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Abbi

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My Interests

Music:

happy stuff. nothing too noisy or angry- the guilliemots, the bees, the bluetones, arctic monkeys (i tried to resist their charms), the needles, the magic numbers, india arie, john mayer, ray lamontagne, the earlies, athlete, the mighty kanye , elton john, esther sparks

Movies:

save the last dance, casablanca (the original rom com), the sound of music, garden state, tsotsi, walk the line and red road reminded me what a "charming" city glasgow really is.

Television:

ER, desperate housewives, scrubs... and river city.

Books:

pride and prejudice, five people you meet in heaven, cry the beloved country, anne of green gables, a million little pieces, the time travellers wife, the number one ladies detective agency, memoirs of a geisha,the lost art of keeping secrets (harry is the man for me) and the red tree by shaun tan for getting through "the dark hours" (Hoskins, 2006).

My Blog

making it work

"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is...
Posted by Abbi on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 06:02:00 PST

courage

"Courage does not always roar; sometimes it is a quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow." - Mary-Ann Radmacher (thanks Gins!)
Posted by Abbi on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 01:16:00 PST

an enviable state of mind

"... to be able to bear one's own mind, to wait while the inner storm of intolerable thoughts blows itself out, leaving one to contemplate the debris with some understanding- that is an enviable state...
Posted by Abbi on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:34:00 PST

fingerprints

"An en is a karmic bond lasting a lifetime. Nowadays many people seem to believe their lives are entirely a matter of choice; but in my day we viewed ourselves as pieces of clay that forever show the ...
Posted by Abbi on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 06:12:00 PST

World Alzheimers Day

these pics are lovely. "dancing in the kitchen" actually brought a tear to my eye! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/in_pictures _world_alzheimer0s_day/html/2.stm...
Posted by Abbi on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:51:00 PST

minutes of glory (thank you fatti!)

"Her life was here in the bar among this crowd of lost strangers. Fallen from grace, fallen from grace. She was part of a generation which would never again be one with the soil, the crops, the wind a...
Posted by Abbi on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 05:08:00 PST

a memorable day

"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. Pause you who read this and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound yo...
Posted by Abbi on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:30:00 PST