something to believe in |
Sometimes I become very cynical and rigid in my thinking. I have cycles of pessimism and those thoughts are hard to shake. There are hard things in life and I don't want to make light of those, at the...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:14:00 GMT |
thoughts for the poll |
I think I tend to be rather ethereal and don't see politics as the best way to achieve change. This election though I want to make sure I'm down on the ground. I really hope everyone v...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 06:48:00 GMT |
pedicure |
I got my toes done on Saturday. The lady that worked on me reminded me of one of my Aunts. My aunt was a bank teller for about 30 years and she just retired. She always did her nails and wore mak...
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:28:00 GMT |
fortune 1 |
I got this fortune last week. It said, "It could be better but it is good enough". I was feeling the meaning of the words and for me it meant that I could accept what is happening in the moment. ...
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:24:00 GMT |
aah haa. |
Eat Pray Love got mixed reactions at book club. I could feel the mix in myself too. I felt there were good descriptions of the meditation process and spiritual experiences that the author had at ...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:49:00 GMT |
a good mystery |
When I was young, and I don't have a reference for how young because my memories of time are muddled, I read all the Agatha Christie books. When I finished those I found a writer named Ruth Rendell wh...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:52:00 GMT |
I think |
I think Cormac McCarthy got it wrong with The Road. This is an elegantly written book about a horrific post appocalyptic world. I have been thinking and thinking about this book and I feel it isn't ri...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:57:00 GMT |
the murakami story |
I love stories about authors. This one is good. Haruki Murakami was watching a baseball game in Japan between the Yakult Swallows and the Hiroshima Carp when an American, Dave Hilton came up...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:40:00 GMT |
Banned books |
I was reading Palm Sunday by Kurt Vonnegut (the book club book this month). In the beginning of this autobiographical collage he writes about how he feels about his book being burned in a school furna...
Posted by on Mon, 07 May 2007 14:24:00 GMT |
notes |
Notes for Memeories of My Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia MarquezIn his 90th year love springs from an attempt to experience youth again? Why does this happen? I think because of the slowing down,...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:58:00 GMT |
