Tag: random musings
member name: Kathryn E.
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April 02, 2006 01:36 PM EDT --
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, I call to my two cats, Mao and Cheddar. And they come running.
I called "Baby Fooooood." Sure, they know the words, "Baby Food." They're cats. . . .
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April 07, 2006 05:44 AM EDT --
Lunch counter sit-ins at Woolworths
JFK elected President
Peace Corp program announced
Yuri Gargarin, first man in space
Bay of Pigs
Alan Shepard, first American in space
16,000 U.S. advisors sent to Vietnam . . .
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May 04, 2006 09:06 PM EDT --
When I was in college, when I felt self-indulgent and wanted to write, I would say 'I'm feeling mossy.'
It was an oblique reference to Walt Whitman. More mundanely, I was feeling creative. . . .
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July 19, 2006 11:47 AM EDT --
Heat's addled my brain
Cannot think
Heat's addled my brain
Vapor steams from my fingers, as they fly on the keyboard
Heat's addled my brain
I cannot sleep
Heat's addled my brain
No AC except . . .
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May 02, 2006 02:59 AM EDT --
Breathing is life.
It is involuntary.
We cannot will ourselves to stop.
But we can will ourselves to breathe faster or slower.
But even this feat cannot last forever.
In the end, we must trust enough . . .
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May 17, 2006 07:42 AM EDT --
cooking with gas tonight, dirt included
laying it out in the open
soul, dirty
flesh raw, bones bare to skull
god, what have I done
cooking with gas tonight, dirt included
I'm real
we've all got . . .
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April 13, 2006 01:34 PM EDT --
..it's been 10 minutes, and no one has commented, yet.
You've heard the stories: Gather produces an intoxicating high unlike any other. This is all too true. And you don't get a hangover, . . .
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April 18, 2006 10:57 AM EDT --
I have a piece of the Berlin Wall on my refrigerator. This is from 1989, when a friend joined hundreds of thousands, who helped to tear it down.
The piece of the wall is thick concrete, and you can imagine . . .
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May 09, 2006 03:24 AM EDT --
"Hey, you there – don't jump."
A short, balding man with a twinkle in his eye and appearing to be ageless, yet elderly, caught the younger man by the arm, and stopped him . . .
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July 17, 2006 11:21 PM EDT --
Jimmy Olson, copy boy, ran to Lois. "Clark is missing!"
"Impossible! He was just here a minute ago."
Perry called for Lois.
"Lois, in my office, now! I want you to find Superman. . . .
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August 02, 2006 02:39 AM EDT --
Sherry, I have 16 Candles
For You Belong to Me
This is Dedicated to the One I Love
He's the Leader of the Pack
So, Please Mr. Postman
Take Good Care of My Baby
He's Where the Boys Are
And Stand . . .
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April 01, 2006 04:13 AM EST --
The morning Sue Hapenny was born, circus elephants danced, lions jumped through rings of fire, and choirs of angels sang throughout the heavens. Or so she was told.
After hours of labor in which . . .
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April 16, 2006 09:28 PM EDT --
That's right. A bath. You CAN bathe cats. Cat care books recommend it, but I don't know why. The cat gets wet, cold and meows. You get wet, cold and you howl.
But if you're so inclined, here's . . .
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April 19, 2006 03:22 AM EDT --
In 1952, Eisenhower was in the White House, ranches and bungalows sprung up everywhere, men wore Hawaiian shirts on Fridays and gave barbecues on Sunday afternoons. In 1952, women stayed home to mind the . . .
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May 05, 2006 10:58 AM EDT --
61. I've seen Stonehenge.
62. When I was 3, I kept an entire train awake while traveling from Salt Lake to Seattle, going from passenger to passenger, shaking them and saying, "Hi, . . .
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May 07, 2006 08:08 PM EDT --
OK, I'll go first.
Mao and Cheddar. Cheddar is the cheesy dude, Mao is his brother.
Mao and Cheddar picked us from the shelter four years ago and they've owned us ever since.
Cheddar always . . .
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June 05, 2006 01:12 AM EDT --
Recently, I downloaded Firefox, as part of a larger Google download, which took all night; the Google download included 6 progarms, such as Picasa, Google Desktop, Google Earth and others...
We've . . .
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June 15, 2006 10:34 PM EDT --
Breathing is life.
It is involuntary.
We cannot will ourselves to stop.
But we can will ourselves to breathe faster or slower.
But even this feat cannot last forever.
In the end, we must trust enough . . .
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March 30, 2006 11:26 AM EST --
Customers drive me to the brink of despair and beyond. Some days, everything's too much.
They'll rip open up the plastic bags on the comforters, pull out a comforter, then try to stuff it back . . .
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April 14, 2006 11:51 AM EDT --
Called in sick
Just kicking back
To rest my bone aching soul
Mind bent in on itself
Slept 'til noon
A whole 8 hours
If you count the 4 from last night
My self-imposed Gather schedule
Lived between . . .
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