Wednesday Aug 31, 2005

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out in the high grass
a million crickets wail
"I'm alone! me!!
alone ... "


yet another 17 syllable writing exercise.

again the air is filled with their sound, night and day. still lots of hummingbirds, but not for long ...
mykel:
Crickets rule. Except when they come in the house. That's kind of stupid of them.
mykel:
Update more! wink

Friday May 27, 2005

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a tiny flicker of life from my end of the wire.
blink, and two months go by.
living somewhat on a zen clock: up around 0400 with the birdies.
not that life is full of discipline or anything - much time holed up with stacks of books, operas and fanasies of Italy
but single life sucks. I'd been getting "used to it". and now, know...
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mykel:
*shudder* It took all of my self-control to not vomit just taking a piture of the thing.
No, it was just there. I was photographing the daisies, and there was this spider getting in my way. Makes a good picture or whatever, though.
ilsa:
I'm going to Tuscany, and also spending a day in Rome. I'm really excited cos I've never been to Italy biggrin

Saturday Mar 26, 2005

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on this day in 1827 in Vienna: Ludwig van Beethoven dies.

world's slowest update? could be.

my new toy! an iPod. filling it full of opera and whatever else I can lay my hands on. anyone have cool, unusual and intersting music to send?

a good time of year for a little meditation retreat - a couple of weeks or so. I'm aiming to practice...
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auggie:
Meditation retreat....ahhhh. Sounds nice. I just overheard my roommate tell my little Yorkie, who was barking at the vacuum cleaner "If you don't stop it Smitty, I'll shove this thing up your ass."
Lovely, yes?
About the chocolates...hook me up. I'm eating campground choclate over here. I want some of the good stuff. They don't have good chocolate here in Georgia. The best I've had is drug store truffles. So, it won't be hard to impress me.
mykel:
Holy... are you ever going to update your journal? It's all me! hahaha.
confused

Sunday Feb 20, 2005

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On this day, in Rome, in 1816: the premiere performance of Rossini's il Barbiere di Siviglia.

Kind of a contrast to go to listen to this, since I've just been playing Britten's "Death in Venice". and trying to decide if I actually like it. But I find it growing on me. (my life is too much like GvA just now. I better watch out.)

One...
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mykel:
I never listened to Frank Zappa. But you know who rocks? Dweezil, awwww yeah. I went to go see him and Lisa Loeb in DC, and the show was AMAZING. (they signed my poster, eeeeee!)He did a tribute to his father, and it was pretty good. Strange stuff, that Frank Zappa...
josie:
comment! ahh!

Yea, I'm bad, aren't I? I get all these nicey nice comments and I totally ignore them all...bahhh.

Coming to Oakville, eh? Whatcha gonna do here?

Tuesday Jan 18, 2005

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The Buddha once said:

Abandon what is unskillful. One can abandon the unskillful. If it were not possible, I would not ask you to do it. If this abandoning of the unskillful would bring harm and suffering, I would not ask you to abandon it. But as it brings benefit and happiness, therefore I say, abandon what is unskillful.

Cultivate the good. One can cultivate...
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josie:
tee hee bunnies....I like bunnies
mykel:
random number, huh?
16

(edited for typo whatever )

[Edited on Feb 20, 2005 2:38AM]

Thursday Dec 30, 2004

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I don't know why I want to write this down. Rather vomit up the entire experience. Maybe that's just it.

Nov30. Tuesday. It was a month ago now and seems like an eternity.
I woke before the alarm. It was set for 0400, enough time for a shower and a bowl of oatmeal, my last decent meal before a day of discount air travel. Zipped...
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paaacc_raz:
I wish, I have the best of Maria Callas cd, but I'm still getting into Opera. I love watching the all those special opera series on the Public Broadcasting Network. I was turned on to Opera when I was 12 when I saw Butterfly... Other then that I still have so much to research on my own time. Another one in which I still really want to see Tosca!

Tuesday Dec 28, 2004

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in the space
between nothing at all
and way too much
I dance
gently

Tuesday Dec 21, 2004

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Joyful to have such a human birth, difficult to find, free and well-favoured.
But death is real, comes without warning. This body will be a corpse.
Unalterable are the laws of karma: cause and effect cannot be escaped.
Samsara is an ocean of suffering, unendurable, unbearably intense.