December 2009
6 posts
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More concerned with shiny hair than starvation
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A thin line between love and hate
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Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends. (Elbert Hubbard)
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Crazy, mixed-up kid.
Anagrams of my name:
peculiar patriot
particular poet i
actual piper trio
trite papal curio
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I found a quiz used by the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust used to check for cognitive and processing abilities following head injuries. Patients are asked to fill in short answers (e.g. “Homer and Marge Simpson’s oldest daughter is named _ _ _ _”), and then...
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unknown number
If I don’t recognize the number,
I rarely answer the call.
508? With no area code?
I take a chance.
I hear my name through the static,
Garbled voice.
I disconnect, but
Wait for the number to reappear.
508 again. No static this time.
I can hear you clearly.
No, I won’t meet you for a drink.
Yes, I heard you were blind.
No, I don’t sing in bars anymore.
You...
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In the Bleak Midwinter
Christina Rossetti (1872)
In the bleak mid-winter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago.
Our God, Heaven cannot hold Him
Nor earth sustain;
Heaven and earth shall flee away
When He comes to reign:
In the bleak mid-winter
A stable-place sufficed
The Lord God Almighty,...
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Absence
I have been absent - I moved my blog to tumblr with hopes that I would write more frequently. (But life seems to keep getting in the way.) I would like to say that my jewelry-making is also suffering, that I only make pieces in a flurry of activity when a deadline looms: However, I am coming to accept that that is way I function.
In keeping with the title of this post, I post one of my...