I'm here for friendships and exchanging ideas. I love to read blogs; especially if written from the heart or with the intent to tickle the funny bone.
Politically, I'm conservative but I have an open mind and I try not to be too staunch. Let's just say I'm a liberal trapped in a conservative's body... just like I am an extrovert trapped in an introvert's body. It happens.
I've noticed that a lot of people rave about their politics...They insult today's government but seldom do they present a reasonable or workable solution. I'm willing to listen as long as there is hope and respect in whatever your opinion may be.
I find it hard to tolerate certain actions from people on Myspace: such as the depraved or vile "joke" pictures of certain United States political figures being in league with terrorists, (having sex)or any sort of picture that insinuates hate, prejudice or cruelty in a US politician for that matter. I don't care if it is a conservative figure (Bush) or an extreme left wing liberal (Hillary). There is no room for this sort of jargon on my page or in my comments section. This will never cure today's ills, but only divide people that much more. Where is the sense of decency? Where is the adherence to decorum? Where is the propriety?
We are not pigs, we are people and we need to extend our hearts to one another; not in a bleeding insincere way but in a respectful mannerly way. It's no surprise a great deal of other countries hate the US and subsequently will leave us high and dry when the warmongers and marauders come for us: and come they will. Those US Citizens who fuss about war seem to be the world's worse at NOT behaving themselves!
That doesn't speak much for your solidarity, your integrity, your purpose! Nor does it say much about your respect for your fellow human being. If you believe in peace and if you believe that your fellow man deserves life and love, then why aren't you extending this "love" to everyone? It's the grown-up thing to do. If you don't like today's leaders... exercise your FREEDOM and vote.
You don't have to like my opinion; and I realize that you can do anything you want and act any sleazy way that you choose,... but this little insignificant page is mine. Please don't defile it with childish pictures insulting the United States Government or its leaders. You may however, post a photo of any US government official dressed in drag (that makes me laugh) as long as you aren't biased and post a picture representing each political party.
*curtsy*
Incidentally, I believe in peace.
I'm not sure how I feel about people (probably because I am one), but I know how I feel about mankind. The human race is worth saving.
I like to read: The truth is, I will cherish any book that makes me cry or laugh. To say that I am an emotional person is an understatement. Sometimes, being an emotional person is a handicap... but I accept that I feel so deeply about everything; it's as though I am highly in tuned with my surroundings...
I am five years happily married but I'm never quite happy with my employment. :) So, I try to live by my husband's example. He pushes forward; rarely complains ( but is sometimes grumpy) and doesn't wallow in past mistakes.
I'm a spiritual person but not at all religious; and this fulfills me but confuses some of my religious friends.
I have a handful of girlfriends that I love with a passion (platonically of course; no tongues) and a couple of male friends that I admire and share a close relationship with.
I'm headstrong, opinionated and sometimes unbending. Oddly enough, my nature can change drastically from obstinate to the opposite for absolutely no reason at all. No one seems to mind that much but it's hard on me!
I'm highly analytical and curious... I NEVER forget a face. A name? yes. But not a face.
In fact, I've noticed that I compare the way people look to famous people. One of my closest friends looks like Penelope Ann Miller. My husband looks a little like Michael Biehn.
grrrrrl
I don't like:
sleepless nights
rushing
driving in big cities
being talked down to
gossip,
jealousy,
troublemakers,
braggarts,
chronically negative individuals,
rebels without a cause,
spoiled people who have no compassion
the attitude that illegal drugs are okay if done in moderation or to control phantom pain. (Duh. Of course they control pain. They also control reality.)
people who are mean to children or animals. (or me.. lol)
people who are afraid to say, "I love you"
I guess we all fall in one or more of those categories at some time or another; I am trying to be tolerant..*stomping foot*.
I love:
My "clucks"
Dusk
clean sheets,
bright summer days of oppressive heat,
warming my hands by a fire,
the smell of burning leaves,
snuggling with babies,
hot baths
perfume
pretty toenails
flip flops
old blue jeans
my dad's shirts
how mud feels between my toes,
the beach,
the smell of pine sol,
home-cooked or home-made food (from scratch)
my husband's hands
the warmth of a fresh picked tomato,
flowers in a girl's hair,
puppies,
Men in wife beater shirts,
people who cry at movies
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I want to believe that we as individuals can save someone or something, or preserve freedom... but I don't witness that very often. I'm always hoping someone will teach me something about that.
Here are a few quotes that have caught my eye and pierced my heart.
" There's nothing too unimaginable to endure, and in my own way, I already know, that lying in wait for me, like some unavoidable trap, is happiness".
spoken by Gyuri ~Fateless
"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."
~Socrates
"Prayer is not asking.
It is a longing of the soul.
It is daily admission of one's weakness...
It is better in prayer to have a heart
without words than words without a heart."
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
~ C.S. Lewis
"Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst."
~ C.S. Lewis
"Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait; and love one another."
George Harrison
"For although I believe I know what the real miracles are, my belief in God disturbs and unsettles me much more than not believing ever did; unbelief seems vastly harder to me now than belief does --- but belief poses so many unanswerable questions!" ~ John "A Prayer For Owen Meany"
"I was created in love. [God's love] For that reason nothing can express my beauty nor liberate me except love alone."
~Machtild of Magdeburg
"For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy."
~Saint Therese of Lisieux
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Beauty, of whatever kind, invariably excites the human soul to tears.
~Edgar Allan Poe
AMPLE make this bed.
Make this bed with awe;
In it wait till judgment break
Excellent and fair.
Be its mattress straight,
Be its pillow round;
Let no sunrise’ yellow noise
Interrupt this ground.
~Emily Dickenson
I quit smoking in October of 2005. That's incredible. (and I didn't kill anyone!) That's a miracle.
Forty Nine. I am 49.
How odd.
My joy is aged 5, my heart is 17, my passion is 30, so 49 doesn't make sense.
It's as though, at some point in time, my heart and body came to a parting of the ways; an impasse; where the later betrayed the former, but innocently and without premeditation.
Since this is how it must be, then one must endeavor to make the best of it; to choose a different line of thinking and be happy. Bear with me.
...To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
~William Wordsworth~
On the day I had my first child, I knew instinctively that the way my heart would love would change forever... and now that all of my little clucks are gone, I know that the way my heart grieves has also taken a turn; forever. The broken heart swells though and therefore holds more water.
~An Empty Nester
(This is my little statue, whom I have named David. Look how his toe curls up.)
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