Dewey's 24-hr Read-a-thon is coming up again soon. This year it will be on Saturday, April 29, and as we get ready for another one, they're hosting several mini-read-a-thons over on Goodreads. Today the goal is to read for a total of 2 hours. I'm in!

I am currently working on The Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals, and I' ( Read more... )

X-posted from dailyrumi, and last year.

http://ahavah-ehyeh.livejournal.com/187488.html

snagged from theafaye

My real favorite poem is A Mouse and a Frog, but I've posted that here and at dailyrumi (and on facebook, actually) several times. So instead I'll give you the poem that was my favorite before I discovered Rumi:

( Said the Rose )

x-posted from dailyrumiAdvice doesn’t help lovers ( Read more... )

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dailyrumi - A daily dose of spiritual juiciness in ecstatic poetry form.

ljsecret - It's like postsecret, but daily instead of weekly, and with sixty secrets instead of twenty.

unsentletters - Very cathartic. I wish I'd realized that was an option long ago in my angsty-pen-wielding ( Read more... )

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I decided to cross-post this from dailyrumi. If you're not a member, you should definitely check it out ( Read more... )

I said in my intro that I would try not to be bleak, so when I saw our first topic for therealljidol was Saying Goodbye, I tried to just make it not about mom. Lord knows I've had many goodbyes in my life, and a great many of those recently. Somehow, it always comes back to this. In The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion calls it 'the vortex'. I can't even ( Read more... )

x-posted from dailyrumiSometimes I forget completely ( Read more... )

I debated over whether to make this short, sweet, and nice or raw, unfettered truth. Well, if I'm going to do this thing, then I'll do it all the way. Plus, it's much more gratifying that way. And you should know what you're getting into up front. You wanna meet the real me now?

Ahavah_Ehyeh: My username translates to “Love_I Am”. I found them in ( Read more... )