Tag: life
group name: theopenjournal
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September 19, 2006 01:44 PM EDT --
I saw the film Thank You for Smoking recently, and let the moral quandaries it depicted sit and ripen nicely. Finally they fermented to perfection during a lecture on universal morality . . . more
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March 04, 2007 04:08 PM EST --
We had an incedent emerge this week in which we learned, accidentally, that our neighbors were part of a group of swinging couples and had their pictures plastered all over the internet. I had a variety . . . more
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October 24, 2006 12:43 AM EDT --
I have depression. It catches me by surprise every four or five months. Usually I can kick it in a few days to one week. Occasionally, it lasts longer. Last year I had the most . . . more
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February 14, 2007 01:35 AM EST --
I'm hoping to move away from my home in the mountains. This may surprise some of you who saw my recent article, Five Things I Love About My Home. Though it's true I love my home and have enjoyed . . . more
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October 25, 2006 01:21 AM EDT --
Another dark forbidding day,
the winds and rain have come.
To whisk all the trees bare,
leaving a wet, ugly mess on the ground.
Beauty turned dark.
Just last week, we marveled at the colors
that magically . . . more
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September 24, 2006 09:25 AM EDT --
Morning has come to my humble life, and today I find myself wistful and reflective from the events of last week, wishing I could start it all over again, fresh and new. I am thinking about the . . . more
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October 28, 2006 04:06 AM EDT --
Inner Beauty
How is it that
you have remained
beautiful
all these years
Through sadness
and ugliness
you are still the
beautiful you
You could have
become ugly
embittered
by the world
Life tries to . . . more
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January 22, 2007 11:25 PM EST --
The wind brushes the lace curtain against the side of my face as I peer out my window. The silence is almost eerie, the night captured in a snapshot of the moon to be hidden in a photograph album . . . more
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September 28, 2006 10:51 AM EDT --
Yesterday I was having a test ran on my heart. I sat in the procedure room listening to the beep of the monitor. Each beep tracking the beats of my heart each beat to be thankful for, right? I sat thinking . . . more
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September 29, 2006 06:59 AM EDT --
It is a rainy fall morning here in the beautiful state of New Hampshire and the weather is fitting my mood. It has been the end of a long work week and I am looking forward to the weekend. . . . more
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January 29, 2008 07:25 PM EST --
Two weeks ago my cat Pooping Genius died. I didn't even know he was sick. When I left for New York he was doing just great, a little skinny because he was getting on in years. . . . more
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June 12, 2008 07:49 AM EDT --
I know many of you have long suspected but never really knew for sure...but THIS is the real genuis behind the keyboard.
~k
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February 28, 2007 12:54 AM EST --
It was a Sunday when I began to show signs of the Gather-glitch. I’d spent the previous night chatting to new online buddies, posting a couple of articles and commenting on a few interesting photos. . . . more
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June 24, 2008 03:00 PM EDT --
I had a yard sale this past Saturday. It would have been a garage except for that little problem of not having a garage. The idea for the sale wasn't so much to make money, but to declutter this house. . . . more
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September 17, 2006 07:16 AM EDT --
Sun Salutation
I lay in wait for the chirps of the
first morning birds,
a sense of anticipation and hope
in the dawn of a new day
draws me out of bed to the
fog of an early Fall morning. . . . more
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January 18, 2007 03:41 PM EST --
Reading opinions on the, what is generally agreed here, debacle in Iraq. Both confuses and saddens me.
People tend to be, in the words of George, for or agin. That clear. And there's the problem. . . . more
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March 23, 2007 08:42 PM EDT --
There is such a place as heaven on earth and I have found it for me.
For twenty six years I lived in Norfolk, Virginia. I did not live in the nicest of neighborhoods. I drove in high . . . more
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May 11, 2007 11:35 PM EDT --
In the Old Testament, He presents as a loud, Warrior King Who has chosen a nation for His own.
In the New Testament, except for a very few instances, He is the peaceful Lily Poet Who chooses individuals . . . more
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May 18, 2007 08:53 PM EDT --
Better late than never, I was tagged yesterday, but things were a bit hectic, so here's my contribution. I think that this is a good exercise, because we need to remember that although other people . . . more
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December 26, 2006 12:52 PM EST --
Unfortunately I am no longer driving hotshot trucks. I am in fact, not working at all. My dispatcher called Saturday night wanting me to make a 5 hour run for all of 31.22 total pay. The weather was terrible . . . more
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