"This bowl represents this community. It is a container. It is a container built on discipline and commitment...When Nita pours the water into this bowl, she will be allowing her creativity to be shaped by this container, these disciplines, your traditions."-at an installation ceremony for a new religious education teacher at a UU church service ( Read more... )

The Elizabethans believed that nature's spheres reflect man's spheres.It's a Venn diagram. A bonding pair. The natural order, the human society, with the individual humans holding them together. The electrons ( Read more... )

I'm back. Reverted. It's not an inability to sleep, it's an inability to desire it. A feeling that there's something better to do. Or that it's a waste. So I spend my hours doing nothing. Staring and thinking to the music. Soon I'll be staring into the flames again. Already I want to. Emptying my mind, driving out the sentience like a devil from ( Read more... )

That's it. It's so effortless. Without you two, three?, and this, I'd fester, be sucked in and dissolved. This is why i isolate myself, pull myself out of everything and make my mind fail. So that I won't be dissolved back in. I build my barriers sturdily and let them pull me apart. Because without the barriers, without the division, I am lost. [ ( Read more... )

There was a day I decided I was tired of it all. Tired of being so clearly defined and aware of myself. Tired of being so revealing. Of having such a blatant lack of personality. And I decided that I would thrust myself into something. Pull a shroud over myself. Construct a personality around myself. And I could. It's what most people do. I'd be ( Read more... )

The only way he can't control himself is in the winning. A taste of victory and the knowledge that one can achieve it, and victory is forever sought. He needs to realize that he's losing. He needs to see the consequences layed out before him. He needs to realize that there is a better way to win. Deception. It takes all the energy a person has, but ( Read more... )

She can't control him, so she's going to medicate him. In the end, that's what it always comes down to. Whoever's the strongest wins.

Child, next time you excape, don't come back.

I've been invited to leave my house. If only the alternative wasn't living with my father and grandmother.

Chuaigh me chun aonaigh is dhiol me mo bho ( Read more... )

My life seems to go in waves. Some days everyone notices me. They all talk to me and joke with me. Others, I just drop out of existence into complete solitude. And no one tries to find me.

The school counselor has informed me that i'd be perfect for the military.