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I'm reading this book, "Shosha", by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Such a sophisticated, man-of-the-world, somewhat cynical tone. But now he, or, his narrator, is beginning to show signs of enthusiasm. The prose is picking up speed. And courage. It's strange, though. The characters involve themselves in intrigues, -- affairs, at any rate, -- as if it were nothing; a matter of course. No wrestling with conscience and will. No sleepless nights debating the morality of the betrayal, or the inalienable right of man to take hold of whatever life has to offer him now, before he is a corpse. None of that. No discussion of that. There is just the affair, with this one or that one. The svelte actress who attaches herself to an aging tycoon... The pale and impotent shortstack, whose wife so loves his gentle demeanor but insists on being handled by a brute in the bedroom... The jaded old writer with less ambition than the young men with half his talent... The idealistic Communist, leaving everything for the sake of nothing; a trap... The ruddy-cheeked maid who works hard and proves the existence of God by her simplicity and service -- maybe the only character with genuine scruples, but still easy enough to seduce. And, all the while, the Third Reich is gathering strength in the shadows, about to plunge all of Europe into its mad obsession. Like a stopper about to be lifted from a drain, into which all these people's lives will swirl together and slip away.

http://www.astrotheme.com/portraits/MxxNMgPLmzpw.htm

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posted August 24, 2010 07:18 PM            

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The way you describe the affairs reminds me of Ayn Rand who is pretty much his contemporary as far as the closeness of their ages.

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posted August 25, 2010 12:43 AM              

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Ayn Rand scares me.

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posted August 25, 2010 11:43 AM            

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Can't say I blame you there.

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posted September 04, 2010 04:45 AM              

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Ayn Rand Interview w/ Mike Wallace:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ukJiBZ8_4k

The Lubavitcher Rebbe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWw1PGVJAzo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3QfaebSBwE

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posted September 04, 2010 03:13 PM            

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I like the singing in the last one. That's awesome!

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posted October 01, 2010 02:53 PM            

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Hey, I recently found out my friend J***, who keeps me real or not, is a 0 degree Aqua moon, too. Doesn't surprise me much since I have lots of duplicity in my life. Too cool!
~ Namaste

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posted October 02, 2010 12:24 AM              

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Nice.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKQWvNZT0k

'Cause we're living in a world of fools
Breakin’ us down
When they all should let us be
We belong to you and me

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here, air http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuTNg0jToUM

anne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPmDhWBGOJ0

central http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9jsRZzjrgI

song to the siren (tim buckley cover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFmd6OEnUSk

heaven http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaPYpfMTHvY

ah yom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajXePDRO9Q8

god http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrMvYbgF1H0

unreachable http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfNxViKr3do

enough of me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OecZW2kDnM0

after the ending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZNr6MOu53E

dark/light http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR3Mza80WVc

today http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYpKmYxIiRI

ants http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MRLHDWSYxM

curtain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFV-RVOp5Qg

look on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsTPuSue5RE

height down (w/ river phoenix) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbs8VUR88eA

falling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE3k87029xw

before the beginning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F797B-5RSwI

"The Empyrean is a story that has no action in the physical world. It all takes place in one persons mind throughout his life. The only other character is someone who does not live in the physical world but is inside it, in the sense that he exists in peoples minds. The mind is the only place that anything can be truly said to exist. The outside world is only known to us as it appears within us by the testament of our senses. The imagination is the most real world that we know because we each know it first hand. Seeing our ideas take form is like being able to see the sun come into being. We have no equivelent to the purity of that in our account of the outside world. The outer world appears to each of us as one thing and it is always also a multitude of others. Inside to outside and outside to inside are neverending. Trying and giving up are a form of breathing."

- John http://www.astrotheme.com/portraits/4SS9TJ7WD95s.htm

landslide (fleetwood mac cover) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azDmI34O3SI
This is from 1997, when he was battling addiction.
I think it's heartbreaking, raw, and beautiful.
This man has come a long way and seen more than most.

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posted October 18, 2010 02:48 PM              

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsR_Shk-lak

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posted October 18, 2010 03:37 PM              

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Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang
Sail to me
Sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you

Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you here when i was full sail
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
For you sing, "Touch me not,
touch me not, come back tomorrow:
O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow"

I am puzzled as the newborn child
I am troubled at the tide:
Should I stand amid the breakers?
Should I lie with Death my bride?
Hear me sing, "Swim to me,
Swim to me, Let me enfold you:
Here I am, Here I am, Waiting to hold you

by Tim Buckley
http://www.astrotheme.com/portraits/65j8p463B732.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTEtDBHGY4

cover by John Frusciante
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFmd6OEnUSk

cover by This Mortal Coil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mUmdR69nbM

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posted October 19, 2010 12:05 AM            

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With Ayn Rand, while I do appreciate what she's saying and agree with her definition of 'selfishness', I am not so enamoured by her romancing capitalism which is one of the most destructive machinations at work in our planet at present.
I have never supported capitalism and never will, regardless of how desperately you try to shove it down my throat
That and her emphasis on nature being man's tool that he hones and makes perfect: that is industrialist propaganda. Nature works just fine, thank you, and needs no humans to lend a helping hand(read axe).

Still, some passages are gold

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Kill me once, kill me twice, For all I care, kill me thrice
No matter what you do, I will survive,
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Do you ever read Anne Sexton?

You might like her. She was a Scorpio.

Her Kind

I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil, I have done my hitch
over the plain houses, light by light:
lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind.
A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.

I have found the warm caves in the woods,
filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves,
closets, silks, innumerable goods;
fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves:
whining, rearranging the disaligned.
A woman like that is misunderstood.
I have been her kind.

I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.

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Awesome

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Kill me once, kill me twice, For all I care, kill me thrice
No matter what you do, I will survive,
Oh Baby, the cat has nine lives ♥

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I'm sorry for calling you what I did.
It's never too late for an apology in my book, because I sincerely mean it- but perhaps it could be too late for forgiveness...
A shift in perspective and I see you did not deserve that and now I want you to know this. Whatever it's worth, maybe nothing to you. I could have given my opinions of things in private and talked but I resorted to a cheap shot while I was ticked off. Anyway I see my own error and I must make amends at least try to. I know it's old now but I still think about it and I do not feel good about what I said. My conscience is too loud a voice to be ignored.

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SC

It's never too late for forgiveness.

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posted February 08, 2011 12:43 PM            

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Even angels tumble and fall.

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"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all." Harriet Van Horne

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“It’s an interesting thing. Seeing Kuan Yin relating to a flower so intently. She's not just looking at it; she's interacting with it…I’m seeing how the act of relating to a flower appears to be so simple. Yet, it takes a tremendous amount of courage to make such a “simple” act important. Now, the lotus is floating away.”

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posted March 10, 2011 11:50 PM            

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I appreciate that, SunChild.
I sincerely apologize as well.

Randall and charm,

Thank you for contacting me.
I appreciate the invite back to LL,
but it's been healing for me to move on.
I don't blame this place or the people.
I had lessons to learn here.

The site looks well. I'm glad.

Take Care

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*edit.

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posted March 11, 2011 05:51 PM            

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I`ll see you around the bend Steve!

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