i woke up this morning in tears. i'd had a dream, but it was nothing worse than a depressing mall experience with chris and jen and sprout. nothing that they - or anyone else in the mall - did caused the abject misery that i felt in my dream. in a way, i get the feeling that i just put them there because they were three people i knew who would try ( Read more... )

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we've had a strange tragedy touch us recently, and investigating it led me to read the blogs and live journals of some sad, desperate, broken, lonely - to the point of dangerous to themselves and others - people. i wrote this in response to that, as a prayer, as a message to people to ask for help, as a reminder ( Read more... )

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...AND i'll break the rules! :)

oo! I’ll start with a fact AND a death:
1804 - Lewis and Clark Expedition: The "Corps of Discovery", exploring the Louisiana Purchase, suffers its only death when Sergeant Charles Floyd dies, apparently from acute appendicitis.
1833 - Nat Turner leads his revolt against the Southern plantation owners of Southampton ( Read more... )

heh heh heh... :D

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I'm more honest than my values quiz says that I am, but I am definitely less honest than I'd like to be, or should be. I am a southern woman, through and through. I've tried to cultivate myself in the image of what i think of as iconic, goddesslike southern womanhood, and that image includes... diplomatic verbology, i suppose. i find that the ( Read more... )

this is EXACTLY how i hope to be when i'm old!
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