I know Meigh gets annoyed when I blow up everyone's Friends Page with articles and other miscellaneous items, so ( Alice Walker artice behind a cut! )

and - even though when I played the Indigo Girls in Susan's car this weekend she sort of groaned and said, "I really can't listen to this. We play them all the time" -

Darkness has a hunger that's insatiable, and lightness has a call that's hard to hear.

I can't help it. They don't get old for me.

I would just like to say that this reminds me that I still have faith in humankind. It's nine minutes and eighteen seconds long, but what is said about and by the Indigo Girls sparks my heart.

Dear Amy and Emily,
Again, you amaze me.
Love,
Liz

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Since I first heard "Winthrop," there have probably been only a handful of times when I've poured out my morning cup of coffee and not been thinking

the pull of the moon and the coffee deep night blackto myself, even though I think the line may be more about a night sky than about a cup of coffee ( Read more... )

I just fixed a pot of decaf house blend, a Starbucks-from-the-grocery-store bag that my mom keeps in the freezer. I don't know why my parents bought that, since they NEVER drink decaf coffee, but it's perfect right now.

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Emily Saliers' sister, Carrie, died in 1999.

"After Carrie's death, everything in my life changed. It was a strange mix of almost unbearable pain at times and a deepening of daily experience that was marked by personal growth: colors became more vivid, breezes more soothing, my tears bigger, my laughter heartier. The unmistakable presence of ( Read more... )

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Amelia and I packed the preschool room and moved the furniture all around today to the tunes of Brittany's mix cds and using a cd player that kept quitting at song number nine. We finally put on the Indigo Girls after realizing that it was the cds (scratched) and not the cd player ( Read more... )