right now a little bird in a shoebox is dying. its right leg is broken; it fell from its nest somewhere up on the roof a few days ago. i went to look at it after dinner and it was lying on its side - not quite dead but dying, and we're waiting for it to die, because there isn't anything else to do. its leg was broken from the start, but i think we ( Read more... )

 
Tonight I am restless and very, very curious. About photons, who invented the pencil, who exactly Pliny was, the Bosnian genocide, Hatoyama's plans concerning fraternity - loads of things. :/  I think of a columnist's recount of meeting a diplomat and benefiting from his "dazzling erudition" and the thought of it actually kind of excites me. World ( Read more... )

 
twelve days left!

I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I ( Read more... )

 
"...diverse repertoire for dealing with social situations." -- someone from the INFP community. Something interesting to think about.

I like how writing enables people to express themselves more freely - more honestly - and often with more clarity as well. Most of the time. Or am I wrong? There's so much we can do.

I know what I am looking for, ( Read more... )

 
you know, to be perfectly honest, I have most of the answers I need. Ask me, and I will tell you, when we have the time to sit and talk and think and get to know each other / one another better. I want openness and understanding too much to be that withdrawn, leastways not all the time.

What matters is will. The tiny cut on the tip of my tongue is ( Read more... )

- You are not very happy, are you? she said.
- What?
- Alone. An orphan. Few friends. Only prospects. Which are rarely more lasting than yellow butterflies in September. 
- I'm plenty happy. And I've got all the friends I care to have. 
- Meaning you care to have - what, three? And one of those is a horse. 
- People. They'll let you down.

(excerpt from ( Read more... )