There's a picture on a bookshelf in this house that shows my mom and dad in April 1976 ("Easter at Cami's", says the note on the back, Cami being my father's older brother's wife). That makes my dad a few months from 36 and my mother a few months past 32. It's been there for-ev-ahhh and is one of the major images of my parents I have in my head, ( Read more... )

A new entrant to Spinners--End just called me "kind and gentle ( Read more... )

I used to feel proud to be a paying user of LJ.

Now I feel embarrassed at least, and sometimes guilty.

That ain't right, yo. I don't like that I feel the need to feel that way.

( navel-gazing about features )

esmestrella says:
next gen really ended when i was in high school?
did i really watch "all good things..." like, "live", first broadcast?
I AM OLD?

(no offence to the various friends I have who are older than I am. this is just one of those "wait... WHAT? when did that happen?" moments.)

I have not been anything even approaching a (Catholic) Christian since I was 11 years old (when I did my own Masses in the back yard -- no, rly), but I still love Advent calendars. Pictures only, no chocolate, even. I've even troubled to make my own on a couple of occasions, I love them that much. My mother, who has similarly not been anything ( Read more... )

It is okay that I find logic sexy even if I don't really understand a word of it Y/N?

In other news, I keep mixing up Marcel Marceau with Marcel Duchamp. These are not the same thing. That's on par with the way my brain constantly swaps around Bob Denver, John Denver, And Bob Dylan.

someone said:

To be able to hear the speech of the trees is a gift I've always treasured.

I said:

You mean the Murmur, the Leafwhisper, the Song of Amber Blood, the Grumbling Grandfather Bark, the way the wind is a free and gleeful messenger?

I realize, saying this, that I can sketch my neighbourhood in trees. ( Read more... )

I'm not sure how many you're supposed to come up with -- I've seen both five and seven. I'm getting stumped, so have five ( Read more... )

elseNet I said:

Kindred spirit indeed. Even one is usually enough for me to feel "ok, if I am crazy, at least I'm not alone in it." I know, in some sense, this is silly, and there are people out there who would laugh. But dammit, I feel it. And I don't want to be ashamed of feeling compassion, love, sorrow, grief, even if they are about a ( Read more... )

(if you're not in the HP filter you didn't see the fanfic where I just mentioned "House at Pooh Corner", though I was referring to the book, not this song. not required reading, though ( Read more... )