oversharer's daily diarya

Survivalists, The Optimistic Minority

2012-01-28T14:36:00.000-08:00

I am a 21st century survivalist and by nature an optimist. I don't have one pessimistic bone in my body. If that sounds odd to you, then you do not understand the modern survivalist or me. It's been difficult for me to communicate the concept of the optimistic survivalist. Let me make some comparisons....

A fireman becomes a fireman not because he believes everything is going to burn. He doesn't start fires but believes property can be saved. A doctor becomes a doctor not to make disease. He doesn't believe in death but believes many lives can be saved. A survivalist doesn't make disaster or believe that everything must be destroyed and everyone must die but believes with preparation, lives and property can be saved.

Crime, disease, fire, war, flood, revolution, famine and periodic economic upheaval are the results of nature and the nature of man and, unfortunately, are not completely preventable. The sun will set leaving us in darkness and the summer sun will give way to the cold winds of winter. We know this will happen, that it is unpreventable and we prepare daily and seasonally for both. Does that make us pessimistic? Of course not! So why then is the survivalist who plans for events that are as much a part of history as the sun setting and the seasons changing called a pessimist?

A common misconception is that survivalists predict world disaster. Actually, we are the OPTIMISTIC MINORITY predicting world survival! I invite you to find an insurance actuary, an historian, economist,
political scientist, sociologist or military strategist that can give us even a 50/50 chance of avoiding a large scale catastrophe. Yet, survivalists dare to be optimistic about the future. I don't need to predict the probability of disaster any more than the sun setting. Refusing to look at the calendar doesn't prevent aging.

Another misconception is that survivalists will be disappointed if there isn't some world cataclysm. I have loved ones I would never want to see harmed or worse. I have a home I don't want to see destroyed. I'm not a fool that thinks because I am prepared that a disaster would be fun or that I would not experience danger, hunger, loss, injury, cold, despair or even death.

I have spent some time and some money to improve my/our chances for survival and recovery from disaster but I would welcome, with a great celebration, if someday someone could assure me that I had wasted my time! I will not be disappointed that there is no disaster to survive anymore than I will be disappointed that my house fails to burn down after buying my homeowners insurance policy.

I prefer the pleasant (but unlikely) surprise of being wrong to the (probable) deadly rude awakening that the non survivalist will face if he's wrong. I can't lose, really, because my preparations will be valuable regardless of what the future has in store.

I'm a resource, not a threat. Those without resources are actually a threat to me. I won't be emptying store shelves in an emergency but leaving more for others. I may even be able to help some. I see my survival preparation as a social obligation.

So, you see, I am an optimist. I see the imperative of preparing for the worse by being a self reliant asset.

Comfort

2012-01-20T05:21:00.000-08:00

Oh, the comfort,
the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person;
having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words
but to pour them all out, just as it is, chaff and grain together,
certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them,
keeping what is worth keeping, and then,
with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
~ George Elliot

Gimme Shelter

2012-01-12T16:33:00.001-08:00

Boom And Doom: Revisiting Prophecies Of Collapse By Debora MacKenzie

2012-01-10T11:18:00.000-08:00

Boom And Doom: Revisiting Prophecies Of Collapse By Debora MacKenzie

Creativity is paradoxical

2012-01-10T09:16:00.001-08:00

To create, a person must have knowledge but be able to forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not be disconnected from reality, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard those experts.......so get to it!!!

The artist is not a special person......each one of us is a special kind of artist.

Do you know "Grievous Angel"?

2012-01-07T16:39:00.001-08:00

Certainty is a good defense

2012-01-07T09:13:00.000-08:00

Better to dwell in uncertainty.
Hold on to the paradoxes.
Live in the complexities.
Engage the contradictions.

Cynicism is a sucker's bet!

2012-01-05T17:29:00.000-08:00

Time to Stop Being Cynical About Corporate Money in Politics and Start Being Angry | Common Dreams

Perseverance

2012-01-05T15:56:00.000-08:00

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake,
nor to succeed in order to persevere.
~ Chas The Bold

tenacity, steadfastness, persistence, patience

There Is More to It than Oil | Energy Bulletin

2012-01-04T14:50:00.000-08:00

There Is More to It than Oil | Energy Bulletin

The Opportunists

2012-01-04T11:34:00.000-08:00

Dear Optimist, Pessimist and Realist ~While you were arguing about whether the glass was half full or half empty or both.....they drank it!!

Free Floaters

2012-01-03T18:38:00.000-08:00

There are always people who dare to seek on the margin of society, who are not dependent on social acceptance, not dependent on social routine, and prefer a kind of free floating existence under a state of risk. ~ Thos. Merton, Catholic monk, writer, activist

Are you an optimist or a pessimist??

2012-01-03T14:40:00.000-08:00

One position is really not preferable to the other.They are each very dangerous.Either one alone keeps you from fully investigating the complexity.

The Moment, Atwood

2011-12-16T03:00:00.001-08:00

The moment when, after many years
of hard work and a long voyage
you stand in the centre of your room,
house, half-acre, square mile, island, country,
knowing at last how you got there,
and say, I own this,

is the same moment when the trees unloose
their soft arms from around you,
the birds take back their language,
the cliffs fissure and collapse,
the air moves back from you like a wave
and you can't breathe.

No, they whisper. You own nothing.
You were a visitor, time after time
climbing the hill, planting the flag, proclaiming.
We never belonged to you.
You never found us.
It was always the other way round.

Pretending

2011-11-25T06:47:00.001-08:00

For some, pretending is like gravity . . .
without it, they would fly right off the planet!

sweet seep

2011-11-14T09:11:00.000-08:00

Merida

2011-07-22T10:48:00.000-07:00

Escaping the current heat wave and heading to Merida, Yucatan for a few days of cultural absorption.
Cuisine, folk art, ancient ruins, coastlines filled with pink flamingos, colonial architecture........
Celebrating the second anniversary of meeting the love of my life ♡

Guest Post: The Best Of Times, The Worst….

2011-05-09T09:34:00.000-07:00

Guest Post: The Best Of Times, The Worst….

ballerina

2011-05-03T04:31:00.001-07:00

Listen to more Van Morrison at Wolfgang's Vault.

14 signs - check out #11

2011-05-03T04:15:00.001-07:00

14 signs that the collapse of our modern world has already begun

I am what I am

2011-05-02T12:54:00.001-07:00

Dr. Michio Kaku says three raging meltdowns under way at Fukushima - NaturalNews.tv

2011-03-31T07:09:00.000-07:00

Dr. Michio Kaku says three raging meltdowns under way at Fukushima - NaturalNews.tv

housing facts

2011-02-15T09:58:00.000-08:00

approx. 11% of all homes in america are standing empty.

the rate of home ownership has fallen to 1998 levels.

november represented an unprecedented consecutive fourth monthly decline in prices.

the number of homes actually repossessed reached the one million mark for the first time in history in 2010.

three million homes were repossessed by mortgage lenders from 1/07 to 8/10.
(most of this inventory has yet to be sold)

72% of most metro areas had more foreclosures in 2010 than in 2009.

at least 8 million people are one month behind on their mortgage.

5 million homeowners are at least two months behind on their mortgage.
(it is projected that one million families will be booted out of their homes this year alone!)

banks project that 48% of all mortgages could have negative equity by the end of 2011.

maybe to be expected, new orleans has 21.5 of all homes standing vacant. but alarmingly, dayton, ohio has 19% of all it's homes standing empty.

home prices have fallen farther than in the great depression.

without a jobs recovery, there will never be a housing recovery.

over the past two years, americans have withdrawn $311 billion dollars more from savings and investment accounts than they have put into them.

use your paper money wisely - it will never have as much value as it does today.

Gay Vatos in Love - Ozomatli

2011-01-02T09:45:00.001-08:00

Full Steam - David Gray and Annie Lennox

2010-12-22T12:02:00.000-08:00

Ode to Chloe

2010-12-21T08:26:00.000-08:00

There once was a little cocker named chloe
she came into my life at a critical time
she taught me patience and love unbounded
for more than thirteen years she never wavered
through loss and disaster and joy unsurpassed
she was my tail wagging shadow

the republic?

2010-11-25T16:10:00.000-08:00

more than 700 military bases
in more than 130 countries
spending more on annual defense
than the next dozen countries combined
8% of the global population
consuming 25% of the world's resources

or the empire?

no thanks

2010-11-23T12:17:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers.

History can be one of the many ways we create and impose hierarchy, or it can be part of a process of liberation. The truth won't set us free, but the telling of truth at least opens the possibility of freedom.

As Americans sit down on Thanksgiving Day to gorge themselves on the bounty of empire, many will worry about the expansive effects of overeating on their waistlines. We would be better to think about the constricting effects of the day's mythology on our minds.

Robt. Jensen

inclusion and diversity

2010-11-10T05:13:00.000-08:00

I often hear talk of inclusion with a view of bringing different people into a given group. I argue that this view of inclusion can imply and perpetuate hierarchical power relationships supported by assumptions of assimilation and integration. I put forth that the group should not be seeking to include others but should be seeking to be included by them.

boner day for amerika (pun intended)

2010-11-03T10:40:00.000-07:00

the republicants tell us to be afraid
the teabaggers tell us to be angry
the donkeys say it will get better, give us time

so, let's race for the bottom now
on the wings of fear and anger and lies

until someone has the balls to tell the truth
that it's not going to get better anytime soon
and it's not the fault of the muslim's or gay's

time to articulate limits
acknowledge possible failure
move forward with courage and commitment
find a new way

relocation, location, location

2010-10-04T06:11:00.000-07:00

wisconsin doomslut
has morphed

meet MODOOM

my new neighborhood includes
http://wellfedneighbor.ning.com/
http://www.springfieldfarmersmarket.com/

finding courage

2010-09-24T09:04:00.001-07:00

moving around
leaving behind
recognizing her

thinking

2010-09-16T06:28:00.000-07:00

many people believe they are thinking
when they are really just rearranging their prejudices

you

2010-08-30T11:08:00.000-07:00

the best part of me
......what a year!!

madness

2010-08-23T05:17:00.000-07:00

love is a temporary madness
it erupts like an earthquake
then grows like a tree
with roots deep underground
entwined towards each other
whispering into the heart
and kissing the soul

hey pops!

2010-08-19T04:53:00.000-07:00

today is your birthday
you would have been 79
and although we rarely spoke
i have a need to speak with you today....

hopium & hypocritium

2010-08-13T06:28:00.000-07:00

Robert Gibbs is almost as smart as Ari Fleischer.

The whorehouse spokeswhore
(apologies to my sex worker friends)
talked of drug tests for the critics of
the stubborn hopenosis of the Changer in Chief.

Although I am often out in front with criticism of Chez Obama,
the community organizer and man of the people,
and his fascist healthcare give away to the corporations
among other imperial fax pas, I am still more peaceful and sane
and I will take Mr Gibbs up on his offer and submit my pee for analysis.
But only when the supporters of the imperial first family,
smoking the hopium and taking their daily dose of hypocritium
submit theirs.

paraphrased from Cindy Sheehan's soapbox

get with it.....

2010-08-12T09:02:00.000-07:00

GM posted its
largest quarterly profits
since 2004

don't you feel better now??

one year ago today

2010-07-28T17:22:00.000-07:00

I met Mary
and soon realized
just how much
I love flan for dessert

gulf of mexico debacle

2010-07-05T07:31:00.000-07:00

forward thinking
and good planning
did not get us here,
I doubt it will be how we go forward......

snowballs and butterflies and dominoes

2010-07-02T09:46:00.000-07:00

boiling frogs
slippery slopes
head in the sand
black swan
camel's nose
for want of a nail
creeping normalcy

happy birthday to me

2010-06-23T19:45:00.000-07:00

today i am 60 - OMG
that's 16 celcius!!

on this father's day

2010-06-20T05:52:00.001-07:00

i am reminded.....
to whom much is given
much is expected...

vacant houses??

2010-06-19T06:41:00.000-07:00

170,000 families sought shelter last year
that's 643,000 people in those families
that's one in 200 americans
60% were in shelters
37% in other places not meant for human habitation
more than half the children are under the age of 6

what we don't want to know about real estate

2010-06-18T08:56:00.000-07:00

total housing inventory is 131 million
occupied is 112 million
vacant is 19 million - this is the oversupply
4-5 million are second homes
another 4-5 million will never be lived in again

2/3 of all households own a house
that is a total of 75 million
51 million of those are mortgages
of which 99% are gov't. backed
24 million are owned free and clear - you want to be here
since '08 the default rate has been and is currently 20% YEARLY
that's 10 million per year
another 5 million are 60 days or more late
70,000 loan modifications were canceled in MARCH

vacant housing units equal 19 million
of which 10 million is foreclosed inventory
520 months or 45 years to clear inventory
at the current rate of sales!!

Ode to my "Pops"

2010-06-01T08:31:00.000-07:00

On May 27th, 2010 leukemia sucked the last living breath from his body.
I got the call of his passing from my sister Karen while traveling in France.
I cried...confused, relieved, but most of all saddened.
Sad that neither of us had ever really gotten to know each other the way that some fathers and daughters do. Even though he often referred to me as "daughter of daughters"....I wasn't "daddy's little girl" and he wasn't "#1dad".
My dad was a laborer - not a master of words - he created his own dictionary.
I often consider the impact of the relationship I shared with "Pops" as it relates to the woman I have become. He taught me about work - tackling any task - what tools to use. He taught me it was okay to fart and laugh about it. He taught me to gamble with my piggy bank pennies. He taught me the art of handball. He let me take sips of his beers. There was never a dull moment being around him. He was larger than life.
He lived a hard working life with little regard for his health. He never slowed down. He lived the life he wanted - the only way he knew how and I have a tremendous amount of respect for him for that.
He may not have been the greatest father or husband and could be a real s.o.b. but he left his mark on this world.
Often when I am doing some tedious chore I am reminded of how I know how to do it.
And when I am being silly and making up words and laughing and clapping and rubbing my hands together - I feel him all around me.
He gave me my contagious laugh and playful spirit and I am forever grateful.
Rest in Peace, Preston Irwin.......

ode to bea

2010-05-19T06:53:00.000-07:00

we cannot change yesterday, that is clear
or begin tomorrow before it is here
so all that is left for you and for me
is to make today as sweet as can be

no kids

2010-05-09T06:10:00.001-07:00

my mother's day gift to the planet

real wealth

2010-05-07T10:43:00.000-07:00

overfed and undernourished?
consume more and enjoy less?
more income and less happiness?

over consumption creates deficiencies
in health, social connections, security and discretionary time

we work, we watch, we wait

fewer things, less stuff
better quality

less debt, less doubt
social capital
networks
trust

spend less money
pay more attention

minimize consumption
maximize contentment

this earth

2010-05-06T07:52:00.001-07:00

we borrow it from the children

a personal mission statement

2010-04-20T13:25:00.001-07:00

live
laugh
love
leave a legacy

experience
learn
teach

second chances

2010-03-31T04:15:00.000-07:00

no one can go back
and make a brand new start
but anyone can start from now
and make a brand new ending

that's the irish

2010-03-17T07:38:00.000-07:00

Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter...
Lullabies, dreams and love ever after...

May you live to be a hundred years, with one extra year to repent.

St. Patrick's Day is an enchanted time --
a day to begin transforming winter's dreams into summer's magic.

the materials economy

2010-03-16T10:00:00.000-07:00

3/13/31

2010-03-13T05:32:00.000-08:00

my mother was a beautiful woman
i wish i knew her better
the angst of adolescence pushed us far apart
the 60's was a decade of division
i never knew how to cross the divide
my own sense of self - the bridge - was fragile
a facade that couldn't hold the weight
but i began to know her bit by bit
i used all my strength to face the demons of my youth
haunting me, keeping me from knowing myself
but the demons shrank
to take their place among all the seeds of potential
greed, envy, anger and hate were kept small in the wake of awareness
love, kindness, generosity
growing as a weeping willow spreads its branches
but in the course of my own development
my beautiful mother passed away
it was too late to share the joy
unbounded by a past of pain
to laugh without edge
to listen without a grimace
to love without agenda
i have some prized possessions
sprinkled throughout our home
little symbols of the massive love
she held beneath an exterior of conformity
i had a beautiful mother
i know her much better now
i love you, mom

for my dad

2010-02-26T07:25:00.000-08:00

"A YOUNG COUPLE'S PATH OF LIFE"

The young couple set their foot on the path of life. "Is this the long way?" they asked their parents and their parents said, "Yes, and the way is hard. And you will be old before you reach the end of it. But the end will be better than the beginning."

But the young couple were happy, and they would not believe that anything could be better than these years. So, they had children, and gathered flowers for them along the way, and bathed them in the clear streams - and the sun shone on them, and the young mother cried, "Nothing will ever be lovelier than this!"

Then the night came, and the storm, and the path was dark and the children shook with fear and cold and the father drew them close and covered them with his coat, and the children said, "Father, we are not afraid, for you are near, and no harm can come."

And the morning came and there was a hill ahead, and the children climbed and grew weary, and the couple grew weary. But at all times they said to the children, "A little patience and we are there." So the children climbed, and when they reached the top they said, "We would not have done it without you."

And the father, when he lay down at night looked up at the stars and said, "This is a better day than the last, for my children have learned fortitude in the face of hardness. Yesterday we gave them courage. Today we have given them strength."

And the next day came strange clouds which darkened the earth, clouds of war and hate and evil and the children groped and stumbled and the mother said, "Look up! Lift your head high!" And the children looked up and held their heads high and that guided them beyond the darkness. And that night the mother said. "This is the best day of all, for I have shown my children their worth."

And the days went on and the weeks and the months and the years and suddenly the mother was taken. But her children were tall and strong and walked with courage. And when the way was rough, they turned to the father. And when, at last, he came to his final hill, he said, "I have reached the end of my journey and now I know the end is better than the beginning, for my children can walk alone, and their children after them."

And the children said, "You will both always walk with us, even when you have gone." And they stood and watched him as he went on alone, and they said, "We cannot see them but they are with us still, more than a memory, a living presence."

They are the whisper of the leaves as you walk down the street, the smell in your freshly laundered clothes, the cool hand on your brow when you are not well. They live inside your laughter and are crystallized in every teardrop. They are the place that you came from and the map you follow with every footstep and nothing on earth can separate you - not time - not space - not even death........

vice-versa

2010-02-11T05:17:00.000-08:00

create it vs letting it happen
play to win vs playing not to lose
abundance vs scarcity
being vs wishing
opportunities vs obstacles
admiration vs resentment
gracious vs guilty
results vs effort
learn & grow vs i already know

climate discord

2010-02-08T08:15:00.000-08:00

from hopenhagen to nopenhagen

jefferson airplane

2010-02-02T05:55:00.000-08:00

“I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government in a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”
— Thomas Jefferson, 1816

sound bytes, talking points and platitudes

2010-01-24T08:53:00.000-08:00

just another dullard
demonstrating shockingly
low levels of intellectual depth

the summer of my life

2010-01-22T09:49:00.000-08:00

warming my days
with cloudless skies
sometimes blistering
often simmering
always sunny, salty
lazy, hazy, breezy
butterfly and dragonfly
time flies
the flowers, the pine tree
colors and smell
the sweet rain
lighted palms
balmy nights

life is good

2010-01-20T12:27:00.001-08:00

MLK,Jr.

2010-01-18T15:00:00.000-08:00

At the center of non-violence
stands the principle of love....

Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted.....

Deer Hunting with Jesus

2010-01-15T13:02:00.000-08:00

dispatches from America's class war.....

BASS BOATS AND QUEER MARRIAGE
the battle for the American soul is over and Jay Leno won!

see Joe Bageant in my blog list

my new years wish for you

2010-01-04T13:50:00.000-08:00

may all your troubles
last as long as your resolutions.....

winter solstice

2009-12-21T13:47:00.000-08:00

an auspicious moment
waiting for the sun
carrying the fire
darkness shall be the light
stillness the dancing

reality over myth

2009-12-07T05:43:00.000-08:00

principle over prosperity
substance over celebrity
nuance over spectacle

connect with language
abandon consumerism
embrace the common good
cope with complexity
recognize illusion

gobble, gobble

2009-11-26T16:48:00.000-08:00

may we always be thankful
to have our feet deeply planted in the past
our hearts keenly absorbed in the present
and our minds directed unafraid toward the future.

this turkey eve

2009-11-25T06:59:00.000-08:00

before i sit down with family and friends tomorrow
i wanted to let you know what i'll be thankful for
it's you
your generosity
your courage
your spirit
thank you for everything you do
happy thanksgiving

veteran's day 2009

2009-11-11T04:29:00.000-08:00

WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest,
easily the most profitable,
surely the most vicious.
It is the only one international in scope.
It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars
and the losses in lives.
~General Smedley Butler, Retired USMC, 1933~

2266 VETERANS DIED IN 2008 BECAUSE THEY WERE UNINSURED --
On this Veterans Day we should not only honor the nearly 500 soldiers who have died this year in Iraq and Afghanistan, but also the more than 2,200 veterans who were killed by our broken health insurance system. That's six preventable deaths a day.

10 SUICIDES A MONTH AT FT. HOOD --
Tragically, Fort Hood has born much of the brunt from its heavy involvement in the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Fort Hood soldiers have accounted for more suicides than any other army post since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. In 2009, the base is averaging over 10 suicides each month - at least 75 have been recorded through July of this year alone.

131,000 HOMELESS VETS TONIGHT --
Although accurate numbers are impossible to come by -- no one keeps national records on homeless veterans -- the VA estimates that 131,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. And approximately twice that many experience homelessness over the course of a year. Conservatively, one out of every three homeless men who is sleeping in a doorway, alley or box in our cities and rural communities has put on a uniform and served this country.

mingle in the moment

2009-10-15T09:36:00.000-07:00

all things in one another's being mingle
the creek with the river
the river and the ocean
the mountains touch the sky
the sunlight clasps the earth
the moonbeams kiss the sea
the breeze caresses sweet emotions
of beings like you and me

pshaw!!

2009-10-14T04:36:00.000-07:00

the power of accurate observation
is commonly called cynicism
by those who have not got it....

building bridges

2009-10-12T09:21:00.000-07:00

opinions build walls
stories build bridges....

for one who has perception
a mere sign is enough....
for one who does not heed
a thousand explantions are not enough.

a dance, a smile

2009-09-24T10:10:00.000-07:00

here i stand
two paths
another behind
the next faint
broad and widening
length unclear
full of choices
moments
a dance in near darkness
her smile lights the way
show me

more on moments

2009-09-09T12:09:00.000-07:00

who told you this would be easy
eyes glittering like sea wet stones
a flush, gentle as rain, rose in her cheeks
nobody, nobody, the voice in her head clammered
i'm sorry, sorry, my love
it must be, i can never deny love
at that moment she met her eyes
and it occured to her
that we only live in moments
arranged as it happens
someday we shall live entirely in nothing
but a single kiss

the wild good

2009-08-20T08:08:00.000-07:00

my chair's a vibratin'
propelling me to stand
dance, drive
start something new
have a change of heart
dare to hope?

in the moment

2009-08-16T11:07:00.000-07:00

Will you seize it?

When we stand at the threshold of a new and larger world, it helps to
be bathed in the moment, to show that yes, the realm of the possible is
indeed far vaster than we know, and no, we are not crazy for leaving
normal behind.

The moment is something that is impossible from one's current
understanding of reality and truth, but that becomes possible
from a new understanding.

The moment is more than an event: it is an invitation. It says, "The
universe is bigger than you thought it was." It invites us to step
into a larger world, in which new things are possible. The moment can
blow apart our world if we accept it. Indeed, sometimes we do not
accept it; sometimes we relegate it to the category of "that was
weird," an exception to life, and we preserve normalcy and think and
live as we always have, as if nothing had happened. When faced with
an event that defies our usual explanations, we discard the event to
preserve the explanation.

we sing, we dance

2009-08-15T12:11:00.000-07:00

attachment & ego

2009-08-09T06:31:00.000-07:00

gertrude and alice
sleeping beauty and the fairy godmother
patience and joy
compassion and wisdom
a new normal?

hope vs curiosity

2009-07-12T10:03:00.000-07:00

i have no special talents
i am only passionately curious
and there is no cure

sail away from the safe harbor
for only the cat died nobly

more on hope ~ by atwood

2009-07-06T14:49:00.000-07:00

"As a species we're doomed by hope, then?"

"By hope? Well, yes.
Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes,
which in turn create even more dangerous messes.
Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty promise;
and as any stockbroker or lottery seller knows,
most of us will take a slim hope over prudent and predictable frugality.
Hope like greed, fuels the engine of capitalism."

~ Oryx and Crake

peace.....

2009-06-29T12:19:00.000-07:00

that was the other name for home

happy bidet

2009-06-23T08:41:00.000-07:00

I am spending my 59th
w/ friends that shared my 21st....
if old friends are a barometer of one's character
then we are quite the gaggle of characters!!

fertility drugs

2009-06-15T04:19:00.000-07:00

pharming our consumption

happiness ...... a work in progress

2009-06-08T14:30:00.000-07:00

friends
freedom
self sufficiency
quiet thinking
wise living

a few good men

2009-05-25T16:34:00.001-07:00

a time to remember

2009-05-24T15:00:00.000-07:00

friends and family
heroes and heroines
significant others
and special lovers
laughter and tears
certainty and fears
yesterday's child

vegas evictions

2009-05-24T08:45:00.000-07:00

3600 per month =
180 per day =
22 per hour!!!

this is a former mortgage broker....

wtshtf

2009-05-22T13:42:00.000-07:00

it's never distributed evenly...

careless sex

2009-04-28T18:04:00.001-07:00

those were the days

2009-04-27T06:07:00.001-07:00

Lyrics | Mary Hopkins lyrics - Those Were The Days lyrics

rainy day haiku

2009-04-26T15:21:00.000-07:00

my dark reveries
in search of my lost future
are bitter solace

associates

2009-04-24T07:13:00.001-07:00

the i's in my team

resilience

2009-04-21T08:31:00.001-07:00

do worry
be happy

being beyond hope

2009-04-19T07:50:00.000-07:00

i don't have much hope.
but that is a good thing.
hope keeps us chained.
hope denotes a lack of confidence.
false hope that things will change...
technology will save us...
or the great mother
or beings from alpha centauri
or jesus christ
or santa claus.
false hope leads to inaction
and/or ineffectiveness.
false hope binds us to unlivable situations
and blinds us to real possibilities.
and hope itself......
our beacon in the dark,
the light at the end of the long dark tunnel,
protection from despair -
which you must avoid at all costs!
hope was well paired with plagues,
sorrow and mischief in pandora's box.
hope is a curse and a bane.
hope and fear chase each others tails.
hope allows you to be powerless to change.
when hope dies, action begins.
life is very good and very complex...
i feel rage, joy, sorrow, love, despair
and happiness all at the same time.
never fear despair...
it is not perpetual misery...
it is a call to action...
a call to give up on hope...
you never needed it.
the victim dies...
and that is a very good thing.

april showers

2009-04-03T06:16:00.000-07:00

sitting quietly
doing nothing
spring comes
the grass grows
by itself

prosperity

2009-03-28T17:20:00.001-07:00

is relating....
not acquiring

opinions

2009-03-27T05:33:00.000-07:00

few are capable of expressing,
with composure,
opinions which differ from
the prejudices of their social environs.
most are even incapable of forming such opinions.

the good news network

2009-03-17T19:01:00.000-07:00

reality is just not fun enough...

i wish....

2009-03-13T13:44:00.001-07:00