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Crane Dance song
This is a song by a very talented filk artist who is credited for professionalizing the world of filk music. Not only did she create beautiful lyrics, but she & her producer composed fully orchestrated music rather than filking common tunes. Here are the ( lyrics ) -
Jealousy and Envy
In the Christian world "Thou shalt not covet" is a major tenet - and yet in our Christian-dominated culture it seems that coveting is what drives the US into it's Mammon-worshiping economic bubbles (that are bursting faster than new bubbles are forming...). Jealousy and Greed are two sides of a dangerous coin - leading us into unsustainable ( Read more... ) -
Fall OakLeaves is at the Printer
After fits and starts and a few rough bumps I believe OakLeaves is finding its feet again since Vedis left. It is difficult to believe how much work she must have put into it that it challenges so many people to fill her two shoes. Not only was she the Publisher but she was the Editor-in-Chief and Layout Director and Copy Editor and Managing Editor ( Read more... ) -
garden growing, fence back together
More gardening this weekend. The back yard is really becoming comfortable and the plants are starting to thrive. On impulse, I "splurged" on some cheap border brick to create the arbor hedge bed. On one side, we have an aging wooden fence, part of which fell down in a storm this Winter-Spring. Using pieces-parts, I cobbled together a fix that ( Read more... ) -
The new garden
We've finally been able to create our vegetable garden and rock-lined herb garden. Wonderful friends of ours came over Saturday (and Sunday for cleanup) to shift 7 cubic yards of organic dirt (189 cubic feet) to create these raised gardens and distribute the excess at various points that needed topsoil (including our neighbor's adjoining yard -- ( Read more... ) -
What Greek Goddess Are You?
No surprise here for someone that was sorted into Ravenclaw - ( Athena ) -
First entry in 29 weeks
It's hard to find time to keep up with my email, let alone LJ. Sydney is 6 months old today and sleeping. At her last checkup, she was 18lbs and 27 in. (she's grown since then). On 9/27 she cut her first tooth (bottom, her right). She's a good druid baby, numerologically speaking. Madoc went to public school this fall and his # for the Spelling ( Read more... )
