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One of the things that most of us realize sometime after we become adults (early on for some of us, later for others) is that parents are people too. They have their own issues, their own history, their own triggers, their own faults...but they also have good things about them, and (for the most part) they do the best they can with what they've got ( Read more... )

today, my horoscope said, in part:

The changes you made in your life several years ago have taken a concrete form now. You may have moved, changed the structure of your relationships or changed your job at that time. Under this influence, these matters are stable, for you realize that your life is different now and perhaps more appropriate to what ( Read more... )

I'm off on a philosopical bent today.

There've been a cluster of posts on my friends list lately about the dark of the year, Samhain, the dark night of the soul, and so on. And they happen to line up with the same sorts of thoughts in my own head.

It's a good time for thinking about this sort of thing, really - the time of year when the approach of  ( Read more... )

South Park tonight: terrorists attack imagination land. They hijack our imaginations, and our imaginations run wild. This is apparently a multi-episode story line, so I'm not sure where it goes in the end, but the whole concept amuses me and follows some of the things I think about the whole terrorism thing anyway.

you know, this thinking stuff is hard work ( Read more... )

I am not a morning person. Unless by morning, you mean that time of day after 10 am and before noon.

In the last 3-4 years, my morning schedule at work has slipped from being here by 7:30, to being here between 7:30 and 8:00, to somewhere between 8:00 and 8:30, and is now fairly consistently 8:30 or just before that.

This isn't a bad thing per se; ( Read more... )

It's September 11 - a day for remembering things that happened this day 6 years ago, but it seemed to me it made the whole country stop for a bit and remember what's important in life...and then we promptly forgot again.

Right now, life is good. I have good friends and a social life.. I have friends that I consider family, who love me ( Read more... )

theferrett, on writing, though it applies to so many other things in life:"Potential" is a great balancing point for the ego. When you have potential, you get nearly the credit you do for being actually good, and none of that ugly soul-marring that comes from people actually criticizing you. It's a gentle anesthesia, lulling you into not really trying ( Read more... )

Michigan apparently has over 11000 lakes, and touches 4 of the 5 great lakes ( Read more... )