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Humane Society closure
The Lea County Humane Society, in southern New Mexico, is in imminent risk of closure unless they receive enough money from the public to stay open. If anyone feels like donating their website is http://www.leacountyhumanesociety.com/donate and they have PayPal donation options. This is a terrible time for animals as well as people; we'd drive down ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Youthful Transgressions
I shouldn't have had my lip pierced. I got it done at a studio where my sister got her first tattoos in her early teens years, and the plaec was shut down a few months later for dealing heroin on the side. The "piercer" injected my lip with some kind of numbing agent - a really bad sign. I should have run out the door then. But I let him pierce me ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: All-Nighter
Tuesday night. I worked the night shift at the crisis centre.
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In an intro to a book I have about Spanish grammar
No estamos solos. Cada uno de nosotros no está solo. No comemos, no dorminos, no caminamos, no trabajamos ni nos divertimos seperados por completo de los demás seres humanos. Es verdad que alguna vez estamos apartados de ellos, que no siempre tenemos a nuestro lado a otra persona; pero lo normal es que todo los días, y no una, sino muchas veces, ( Read more... ) -
Some thoughts for today.
Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.
- Hui Hai
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
- Barbara de Angelis
Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.
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"People say I'm very negative and I suppose I am, but the impulse for producing a poem is never negative: the most negative poem in the world is a very positive thing to have done. The fact that a poem makes a reader want to lie down and die rather than get up and sock somebody is irrelevant."
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L: Do you think Boy George has any concept whatsoever of how incredibly beautiful and sexy and amazing and gorgeous and revolutionary and iconic he is?
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'When each thing is lived through to the end there is no death and no regrets, neither is there a false springtime; each moment lived pushes open a greater, wider horizon from which there is no escape save living.'