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What if you were given dominion over all things?
And what if eternity lay before you, brimming with love, friends, and laughter?
Yet still, one day, in all your radiance, bubbling over with giddy excitement, you tripped, fell, and got hurt - really hurt.
Would you give up on all of your dreams? Would you hate yourself? Would you forget life's magic and promise?
Or would you shrug it off, look ahead, and exclaim that it's "just a flesh wound"?
Touché,
The Universe
Beno is sooooooooooooooooo big!!!
From Gigi Gaskins Face Book Friend
The following is an excerpt from a New Yorker article about James Hansen, NASA's head climate scientist, by Elizabeth Kolbert:
During the past few years, researchers around the world have noticed a disturbing trend: the planet is changing faster than had been anticipated. Antarctica, for example, had not been expected to show a net loss of ice for another century, but recent studies indicate that the continent’s massive ice sheets are already shrinking. At the other end of the globe, the Arctic ice cap has been melt- ing at a shocking rate; the extent of the summer ice is now only a little more than half of what it was just forty years ago. Meanwhile, scientists have found that the arid zones that circle the globe north and south of the tropics have been expanding more rapidly than computer models had predicted. This expansion of the subtropics means that highly populated areas, including the American Southwest and the Mediterranean basin, are likely to suffer more and more frequent droughts.
The point is that this is not something that will happen to our grandchildren. It is something that is happening to us.
Have a great weekend!
http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/200
ifin you need me call me at home or cell
The man molested childrend.. for me that over ride every good thing he ever did.. yes he was not convicted..but he was never found not guilty either...
Yes I am a survior of being molested as a child,from the time I was 5 until I was 7... as much as I can remember.. so this makes me sick to my stomach to say this man was so great.. and I'm trying to work through the maddness..
So please understand if you around me and start talking about him.. that I get mad.. unless you've been molested or have children.. you will not understand..
and my opinion and feelings are not up for debate..
so excuse me while I find my golf club and beat the hell out my bed.. before I hurt someone
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curious
I know you don't know me.. we live worlds a part literally.. but this morning as I watched you die on my computer screen.. I cried for you.. for your family ..for what you stood for and for your country..
But I also wonder who you were.. I wonder if we met would we be friends.. we have some things n common.. we're women.. we love.. we hate.. we have families..we work.. we loved life.. and much more,like believing in a cause.. most likely all those thing would have over ride our differences..
I've seen folks die before.. in real life.. babies in fact.. working in a ER .. but your death Your passing has moved my heart.. Fighting for what is right rarely pretty .. and its bloody
I cried this morning for you Neda.. I thought of all the hate and evil in this world.. Then I prayed to the Creator asking why.. Neda you know what the answer was? Love will always win out.. its ALL about the love.. as my friend Les would say..
You loved your country enough to take that risk of dieing.. and I love you Neda for that..
Neda I cried for you this morning but you gave me hope in your death.. hope for the world .
May G-D welcomed you with open arms .. May your family and country find peace .. and thank you Neda from a woman on the other side of the world.. your death was not in vain..
EDIT..
This is from someone who knew Neda...
Yesterday I wrote a note, with the subject line "tomorrow is a great day perhaps tomorrow I'll be killed." I'm here to let you know I'm alive but my sister was killed...
I'm here to tell you my sister died while in her father's hands
I'm here to tell you my sister had big dreams...
I'm here to tell you my sister who died was a decent person... and like me yearned for a day when her hair would be swept by the wind... and like me read "Forough" [Forough Farrokhzad]... and longed to live free and equal... and she longed to hold her head up and announce, "I'm Iranian"... and she longed to one day fall in love to a man with a shaggy hair... and she longed for a daughter to braid her hair and sing lullaby by her crib...
my sister died from not having life... my sister died as injustice has no end... my sister died since she loved life too much... and my sister died since she lovingly cared for people...
my loving sister, I wish you had closed your eyes when your time had come... the very end of your last glance burns my soul....
sister have a short sleep. your last dream be sweet.
- Location:home..safe..so far
- Mood:
thoughtful - Music:dog snoring
But pursue only those
that capture your heart.
old indian saying
But for the folks in Iran.. I truly believe its going to be a long hard road..
From one of the blogs that got out of Iran before they shut them down..
If this doesn't make you want to cry nothing will..
"I will participate in the demonstrations tomorrow. Maybe they will turn violent. Maybe I will be one of the people who is going to get killed. I'm listening to all my favorite music. I even want to dance to a few songs. I always wanted to have very narrow eyebrows. Yes, maybe I will go to the salon before I go tomorrow! There are a few great movie scenes that I also have to see. I should drop by the library, too. It's worth to read the poems of Forough and Shamloo again. All family pictures have to be reviewed, too. I have to call my friends as well to say goodbye. All I have are two bookshelves which I told my family who should receive them. I'm two units away from getting my bachelors degree but who cares about that. My mind is very chaotic. I wrote these random sentences for the next generation so they know we were not just emotional and under peer pressure. So they know that we did everything we could to create a better future for them. So they know that our ancestors surrendered to Arabs and Mongols but did not surrender to despotism. This note is dedicated to tomorrow's children..."
i realize now i do not fear death... i fear my daughter will not be free when i die
- From the Twitter of an Iranian medical student
"If it bothers you so much, then why don't you stop watching?" seems to be the question of the last few days from my friends and family who know how invested I have become in the cause of the Iranian people (as I have explained in great detail here) The answer is simple: one day of caring is not enough. We must be the voice for the people of Iran who would otherwise be silenced. They are without reliable news sources, they are without mobile phone calls, text messaging, facebook, twitter, youtube, AIM, Yahoo, Google, and pretty much every other useful outlet for information you can think of. Yet they persist on the streets and on the internet in any way they can. The least we can do, whether we are across continents, oceans, or time zones, is spread their words safely.
My death is irrelevant.Wht is important is that u do not forget my words.We want freedom.i will die 4that
- From the Twitter of a protester in Tehran
Right now, brave men and women in Iran, both young and old, are sacrificing their lives for their voices to be heard. They must fear not only the police, but also the Basij -a force of men loyal to the government who plant themselves among crowds in plain clothes in order to discretely attack protesters and incite chaos.The protesters are peaceful. They mass together in crowds that are reported to grow in size every day. At night they have very few, if any, safe places to stay. Houses with satelite dishes were attacked by the Basij tonight, and during the 50 minutes of Twitter's maintenance, another university was attacked.
140 characters is a novel when you're being shot at.
- From another Iranian Twitter
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP?
- The most obvious thing to do is stay informed. Keep an eye on reliable sources on Twitter, refresh blogs and news sites that are covering the stories.
- If you are on twitter, retweet information from reliable twitters, but REMOVE THE USERNAME if they are in Iran. People have died because of the lack of responsibility by fellow tweeters and the media in this front. They can be tracked down by the government of Iran.
- Spread the information elsewhere. Repost this article or write your own on Facebook, Myspace, Tumblr, or anywhere else you can think of. If you write your own, make sure you are concise and accurate. Link to your sources for people to learn more.
- Discretely change your location on Twitter to Tehran or Iran, and your time zone to GMT +3:30. Don't post to brag about how you did it, otherwise it was useless.
- DO NOT auto-refresh and take down websites, even if you are asked. It slows down the internet for the rest of the people in Iran.
- If you make a proxy DO NOT post it publically, otherwise it is useless. Send it in a direct message to a trusted source.
- DO NOT spam the hash tag #IranElection with useless things to "confuse the government". This does not help at all.
USEFUL SITES TO FURTHER HELP
Cyber War Guide for Iran Elections
Green Revolution - How to Help
Anonymous - Why We Protest - Iran
STAY INFORMED!
Follow on Twitter: @ProtesterHelp and @StopAhmadi
(REMINDER: DO NOT REPOST PERSONAL TWITTERS OF THOSE INSIDE THE COUNTRY, EVEN IF THEY ARE RELIABLE!)
Live-blogging by Andrew Sullivan
General information from a poser on Fark.com
Live-blogging on HuffingtonPost
دنیارابگوییدچطورآنهاانتخاباتمان دزدیده اند
Tell the world how they have stolen our election
- original article by one_hoopy_frood on LJ
cool book.. gives the how too's and the why in layman terms..
high recommend it ..
- Location:hell aka work
- Mood:
blah - Music:something on pandora
I feel so bad.. didn't mean too.. ::sigh::
sorry little spider.
- Location:pits of hell aka work
- Mood:
anxious - Music:people talking
The tour went good for Katie at Watkins... now the hard part getting her in !! There's a shit load of stuff to do between now and Nov.15th... She will be going in Spring of 2010...
I've over loaded myself without even thinking.. bad Denise bad..
I've volunteered to help out w/ PPD this year.. but I'm going have to have a small part in the event..
Want to put together Women's camping trip for the Fall..
Getting stuff done and ready for Katie's school which comes first..
Hoodoo class..
Herb Festival in Augs.. in French Lick IN...
http://www.risingstarmusic.com/laughing
Not to say whatever else comes up ...
busy busy busy
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