"There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self" -- Hindu proverb

While visiting my parents this past weekend, I read Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, on loan to me from pi2. I started and finished it before bed on Saturday night (don't be too impressed that I knocked off an entire book before bed, as it's teeny). Rilke focuses a good deal on the importance of solitude. For those interested, I'm posting ( Read more... )

Something I wrote to someone a few months ago:

"If I have to be less than myself again, I think I am going to break."

And ( some other things I said there... )

So after fighting with Mom Wednesday night, Dad decided to put himself on my bad side. Not that I think my bad side is so bad, but umm...he hung up on me. Maybe I'm overreacting. For some reason I no longer remember, I agreed to 3 hours of helping him on the computer. And he keeps calling me on that...like it's some never-ending 3 hours. He started ( Read more... )

Ok, so I'm writing way too much in here. My apologies to anyone who feels compelled to read all of this. I'll put it all behind a cut, to spare the lazy.
( Cut along the dotted line )

Weirdness...took a nap and had an odd dream. A few actually, but can't remember the earlier ones much except for the fact that there were multiple women with Princess Leah buns...except rounder and higher up on their heads. But the next one freaked me out. I was standing over a crib, I think. There was a baby in there, which I think was mine. And I ( Read more... )