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When nothing is owed or deserved or expected, and your life doesn’t change by the man that’s elected
The morning after Obama was elected, I walked out my front door and expected the world to be different. It seemed surreal to me that nothing had changed, even though in my mind, something amazing and world-changing had happened the night before. Despite the fact that something major had happened, people still went to work and went to the store ( Read more... ) -
"write down what it is you're thinking, take each day as it comes..."
I came to LiveJournal this morning to write about the election, and the aftermath, and my own musings on the future of our country. And I still intend to do that ( Read more... ) -
regarding the Founding Fathers...
I honestly don't know much about the Tea Party movement. So last week when Morning Edition hosted a point-counterpoint between two leaders within the movement about what the focus of the Tea Party, I was intrigued ( Read more... ) -
"replace the rent with the stars above, replace the need with love..."
Say, just for a minute, that you are at an Indigo Girls concert ( Read more... ) -
Dear Music: It's not you, it's me...
Shocking admission: I don't want any new music right now ( Read more... ) -
judge not, as ye might be the one without health care someday...
I have tried to stay out of the health care debate, mostly because I know that my opinions won't change anyone's mind. I do have a bone to pick with a doctor's comments I heard on NPR the other day, however.
The doctor was responding to a piece where young uninsured people were commenting on the things they'd let slide because they didn't have ( Read more... ) -
It's not a question of what we want
"Hey ladee, yawannabuysomecanny?"
I had successfully avoided them on my walk to The Pageant. They were fairly well-dressed and polite, and on my way by the first time, their shabby grey van had been surrounded by a crowd of men in their late 20s, all reaching for their wallets.
Apparently this is the reaction you get when your mother puts you, age ( Read more... ) -
"we note our place with bookmarkers that measure what we've lost..."
Shouldn't this be my dream come true: the ability to carry 16GB of books on my phone? To have not just a book but a whole library at my fingertips? To be able to pull out a book anywhere I have my phone? To not have to lug around a book everywhere I go and wait? To not have to buy purses based on whether they hold my current read or not (and ( Read more... ) -
I swear, it was the penguins.
He stood in the brown wedge of grass off the freeway exit. A cheesy salt-and-pepper mustache dominated his lined face, and though worn, his clothes were fairly neat and tidy. He held a cardboard sign ( Read more... ) -
my mystery of Lily Frost...
I don't know when she was born, or where. I don't know where she went to school, if she did at all. Her details come all from her husband and from the eleven children they had together. But she fascinates me ( Read more... )