Won't be long, now.While I only watch a few television shows, I was pleased some time ago to cancel my cable account. Sure, my television reception (only good till sometime February) sucks, but I'd found many more shows than I actually watch are available free on-line either from the network Web sites or countless other sites where users record & upload shows also for free. This & my Netflix account -- that's three dvd's a week plus unlimited viewing on-line free with my account -- has made life not only easier, but much more flexible, as I can watch these programs when I choose. Of course, it does require a high-speed Internet connection, but check out LifeHacker's Ditch Satellite TV for Online Alternatives and Save.
In honor of my new ability to legally marry people (for good or ill -- can you imagine?):
A Marriage of Two
A marriage of two
is for love that is true
A marriage of two
is always something new
A marriage of two
happens sometimes out of the blue
A marriage of two
is worth it when its due
A marriage of two
is a marriage of trust
Many can find themselves lost
It can be an expensive cost
They are only very few
who have a clue
of when love accrues
A marriage of two
is about love making
It is not about
money raking
A marriage of two
can be bad
A marriage of two
can be sad
You should only be glad if
A marriage of two
is for love that is true
-Sylvia Chidi
Know when to go.Broad and Yellow Is the Evening Light
Broad and yellow is the evening light,
The coolness of April is dear.
You, of course, are several years late,
Even so, I'm happy you're here.
Sit close at hand and look at me,
With those eyes, so cheerful and mild:
This blue notebook is full, you see,
Full of poems I wrote as a child.
Forgive me, forgive me, for having grieved
For ignoring the sunlight, too.
And especially for having believed
That so many others were you.
-Anna Akhamatova
The lovely Rhyanna had recently posted some images of Nice, France. While I had noticed that these images -- images of, quite possibly, the most beautiful city I've ever seen -- were in a folder entitled Nice, I hadn't made the connection. I remember well that Rhyanna is French, as well as intelligent, sweet & sometimes wonderfully intense...& those eyes (hey, she's married, so I'm not trying looking to date her, besides, I'm moving far away from Seattle very, very soon -- as if she'd have any interest in the likes of me, anyway), but had actually asked her where it is. And now, little did I know that a city I've read of countless times in many texts on many ancient (or, at least, old) subjects, that Nice is the wondrous city of Nissa, Nίκαια & Nicaea! Dopey me.
Now, my plan involves living comfortably in a decent sized older house in the country, forest or desert -- in another country altogether -- but Cheap RV Living has the right idea about freeing oneself from the unreality in which we find ourselves.
Any site which starts with a link to learning Tantra is certainly worth a look -- besides, it's mostly of the Divine Feminine at Body of the Goddess. How can one go wrong?
OK, so the author of the 50 Mistakes WOMEN make when having sex with a MAN sounds awfully bitter, he is actually making some good sense. I might add that your crying after the first time with a new guy is very confusing to us. It doesn't matter that some of us realize how emotional that new bond may be -- we still feel that we've done something that maybe we shouldn't have. If they're good tears or bad, please say so! Oh, & asking for juice or a cigarette afterward is great, but do you all see this as part of some ritual, or are we more slaves to women than even I know...?
I must remember:
It is illegal for any member of the Nevada
Legislature to conduct official business
wearing a penis costume while the legislature
is in session. [Guess I won't be running, now.]
Want more Strange US Sex Laws?
Wouldn't you love to have one of these in your back yard...?They're all dead now.
Look familiar? This is Galaxian, a game I used to play a lot -- particularly when I at a bar back in...what 1979/1980 (& maybe later). What I liked most about the game was that the more I drank, the better I got. Really. I held the highest score, which I would beat each time I was, at one bar. What's more, there are 94 more of these "old-time" favorites you can play right on the Web.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) spends taxpayer money producing propaganda that is intended to keep people afraid of marijuana, but instead produces theater. This breach of trust is dangerous. It is the real gateway.
And speaking of grass...check out the The Great Tennessee Marijuana Cave. Wow! This was no stingy operation.
I remember days like this, only the trees were pine.For those who remember Laura Palmer, you'll enjoy The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer. Come on, I know there are some Twin Peaks freaks out there.
If you've watched the science programs on PBS in the past few years (I forget when I'd seen a science doc which covered much of this in theory), you may find this article of interest:
"Somehow each [subatomic] particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect's findings."
Aspect's, as well as the author of The Amazing Holographic Universe are much easier to understand than another physicist, David Bohm, illustrates later in the article, but, as far as science goes, this is pretty cool.
I've mentioned previously that I take issue, essentially, with parents pressuring their children -- even when they're teens -- to decide what they want to do with their lives. Really, would you seek financial advice from your auto mechanic, or medical advice from a florist? While each of these examples may know something -- or even a great deal -- about what they do for a living, they wouldn't necessarily be of much use as financial or medical advisers.
So, you're asking your child, who knows absolutely nothing about life or what opportunities my be presented to them to make a choice? What a sad world we are living in. What I'm on about is that kids need to experience more, & in their own time. This brings me to the link I'm leading to, concerning homework. Why was homework always a chore? I admit that English & science homework was much more interesting to me than the homework in other classes. We, naturally, need to teach children some basics, but why aren't their interests & inclinations more encouraged?
My mother encouraged some, but not all of my interests. But where I praise her is in her doing no more than express a dissatisfaction once, & only once, with any new thing I wanted to do or study with which she'd disagreed -- & I really thought, way back when, that she'd forbid my study of the occult, witchcraft & even Satanism when I was in third or fourth grade! She didn't. She also didn't like the books I brought home. But above all, these subjects taught me things, combined with her tolerance, that have made me a pretty decent individual, now in my old age.
So, you -- & teachers as well -- should read The Truth About Homework. Then sit quietly & think before you tell your children to blindly follow directions. And, I ask, why do those who make academic decisions think that piling more homework on kids will make them smarter, or even more knowledgeable? Sheesh! It's like an employer who cuts your hours & demands you produce even more than you had before your hours were cut -- at the same, or even decreased, wages.
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