Mike and I spent three weeks in New Zealand on the south island during the winter holidays. Five days and 130 miles of paddling the Clarence River, followed by a kayaking jaunt in the Abel Tasman, followed by trekking the Route Burn during our last week. Neither of us has ever spent that much time doing hard physical activity for such an extended ( Read more... )

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Shortly I will be 38, 22 months younger than my brother when he died.

We returned from australia yesterday morning, though then it was 8 hours earlier the next day, the 11th in sydney, in terms of my body. I wondered if crossing the international dateline might make it so I would not menstruate...but no, by then, I had probably just stopped, though ( Read more... )

Buddhist Barbie

by Denise Duhamel

In the 5th century B.C.
an Indian philosopher
Gautama teaches "All is emptiness"
and "There is no self."
In the 20th century A.D.
Barbie, agrees, but wonders how a man
with such a belly could pose,
smiling, and without a shirt.

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I turned a year upside down and shook it out
but haven't quite got the smell out of this skin


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Capricorn (December 22-January 20)

Your instincts and intuition need to be on high alert. You need to see every opportunity with a sense of caution, and every potential danger as a sense of opportunity. The two have one thing in common, which is the necessity for change. The kinds of transactions that you encounter now will have the feelings of ( Read more... )

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( None Shall Pass )

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