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Hope
Posted Mar 20, 2003
18 March 2003
In this moment which lends itself to anger, despair and outrage I've gotta remember my motto: Choose Hope. A conscious choice.
I don't know how things'll go. I suspect there'll be a great paradigm shift which'll bring on a change of lifestyle for us here in the USA. Not immediately, perhaps. And I think it would have come to pass eventually even had the government which 'represents' me not set the precedents it did last night, the ones founded in ill logic. That just opens the arena for excuses to do unto others before they do unto you. Karma is a wonderful thing, ya know. The government has just created a colossal karma for us all.
But, Hope. I guess I'll try to find it in the idea that eventually we'll probably have no choice but to deal with the other humans on the skin of the Earth as humans, rather than as 'collateral damage', enemies, allies, or business opportunities. Eventually we'll probably have to accept that rampant abuse of global resources is not acceptable. And possibly, eventually we'll become an honorable people again. So yes, there's hope.
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Reading List
Posted Jun 20, 2002
I read a lot. Too much, probably. Certainly enough that I wouldn't remember it all even a month later. It's kind of an addiction, my preference to watching mind-numbing tv. And shopping. Riding around in cars on errands. Talking on the phone. Normal-people things which occupy their time. So I've decided that, since I have no idea how much I really DO read, that I'll list the books here as I finish them. An experiment, of sorts.
I've been meaning to do this for the past several months but never got a roundtuit. Having just now finished re-re-re-reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and planning a week of bingeing on DNA) seems as if there's no time like the present. The menu starts here.
Finished this week:
Fast Food Nation
The Master and Margarita
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
THGTTG
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For Deacon Blue. And for me too.
Posted Apr 9, 2002
I was out having my beer on the beach, priming myself for the writing I promised you and was reading some Buddhist stuff, kinda randomly researching the second night before making the first when I came across this one for us. And.... SURPRISE! It's from Goethe! 
How does he keep rearing his head in my life these days? He's dead! 
Inspiration strikes again in the strangest of places, and so apropos after our conversation today.
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth--the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would otherwise never have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now."
And be mighty, darlin'.
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Doom? Resurrection? Limbo?
Posted Mar 13, 2002
Earlier tonight my puter choked (which it's been doing occasionally... I figured I'd about reached a state of overload so I cleaned some garbage outlast week) and when I shut it down and tried to restart it it gave me the message of doom. Something along the lines of ....ummmm.... disk failure? drive failure? I don't remember. I tried it 3 times, same story. So I made myself a verrrrrry tall 
after calling my dad and confirming that, yes, this was not a good thing. And I sat in the bath and mourned all the stuff that I'd probably lost forever. And I sipped. And I guzzled.
Anyway, after I'd shriveled my toes to lil white rasins, I came back out and started the puter again though I really had no hope. And it started! No evil, cryptic messages! YAY!!!!! Had to twiddle with the modem for a while before my internet connection worked, but it did. So I dashed into my email stuff and wrote down all the really necessary addys that I was worried about losing contact with forever, and I popped some of my stuff here and there just in case it's all a dead zone tomorrow. Hopefully it was just a sign: START DOING BACKUPS, BRITTA! But more than likely things are going awry, and til I sort 'em out I'll be banished to the library soon. AAAAaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggggh!
I'm worried.
*hic*
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*sniffs screen*
Posted Jan 27, 2002
Well, it SMELLS like a journal.
Why not?
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