I am addicted as my post show, I just find this so interesting and being able to talk about things and people understand as my friends and wifes family have no idea of the mentality. I am here daily and hourly sometimes depending on my work load
abr
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I am addicted as my post show, I just find this so interesting and being able to talk about things and people understand as my friends and wifes family have no idea of the mentality. I am here daily and hourly sometimes depending on my work load
abr
Dear Diary,
I have decided not to quit, though I am very disheartened at the moment. Bought some books today, but have to read them before I share with you. Have a wonderful quotation from Maya Angelou. Maybe I'll write it out for you later. What would I do without you, Dear Diary? I felt I had it all together, but perhaps I do not after all. Should I go back to all that I left behind? I await some wisdom as I am not feeling particularly smart nor well at the moment. Everything I've put my hand to has failed and my latest cause for joy....
C....
Dear Diary,
Words of hope and encouragement from Maya Angelou:
"I love the art of living, so I try to live my life as a poetic adventure; everything I do is part of a large canvas I am creating."
On concentration and dedication to all aspects of being:
"I have set aside in this day an hour for you." [M.A.'s words to an interviewer] "All my equipment is here, everything I know, everything I dream, all my wishes, all my fears, my losses, my defeats, are here and available to you. THAT to me is immediate and that is being poetic, to take responsibility for each moment."
C...
I spend about 3 or 4 hours a day reading all the post here, don't post much myself. I get up before my wife and play on the computer until she wakes up. It gives me something to do each day.
Ken P.
Dear Diary,
You realize, of course, that I spend a great deal of time with you daily and no longer attend "church." What I feel free to study on my own - apart from recruiting sessions under the guise of Bible study - sometimes includes information written by those whose teachings I've since abandoned. Get a load of this:
"...We must seek to be genuine Christians in every sense of the word. Does that mean we have to join a church organization in Christendom? Ask yourself now, Did Christ Jesus, who set our example and told us to follow his example to gain life, join any church organization in his day? No, God does not require us to do that; but he requires us to worship him, to preach the good news of the kingdom, to be Christians, to follow the example Jesus set, living in unalterable devotion to Jehovah God; to praise God and respect his supremacy, to resist all efforts to turn us from decency and to endure in faith. We have the Bible to show us the right way. Certainly it is not necessary for a person to become a member of a church to gain everlasting life. - John 3:16-18; 17:3." THE WATCHTOWER, March 1, 1953, p.143, "Integrity Leads to Life"
I'll tell you later how the requirements have changed....
C...
Dear Diary,
Je suis baba! ------- I am flabbergasted! I asked for wisdom to carry on, and got what I needed. I think I just may make it 'round the bend, after all!
JE SUIS BABA!
Je suis CoCo
:)
*wink*
Je suis CoCo!
tee hee hee...
Je suis Baba.
Dear Diary,
Two little streams join in the mountains - one warm, one cold - to form the Moldau, hence Bedrich Smetana's orchestral work: "The Moldau." Its true name, however is "Vltava." The work colorfully depicts the river Vltava's wanderings from the source, through the countryside as it splits, and meets up again to flow past the castle in Prague. I wasn't aware that, like Beethoven, Smetana too went deaf. Beautiful choral piece by Estonian composer Arvo Pert (sp?) about OT/NT, Adam/Jesus, contrasts. Title eludes me. Dvorak has just begun. Seems we are exploring that part of the world today. What is the name of that region - Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Bohemia...? Eastern Europe?
A new and brilliant day emerges, DD. Whatever shall we do? I must get out, even for a bit. Mornings are so slow and difficult. We shall see what we shall see. Is anonymity such a good thing? When it comes to fading, yes - maybe so. I need to concentrate on the work at hand and not allow emotion to impinge upon what I must do. It has held sway for too long a time already....
Must brew anew a pottacafe, DD. An imminent return? Que sera sera - Doris Day.
C...
::Had to turn out the lamp when "Sirens" emerged upon me with its sensual enchantment. No wonder Odysseus had the crew lash him to the mast. Plugged ears. You realize their song of love and desire is but a ploy to lure you upon the rocks of destruction, whereupon they seize you, the unwary sailor, and dash you to pieces in the midst of uncharted seas. I did not plug my ears - am I a fool?
Somehow I knew that you would understand CoCo. Makes me wish you would come back to the Islands sooner than later ;)
Dear Diary,
It is high noon and I am just now returned from the garden on Walden. Morning cafe from the carafe is still warm. Don't want to bother nukin' it. Cremora rather than moo-jus. As I trimmed back 20-year's growth and shoved the juniper slash into the waste bin, I looked upward to "see" the zephyrs jostling about the crest of the giant lodgepole pine. The sky is sufficiently blue to garner a grateful sigh from this weary husband of the grounds. A crackling, electric blue it ain't. That's all right. Beethoven's 3rd on later: "Eroica" [Heroic] - Out of admiration for the leader, Ludie originally dedicated the great work to Napoleon. When he learned that Bonaparte had the gall to crown himself emperor, Beethoven, in a rage, scratched out the dedication, cutting through the score.
Will return later, as my cheer has been sufficiently restored by the "flabbergasted" one and my friend of the tropics. Gratitude is but a paltry word to express how I truly feel....
C...