Go here and read until you find five quotations that speak your truth.Or go elsewhere and either post them here or in your journal. Or not. But find five quotes that speak your truth ( Read more... )

Both of these quotes have been appealing to me strongly the last few days ( Read more... )

I'm very appreciative of how cindygerb takes care of me. For example, I'm staying home to take Droolpuss into the vet after they open at 8.30a. I have a phone meeting at 8.30a and I'll be taking him in after that. She knows how well I deal with mornings and so she called a little before the meeting to make sure that I'm up and cognizant. In this case, ( Read more... )

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily of wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
- Dag Hammarskjöld

I can understand the people who are very focused on Katrina and what can be done to help. It's very important. Cindy and I are doing things to help as well. But we're not staying focused on it. I feel that it's important also to focus on our lives and the richness that we do have and what we can do to maintain it ( Read more... )

For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully, I saw that in reality God was the Seeker and I was the sought.
-An anonymous Sufi; Breakfast at the Victory by James P. Carse. p. 125

I am but a stranger… as are we all. Trapped inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others' pain, and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it… and that sometimes, given luck, we find someone to walk beside us. At least for a little ways.
-The Phantom StrangerI'm very glad that I've found both a ( Read more... )

So, I finally found a used copy of Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond. I've been looking for that for about five or six years but I try not to buy new books. I'm happy even if I've got a number of other books that I need to finish before I start something of that weight ( Read more... )

So, I finished 'A Civil Campaign' last night. Very intense book. I can easily see why azurelunatic said that it was a roughtbook to go through after a romantic break-up. It was a bit rough considering the difficulties that cindygerb and I have been going through. Thankfully, I was with her during some of the roughest parts. While we were reading at the dinner ( Read more... )

Another thing about the LJ Crush meme is that it has no slot for cuddled. Cuddling is very, very important. Hmph.

azurelunatic wrote one of the sweetest things I've seen in a while:He is the exit condition in my infinite loop.
Great niftiness abounds, a lipsum generator was mentioned in silenceleigh's journal. I wish I had something like this back when I was supporting ( Read more... )