A place for me to work stuff out and to post things that interest me.
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
Links!
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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Friday, December 17, 2004
November again? Possibly early December...
Dreams
Dreaming. Such a wealth of meaning in one word. "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas..." Somehow, I find it unlikely that that singer of this song is actually having nightly visions of some sort of Currier & Ives version of a perfectly pristine, snow-covered Christmas Day. (If I were, I'd consider it a nightmare. Give me a balmy 70-something degrees any day!)
"I dream of becoming a _________". Again, it's a hope for the future, not meant to be taken literally as something the person dreams about while asleep. At least, in most cases.
Then there is the nightly picture show that occupies our brain while we sleep. I know of several people who say they can direct their dreams and shape them how they wish. That is "lucid dreaming". It's also a talent I don't possess unless you count suddenly realizing you're dreaming and waking yourself up. I don't even remember most of my dreams for more than a few minutes after I wake up. All I know is that I'm prone to anxiety-inducing dreams. I awaken, disturbed and shaky, unable to articulate exactly why other than knowing it's somehow related to whatever it was I was dreaming about.
Notable Exceptions
I have two recurring dreams. In one, I'm confronted with a number of desirable items (jewelry, clothing, candy, whatever) and I can only have one. I simply can't decide. I fuss and fuss and change my mind, but I never arrive at a decision. I'm usually topless in that dream for some reason, though I don't appear to be bothered about it, even though I'm in a public place.
In the other, I'm walking down a sidewalk or street and there's someone I don't know coming towards me from the opposite direction. We make eye contact as we pass each other and I instantly know it's a demon (the person is sometimes male, sometimes female). I turn to watch them and they're looking back at me. They always say, "We know who you are and we know where to find you." I always wake up at that point, terrified.
As for the dream that inspired this post, it was very weird. I was pregnant. VERY pregnant. No one could explain how or why, since I knew in the dream that I'd had the partial hysterectomy last year. Every doctor in the dream (they kept bringing in more and more of them) was baffled and wanted to run all kinds of tests on me, even though they could kill the baby. That's when I woke up, extremely anxious--which is strange. The anxiety, that is, since it wasn't really a nightmare and I wasn't afraid in the dream, just confused.
Opinions?
Dreams of your own?
7:49 PM
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