It is a re-post (sort-of), but appropriate for the moment...
An exerp from an old letter to the *deleted for sounding like an emo loser*
As bad as things could possibly be, problems solved by money are not really problems, are they. I am exhausted, and desperately trying to calm my mind so I can sleep for a while, and put things back into perspective...
I'm thankful that the the last year and especially the last month has kicked my ass, forcing me to grow in ways I'd never imagined possible.
I'm thankful to my family, who have given me their constant love, support, and understanding.
I'm thankful to my friends - the old ones who have stuck around and treat 3 years like it was 3 days, and the new ones who keep showing up.
I'm thankful to be in Amsterdam.
Although I complain every day I am here, I don't think the experiences I have had here could have happened anywhere else.
I'm thankful to Apple Computers.
I am laying in bed writing this, wirelessly connected to the internet with a beautiful brand new titanium Apple loaned to me "for a while" so I can make really great things with it.
I am thankful to the BBC
Who are STILL paying for my internet account - a decade after the gig.
I am thankful that this crazy life is able to bring joy to so many people - I have smiling faces around me all the time, and feel honored to have the opportunities, and the support to make things happen for others.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the point.
An exerp from an old letter to the *deleted for sounding like an emo loser*
As bad as things could possibly be, problems solved by money are not really problems, are they. I am exhausted, and desperately trying to calm my mind so I can sleep for a while, and put things back into perspective...
I'm thankful that the the last year and especially the last month has kicked my ass, forcing me to grow in ways I'd never imagined possible.
I'm thankful to my family, who have given me their constant love, support, and understanding.
I'm thankful to my friends - the old ones who have stuck around and treat 3 years like it was 3 days, and the new ones who keep showing up.
I'm thankful to be in Amsterdam.
Although I complain every day I am here, I don't think the experiences I have had here could have happened anywhere else.
I'm thankful to Apple Computers.
I am laying in bed writing this, wirelessly connected to the internet with a beautiful brand new titanium Apple loaned to me "for a while" so I can make really great things with it.
I am thankful to the BBC
Who are STILL paying for my internet account - a decade after the gig.
I am thankful that this crazy life is able to bring joy to so many people - I have smiling faces around me all the time, and feel honored to have the opportunities, and the support to make things happen for others.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the point.
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fixer:
an expat group here sounds good. or do we do it wide-area, and start a www board & resource site?
cheech:
I finished the chapter...yeah, there are several Ukraines. I was reading about the fairly-Russian-assimilated people yesterday. Today, I learned about: the Muslim Tatars who had been forcedly removed from Crimea to central Asia and returned with renewed separatist feelings; the Russian/Ukrainian navy (yep, on the Black Sea) which was, at the time of Ignatieff's writings, not decidedly Ukrainian or Russian, with ownership still being debated (I have to find out what happened there); most people in Odessa dislike Battleship Potemkin because they are pro-Cossack; Russian miners in the industrial Donetsk area, while not pointedly anti-Ukrainian, were scoffing at Ukraine's ability to be independent from Russia.