( Read more... ) -
Love is Evil
He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:
But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
- I Corinthians 7:32-33
It’s becoming increasingly clear to me that love - in the sense of an exclusive caring relationship between two individuals - is morally ( Read more... ) -
Sunday 2009
It was minutes, perhaps seconds, before the life was to pass from her completely. She wasn’t dead yet, and we didn’t know she was dying. She had been weak, after losing nearly half her body mass through various infections that had wasted her and taken away her appetite. She had been getting weaker, and the previous day we had found a trail of ( Read more... ) -
Values Paradox
If you spend your life trying to create beauty using some kind of inanimate medium (or media), people call you deep, and they forgive you for being temperamental and self-important. If you spend your life trying to create beauty using your physical self as the medium, people call you shallow, and if you're temperamental and self-important, they ( Read more... ) -
Therapy vs. Drugs, Jealousy vs. Envy, Mistress Isobel
In keeping with my new policy of putting my long-winded responses to Isobel Wren's videos on LiveJournal instead of YouTube, I'm responding here to the latest video, with reference to Samantha Grace's video from last week. I decided to use my own LiveJournal this time instead of the isobellezza community, but I'll link back from there.
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Jesus, Freud, and Porn
Actually three separate topics (but don't they sound good together?) from my responses to Isobel Wren's video and text blogs. -
Constitutional right to commit fraud?
My opinion -- shared by many, I think -- is that the recent Virginia Supreme Court Decision striking down Virginia's anti-spam law constitutes the affirmation of a Constitutional right to commit fraud in certain cases. My argument is here. -
Karma + Anatta
Most people seem to think of “karma” as the idea that the good things and bad things you do eventually come back to you. I don’t think that’s right. Because who is this “you” that they eventually come back to? Buddhism teaches that there is no self. There is no “you ( Read more... ) -
Isobel is moving back to Richmond.
T minus 6 days and counting: destination is official.