A couple One of my favorite Madonna videos.  Feelin' that way.  :-)




Darn YouTube police!  LOL

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PENITENCE

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SINCE foolishness and sin
In my found origin
In all my lifetime, none
Through me to pleasure won.

I look for equity,
Which none obtains from me;
Against the world I cry,
The world's complaint am I.

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Alas, alas! from em
Springs all inequity;
Ah woe! a thousand sighs
Through my injustice rise.

'For what thy hands have wrought:'
So have the Scriptures taught;
Then is my soul forlorn
Whereof all grief was born.

~The Rubaiyat of Jalal Al-Din Rumi
Select translations
into English Verse' by A.J. Arberry, 1949.

(April 18, 2009 note: I have removed a person's name from the title of this blog per that person's request)

I gave it seeds, but no comment for, I believe, it needs none.  It stands on its own.

Miniature Earth

Social Justice exists.

There is an old Challenge Day aphorism that goes:

"Be The Hero You've Been Waiting For"

I guess that's me.  :-)

...here's the deal:

The first five (5) people to respond to this post will get something made by me!

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations so please read carefully:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make. None whatsoever.
2. What I create will be just for you, with respect.
3. It'll be done this year (2009).
4. It will be something made in the real world and not something cyber. It may be weird or beautiful. It may be edible. It may be ugly.
5. I reserve the right to do something strange. It will probably not involve cheese.
6. In return, all you need to do is nothing.  Well, a smile would be great.

If you're one of the first 5 people to respond and repost, I will send you a message later to get your mailing address.

...when it comes to Friends and understanding relationships between people.

Almost all the social networks allow a simple "We're Friends" connection.  In this environment, we're either mutual friends or not friends at all.  Something is either present or not. 

However, LJ allows two more possibilities for friendship connections, each being a one-way friendship.  This rings truer based on my own experience in the real world.

In other words, how many times have you thought, "I am more a friend to him/her than (s)he is to me."?

I do my best to undo doing and create being.  There is no need to do when being is present.  All flows from my be-ing's essence.  (sometime a little lesson in not taking another person's inventory helps me too)

These are amazing lyrics, gotta share!
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> You cool your bed-warm hands down on the broken radiator,
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> And when you lay them freezing on me, I mumble "can you wake me later?"
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> But I don't really want you to stop and you know it so it doesn't stop
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> And run your hands from my neck to my chest
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> Crack the shutters open wide, I wanna bathe you in the light of day
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> And just watch you as the rays tangle up around your face and body
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> I could sit for hours finding new ways to be awed each minute
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> Cuz' the daylight seems to want you just as much as I want you
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> It's been minutes, it's been days, it's been all I will remember
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> Happy lost in your hair and the cold side of the pillow
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> Your hills and valleys are mapped by my intrepid fingers
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> And in a naked slumber, I dream all this again
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> Crack the shutters open wide, I wanna bathe you in the light of day
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> And just watch you as the rays tangle up around your face and body
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> I could sit for hours finding new ways to be awed each minute
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> Cuz' the daylight seems to want you just as much as I want you
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> Crack the shutters open wide, I wanna bathe you in the light of day
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> And just watch you as the rays tangle up around your face and body
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> I could sit for hours finding new ways to be awed each minute
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> Cuz' the daylight seems to want you just as much as I want you