Lateral Thinking

Low expectations mean I'm surprisingly happy most of the time
JUNE 8, 2009 9:30PM

Pre Teen Angst Ain't What it Used To Be

Two days this year, I've spent the day in crisis mode. My 13 year old's friends are cutting themselves, 2 of her best friends..  my daughter isn't. she's not intersted in doing that at all, she tells me. But... for how long?
The interesting thing I am seeing about having a new tee… Read full post »
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MAY 30, 2009 2:58PM

I Think I've Personified Men in my Mind

A good friend of mine, a man, said to me.. you know how Disney Anthropormorphized little woodland creatures? Well, women have done the same thing to men in a way because they've bestowed qualities on men the'd like to see that really aren't there. They want men to think and behave… Read full post »

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MAY 25, 2009 2:26AM

Friends Present and Past

I haven't posted in a few months. I'd been scared away from OS for many reasons most of them having to do with drama. I've been reading, seems the worst has past for a while. That happens in places like these then something will stir things up again.

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MAY 2, 2009 2:36PM

You @ 50

(can someone help me with embedding the video? )

 I posted this to my facebook with the comment, I believe in the people in their 20s. so many brilliant kids.

A friend posted about how they are they ones who are buying beyond their means, we're bailing them out now with the housing… Read full post »

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FEBRUARY 14, 2009 11:31PM

I'm a Grown Up... No really I am

I may have learned a
valuable lesson from a
friend today about fun.
Dwelling on what could-have-been is counterproductive for living in the present, which truly is the coping skill to have. Several Eastern Philosphies are built on that premise. So how does one live in the present, I… Read full post »
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FEBRUARY 14, 2009 2:12PM

Just made smaller

Ahora, Now, we, the United States, are a part of the World Community.  Ayer, yesterday, we weren't. I get all crinkled in the brain thinking about how only 10 years ago we wouldn’t be able to talk to someone from Iraq, Iran or Palestine on a daily basis in our own

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FEBRUARY 7, 2009 2:32AM

Again with the 25 things

I actually like these 25 thing things. Any item could be a starting point for an interesting story, usually. Some I've read are beautiful prose.

 


1) I love my daughter so much it takes my breath away.
gotta put on the Limpstick (as she called it for
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JANUARY 31, 2009 7:15PM

My Brain Soaked in Music.

 I am reading Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks.  It's about brains again.

your brain on music 

It's the first time I've heard of other people having music hallucinations. I'd always thought there was something wrong with my brain. I've had music mirages probably since high school. I can vividly rememb… Read full post »

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JANUARY 21, 2009 2:05AM

Not just a President

We  have a leader. We have someone who can rally us.  One thought is Americans won't rise to the occasion.  We have those who think he might  be the anti christ, since he's such a good speaker; you know? He'll lead us astray with his silver tongued ways. I wonder what people… Read full post »

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JANUARY 11, 2009 5:25PM

Remembering Her Life

 A picture fell out of a book onto the living  room floor. It was of Diane showing me a walk she learned to center her Chi. It was at the Christ in the Desert Monastery in Abiqui, NM. It was an absolutely crystal clear day. I don't like looking at pictures. They… Read full post »
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DECEMBER 15, 2008 6:20PM

Living in my head

I don't know about most people, but I've always looked into the future and never saw any pictures. I can remember being a kid and trying to look for what tomorrow will hold for me and I'd see a smeared, leaded glass that was between me and what was to be.… Read full post »

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DECEMBER 13, 2008 3:18PM

Why I stuff my head full of words.

Sometimes we say the same thing over and over, maybe for years even and then at the right time that thing will click.  "This whole thing is an experiment, isn't it?"  was the tumbler falling into place with me today.

I've spent weeks reading OS, then felt a revelation and had … Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008 11:08PM

Up Late on Election Night

 

But I feel compelled for the first time to be a corny and emotional. It's the first time I see myself in our President. I told that to someone today, and he said with a lopsided smirk," but..., you're ....not black...heh. "

"No, but I'm brown."  We went through the entire past… Read full post »

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NOVEMBER 2, 2008 1:41AM

Labels


Not the kind that pop out of the handy label maker to put on files and cabinets. I’m talking about the kind that we use on people to pigeon-hole each other and ourselves.
One interesting thing I read recently about relationships with people in general is to "drop your story"… Read full post »
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NOVEMBER 2, 2008 1:07AM

Meditating


A young woman I talk to once in a while, (she's 27) asked me if it is common for people to constantly feel anxious about something or other in life. I told her it was. It's the hardest lesson to learn in life, but there will always be a state… Read full post »
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NOVEMBER 2, 2008 1:06AM

Family


A distant relative wrote a book, Life in Los Sauces. It’s about the area in the San Luis Valley in Southern Colorado. The village of Los Sauces lies a short distance south of the Rio Grande and Conejos Rivers

It’s the place where my dad’s parents are from. Both his mom/… Read full post »
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NOVEMBER 2, 2008 1:02AM

Traveling and Listening and Reading


I drove to Denver and listened to NPR podcasts the entire way there. I never thought I'd be engrossed by the Most Emailed stories for 5.5 hours straight. I guess I have a slight off kilter way of gulping up information. It's the same way I surf the web. I… Read full post »
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