Yesterday was the first new Runes Class in a while now, and the very first one since I'd agreed to start helping to take over things. I planned out the class handouts, using the basis of the one from the beginning of class and adding bunches more to it (and there are three more things I'll add to it before the next class, too, now). Plus activities ( Read more... )

If someone told you -- If you follow your heart, the one part of you that has never once been uncertain in all this time, you will be gloriously happy. You will redefine what the Gold of Mecca is. But it will take more bravery than you've ever used before, and scare you and test you deeper than you ever been scared or tested before. And it will ( Read more... )

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.Today was not an amazing day. Work was fabulous, and in my meeting, everyone around the table even spoke up for me, saying I did so much more than I'd offered in my first minute breakdown of explaining who I was and what I do, when we were telling the ( Read more... )

Today started out really amazing, even in spite of what day it is ( Read more... )

Sometimes it's the words people say that stay in my head to linger ( Read more... )

Your name is a gold bell hung in my heart
I would break my body to pieces
To call you once, by your name
~*~I have a name I used to only be called by My Girl. When I was in the most chaotic of states. A name that rang a bell to the very core of my being. The stilled all the winds and reminded me who I was. What I was. Why I was. Everything that was ( Read more... )

Sigh. Left my phone at My Girl's house tonight.
So, if anyone left messages today or calls tomorrow...

Looks like we're going to have an interesting coming time, me and you.

TAURUS: Mythologist Michael Meade says that the essential nature of every human soul is gifted, noble, and wounded. I agree. Cynics who exaggerate how messed-up we all are, ignoring our beauty, are just as unrealistic as naive optimists. But because the cynics have a disproportionately potent influence on the zeitgeist, they make it harder for us ( Read more... )

"Beware the wrath of a patient adversary."
-- John C. Calhoun

( Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason )

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