( Around the corner from work is the Lighthouse for the Blind Center. So I pass blind people a lot. Made me think of this more esoteric monologue from Our Town. Tis the season to be grateful, dontcha think? )

Actually, it's jooneskus ' birthday weekend.  Happy happy birthday gorgeous lady!  Today will be better.  So will tomorrow.  No copsies.  I got yo' back.

Oh yeah, and it's decom.  Everything was going real well to keep me afloat and get this event on.  Then last night/this morning happened, and I just want to sleep through it all.  I wish I wasn't so...( ( Read more... )

The Invitation

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your ( Read more... )

To Love is Not to Possess
James Kavanaugh

To love is not to possess,
To own or imprison,
Nor to lose one’s self in another.
Love is to join and separate,
To walk alone and together,
To find a laughing freedom
That lonely isolation does not permit.
It is finally to be able
To be who we really are
No longer clinging in childish dependency
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http://xkcd.com/334/

Text messages aren't enough. :-)

On the 23rd, San Diego was still blazing and ( Read more... )

Interesting NY Times article this weekend...

…What studies - pioneered by John Gottman, a psychologist and emeritus professor at the University of Washington - have rather convincingly shown are the marital patterns likely to result in divorce. In his famous “love lab,” the Family Research Laboratory, Gottman observed more than 3,000 couples during ( Read more... )

Check out this treat for HM:

Mmm...monster. ;-)

Thanks to 
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...but
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