Ooh, I like this! From Rob Brezsny ( Read more... )

I won't be in person at either event, but I will be there in spirit. Much love to everyone who's missing her, especially Soren and her family. <3

Originally posted by fimbrethil at Velma's Services in New York and Seattle
Here is the information for the two services. Please spread the word if you are in touch with any of Velma's friends and/or the Rose's ( Read more... )

This LiveJournal, it is a rare and beautiful place. It was even more so in its heyday, maybe 2002-2005, when a few connections expanded my world and I met marvelous humans whom I might not have bumped into otherwise.

roadnotes was one of those humans. On Saturday, she passed away. Cancer ( Read more... )

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Dogs have a superb sense of smell, much better than we humans. But ours isn't bad. We can detect certain odors that have been diluted to one part in five billion. For example, if you were standing next to two Olympic-sized swimming pools, and only one contained a few drops of the chemical ethyl mercaptan, you would know ( Read more... )

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of Beethoven's music teachers said, "As a composer, he is hopeless." When Thomas Edison was a kid, a teacher told him he was "too stupid to learn anything." Walt Disney worked at a newspaper when he was young, but his editor fired him because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." I'm sure there was a person ( Read more... )

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I predict that you will commit no major acts of self-sabotage in 2014. Congrats! I also foresee that you will be exceptionally careful not to hurt or damage yourself. Hooray! More good news: You won't be as critical of yourself as you have sometimes been in the past. The judgmental little voice in the back of your head won ( Read more... )

It's been too long since I participated in an LJ meme. So here we go!

How this works:

You comment, I give you an age (please tell me how old you currently are so I don't inadvertently move you into the future) and you respond to the meme questions with what applied to you back then, and what's true now.

tsarina gave me age 24.

I lived in: the nicest ( Read more... )

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the creation myths of Easter Island's native inhabitants, the god who made humanity was named Makemake. He was also their fertility deity. Today the name Makemake also belongs to a dwarf planet that was discovered beyond the orbit of Neptune in 2005. It's currently traveling through the sign of Virgo. I regard it as ( Read more... )

"The Real Work" by Wendell Berry, from Standing by Words. © 1983

It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work,

and that when we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Here we are, 10 years later, and I have no real words to say that could touch on how I feel, what has changed, what hasn't. I came of age in the time between September 11, 2001, and September 11, 2011. The world entered a new era, or did it? Maybe we are still waiting for the new era ( Read more... )