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Nickel and Dimed [Jul. 22nd, 2008|12:52 pm] This is a bit ridiculous, but I believe what she says at the end. "People are going to demand to be paid what they're worth. And there will be a lot of anger when that day comes, there will be strikes and disruption. But the sky won't fall. And we will all be better off for it in the end." Link 1 comment|Leave a comment

birdy [Jul. 20th, 2008|09:26 pm] We let him go again where many sparrows could find him, and where most of the "civilized" world is kept at bay by a tall chain-link fence. Link 4 comments|Leave a comment

Right now - some thoughts [Jul. 15th, 2008|10:20 pm] I must know this exactly. I must understand this exactly. I must do this exactly. - Herr Klesmer, the three musts of the artist; George Eliot, Daniel Deronda ----- ----- ----- My must: I must know what is relevant. Insight is relevant; knowledge is relevant. But I must know why I think so. This is more difficult than it seems. Is beauty relevant? First inclination is to say no. Because ugliness can be just as relevant and because something may be beautiful but not relevant. Or something may be relevant, but not by simple reason of its beauty. But perhaps ugliness is a quality of beauty by its absence? Can the absence of something be a quality of it? I think so, the same way I think that nothingness is a quality of existence. Could we have one without the other? Why is history relevant? Because it is knowledge, because it is real and it is human. Because each human is a small segment of a greater whole, an heir to the legacy of a magnificent species. Because no one can ever be a first who was not a first, and because difference is more challenging to find in sameness. (George Washington and I are the same. I and Adolf Hitler are the same. Lafayette, Ghandi, Bette Davis, Pol Pot, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Buddha, Stalin, Jesus, Allen Ginsberg, Picasso, Winston Churchill, Bat Ye'or, Caesar, Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, Susan B. Anthony, George S. Custer, Tecumseh, Hilary Clinton, Muhammad, Lord Carnivan, John Lennon, Teddy Roosevelt, Madonna, Ramses, Louis Armstrong, Virginia Woolf, JFK, Mandela, Sitting Bull, Elizabeth, Charlemagne, Edgar Allen Poe, Le Brun, Wagner, Gertrude Stein, Machiavelli, Leonardo, Abraham Lincoln, Twiggy, Mao, Andy Warhol... we're all the same.) To know our past is to know ourselves. And that is relevant. I value myself. ----- ----- ----- A death ought to be mourned. It is the final end, the absolute, the all-end, of a set of possibilities and potentials. That's why it is, for me, so tragic. Link 1 comment|Leave a comment

this is how we do it [Jun. 29th, 2008|10:35 pm] Link 6 comments|Leave a comment

Salv-A me [Jun. 28th, 2008|06:13 pm] David's brother and friend stopped in to visit before going on to a music convention in Ohio, and then again when they were heading home. I was really nice to see them and nice to have people around the apartment, even if they couldn't stay very long. There's just nobody else like them around here to get close to and we left a lot of good friends back home and back at Potsdam, so it gets lonely and droll once in a while. It was very nice to have them. We hit some of the Salvation Army stores around here (there's so many) and I found these really great things: So now I have another "Colonial" shirt, a book of good short fiction, and a nice set of board games for when we have company or just for David and I to play. :) Link Leave a comment

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