"From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines, going where I list, my own master total and absolute, Listening to others, considering well what they say, Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me."
Walt Whitman (1819-92)
"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break."
Akhenaton (d. c.1354 BC)
And now, the current weather, from some random person we pulled off the street:
Thursday, April 22, 2004
Blogger Idol Week 14 Top Picks
Grab your rosaries and halos, its time for this blog'sBlogger Idol Week 14 Top Picks!
This weeks topic was "Spirituality" and we saw some really nice and heartfelt entries. These are the ones that spoke to this blog's heartstrings:
Kay - Communing with creation Kay writes her prose as beautiful as poetry, with every word loaded with meaning and purpose. Not to mention she uses the word "cliff" which gets extra credit on this blog.
BytchInNY - My take on religion. I really do not agree with this young lady's views, but she presents her feelings in an unguarded and well spoken manner that shows she has real class. Definitely one to watch.
jess - Two Slant Trees: can I be more scatterbrained? I just love this girl's writing. The twinkle in her eye just leaps from the page, even when she writes about serious stuff. What a diamond.
All Washed Up Magrate Mapfumo, a businesswoman from Harare, Zimbabwe, says she needed help after her car and millions of Zimbabwean dollars were stolen, so she enlisted the aid of musician Edna Chizema. Chizema suggested that enchanted mermaids would help her get revenge, so Mapfumo paid her Z$30 million (US$5,000) to fly four of them in from London, England, plus more to put them up in a luxury hotel and equip them with cell phones. Yet Chizema told her she “could not see the mermaids as only spirit mediums could do so,” Mapfumo said. She finally got suspicious when Chizema wanted to fly in a fifth, Arab, mermaid. She called the police, who charged Chizema with theft by false pretenses. (AP) ...Because everyone knows there are no Arab mermaids. Available in This is True: Book Collection Vol. 11