Comments | tasha18: yea, I'm published (sort of)

tasha18

yea, I'm published (sort of)

Jul 03, 2007 17:09

Not much to report here. Israel an France were both interesting experiences (I don't think I'll ever forget the sights and smells of seventy bloodhounds being fed at a chateau) but I think my mom and I have approached the limit of the time we can spend in each other's company without clawing each other's eyes out. My dad used to liken us to cats ( Read more... )

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Hey there! I'm Lauren! sifukatara January 6 2008, 06:00:58 UTC

Hey there! My name is Lauren. I hope you're doing well. I just wanted to introduce myself, since i added you as a friend. I also added you on MSN Messenger as well.

I'm visually impaired and I can only see out of my left eye. But I see with my heart and it's the best source of sight God could have given me. I LOVE writing stories, both original and fanfiction and I also have written three original books and have one published. I LOVE horses, ER, Touched by an Angel and 7th Heaven. I'm a kid at heart and proud of it. GOL! GOL means giggles out loud. I hope to hear from you soon. And I hope i didn't startle you. Feel
free to read anything and everything in my LJ and comment on it.
God loves you
Lauren

Re: Hey there! I'm Lauren! tasha18 January 6 2008, 16:24:24 UTC

from an essay i wrote titled in search of the Ordinary: "When I was thirteen, the popular psychic and author Sylvia Brown told me, in front of a thousand spectators, that one day, a miraculous laser surgery would enable me to see. I immediately forgot that she had prefaced these words with “I’m sure you see with your heart, honey,” a statement whose high sugar content would otherwise set my teeth on edge, and that lasers are nothing more than precise and fancy knives. Last July, a nameless rabbi In South Africa told me that I was blind to atone for the sins of this generation, and that I would be healed only if I write songs of praise. I have not the foggiest idea what “songs of praise” are, and I do not hold much with atonement in the biblical sense, but anything is better than “seeing with your heart.” We can sing in harmony or out of key together, we can pray and atone for the sins of the Jewish people together. But to imply that I “see with my heart,” that is, that I judge people not by their looks, but “by the content of ( ... )