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*~Tara Dawn ~*

one Rat for the road

About Me

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My Interests

My son and my husband, my best friends, books, music and concerts and music festivals, RenFaires (BARF! Hoggetowne! Three Barons!) & Highland Games, bellydancing, critters, wild birds, piano & voice, tattoos, gardening, exercise, Alaska, Louisiana, the Eagle River congregation

I'd like to meet:

Old friends again - where ARE y'all? Oh, and I'd love to get back in touch with DANA LYN DODD and TOM[MY] and LINDA POISSOT - anyone?

Music:

Currently listening to an Asleep By Dawn compilation

Movies:

In the middle of The Motorcycle Diaries; last saw Cloverfield in the theatre - hard on the eyes! I have Willard up next, and Funny Girl, and High School Confidential

Television:

Exploring Travel Channel shows right now; i'm hooked on Anthony Bourdain, Andrew Zimmern, Samantha Brown and thanks to my good friend Shell, i've discovered Dirty Jobs, a fun show

Books:

Just reread The Hobbit for the gazillionth time, and the first two Spiderwick Chronicles in readiness for the movie on the 14th

Heroes:

hmmm . . . i heard David Letterman's beard received the key to the city . . .

My Blog

Huzzah for the Winter Solstice!

  Writings to celebrate the Winter Solstice, an end and a beginning.   The Olde Year Now Away is Fled(sung to Greensleeves) 13th Century English The olde year now away is fled,The new year...
Posted by *~Tara Dawn ~* on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:25:00 PST

Of necessity between friends

Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Ex...
Posted by *~Tara Dawn ~* on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:05:00 PST

"November"

Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun! One mellow smile through the soft vapoury air, Ere, o'er the frozen earth, the loud winds ran, Or snows are sifted o'er the meadows bare. One smile on the b...
Posted by *~Tara Dawn ~* on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:44:00 PST

musings on the times

I can't take credit for the timeliness of this excerpt; Sam Rosenthal of Projekt noted the relevancy of this passage from George Orwell's 1984: The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily...
Posted by *~Tara Dawn ~* on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:41:00 PST

a poem for the season

THE DEATH OF AUTUMNWhen reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes,And feathered pampas-grass rides into the windLike aged warriors westward, tragic, thinnedOf half their tribe, and over the fla...
Posted by *~Tara Dawn ~* on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 07:55:00 PST