Anybody out there watching the Olympic Games right now? The 2000+ Tai Chi masters were really awesome! And the little children that they were dancing around! I liked the message--harmony and balance between humans and earth. Sarah Brightman sounded great! Loving my dad's sound system and high def TV right about now. ;D There's Pres. Bush ( Read more... )

But somehow, somewhere along the way, faith stopped being used to bring us together and started being used to drive us apart. It got hijacked. ~Barack Obama, June 23rd, 2008, Hartford, Connecticut.

Mistake #1. I watched Fox News
Mistake #2. I watched Ann Coulter on Fox News
Redemption #1: only for a few minutes last night.
Redemption #2: Hey, I ( Read more... )

I've been reading about the emergence of privacy (in letters and journals) and this got me thinking: why do we write?

I find great satisfaction in keeping a journal, but record-keeping is only a small part of that satisfaction.  According to Boswell, his journal was mainly a way of learning more about himself and evaluating himself from a more ( Read more... )

I like shifting the terms of the discussion to "female agency," but I think it's important to remember that agency can occur within limiting situations (cultural, temporal, etc). What do we do with characters who have agency within circumscribed limits which they can't escape? I admire these characters as much as their fully self-actualized ( Read more... )

Apparently--{spoken in dry tones} thoughts on strong, scifi female characters have been on my mind, A LOT, so I'm posting my response to pellucid's recent entry.  (I won't torture her by linking to it.)

I think that our "love of literature," or fannish love of television, begins when we start having a relationship with these (strong, female) ( Read more... )

Historic moment, here, people!  I wonder what the rest of the world thinks of our individual right to bear arms. I got vertigo today, over the oddness/particularities of American culture. Usually I just take it for granted that our culture is pretty much "normal" (whatever that's supposed to mean). But my grandpa has a whole room in his basement ( Read more... )

 

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I'm a comment maker rather than a comment receiver.  I joined LJ this spring, so this is still a work in progress.  I'm mainly a comment maker because I'm inquisitive and like to explore on LJ.  And when I do write my own entries, I don't know too many people all that well (thus don't get tons of comments).  Plus, I'm more likely to take the ( Read more... )

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I flew to Wrightsville Beach today for a week-long vacation with my dad and grandma (who is 91 years old--woot!).  As the plane took off over Kentucky, I looked out to see miles of farmland.  From above it looked like a succession of well-manicured lawns in a suburb.  Instead of hedges we have very, very straight lines of trees that divide one farm ( Read more... )