I have mixed feelings about TED, but this is an example of what it can do well - and it seems to be all over LJ today.

Brene Brown on Vulnerability

Ahhh... synchronicity...

Long-time readers will have seen this before, but it's been a couple of years since I posted it in public and I have plenty of people reading now who have probably never seen it.

"The Long Night" over at the Yule issue of Rending the VeilEDIT: This is an even older essay that was published elsewhere first, but makes a decent companion piece to " ( Read more... )

And given that there is snow on the ground, perhaps this should not be surprising.

It only took phoenixprime three damn orders, but my copy of The Book of Fallen Angels by Michael Howard finally showed up!

:-)

"Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it." - Hebrews 13:2 (NRSV)

What are other folks doing for Yule this year?

Doing other research and I tripped across the old "Silence = Death" poster. I cannot remember the last time I saw it, which means it has been years ( Read more... )

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"We were a charmed generation. Unlike our parents, we grew up with antibiotics, we hadn't had to suffer the deaths of our schoolmates from things like scarlet fever. Then AIDS hit us." - Thom Gunn ( Read more... )