I have to wonder if as we get older we gradually come to the point where we no longer have any illusions. Does humanity arrive at the end of a long life seeing honestly and clearly, or do we continue trying to see things as we want them to be and finding our hopes dashed [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Losing Illusions
Posted in Loneliness, Love, Personal, life, tagged Contemplation, life, Loneliness, Love, Personal, thinking, Thoughts on March 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Leaving the Fishbowl
Posted in Friends, Personal, life, tagged Blogging, Friends, life, Personal, Writing on March 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Oh, I keep getting little comments. Where have you gone? What does this mean? I think people are afraid I’ve gone to commit suicide or something just because part of me will no longer be present in this forum.
I am not here means that I am not writing personal stuff on this non-anonymous blog anymore. [...]
I no longer am.
Swingin!
Posted in Music, tagged drums, Jazz, Music, piano, Portland Jazz Orchestra, Trumpet on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pure Med Spa Again
Posted in Writing, tagged Bad Service, bankruptcy, Brite Smile, Business, Complaints, consumers, Customer Services, GRF Medspa, Health, Jeff Nourse, Lawsuits, medicine, money, Pure Med Spa, Society, Spas on March 17, 2009 | 20 Comments »
In spite of the rather large number of comments I received on my posts about Pure Med Spa, not one of the commenters responded to my request to interview them for an article I am doing on the company. I am posting this in an effort to find people who were harmed by Pure Med [...]
Giving Birth to a Kitten
Posted in Animals, Personal, life, tagged Animals, babies, dreams, Kittens, life, Personal, Pregnancy on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I dreamed I gave birth to a kitten. Giving birth to the kitten was normal. It was black and white. As it tried to nurse I realized that it was not the human I had been expecting. I remembered registering for baby things on Amazon. I realized I would have to tell everyone that I [...]
Faith in a Cushion
Posted in Personal, tagged Belief, Dogma, Evidence, Faith, life, Religion on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
All the claims people make of faith, yet when a “face” appears in a cushion (see article here), thousands flock to see their proof. If they are so faithful, why do they need to run get such “evidence”? This is only one problem in many with belief systems that rely on nothing in order to [...]
I Do Not Like Hairs
Posted in Personal, life, tagged Hygeine, life, Personal, Thoughts on March 15, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I do not like other people’s hairs. I do not like them in my food. I do not like them in the shower or on a toilet seat or in a sink or touching me. I know this is slightly ridiculous. There is just something about another’s hairs curving or curling and lying there in [...]
The Unclean
Posted in Personal, life, tagged Cleanliness, Home, House, life, Personal, Thoughts on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Things are not clean. Even though soap and water have been applied, objects remain clogged with grease and protein, bacteria and mire.
Grease beads on a pan, coats a plate, overlaying knives and spoons. Grease does not like soap. Add soap and grease goes away, but with too little soap or soaks in water full of [...]
The a Turns It Around
Posted in Personal, life, tagged Apathy, Emotion, Floating, life, Mental, Pathos, Personal, Thoughts on March 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Apathy, like a virus worming its way through cells. It gets in and makes nothing appealing. It wins. It is floating, moving along the surface. It no longer feels the urge to push. It no longer cares. Some would call it depression, but there is no pain in it. Depression connotes pain. Depression is drowning [...]
I Gave a Man an Apple
Posted in Family, Friends, Health, Humor, Loneliness, Personal, Society, tagged economy, Families, food, Health, Homelessness, Hunger, life, Loneliness, Personal, Politics, Society, Starvation, Thoughts, USA on March 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I gave a hungry man an apple yesterday and I keep thinking about it. I don’t want to trivialize it, but I wanted to write about him. I keep seeing him at the other end of the subway car gnawing the apple as if his life depended on it. And maybe it did. I thought [...]
Tell it Like it Is: Torture
Posted in Media, Politics, Society, life, tagged Binyam Mohamed, Great Britain, Humanity, life, Media, MI5, obama, Politics, Society, Torture, UK, USA on March 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I read a story on the BBC website today. The story is repeated in its entirety below. What struck me after reading the story was the BBC’s willingness to relate the torture described by Mr. Binyam Mohamed, a man held by the US for just under 7 years and released last February, all charges against [...]
Nothing New
Posted in Personal, life, tagged Directions, life, Love, men, Personal, Relationships, Women on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s truly remarkable how little I can think of to say. I have other stuff I’m working on, story ideas and such, but can’t think of anything to say here. I could rant about politics, but it seems so much beating a dead horse anyway. I have my theories about different things, I have what [...]
Stylin
Posted in Humor, Personal, life, tagged Beauty, Funny, Hairdressing, Humor, life, Manicures, Pedicures, Personal on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I realize on some level how silly this is, but I love the way I feel after having some beauty ritual performed, be it hair dressing or nail smoothing or whatever. Yesterday I had my hairs arranged and cut and made to look beautiful. Leaving the salon I could feel it silky and swinging on [...]
Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss
Posted in Personal, life, tagged Books, Dr. Seuss, life, Personal on March 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m not alone in saying that the books of Dr. Seuss were among my favorites as a child. Unique and clever, they hold a spot in my heart because they contributed to the development of my lifelong delight with the english language. When I started reading to Milla his stories became her favorites too.
I do [...]
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