Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

So is it redundant to say
“I live vicarlously through you.”  Since vicarious means

vicariously

adverb

indirectly, as, by, or through a substitute

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My Daemon

WordPress won’t let me post this flash object here so you have to follw this lnk to meet my daemon.
Click here.

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Manic Reading

My reading mania continues. It’s been a long time since I have felt the drive to read voraciously. I was a nanny one summer and I would read a novel every day and a half. Insatiable. My need to escape. I guess for years it has been movies that I [...]

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The Daffodil Principle

My friend Josh sent this to me. Pretty much sums up the way I have been trying to live my life. Thanks Josh.
The Daffodil Principle
Several times my daughter had telephoned to say, “Mother, you must come
to see the daffodils before they are over.” I wanted to go, but it was a [...]

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Soul Satisfied

Julia and her lovely metaphor of me as gardener made me want to do some actual gardening this weekend. I have lived in this house for a year and a half and the whole time I have fought with myself about how much effort to put into outdoor sacred space. When I lived [...]

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This is important

If you read my blog you must read The History of Love.  Julia, the best librarian in the world, told me to read it and I will love her forever for the recommendation.  It’s like every page in a beautiful thread and slowly all the threads are woven together and at the very very end [...]

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Picture Time

Over my fabulous weekend I took some kind cool pictures. I really like these industrial heavy machinery scenes lately. As always, let me know what you think.
edit: To satisfy Julia. These photographs were taken in Columbia SC at the Riverfront park which runs between the Columbia Canal and the Congaree River. [...]

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Google Earth

Sorry i am not very articulate today.  Joh’s birthday kicked my butt.  However I needed to share this article right away.  I was just reading that Google Earth has taken steps to educate it’s users about Darfur.  Click here for article.
I have always thought Google Earth was cool, fun, useful to me in my work, [...]

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Call to Prayer

There is a chance that I can go see David this weekend.  The powers that be may take away the privilege of letting his family sign him off base for 29 hours.  So pray with me.  Light a candle.  Wish on a star.  Whatever you do to call on the ultimate power to make something [...]

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Happy Easter

Okay, this isn’t a happy easter poem. I thought I published it here last year but I can’t find it. So here you go.
The Easter Bunny
You were just a boy
On Easter Sunday
When your father brought
A half dead disemboweled
Bunny to the dinner table
A gift from your cat.
Go take care of this.
You’d seen the trail
Of [...]

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