Word of the Day: Raiment ( Read more... )

Try going outside when there is a lot of snow; particularily if it is still snowing. Do some excerise like sledding or shoveling. Then, find a nice snow bank and just flop down into it. Lay there quietly. If you are in the city this wont work so much for you. After flopping down relax your body. The snow muffles all sound. It is silent; all ( Read more... )

January 26th, 2007 ( Read more... )

Recently a show aired on A&E entitled "Psychic Kids," this one-hour show cronicled several lives of children of all ages and backgrounds while at a two-day camp. Chip Coffrey, a well-known adult medium led the kids and their parents through exercises and interviews. These kids, ages from 8-15, all have psychic abilities and can sense or see dead ( Read more... )

Reading 2:
Aristotle and Cicero

Text: Aristotle's Physics, Book 2

Notes:

-There are things which are from nature and those which exist out of nature--they don't have a reason for movement or change. Things that are artificial do not have a source for their own production.

Reading One: E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops ( Read more... )

Movies to See:
-P2
-We Own the Night
-The Darjeeling Express
-Across the Universe

Well it's an Easter miracle! Today, instead of working on some homework that needs to get done asap, I turned to a writing prompt website to do some writing. I clicked around some ideas and then went to a picture page. The page listed different varieties of pictures, all of them sounded interesting except the one labeled "urban decay." For reasons ( Read more... )

Nostalgic for the 1950s: Yearning for a Nonexistent Past ( Read more... )

I have a before and after for you; before living in England I thought American was, eh, okay. It was nice and comfortable but uninteresting where I lived and a little monotonous and boring. I also saw America as capitalistic and greedy; a faceless hub of cities with crime and poverty. America was an okay place to live but I wanted to get out, ( Read more... )