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Most of us can, if we choose,
make this world either a palace or a prison.
~Lord Avebury
I choose a palace.
~TKF
Do not let your fire go out,
spark by irreplaceable spark,
in the hopeless swamps of the approximate,
the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish,
in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,
but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won.
It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~Ayn Rand
The democratic society's mythology of equality with its
attendant erasure of difference is an impossibility
in an actual, lived sense.
Therefore, according to this view, this
imaginary erasure cannot achieve an
actual democracy, because a sense of
community can only come with the recognition of difference.
~Slavoj Zizek, as paraphrased by Catherine M. Soussloff
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A brand new link! Check it out!
deviantART
I thought the place was very cool. Oh, and all you Alias fans, you can find a very nice wallpaper there--
or rather, here--and a gorgeous Evanescence one, too!
Watcher's Diary
Slayage; The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies
Convert just about anything
Comes in really handy when you want to convert fahrenheit to celcius and vice versa!
Links to 100s of free calculators online
Everything from your due date to how much a house payment would be to a regular calculator
Reference Guide to Chicago Manual of Style
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Atlas & Almanac
Quotation Search Engine
Complete HTML True Color Chart
Epicurious Recipes
Inn Recipes; Recipes for all Occasions
JobStar-Resumes & Cover Letters Advice
Overstock.com: Up to 80% off most items
Ediblenature.com
Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About
(Trust me--you'll be laughing outloud!)
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Beyond the Invisible
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The tale of the world is like a tree.
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Sturdily rooted in the past, the tale's branches spread out through the days that come. The many stories that make up its substance
unfold from bud to leaf to dry memory and back again, event connecting event like the threadwork of a spider's web, so that each creature of the world plays its part, understanding only aspects of the overall narrative, and perceiving, each with its particular talents, only glimpses
of the Great Mystery that underlies it all.
~Charles de Lint, Moonheart
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Wednesday, August 04, 2004
Just a Thought
While I was at Nikki's school, I saw a poster on the wall in the office. One that I've decided I really don't like and don't agree with.
"In real life
there are no
make-up exams.
Make your choices carefully."
Bullshit. Of course there are make-up exams. Of course there are do-overs. It's never too late to take a new path or to start over. At 17, I was so desperate to escape my house, I joined the Air Force to get away. I'd been accepted to both University of Kentucky and to Tulane University in New Orleans and I was waiting on a response from University of Miami when I enlisted. Instead of heading off to college, I chose to go with the military because I knew I would get a paycheck and a roof over my head and I wouldn't be subjected to my parents any longer. Met a guy. Had kids way too young and far too close together and we all lived in abject poverty for a number of years. I'm sure a lot of people would consider my future in low-paying service-industry jobs a lock. At 29, however, I decided to go to college. Graduated summa cum laude. Made myself qualified for the types of jobs that I wanted to have. If that isn't taking a new path, I don't know what is.
I got divorced after 10 years. Got remarried New path. New life. Okay, wrong choice--not the divorce, but the remarriage. But now I'm changing course again. New path. New life. Going back home and getting out of this spiraling mess of a marriage. A "do-over". A "make-up exam". Plainly, another chance to get it right.
Life is full of opportunities for both and it's really not fair to tell kids that if they don't make the perfectly right decision the first time, they're screwed. Sounds like a paralyzing, absolutist philosophy to me. And it also sounds like bullshit.
10:05 PM
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