You probably thought I was going another way with that title...


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Called out of being.  That's really the best way to describe it.

Right now it feels like being divorced, in the sense that divorce is a marriage called out of being.

Waiting to be called into the next form is a state of blissful anticipation, when we open ourselves to opportunity and allow ourselves to be led down the path we're meant to follow.

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Wishes For Sons

i wish them cramps.
i wish them a strange town
and the last tampon.
i wish them no 7-11.

i wish them one week early
and wearing a white skirt.
i wish them one week late.

later i wish them hot flashes
and clots like you
wouldn't believe. let the
flashes come when they
meet someone special.
let the clots come
when they want to.

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So I've Done Something I'm Not Particularly Proud Of.

My 20-year high school reunion is this year.  The Alumni organization is encouraging all graduates to join the school's group on Facebook.

Let's just say, I was a MUCH different person in high school.

I like who I am now better, but I can't deny the existence of the Me I was in 1989, before I'd ( Read more... )

Have you heard? Gossip can be good

Item: Which A-list celebrity is attempting to bed the most attractive starlet he has ever seen in an attempt to pass on his genetic material?

Item: Who was going around the office last week sharing the story of a co-worker up for promotion who had taken credit for an underling's idea?

Item: Which newspaper subscriber ( Read more... )

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life.

-John Muir

I love words.  And lists.  And lists of words.

Lake Superior University has once again released its annual list of words to be banned from the English language.  Here's the article from the Associated Press -

DETROIT - A movie about a "maverick," his journey "from Wall Street to Main Street," his "desperate search" for a "monkey" and a "game-changing ( Read more... )

My friend  daichi_no_ryoku recently confessed the following on his blog:

I'm sometimes a little disturbed by how often I quote the movie Babe
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I saw this on exceptindreams

"Two Cures For Love"
Wendy Cope

1. Don't see him. Don't phone or write a letter.
2. The easy way: get to know him better.

so I thought I'd add another of her poems:

'Defining the Problem'  
Wendy Cope

I can't forgive you. Even if I could,
You wouldn't pardon me for seeing through you.
And yet I cannot cure myself of love
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PHENOMENAL WOMAN

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as ( Read more... )