So I log in to FetLife today – which I no longer do each and every day cuz I’m flippin’ busy, man – and the first things I see on my front page?
“People who think dog rape is a-ok” and “Another day, another shoot at Kink”.
Wandering over to my groups I found “Is slave a [...]

I have been so stupidly busy the past four days or so.  Nothing big or super time consuming but lots of little stuff.  Multiple important converstions going on at once, trying to organize my week and my house, the usual Teen issues and “take care of the family” issues that take up time.  Dogs and [...]

So school has started for the teen and I’m quite determined to get myself into some sort of routine.  There has been next to no scheduled sleep or eat or cleaning times since Taylor started working nights and it’s making me both crazy and vaguely depressed all the time.  I’m a creature of habit and [...]

“The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many. ” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fall is coming.  Can you smell it?  I almost can. It sneaks in [...]

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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~Anatole FranceGetting ready to move and, while I’m looking forward to it, it’s not necessarily easy to leave a place I’ve been for [...]

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted;One need not be a house;The brain has corridors surpassingMaterial place.”~Emily Dickinson
I try to live each day as if the future doesn’t hold anything terrifying…to push the fear to the back of my mind, refusing to let it rule my days, ruining what may be the only [...]

“Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.”~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
I read this quote today and it made me realize…
How often do you hear people say:

When I was younger…
Oh, I remember the time…
God, those were the days…
We had so much fun then…
I was so happy when…
Nothing has been the [...]

I don’t really do resolutions, per se. I set goals. Ponder things I’d like to do or change. Resolutions seem too firm and, despite being all firm and solid and “resolute” no one seems to keep them – myself included. Goals, on the other hand, are sorta squishy. Nothing that has to be done, so [...]

(Wrote this a few days ago on the ibook and have just now gotten around to plugging it in to the modem to post it)
So, lately, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to expectations – just in general, really, but specifically the expectations we have of others. Because, face it, we all have expectations. [...]

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on [...]

“Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.”~Sarah Ban Breathnach
I believe this.Living in the past is something far too many people do. You cannot grow if you like your past you more than the present. What sort of life can you have if what has been is always better, [...]

Waitin’, waitin’, waitin’.
Waitin’ to hear about that house. Waitin’ to pack cuz I don’t know where or when we’re movin’. Waitin’ to get my car fixed so I can get outta jail now and again. Waitin’ on the damned child support people to get their heads out of their asses.
I swear, I have absolutely no [...]

Okay, kids, keep your fingers crossed. We have a lead on a house that looks incredibly promising.
Three bedroom lower flat with a mother-in-law suite in the basement. (Bedroom, bath, kitchenette, family room) Two car garage. And it’s right around the block from where we are now so it would be a hell of an easy [...]

“We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.” ~Anais Nin
To not do this is one of my talents. I may wander thru life bumping into walls [...]

“They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that’s why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers” ~ David Assael, Northern Exposure
So, yeah…I’m on this family kick lately. Lol. Surprise surprise! Mine has become extended, my dad isn’t doing so well, my baby brother just [...]

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.” ~Epicurus
I think, sometimes, this is what people most forget…
We tend to want everything – every want, need and desire to be met all at the same time. We [...]

“Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity – these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing; they are not ashamed. Man, with his soiled mind, covers himself. Man is the Animal that Blushes. He is the only one that does it – or has occasion [...]

“When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanitY” ~Dale Carnegie
Well…I’d say we’re creaures of logic.When it suits us.But, as a whole, I guess humans are far more apt to be ruled [...]